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I need to compare
Hola
I have a VPS i have had for a couple of years now with Racksrv .... it's £41.99 a month inc a cpanel licence, the specs are:
XEN
Equal Share 4 Cores
1024MB DDR3 ECC
40GB RAID
1000GB /month
I host about 20 wordpress sites on this box + email for one customer, pretty low volumes of mail.
I also have a nodedeploy VPS that costs me $48 per year (no cpanel, but I can buy one myself, or am open to alternatives)... of the following spec:
OpenVZ
2048MB DEDICATED RAM
20GB DISK (around 50$ per year for an additional 50Gb)
1000GB /month
As you can see there is a huge difference in costs, so what I'd like to do is some comparison tests on the performance of the 2 boxes, I tried the serverbear script but on the Xen box is never ran without dying at the end, so ..... can people please give me some tests I can run to do a comparision, I'd like to double check the performance before starting to make a plan to migrate across to the Nodedeploy box .....
Thanks
NikC
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What's the output of 'uptime' on the Xen box? 'free -m'?
For CPU info: cat /proc/cpuinfo
DD (disk test): dd if=/dev/zero of=testfilex bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
Or you can use a script:
[root@yourvps~]# wget http://soft.vpser.net/test/unixbench/unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz
[root@yourvps~]# tar xzf unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz
[root@yourvps~]# cd unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2/
[root@yourvps unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2]# make
[root@yourvps unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2]# ./run
Check uptime, disk and RAM:
Uptime: type uptime
RAM info: free -m
Disk space: df -h
@Damian -
root@newhost [~]# uptime
13:18:24 up 3 days, 23:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
root@newhost [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1024 947 76 0 30 434
-/+ buffers/cache: 482 541
Swap: 1023 37 986
@Ishaq - thanks will run those now.
wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
A quick test to test the network and IO speed
Test done
Node deploy:
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
System -- Linux vpn4 2.6.32-042stab063.2 #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 16:24:09 MSK 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
/dev/simfs 20971520 2454356 18517164 12% /
Start Benchmark Run: Wed Dec 26 17:25:08 MSK 2012
17:25:08 up 1 day, 23:34, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.05, 0.01
End Benchmark Run: Wed Dec 26 17:35:16 MSK 2012
17:35:16 up 1 day, 23:44, 1 user, load average: 20.07, 7.53, 3.11
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 19065995.6 506.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1576.1 189.7
Execl Throughput 188.3 9887.4 525.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 314524.0 1177.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 88369.0 820.5
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 2142300.0 1392.7
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 3384890.6 302.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 567668.8 367.5
Process Creation 569.3 19973.6 350.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 1930.0 430.8
System Call Overhead 114433.5 4635322.3 405.1
=========
FINAL SCORE 497.5
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2266.940 MHz
Total amount of ram : 2048 MB
Total amount of swap : 1048 MB
System uptime : 2 days, 2:14,
Download speed from CacheFly: 9.26MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 1.85MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 1.38MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.94MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 10.2MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 7.28MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 362KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 741KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 781KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 1.51MB/s
I/O speed : 203 MB/s
Racksrv:
Start Benchmark Run: Wed Dec 26 14:10:31 GMT 2012
14:10:31 up 4 days, 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.63, 0.19, 0.05
End Benchmark Run: Wed Dec 26 14:20:41 GMT 2012
14:20:41 up 4 days, 11 min, 1 user, load average: 15.01, 6.43, 2.83
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 25265570.8 670.6
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1064.7 128.1
Execl Throughput 188.3 4839.5 257.0
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 178394.0 667.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 46121.0 428.2
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 1698813.0 1104.4
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 1338200.8 119.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 351970.3 227.8
Process Creation 569.3 11830.5 207.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 1504.5 335.8
System Call Overhead 114433.5 1607183.9 140.4
=========
FINAL SCORE 301.4
CPU model : Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.60GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2600.050 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1024 MB
Total amount of swap : 1023 MB
System uptime : 4 days, 1:53,
Download speed from CacheFly: 17.1MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 2.93MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 3.93MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 2.44MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 32.7MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 9.66MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 6.16MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 4.42MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 4.08MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 5.79MB/s
I/O speed : 374 MB/s
Does the racksrv box justify the massive difference in costs ? Could the Nodedeploy easily support my limited needs ?
Cheers
Why are you suggesting to run an outdated benchmark like 4.1.0-WHT when 5.1.3 is available from http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/
You need to rerun your test because of @Ishaq suggested you run some very old software that is going to give you poor benchmarks
Doh.
Ok, retesting with 5.1.3
I have used racksrv for years, and they are top notch as a company, maintain their own network, very experienced and very proactive, that is what you are paying for with them it is the sort of place you can trust your live services too.
If you have stuff you can afford to take a risk with, then it probably does not require the extra cost, otherwise you can sleep at night with your stuff hosted with racksrv, that my opinion as a customer.
Yeh, tbh I have never had any issues with them to cause me to be unhappy.
But i just host a load of blogs for snowboarders, nothing that generates any income .....
Well if they are not paying you for the hosting and you wont get any complaints for downtime or load speed then you should probably cut your costs. there is a 2GB OpenVZ offer on LEB right now for $7 with a $10 cPanel license add-on
You can significantly lower cost if you are also willing to change software
$10 - 1GB RAM, 100gb disk, 1000gb/mo bandwidth
$10 - cPanel license
Hostigation: cPanel VPS for $20, can't get much better than that.
2GB for 10 Wordpress sites, unless you run 10 crap plugins on each site, is pretty much overkill. I've seen content farms ran on 512mb of RAM and all had Wordpress running
Hey,
Shoot us an email or ticket and we can discuss any concerns that you have!
A note though the I/O on our side (203MB/s) looks a little low (tested it earlier and was getting 320MB/s)
Phil
Thanks @PhilND - pinged you an email.
Nik