Time4VPS (standard VPS) any experience ?

ckissi

I'm looking for cheap EU VPS and found Time4VPS. I need some reviews about their standard VPS especially disk I/O speed, worldwide connections speed and uptime. Thank you.

Dustlab

Cheapest one XS:

System Info

Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores: 1
Frequency: 2397.161 MHz
Memory: 512 MB
Swap: 256 MB
Uptime: 33 days, 1:16,

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch: x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel: 2.6.32-042stab108.8
Hostname: nerrrrrrr

Speedtest (IPv4 only)

Your public IPv4 is 1

LocationProviderSpeed
CDNCachefly28.9MB/s

Atlanta, GA, USColoat4.08MB/s
Dallas, TX, USSoftlayer7.99MB/s
Seattle, WA, USSoftlayer6.76MB/s
San Jose, CA, USSoftlayer6.15MB/s
Washington, DC, USSoftlayer10.3MB/s

Tokyo, JapanLinode4.31MB/s
SingaporeSoftlayer3.74MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net20.6MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb29.2MB/s

Disk Speed

I/O (1st run) : 36.5 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 31.7 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 31.8 MB/s
Average I/O: 33.3333 MB/s

No issues, great speed within EU, reasonable to&from North America (~150Mbit).

wwabbit

The "dedicated CPU" is not dedicated. You will be throttled if you overuse CPU resources. Otherwise, the price is great for what you get.

MikePT

@Dustlab said:
Cheapest one XS:

No issues, great speed within EU, reasonable to&from North America (~150Mbit).

Report that IO, it's not normal. Their standard VPS have more IO than that.

@time4vps

time4vps

Hello,

We provide 40 MB/s I/O speed. ~36 MB/s is not bad at all.

MikePT

@time4vps said:
Hello,

We provide 40 MB/s I/O speed. ~36 MB/s is not bad at all.

You should increase that. Actually, I have more than that in our vps.

vimalware

@time4vps said:
Hello,

We provide 40 MB/s I/O speed. ~36 MB/s is not bad at all.

Suggestion : progressively higher soft limits for higher spec plans.

40 sequential is fine for a 512mb 12euro/y vps.

What are your soft limits on IOPS on regular SSD vps? (i only have multiple storage vps)

time4vps

vimalware said: Suggestion : progressively higher soft limits for higher spec plans.

Thank you, we will consider you suggestion.

vimalware said: What are your soft limits on IOPS on regular SSD vps?

RAID speed on all servers is the same: 40 MB/s and 400 IOPS. Take a note, that standard VPS's use SAS arrays with SSD cache.

Interesting enough, that we have this configuration over 2 months now and no single complaint regarding I/O issue. If anyone run real world application and encounter I/O problem (not via synthetic tests) - contact us immediately.

Dustlab

vimalware said: 40 sequential is fine for a 512mb 12euro/y vps.

It's fine for my uses and wasn't a surprise since I'd seen other benchmarks from them.
If it impacted my use, I would raise it with @time4vps. As it stands the service is fantastic and my only wishlist item would be fuse support.

NodePing

We saw too much network downtime for our use in Lithuania.

MikePT

@NodePing said:
We saw too much network downtime for our use in Lithuania.

We haven't.

We just wish @time4vps had a phone number, or Skype... Something that'd get us to be able to reach them faster. :P

Nyr

MrGeneral said: You should increase that.

MrGeneral said: We just wish @time4vps had a phone number, or Skype... Something that'd get us to be able to reach them faster. :P

You seem to be asking a lot from someone which provides a 1€/month VPS which actually seems to be reliable considering the price.

For that price, whatever you get which stays up and is actually usable, should be good. Even 10 MB/s of stable I/O and 40 IOPS would be more than reasonable. You know that most European ISPs will charge 1-2€ just for the single IPv4.

I guess people will always be asking for the world in this forum.

Dustlab

Nyr said: I guess people will always be asking for the world in this forum

And it has better be cheaper than $7/mo ffs, hang on while I go post in Requests..

rahoolm

I have a very good experience. time4vps is great