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Go-VPS-Go 640MB KVM @ Kansas City - 3 Months [Good service]
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Go-VPS-Go 640MB KVM @ Kansas City - 3 Months [Good service]

InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
edited March 2012 in Reviews

Yep, following the crowd with the VPS reviews. I'm copying the format of @maxexcloo, hope you don't mind. ;)

So first of all if you haven't got it yet, never mind the name, it's the KVM 640MB RAM package from the company Go-VPS-Go. Put it this way I haven't seen many reviews of Go-VPS-Go and it's only fair that I do one if I have a VPS from 'em. I've been with them for around 3 months, so far so good apart from a few tiny bits which I will mention later. As far as I can see this is the first proper public review, it seems that they aren't too old or too new either, started February if I remember correctly.*

http://govpsgo.com/

Overview: My particular package is a KVM package as you already know with 640MB RAM, 25GB disk space, 640GB 100Mbps uplink bandwidth, only one core and 1 IPv4 address located in Kansas City. VPS management is done via SolusVM with SSL, although it is a self signed cerificate, thier WHMCS has a verified SSL license though. They have all the normal OS's including FreeBSD however they are all netinstall except FreeBSD and Arch Linux. One thing I did notice about the VNC console is that it was a little more laggy that other providers, or maybe I'm spoilt. IRC is prohibited.

Support: Go-VPS-Go apparently has Chinese support staff members which is a first, although I'm not Chinese. However thier English support is pretty fast and to the point, they mounted custom ISO's within the hour etc. On that note, they provided an FTP account to do so. The welcome email was pretty good, no passwords shown, control panel URL shown and all.

Setup: Basically like any other KVM VPS, nothing really much worth noting other than the VNC connnection via Solus was pretty laggy. SolusVM itself was pretty responsive. As far as I remember there is no automated rDNS control via SolusVM.

The interesting bit: To be honest I'm not a Debian fan so I didn't have it installed, I will install it soon and compare etc. but you'll have to bear with me while I use CentOS :) Yeah, Debian is much lighter than CentOS.

I guess that could be tweaked, this is a straight out of the box installation. 99MB isn't the best but isn't too bad:

[root@dubnium ~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           615        272        343          0         69        103
-/+ buffers/cache:         99        516
Swap:         1247          0       1247

Typical size in my opinion:

[root@dubnium ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root
                       23G  713M   22G   4% /
tmpfs                 308M     0  308M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             485M   29M  431M   7% /boot

Only one core. Yup;

[root@dubnium ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 3192.894
cache size      : 32 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 4
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm up rep_good unfair_spinlock pni hypervisor
bogomips        : 6385.78
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Pretty decent allocation but yeah, it can be changed:

[root@dubnium ~]# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root
                     1528912   17717 1511195    2% /
tmpfs                  78806       1   78805    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             128016      38  127978    1% /boot

Idle vmstat results:

[root@dubnium ~]# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0      0 340540  80908 106704    0    0     0     1   11    4  0  0 100  0  0
Thanked by 2drmike Asim

Comments

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    The CacheFly shows an OK result, could be a bit better although I have no need for any faster:

    [root@dubnium ~]# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
    --2011-11-11 19:03:03--  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: â/dev/nullâ
    
    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s   in 9.0s
    
    2011-11-11 19:03:12 (11.1 MB/s) - â/dev/nullâ
    

    Ping to google looks pretty good, no IPv6 supported:

    [root@dubnium ~]# ping -c  3 google.com
    PING google.com (173.194.64.147) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 173.194.64.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=34.1 ms
    64 bytes from 173.194.64.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=34.1 ms
    64 bytes from 173.194.64.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=33.6 ms
    
    --- google.com ping statistics ---
    3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2037ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 33.689/34.009/34.173/0.311 ms

    The dd results show a pretty average IO speed.:

    [root@dubnium ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/speedoutput.img bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 16.9418 s, 63.4 MB/s

    The ioping to say the least were dissapointing:

    [root@dubnium ~]# ioping . -c 10
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=1 time=0.5 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=2 time=17.0 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=3 time=7.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=4 time=4.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=5 time=0.6 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=6 time=0.5 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=7 time=12.2 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=8 time=0.5 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=9 time=0.4 ms
    4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root): request=10 time=21.8 ms
    
    --- . (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_dubnium-lv_root) ioping statistics ---
    10 requests completed in 9076.4 ms, 154 iops, 0.6 mb/s
    min/avg/max/mdev = 0.4/6.5/21.8/7.5 ms

    free and vmstat output with lmnp stack installed and running:

    [root@dubnium ~]# free -m
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:           615        446        168          0          8        319
    -/+ buffers/cache:        119        496
    Swap:         1247          1       1246
    
    [root@dubnium ~]# vmstat
    procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
     r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
     0  0   1468 172952   8732 326700    0    0     1     4   12    5  0  0 100  0  0

    And lastly htop with the lmnp stack running:
    image

    *Click on the image for a larger preview.*

    If there is anything else you think I missed out or should include please do tell me :)

    Conclusion: I think Go-VPS-Go is a generally good company however they do have a little bit more downtime than I would have liked, I'm pretty fussy though. Hmm.. at the time of writing SolusVM is down, I don't know if that is my ISPs problem. It has been down quite a bit in the past. My node about a month ago had a major connectivity problem however their dealing with it was much better than I expected, they sent very frequent updates and actually spent time writing a letter which was really unexpected. The ioping could really be improved too, other than that: They are a good company overall, good experience :)

    *If you've noticed: I've been saying, if I remember for things I could easily find out but yet again my ISP has crapped up their routers therefore making some sites work and some not again, this has happened before, this time LowEndTalk works, Hostigation's SC network works and some sites just simply don't work. I think it is more likely that my modem is messed up or my local exchange is having some major problems. Either way the ISP don't want to know.

  • +1 just for taking the time for the review. heh Maybe I'll get a chance to read it someday.

    Thanked by 1Infinity
  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
    edited November 2011

    Lol, I have a tendancy to write lots. This time I stopeed myself, as much as I could. I can review other's however I've never seen a Go-VPS-Go review so thought, it's about time.

  • yomeroyomero Member
    edited November 2011

    If you think that jitter in the ioping is dissapointing... you must see some iopings from known 2GB providers... ¬_¬

    Thanks for your time, and... btw, this isn't a sub $7 right?

    Thanked by 1Infinity
  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
    edited November 2011

    @yomero Yeah, I know all too much about those. That is the reason why reviews should be there ;) It is still not the best in my books.

    It's a pretty generous $15.00 USD Monthly, so they shouldn't be going any time soon :) No worries for my time.

  • @yomero said: If you think that jitter in the ioping is dissapointing... you must see some iopings from known 2GB providers... ¬_¬

    I do not want to discuss my 2gb that I have had to reinstall for four days in a row. Glad I am not going to put anything on it. Might cancel it or sell it when the time is up for the month.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    @AuroraZ said: I do not want to discuss my 2gb that I have had to reinstall for four days in a row. Glad I am not going to put anything on it. Might cancel it or sell it when the time is up for the month.

    Oh no..

  • @Infinity said: Oh no..

    Not what I was saying lol.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    O_o what were you saying then?

  • @Infinity said: O_o what were you saying then?

    Some words I do not like to use on the web. Even if they are in different languages. Noticed a problem when they upgraded Solus. Has not been right since. Guess I should not expect a lot for 7 bucks but at least ssh and not having to reload daily would be nice.

    Thanked by 1Infinity
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