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BHost VPS (KVM) and Cloud Review
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BHost VPS (KVM) and Cloud Review

Hi folks,

I got one month free VPS and Cloud service from BHost to test their services. I used them for a little over a half month now and I want to share my first impressions.

VPS:


I tested their KVM VPS Bronze which is 6£/month (without discounts) for their UK Datacenter. The specs are:

512MB RAM

4 Virtual cores

30GB Disk space

600GB Data transfer @ 100Mbit

1 IPv4 adress and if you choose their NL datacenter with 10 IPv6

Performance:

The performance of my VPS was the whole time stable and the speed was quite good for NON SSD drives. Here are a few benchmarks, unfortunately I'm not able to run a ServerBear benchmark as the script has some bugs with Debian (don't know if it's only Debian).


FreeVPS bench:

root@bhost:~# ./bench.sh CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) Number of cores : 4 CPU frequency : 2199.998 MHz Total amount of ram : 496 MB Total amount of swap : 1020 MB System uptime : 0 min, Download speed from CacheFly: 11.3MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 2.36MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 2.18MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 959KB/s Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 11.1MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 5.26MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 798KB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 1.78MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 1.69MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 3.22MB/s I/O speed : 212 MB/s

dd disk speed:

root@bhost:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.18834 s, 337 MB/s

IOping:

`root@bhost:~# ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=1 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=2 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=3 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=4 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=5 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=6 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=7 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=8 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=9 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156): request=10 time=0.2 ms

--- . (ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/847b45a5-6ae1-4b36-bb7a-7c5fff87b156) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9003.8 ms, 5485 iops, 21.4 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.1 ms`

Uptime:

I didn't notice any downtimes during my test times, I checked it with 1minute PING checks.



Cloud:


They use onApp backend software and they advertise with no downtime, because of "self healing" (=if there's a problem with your hypervisor, your virtual machine will be booted on a standby machine.). I really like their Interface, which is clear and works without problems. You can set the specs of the Cloud VPS on your needs, which is IMO great. As with all clouds hourly billing is also activated. They currently only support KVM Cloud and as location NL. I used this VPS:

1024MB RAM

1024MB vSwap

4 Virtual cores

20GB Disk space

unlimited Data transfer @ 1GBit

1 IPv4 adress

The price is powered on £0.0131360 and powered off £0.0042000.

Performance:

The performance of the cloud is good, although if you look at the benchmark, their normal VPS provides faster speeds. Here are a few benchmarks:



FreeVPS bench:

root@bhost2:~# ./bench.sh CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) Number of cores : 4 CPU frequency : 2599.998 MHz Total amount of ram : 999 MB Total amount of swap : 1023 MB System uptime : 1 min, Download speed from CacheFly: 22.3MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 4.05MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 4.08MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.78MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 21.8MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 21.2MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.80MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 3.27MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 3.03MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 5.72MB/s I/O speed : 99.1 MB/s

dd disk speed:

root@bhost2:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.98298 s, 108 MB/s

IOping:

`root@bhost2:~# ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=1 time=2.8 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=2 time=6.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=3 time=6.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=4 time=3.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=5 time=1.7 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=6 time=7.6 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=7 time=4.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=8 time=4.4 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=9 time=4.9 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/vda1): request=10 time=8.2 ms

--- . (ext3 /dev/vda1) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9053.7 ms, 201 iops, 0.8 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 1.7/5.0/8.2/2.0 ms`

Uptime:

I can't really say something about the uptime, as I always recreated several VPS instances :/







The support part is for the VPS as well as for the cloud:

Support:

I opened two tickes, one because I had a question to their service (own ISO usage) answered within 3 minutes! And onther to add an ISO which was answered within 15 hours. The answers were helpful and polite.



Conclusion:

BHost is not the cheapest host on LowEnd*, that for sure, but their boxes are solid and stable. I always read here "you get what you pay for", and in this case they are even right. If I would need a box for something important, I would take a look at BHost, because I feel safe with them.

Comments

  • @BabyMonster said:
    I have the NY KVM 4GB. Their VPS is alwats down, frequent sudden shutdowns and can't connect using VNC. This is the worst VPS service that I used so far. Poor support and very amateur VPS provider. Never ever buy a service from BLUEVM.

    @BABYmonster this is a review for BHOST and not for BLUEVM!

  • @alexvolk said:
    BABYmonster this is a review for BHOST and not for BLUEVM!

    Sorry, I have removed my comment that is supposed to be for bluevm. My apologies.

  • Bhost service is very weird in the bad way. I have a ticket for 2 weeks now and no answer. How did you get the answer in 3 minutes? I see that your article made it on Twitter so I post here the ticket number, maybe I'm in luck and have 2 weeks and 3 minutes :) . #41517

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