homebrew VPS benchmark

mik997

so this is running on a single core (HP ML10 v2 server)
using vSphere6 hypervisor ..

Benchmark started on Wed Apr 27 20:24:06 IST 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info

Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz
CPU Cores : 1
Frequency : 3092.838 MHz
Memory : 993 MB
Swap : 1020 MB
Uptime : 20 days, 2:20,

OS : Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.2.0-35-generic
Hostname :

Speedtest (IPv4 only)

Your public IPv4 is

Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 14.2MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 9.71MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 11.0MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 9.42MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 7.04MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 11.3MB/s

Tokyo, Japan Linode 8.33MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 5.31MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 13.5MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 13.9MB/s

Disk Speed

I/O (1st run) : 255 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 246 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 252 MB/s
Average I/O : 251 MB/s

.. IP connectivity is only Ok but it runs bitcoin core just fine ..

have heard good things about Proxmox - anyone with direct experience using it on self-hosted hardware?