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Hi All.
I just took up a new VPS that I would like to use for helping out some friends with VPN so we can watch TV from abroad.
I grabbed the benchmark script I found on here and got these stats back:
CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2532.926 MHz
Total amount of ram : 497 MB
Total amount of swap : 1019 MB
System uptime : 19:30,
Download speed : (4.96MB/s)
I/O speed : 28.5MB/s
In general use the shell seems pretty laggy .... I'm paying 7€ per month for it, UK based, here are the specs from the order page:
1 virtual cpu core @2.5 GHz
512 MB RAM
5 GB HDD
1 IP address, 1x /112 IPv6 network
2 TB bandwidth per month
Uplink: Gigabit Ethernet
I'm slightly bothered by the laggy performance in the shell and more importantly the download speed, the same script on my current server gives these results:
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2399.316 MHz
Total amount of ram : 512 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 2 days, 1:39,
Download speed : (25.3MB/s)
I/O speed : 152MB/s
The later is more expensive ....
Any views on the new shell stats would be appreciated.
NikC
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I see this is KVM based, what disk driver are you using?
Also, the server your comparing it too is OpenVZ if im not mistaken.
From the console it states the disk is using the faster virtio Driver ....
Thats correct yes on the OpenVZ.
Thanks
Nik
Really poor performance for that money. However it might eb possible to get relatively good quality of the VPN. Depends on many things though.
As you only want to use the server as a proxy disk io, CPU speed and amount of ram are moot. Whats your current ping to the server?
Since that VPS is from us:
Certainly bad config or driver - Same node in UK:
1073741824 Bytes (1,1 GB) kopiert, 10,7666 s, 99,7 MB/s
(And this is already pretty bad)
We also do not have Gbit in UK which is clearly noted on the overview page... 5MB/s on a shared 100Mbit link is really not bad.
That is the issue with full virtualization. The user must configure and can fail many more aspects. Configuring computers is a job, tweaking is an art, something like tuning in cars.
I can spend minutes in configuring a low end computer and days tweaking it.
Every machine is different, fortunately VPSes have a lesser degree of variance, as such it is an easier job in a way, but still complicated for the average user.
I sugest you contact your local linux guru for squeezing the last drops from your VPS.
M
Hi - I'd deliberately not named the provider as I wasn't sure where the issues were. The machine is building your default CentOS 5 64bit version with the settings out of the box, so I guess you might wanna look at that ?
I take on board the comment re the gbit, it does say that at the top of the page (but it might be worth re stating it on the VPS specs ....)
Try CentOS 6, CentOS 5 has disk speed issues on KVM.
@nikc contacting support would probably solve more regarding the io speed. Edis is very helpful