Time4VPS 8 month review

Tion

In October '15 I was looking for a small VPS with a rather large HDD for as cheap as possible.
At that time Time4VPS just made a splash around LET.
Offer sounded too good to be true and the company had no reputation around here so I even went as far as to specifically refuse them in my search request to get some alternatives.
It quickly turned out that nobody could match that amount of HDD space at the same price point.
After a few users still recommended them I decided to give them a try getting the 0.5 TB High Volume Storage plan.

It didn't take long for me to find the catch of the offer. The IOPS were limited to 50 and the single threaded transfer speed to residential western europe was rather poor with around 1.5 MB/s being the limit I could get from multiple locations. However they upgraded their infrastructure in early 2016 which they increased the IOPS and the residential download speed to around 3.5 MB/s.
On the upside the connectivity to the large providers like Hetzner, OVH and Leaseweb is outstanding.

The communcation in the very few times I had with them was good. Ticket reply was within an hour and mostly helpful. However general inquiries can take a while when outside their business hours. Something to watch out for if you are not from europe.

All in all they are a fine provider which offer a fair product for a cheap price.

Please note that these benchmarks were performed on a completely configured and working machine, not a fresh installation.

System Info
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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz
CPU Cores       : 1
Frequency       : 1897.933 MHz
Memory          : 512 MB
Swap            : 256 MB
Uptime          : 90 days, 12:00,

OS              : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-042stab113.17


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        36.6MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          1.92MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       8.34MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       7.16MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       6.68MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       5.89MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          3.92MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       4.24MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         27.5MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        38.8MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 47.1 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 42.7 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 42.4 MB/s
Average I/O     : 44.0667 MB/s

randwrite: (groupid=0, jobs=8): err= 0: pid=28034: Thu Jun 23 13:44:57 2016
  write: io=414504KB, bw=5229.3KB/s, iops=1307, runt= 79266msec
    slat (usec): min=3, max=53231K, avg=5868.78, stdev=441991.59
    clat (usec): min=0, max=9517, avg= 4.01, stdev=129.10
     lat (usec): min=4, max=53231K, avg=5873.86, stdev=441991.65
    clat percentiles (usec):
     |  1.00th=[    0],  5.00th=[    0], 10.00th=[    0], 20.00th=[    0],
     | 30.00th=[    0], 40.00th=[    0], 50.00th=[    1], 60.00th=[    1],
     | 70.00th=[    1], 80.00th=[    1], 90.00th=[    1], 95.00th=[    1],
     | 99.00th=[    3], 99.50th=[    4], 99.90th=[  836], 99.95th=[ 2672],
     | 99.99th=[ 6176]
    bw (KB  /s): min=    0, max=34734, per=39.91%, avg=2086.74, stdev=5161.15
    lat (usec) : 2=97.43%, 4=1.90%, 10=0.47%, 20=0.02%, 50=0.05%
    lat (usec) : 100=0.02%, 250=0.01%, 500=0.01%, 750=0.01%, 1000=0.03%
    lat (msec) : 2=0.02%, 4=0.02%, 10=0.04%
  cpu          : usr=0.04%, sys=0.24%, ctx=35017, majf=0, minf=217
  IO depths    : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     submit    : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     complete  : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     issued    : total=r=0/w=103626/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0
     latency   : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=1

Falzo

Tion said: All in all they are a fine provider which offer a fair product for a cheap price.

full ACK! ;-)

Ympker

With them for about 6 months now and very happy I am running a biannually storage node, and two small biannually small vps for teamspeak

boxelder

I recently upgraded my T4VPS server to 1 TB as they have proved to be a stable provider.

My only nit to pick: settle on a single domain and stick with it, time4vps.eu (aka internetovizija.com aka t4vps.eu).

vimalware

I keep reminding myself to pick a couple more biennial 512GBs .

Who doesn't need more storage?

hampered

What are people running on them?

texteditor

Not any IPv6 tunnels, that'sfor sure, since they have the entire ipv6 module disabled

arda

@hampered said:
What are people running on them?

My guess is it's mostly used for personal cloud solutions such as owncloud, seafile etc., or as a backup storage.

Ympker

@hampered said:
What are people running on them?

ownCloud or some ftp rsync
Atleast that's what I use it for^^

Bochi

@hampered said:
What are people running on them?

Just some file storage that I mount on other boxes using sshfs.
Currently 10 months of superb service without a single problem.

ATHK

Could you run plex on these boxes if no transcoding was involved?

Bochi

@ATHK said:
Could you run plex on these boxes if no transcoding was involved?

Maybe, have a try!
I am currently running plex on my about 10 year old thin client with 1000MHz VIA CPU and about 384MB of RAM available. Without transcoding: No problems whatsoever!

Nekki

@ATHK said:
Could you run plex on these boxes if no transcoding was involved?

I think so, I used to run a no-transcode service off an old Atom N2800 and you'd barely know Plex was installed there.

ppvan

thank review I am interested

nqservices

Hi,

I have 1 Storage Server + 1 VPS with them for about 2 months and until now i'm satisfied with the service.

Stable network and service and during business hours support is good. I heard they are planning to release KVM plans in a near future... so waiting for that!

sandro

With those speeds is it worth it?

jcaleb

sandro said: With those speeds is it worth it?

it is what it is. it depends on your intended usage.

MikePT

We resell @Time4VPS services along with providing managed services (managed backups, one-time tasks) and we couldn't be happier with their support.

They provide us an excellent service.

elofty

Been with them 13 months now and couldn't be happier. Can't beat them on price and great service.

hostpixal

I'm very satisfied with there servers. 100% uptime past 4 months. and i keep use them as my personal server

wiffel

@texteditor said:
Not any IPv6 tunnels, that'sfor sure, since they have the entire ipv6 module disabled

ipv6 works fine on my time4vps storage VPS.

I noticed - by accident - that an ivp6 address was added in the control panel for my storage VPS. They still had to enable it manually. But once they did that, it has been working fine.

hahanas

I'm fully satisfied with time4vps before price go in the sky. Very good provider. I have 2 years experience in time4vps 2014-15.

Saheb_Biswas

Thanks for Share, I am thinking to purchase from 2 weeks, Now i am purchasing.

erkin

Necromancers.