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Kaloy · 09-26-2011, 10:14 PM

Got a $1 Beta VPS from Host1Plus.com for 3 months trial period.

Beta VPS Specs.:

Platform: Xen
CPU: 1
Memory: 1024 MB
Disk Space: 40 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Port Speed: 15 MB
IPv4: 1

I selected CentOS 5.6 x86 template for my VPS. I haven't done so much with it since I'm still a newbie when it comes to server administration/configuration, but I'm thankful I found this site since I'm learning a lot of things here with regards to server administration, setup and configuration.

I found byte-unixbench and run it on the VPS to see how's the performance, since I haven't setup any service on it and could not share how good it performs as web/database/vpn/game server.

Here's the result:

Code:

BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)

   System: (ommited-hostname): GNU/Linux

   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen -- #1 SMP Tue Apr 12 19:32:47 EDT 2011

   Machine: i686 (i386)

   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")

   CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz (5347.1 bogomips)

          Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext

   06:02:26 up 1 day, 17:54,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 3

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Benchmark Run: Mon Sep 26 2011 06:02:26 - 06:30:28

1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        6476775.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

Double-Precision Whetstone                     1775.0 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples)

Execl Throughput                               1255.5 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)

File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        243201.7 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)

File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           72297.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)

File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        581357.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)

Pipe Throughput                              420935.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

Pipe-based Context Switching                  63270.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

Process Creation                               2176.2 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)

Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   1880.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)

Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    265.6 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)

System Call Overhead                         328427.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0    6476775.0    555.0

Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       1775.0    322.7

Execl Throughput                                 43.0       1255.5    292.0

File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     243201.7    614.1

File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      72297.2    436.8

File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     581357.9   1002.3

Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     420935.1    338.4

Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      63270.3    158.2

Process Creation                                126.0       2176.2    172.7

Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       1880.0    443.4

Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        265.6    442.6

System Call Overhead                          15000.0     328427.2    219.0

                                                                   ========

System Benchmarks Index Score                                         365.0

I'll post some more info. after I have setup and run services/applications.

lanogan · 10-02-2011, 01:40 AM

I already has vps from host1 for 1 month, sometime you cant log in to server (using ssh), I dont know why this happen, I'll asking their support about this problem

Kaloy · (This post was last modified: 10-04-2011 03:12 AM by Kaloy.)

(10-02-2011 01:40 AM)lanogan Wrote: I already has vps from host1 for 1 month, sometime you cant log in to server (using ssh), I dont know why this happen, I'll asking their support about this problem

For me, no problem Putty'in on the VPS so far, even set it up to use key/certificate authentication, I haven't tried yet to use non-standard port, I'm just starting to learn iptables, don't want to locked my self out.

Ran the I/O test...

Code:

[root@________ ~#] dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync

65536+0 records in

65536+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 37.0799 seconds, 29.0 MB/s

Kaloy · 10-23-2011, 07:31 AM

Updated and more detailed review:

OS:

Code:

cat /etc/redhat-release

CentOS release 5.6 (Final)

CPU:

Code:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0

vendor_id       : GenuineIntel

cpu family      : 6

model           : 44

model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz

stepping        : 2

cpu MHz         : 2133.408

cache size      : 12288 KB

fdiv_bug        : no

hlt_bug         : no

f00f_bug        : no

coma_bug        : no

fpu             : yes

fpu_exception   : yes

cpuid level     : 11

wp              : yes

flags           : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc up nonstop_tsc pni ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt [8]

bogomips        : 5346.12

Memory:

Code:

free -m

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached

Mem:          1024        744        280          0        176        331

-/+ buffers/cache:        236        787

Swap:         1023          0       1023

Code:

cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:      1048752 kB

MemFree:        286836 kB

Buffers:        180276 kB

Cached:         339364 kB

SwapCached:          4 kB

Active:         384760 kB

Inactive:       170572 kB

HighTotal:      303112 kB

HighFree:        19028 kB

LowTotal:       745640 kB

LowFree:        267808 kB

SwapTotal:     1048568 kB

SwapFree:      1048520 kB

Dirty:              24 kB

Writeback:           0 kB

AnonPages:       35700 kB

Mapped:          11240 kB

Slab:            41280 kB

PageTables:       2088 kB

NFS_Unstable:        0 kB

Bounce:              0 kB

CommitLimit:   1572944 kB

Committed_AS:   136032 kB

VmallocTotal:   114680 kB

VmallocUsed:      5752 kB

VmallocChunk:   108792 kB

Code:

vmstat

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st

 0  0     48 286712 180284 339368    0    0     0    12    5    4  0  0 99  1  1

Processes:

Code:

top - 12:30:08 up 25 days,  4:38,  2 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00

