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BlueVM Review

SpeedBusSpeedBus Member, Host Rep
edited January 2012 in General

Hey Guys,
My 1st Review On LET :P

The review's on a BlueVM, Yes BlueVM VPS1 Plan

56 MB of Guaranteed Ram
128 MB of Burstable RAM
1 IP Address
10 GB of Storage
250 GB of Bandwidth

Setup was instant, Ordered, used the coupon code and got the VPS details instantly.

Idle RAM Usage (When I got the VPS) :

[root@testbox ~]# free -m
                  total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           128         12        115          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:      12        115
Swap:            0          0          0
VPS ID : 480

**^^ Does that mean the Node or Node's have 480 VPS's ? **

Network (CacheFly) test :


[root@testbox ~]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--14:26:14--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[=======================================>] 104,857,600 8.10M/s   in 12s

14:26:26 (8.28 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

Disk usage (When I Got the VPS, CentOS 5-i386-afull) :

[root@testbox ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             10G  592M  9.5G   6% /
none                   64M  4.0K   64M   1% /dev

DD Test :

[root@testbox ~]# 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, 12.9578 seconds, 82.9 MB/s

CPU Information :


[root@testbox unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2394.675
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6385.80
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

VZFree / UnixBench/ Geekbench Test :
This one gave me some trouble, I could not run a YUM based command (To install gcc) as the VPS was running outta memory often, but on further looking, I found 115 MB Free RAM and yet, YUM did not run, while on Secure Dragons 96MB VPS, YUM works !

Comments

  • Try running yum with the --noplugins switch:

    yum --noplugins install packagename

  • SpeedBusSpeedBus Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2012

    @Damian4IPXcore said: Try running yum with the --noplugins switch:

    yum --noplugins install packagename

    Thanks :) I'll give it a try in some time :)

  • SpeedBusSpeedBus Member, Host Rep

    Update :
    YUM works with @Damian4IPXcore 's solution. :)

  • @SpeedBus said: VPS ID : 480

    No, global ID assigned by Solus, or sth like that. In buyvm I have big IDs...

    Damn, don't use yum u_u

  • SpeedBusSpeedBus Member, Host Rep

    @yomero : It's HyperVM, No Solus :P Thanks for the info :)

  • @SpeedBus said: @yomero : It's HyperVM, No Solus :P Thanks for the info :)

    Well, "the tool to automate the creation of the container". lol :D

    HyperVM is still in development? I am a fan of some of their features. Solus is so simple u_u

    Oh, my ID's at buyvm

    14487
    14488
    10842

    Damn, 14000 VPS per node :P j/k

  • BlueVMBlueVM Member
    edited January 2012

    Our system starts at 250 and skips by 10... so on your server your the 23rd VPS. Most of our clients are on our lowest plan, but we do monitor CPU usage and even the accounts out based on that. BTW thanks for the review, we appreciate it.

  • @BlueVM - Your site is all white.

    Thanked by 1onepound
  • @Naruto: We setup an index page overlay, but people with cache were seeing our normal site, so we redirected all traffic to fix that problem. BlueVM is black :)

  • @BlueVM said: BlueVM is black

    I knew someone would beat you black and blue sooner or later.

    Thanked by 1Naruto
  • @miTgiB said: I knew someone would beat you black and blue sooner or later.

    At first I was like "what?" but then I got it because the name is BlueVM and their page is now black so that makes them black and Blue(VM).

  • ZettaZetta Member
    edited January 2012

    Good job, you want an award? :)

  • Maybe a sticker. A star sticker.

  • Firefox can't find the server at bluevm.com.

  • It is down for me as well!

  • I figured since this is a review thread I'd post that we now have a new design. I'd like some opinions on it and hopefully some of you like it.

  • You might want the change the file name of your middle banner since most adblockers will block that. Mine did.

  • NarutoNaruto Member
    edited January 2012

    @dancom96 said: You might want the change the file name of your middle banner since most adblockers will block that. Mine did.

    This is true. I wasn't even aware you had a middle banner. I was going to ask about all that blue... I'm using Adblock Plus.

    I just looked at it on Internet Explorer and noticed a blue line around it. Either remove the link from the image or add border="0" in the image tag.

  • Thanks for the feedback. Wasn't even aware of the issue... I've changed the HTML, the path and the css to remove anything that could cause a flag so hopefully that fixes it.

  • Looks good fasho.

  • Wow, this is the first host I've found that actually uses HyperVM.

  • BlueVMBlueVM Member
    edited January 2012

    We use it not because it's free, but because of the open source which allows us to make the most modifications as we need them. We currently have added features like turning on TUN/TAP & PPP and configuring IP Tables from right inside the admin panel. We do make regular donations to support the project, we should probably start putting our names on those.

    We do have plans to offer both hypervm and solusvm (plus possibly stallionvm)... we'd allow clients to choose their personal preference.

    HyperVM was the most popular option on the market at one point, but it got driven out because the old owner died and at the same time there was a fairly large security bug. It's since been fixed and its very stable and secure.

  • yomeroyomero Member
    edited January 2012

    @Jeffrey said: Wow, this is the first host I've found that actually uses HyperVM.

    Hostrail used it, and honestly I love it.

    @BlueVM said: We currently have added features like turning on TUN/TAP & PPP and configuring IP Tables from right inside the admin panel

    Sounds great

    @BlueVM said: We do have plans to offer both hypervm and solusvm (plus possibly stallionvm)

    They don't sell their panel AFAIK o_O

    And a question, why 56/128 in your very basic plan and not 64MB? May sound dumb but, 56 is a weird number hehe.

  • Running both HyperVM and SolusVM? That really seems like more pain than it'd be worth.

  • BlueVMBlueVM Member
    edited January 2012

    @yomero - See that's why I'm having people review the design. It was a typo it's actually 64 MB on the plan and on hypervm... Fixed. Good catch.

    @nova - On two different server setups maybe... not sure yet mostly why its still plans and not reality...

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