Tiny VPS but KVM in US west wanted

thatix

Hi,

I am looking for low specs VPS in US west location with following requirements.
1)128 or 256MB RAM

2)At least 5G disk

3)300GB monthly transfer with HURRICANE ELECTRIC as uplink carrier.
Ideally ColoCrossing San Jose ( No bulk mail of course)

4)KVM is a must.

5)Budget /mo

Thanks in advance

Mad

I don't know if it's out of your budget but you can take a look at HudsonValleyHost (512MB RAM), they operate in ColoCrossing DCs.

thatix

@andreamada said:
HudsonValleyHost (512MB RAM)

Thank you , but they seems to use OpenVZ and I need KVM

Mad

Here you go for their KVM offers:
http://hudsonvalleyhost.com/linuxkvm.php

thatix

@andreamada said:
Here you go for their KVM offers:
http://hudsonvalleyhost.com/linuxkvm.php

That doesn't meet my needs tho. For 5$ I would rather choose DigitalOcean San Francisco location.

Mad

@thatix said:

@andreamada said:
Here you go for their KVM offers:
http://hudsonvalleyhost.com/linuxkvm.php

That doesn't meet my needs tho. For 5$ I would rather choose DigitalOcean San Francisco location.

The minimum budget was not specified in the thread, I suggest you to add it then in order to give you a proper quote or suggestion

b6688

@thatix

I think this maybe suitable for you as I have signed up with them about 2 weeks ago. Performance wise is very good compare to others host.

KVM 256MB RAM
$15 / Year

http://tinykvm.com

# ./speedtest-cli 
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from RAM Host (199.180.xxx.xxx)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by GorillaServers (Los Angeles, CA) [0.70 km]: 5.935 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 897.56 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 428.29 Mbit/s

# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.30753 s, 821 MB/s

# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
Benchmark started on Tue Jun 14 02:05:17 PDT 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
-----------
Processor   : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
CPU Cores   : 1
Frequency   : 3100.020 MHz
Memory      : 237 MB
Swap        :  MB
Uptime      : 10 days, 5:48,

OS      : \S
Arch        : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel      : 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64
Hostname    : **************


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 199.180.xxx.xxx

Location        Provider    Speed
CDN         Cachefly    95.1MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US     Coloat      12.2MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US      Softlayer   21.4MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US     Softlayer   27.3MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US    Softlayer   65.7MB/s 
Washington, DC, US  Softlayer   11.0MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan        Linode      4.86MB/s 
Singapore       Softlayer   3.90MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net     4.76MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb    37.3MB/s 


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 837 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 922 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 977 MB/s
Average I/O : 912 MB/s

thatix

@b6688 said:

Looks awesome.Ticket sent , waiting for a test IP.

jcaleb

I thought tinykvm uses old hw, but seems good benchmark

quadhost

Redacted.

b6688

@jcaleb said:
I thought tinykvm uses old hw, but seems good benchmark

When I first look at their offer website, I was thinking that it must be very old hw. Since they promise Raid 10 Protected Storage with SSD caching - Higher Performance and Reliability. So, I give them a try. It really surprise me that the performance was really great and better than most of the OpenVZ VPS.

The only problem is when you try to install the OS, you will find it a bit tedious since they allowed for custom ISO and also you will have "Insufficient Memory Issue" when trying to install the CentOs 7 because you only have 256MB RAM. But don't worry, just send them a ticket to request for temporary 512MB RAM and they will adjust the memory for you to complete the installation.

Overall, I am satisfy with their technical support and also the server performance. But it will be too early to give any review since I was signed up 2 weeks ago. I will buy another location as well which is either Dallas or Atlanta.

ipasces6

I am sure there were others before them but I wandered into the VPS land thanks to tinyvz.com and tinykvm.com. Both are RamHost brands. (Un)fortunately they did not have any stock at the time and found others.

4 years later finally ordered one!

thatix

@quadhost said:
Thank you but North Carolina is located in US East, isn't?

thatix

@b6688 said:

Overall, I am satisfy with their technical support and also the server performance. But it will be too early to give any review since I was signed up 2 weeks ago. I will buy another location as well which is either Dallas or Atlanta.

Thank you for your review. Just got their test IP and the latency seems acceptable but still waiting to see if there is any chance to take a vps in DC like Linode Fremont that uses HE as main uplink carrier

quadhost

@thatix said: Thank you but North Carolina is located in US East, isn't?

Correct, apologies - needed more coffee than usual before posting!

vapornode

Hello,

We offer a 256MB RAM KVM VPS in Phoenix with our VPR-KVM1 plan. You can see all the specs here: https://vapornode.com/vps

The list price is $3.99/month but if you're interested, we can offer you a discount to get it within your budget. If you would like a test IP, let us know! HE is one of our main carriers in this location.

jcaleb

b6688 said: Overall, I am satisfy with their technical support and also the server performance. But it will be too early to give any review since I was signed up 2 weeks ago. I will buy another location as well which is either Dallas or Atlanta.

Back in old days, Ramhost is a very popular brand.

b6688

@thatix. Good luck with you.

@jcaleb. Oh really. I am quite new to lowendtalk.com as I have signed up about 6-7 months ago. I found it very interesting but just can't stop from buying more VPS. It's like addicted

Yes, Ramhost VPS is good in terms of performance even I was just 2 weeks with them. Keep up the good job. Their support ticket was super fast.

raindog308

b6688 said: The only problem is when you try to install the OS, you will find it a bit tedious since they allowed for custom ISO and also you will have "Insufficient Memory Issue" when trying to install the CentOs 7 because you only have 256MB RAM. But don't worry,

I would worry. CentOS 7 requires 1GB of RAM:

"At least 1024 MB RAM is required to install and use CentOS-7 (1511)."

https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7

Shoehorning CentOS 7 onto a 256MB box by temporarily adding RAM during installation does not sound like a recipe for stability or performance to me. It'd be one thing if there was only one kind of Linux, but you have options that are much better for small systems...eg., Debian. Here is what the Debian 8 manual says:

"You must have at least 80MB of memory and 680MB of hard disk space to perform a normal installation."

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en

b6688

@raindog308

Thanks for your advice. I only familiar with Redhat/CentOS. All my server are running with CentOS either version 6 or 7. I have no problem with it. For Debian, maybe in future, I will try to use it.