Virtono.com performance and network review

ansiklopedi

My plan: Starter VPS Romania (1 core processor, 20GB SSD, 256MB RAM, 512 MB RAM burst., 1TB bandwidth, 1Gbps connection.)

CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency:  1133.366 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 256 MB
Total amount of swap: 512 MB
System uptime:   40 min,
I/O speed:  326 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 15.50s
Download 100MB file: 36.1MB/s

The processor could be better. I/O speed is also good. (There is a price of € 1.5 per month. I/O speed good for the price.)

The amount of RAM is pure. Some providers write 256MB on their sites. But they give less than the amount written. Virtono can be congratulated on this matter.

CPU frequency could be higher. I like the speed of the network. The international bandwidth is very good.

Local internet speed test:

root@privacy:~# speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Virtono Networks SRL (My IP address.)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by II SCRIBA CRISTIAN (Lehliu-gara) [145.74 km]: 35.174 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
**Download: 233.89 Mbit/s**
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................**Upload: 175.50 Mbit/s**

root@privacy:~#

Internet speed test for Germany:

Server: Vodafone DE (Frankfurt), ping: 91.235 ms

Download: 185.97 Mbit/s

Upload: 90.31 Mbit/s

Internet speed test for Turkey:

Server: Vodafone TR (Istanbul), ping: 41.702 ms.

Download speed: 290.53 Mbit/s

Upload speed: 192.74 Mbit/s

Internet speed test for China:

Server: Beijing Telecom (Beijing), ping: 344.782 ms.

Download speed: 19.44 Mbit/s

Upload speed: 15.38 Mbit/s

Internet speed test for Argentina:

Server: DIRECTV INTERNET (Buenos Aires), ping: 326.188 ms.

Download speed: 39.75 Mbit/s

Upload speed: 34.62 Mbit/s

Internet speed test for United Kingdom:

Server: Call27 (London), ping: 86.71 ms.

Download speed: 138.32 Mbit/s

Upload speed: 178.83 Mbit/s

Internet speed test for India:

Server: Vodafone India (New Delhi), ping: 219.135 ms.

Download speed: 103.87 Mbit/s

Upload speed: 71.80 Mbit/s

ucxo

How did you run the bzip test? 15 seconds for 25 MB is terrible!

Nekki

ok

ansiklopedi

@ucxo said:
How did you run the bzip test? 15 seconds for 25 MB is terrible!

https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench

New tests:

1. Bzip 25MB: 15.06s

2. Bzip 25MB: 15.17s

Why terrible?

ansiklopedi

@Nekki said:
ok

Thanks.

lion

Don't use speedtest for servers

ucxo

@ansiklopedi said:

@ucxo said:
How did you run the bzip test? 15 seconds for 25 MB is terrible!

https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench

New tests:

1. Bzip 25MB: 15.06s

2. Bzip 25MB: 15.17s

Why terrible?

I assumed the test was using /dev/zero like I'm doing in my own benchmark script. 15 seconds to compress 25 MB of zeroes would have been incredibly slow.

The test mgutz is using basically comes down to

dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1024 count=25000
/usr/bin/time -f "%es" tar cfj foo.bz2 foo

… which has two issues that make it less useful for comparing different systems: (1) it is IO-bound, since it reads and writes from disk, (2) it uses random data, which makes it less deterministic (although that should average itself out over 25 MB of randomness).

Now for comparisons.

Xeon E3 1231 v3 @ 3.4 GHz: 2.80s
AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 GHz: 7.48s
Amlogic ARMv7 @ 1.5 GHz: 32.65s

So I'm not particularly impressed with Virtono there.

Could you try time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=500 2> /dev/null | bzip2 > /dev/null, please?

Nekki

ansiklopedi said: Thanks.

Np.

ansiklopedi

@ucxo The endless loop is entering.

ucxo

@ansiklopedi said:
@ucxo The endless loop is entering.

Endless loop? Not sure what you're trying to say…

ansiklopedi

@ucxo said:

@ansiklopedi said:
@ucxo The endless loop is entering.

Endless loop? Not sure what you're trying to say…

I can not tell what I mean.