Tasks:  87 total,   3 running,  84 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.3%id,  0.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.3%st

Mem:   1048752k total,   762040k used,   286712k free,   180284k buffers

Swap:  1048568k total,       48k used,  1048520k free,   339364k cached

  PID  PPID  UID USER     RUSER    TTY         TIME+  %CPU %MEM S COMMAND

  714   711   23 squid    squid    ?          0:00.53  0.0  1.2 R squid

  720   714   23 squid    squid    ?          0:00.02  0.0  0.1 S unlinkd

 1727     1   51 smmsp    smmsp    ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.1 S sendmail

 1332     1   32 rpc      rpc      ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.1 S portmap

    1     0    0 root     root     ?          0:01.17  0.0  0.1 S init

    2     1    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S migration/0

    3     1    0 root     root     ?          0:00.03  0.0  0.0 S ksoftirqd/0

    4     1    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S watchdog/0

    5     1    0 root     root     ?          0:00.08  0.0  0.0 S events/0

    6     1    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S khelper

    7     1    0 root     root     ?          0:00.01  0.0  0.0 S kthread

    9     7    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S xenwatch

   10     7    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S xenbus

   34     7    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S kblockd/0

   35     7    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S cqueue/0

   39     7    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S khubd

   41     7    0 root     root     ?          0:00.00  0.0  0.0 S kseriod

Uptime:

Code:

uptime

 12:31:56 up 25 days,  4:40,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Storage:

Code:

df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda1              40G  1.9G   36G   5% /

tmpfs                 513M     0  513M   0% /dev/shm

Disk I/O:

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync

16384+0 records in

16384+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 36.5656 seconds, 29.4 MB/s

Download Speed (various source location):
Linode, Atlanta, GA:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://atlanta1.linode.com/100MB-atlanta.bin

--2011-10-22 13:46:47--  http://atlanta1.linode.com/100MB-atlanta.bin

Resolving atlanta1.linode.com... 63.247.71.196

Connecting to atlanta1.linode.com|63.247.71.196|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600  825K/s   in 5m 6s

2011-10-22 13:51:54 (334 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Linode, Dallas, TX:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://dallas1.linode.com/100MB-dallas.bin

--2011-10-22 13:53:37--  http://dallas1.linode.com/100MB-dallas.bin

Resolving dallas1.linode.com... 69.164.200.100

Connecting to dallas1.linode.com|69.164.200.100|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600  804K/s   in 6m 12s

2011-10-22 13:59:50 (275 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Linode, Tokyo, JP:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://tokyo1.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin

--2011-10-22 14:00:49--  http://tokyo1.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin

Resolving tokyo1.linode.com... 106.187.33.12

Connecting to tokyo1.linode.com|106.187.33.12|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600  219K/s   in 12m 59s

2011-10-22 14:13:49 (131 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Linode, London, UK:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://london1.linode.com/100MB-london.bin

--2011-10-22 14:14:47--  http://london1.linode.com/100MB-london.bin

Resolving london1.linode.com... 109.74.207.9

Connecting to london1.linode.com|109.74.207.9|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.07M/s   in 55s

2011-10-22 14:15:42 (1.83 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

CacheFly:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

--2011-10-22 14:16:21--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175

Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.02M/s   in 51s

2011-10-22 14:17:12 (1.96 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

QuadraNet, Los Angles, CA:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://www.quadranet.com/speedtests/100mb.test

--2011-10-22 14:18:02--  http://www.quadranet.com/speedtests/100mb.test

Resolving www.quadranet.com... 98.143.159.202

Connecting to www.quadranet.com|98.143.159.202|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 105472000 (101M) [text/plain]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 105,472,000 98.6K/s   in 21m 17s

2011-10-22 14:39:23 (80.7 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [105472000/105472000]

Softlayer, San Jose, CA:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.sjc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

--2011-10-22 15:11:41--  http://speedtest.sjc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

Resolving speedtest.sjc01.softlayer.com... 50.23.64.58

Connecting to speedtest.sjc01.softlayer.com|50.23.64.58|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,874,307  271K/s   in 6m 52s

2011-10-22 15:18:33 (249 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104874307/104874307]

Softlayer, Washington, DC:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

--2011-10-22 15:19:23--  http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

Resolving speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com... 208.43.102.250

Connecting to speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com|208.43.102.250|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,874,307  442K/s   in 7m 2s

2011-10-22 15:26:31 (243 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104874307/104874307]

Softlayer, Singapore:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.sng01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

--2011-10-22 16:07:39--  http://speedtest.sng01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

Resolving speedtest.sng01.softlayer.com... 216.12.196.114

Connecting to speedtest.sng01.softlayer.com|216.12.196.114|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,874,307  137K/s   in 24m 44s

2011-10-22 16:32:27 (69.0 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104874307/104874307]

Softlayer, Seattle, WA:

Code:

wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

--2011-10-22 17:01:49--  http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

Resolving speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com... 67.228.112.250

Connecting to speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com|67.228.112.250|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]

Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,874,307 1.12M/s   in 4m 44s

2011-10-22 17:06:33 (361 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104874307/104874307]

I/O Ping Test:

Code:

ioping . -c 10

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=1 time=0.6 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=2 time=21.5 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=3 time=31.1 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=4 time=8.4 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=5 time=1.0 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=6 time=1.0 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=7 time=0.6 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=8 time=8.2 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=9 time=8.9 ms

bytes from . (ext3 /dev/root): request=10 time=1.1 ms

--- . (ext3 /dev/root) ioping statistics ---

requests completed in 9108.4 ms, 121 iops, 0.5 mb/s

min/avg/max/mdev = 0.6/8.2/31.1/9.9 ms

GeekBench Results:

Code:

./geekbench_x86_32

Geekbench 2.1.13 : http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/

Geekbench is in tryout mode.

Your copy of Geekbench is in tryout mode.  If you like Geekbench, please

purchase it so we can continue to make Geekbench awesome.  You can

purchase Geekbench online at:

        http://store.primatelabs.ca/

If you've already purchased Geekbench, enter your license information

with the following command line:

        ./geekbench_x86_32 -r <email> <serial>

System Information

  Platform:                  Linux x86 (32-bit)

  Compiler:                  GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)

  Operating System:          Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen i686

  Model:                     Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz)

  Motherboard:               Unknown Motherboard

  Processor:                 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz

  Processor ID:              GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2

  Logical Processors:        1

  Physical Processors:       1

  Processor Frequency:       2.13 GHz

  L1 Instruction Cache:      0.00 B

  L1 Data Cache:             0.00 B

  L2 Cache:                  256 KB

  L3 Cache:                  0.00 B

  Bus Frequency:             0.00 Hz

  Memory:                    1.00 GB

  Memory Type:               N/A

  SIMD:                      1

  BIOS:                      N/A

  Processor Model:           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz

  Processor Cores:           1

Integer

  Blowfish

    single-threaded scalar    1333 |||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1410 |||||

  Text Compress

    single-threaded scalar    1301 |||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1220 ||||

  Text Decompress

    single-threaded scalar    1316 |||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1340 |||||

  Image Compress

    single-threaded scalar    1243 ||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1167 ||||

  Image Decompress

    single-threaded scalar    1066 ||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1086 ||||

  Lua

    single-threaded scalar    2082 ||||||||

    multi-threaded scalar     2058 ||||||||

Floating Point

  Mandelbrot

    single-threaded scalar    1744 ||||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1743 ||||||

  Dot Product

    single-threaded scalar    2164 ||||||||

    multi-threaded scalar     2302 |||||||||

    single-threaded vector    2664 ||||||||||

    multi-threaded vector     3444 |||||||||||||

  LU Decomposition

    single-threaded scalar    1903 |||||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1887 |||||||

  Primality Test

    single-threaded scalar    2161 ||||||||

    multi-threaded scalar     1796 |||||||

  Sharpen Image

    single-threaded scalar    3393 |||||||||||||

    multi-threaded scalar     3392 |||||||||||||

  Blur Image

    single-threaded scalar    3343 |||||||||||||

    multi-threaded scalar     3475 |||||||||||||

Memory

  Read Sequential

    single-threaded scalar    2477 |||||||||

  Write Sequential

    single-threaded scalar    4999 |||||||||||||||||||

  Stdlib Allocate

    single-threaded scalar    1829 |||||||

  Stdlib Write

    single-threaded scalar    1604 ||||||

  Stdlib Copy

    single-threaded scalar    2652 ||||||||||

Stream

  Stream Copy

    single-threaded scalar    1788 |||||||

    single-threaded vector    3265 |||||||||||||

  Stream Scale

    single-threaded scalar    2486 |||||||||

    single-threaded vector    2694 ||||||||||

  Stream Add

    single-threaded scalar    2005 ||||||||

    single-threaded vector    3127 ||||||||||||

  Stream Triad

    single-threaded scalar    1895 |||||||

    single-threaded vector    2196 ||||||||

Integer Score:                1385 |||||

Floating Point Score:         2529 ||||||||||

Memory Score:                 2712 ||||||||||

Stream Score:                 2432 |||||||||

Overall Geekbench Score:      2155 ||||||||

I've been using the VPS as an OpenVPN and Squid Proxy server until now and so far the performance is good and haven't got a problem.