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VPS6.NET – Miami, Florida Xen VPS Hosting

by VPS Benchmarks on September 15, 2012 in Bandwidth, Florida, Gigabit, Xen with 1 Comment

Jeremy from VPS6.NET has been pushing me hard for reviews of his Xen VPS services and this is his recent offering from Miami, Florida as one of their nodes has a new friend – an additional node in Miami for Xen / Windows VPS orders.

This is a review of their Xen VPS Hosting in Miami, Florida.

XEN-768

  • 2 vCPU Cores
  • 768MB DEDICATED RAM
  • 1536MB SWAP RAM
  • 40gb Disk Space
  • 2000GB BANDWIDTH /MO.
  • 1Gbps Uplink
  • RAID60 10K SAS DISKS
  • 1 IPv4 Address

$18.95 per month*

*Current coupon codes

  • DOUBLEMYVPS6 – doubles your RAM and bandwidth if you prepay 3, 6 or 12 months (not valid for “monthly” orders).
  • POWERUP – additional 2 CPU cores OR an additional 1 TB of bandwidth, 10% off recurring and this is for monthly orders only.

Servers are hosted in Miami, Florida at Telx’s hosting facility in downtown Miami. With the recent storm a few weeks ago, Telx’s facility was not impacted one bit by the tropical storm that blew past Miami. There was no power or network outages reported, plus Jeremy told me that everything flowed normally to their Central and South American hosting clients who prefer the Miami location over Chicago or Los Angeles because of the less latency the submarine fiber loop cable that runs from Miami, to Central America, to the top of South America and back to Miami then up the Eastern US to eventually link to the UK.

Telx Miami is located at 36 North East 2nd Street in downtown Miami in a seven story, fifty thousand square feet hosting facility. VPS6.NET’s colocation at Telx Miami gives VPS6.NET a blend of nLayer, AT&T, XO and AboveNet at their location. Below, you can find test IP and test files:

VPS6.NET only uses premium VPS nodes compared to other folks who shop the bargain bin at a data center or budget, low end server provider like DataShack. Budget, low end and bargain all get you budget and low end results. However, the Miami Xen VPS node for VPS6.NET is as follows:

  • Dual Xeon L5645 CPUs (24 HT Cores)
  • 72GB ECC-Certified DDR3 RAM
  • 16x 10k SAS Drives w/ RAID60

VPS6.NET UnixBench Benchmarks:

   BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

   System: miami: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 -- #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:19:21 UTC 2012
   Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
   CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5640 @ 2.27GHz (4532.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5640 @ 2.27GHz (4532.0 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   16:51:31 up 13 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.14, 0.04, 0.01; runlevel 3

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 15 2012 16:51:31 - 17:19:28
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       14770653.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     2348.4 MWIPS (9.8 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                                751.3 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        122626.7 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           33711.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        397931.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              200951.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  34450.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               1573.2 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   1627.7 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    314.7 lpm   (60.2 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         211419.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   14770653.5   1265.7
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2348.4    427.0
Execl Throughput                                 43.0        751.3    174.7
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     122626.7    309.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      33711.5    203.7
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     397931.4    686.1
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     200951.0    161.5
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      34450.5     86.1
Process Creation                                126.0       1573.2    124.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       1627.7    383.9
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        314.7    524.5
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     211419.9    140.9
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         276.7

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 15 2012 17:19:28 - 17:47:21
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       29259557.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     4753.7 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               1531.1 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        201394.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           53599.6 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        668362.1 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              387107.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  67328.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               2938.8 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   2386.1 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    319.5 lpm   (60.2 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         408492.1 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   29259557.9   2507.2
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       4753.7    864.3
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       1531.1    356.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     201394.9    508.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      53599.6    323.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     668362.1   1152.3
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     387107.6    311.2
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      67328.3    168.3
Process Creation                                126.0       2938.8    233.2
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       2386.1    562.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        319.5    532.6
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     408492.1    272.3
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         479.0

Note: when I used the POWERUP coupon for 2 additional CPUs, the UnixBench score was 758.8 compared to 479.0

VPS6.NET Disk Performance:
IOPS:

# ioping -c 10 .
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=1 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=2 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=3 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=4 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=5 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=6 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=7 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=8 time=0.3 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=9 time=0.2 ms
4096 bytes from . (ext3 /dev/xvda1): request=10 time=0.3 ms

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9004.5 ms, 3864 iops, 15.1 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/0.3/0.3/0.0 ms

I/O Seek Test (No Cache):

# ioping -RD .

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
10188 requests completed in 3000.3 ms, 6416 iops, 25.1 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.2/12.8/0.2 ms

I/O Reads – Sequential:

# ioping -RL .

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
3783 requests completed in 3000.4 ms, 1657 iops, 414.2 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.4/0.6/8.8/0.2 ms

I/O Reads – Cached:

# ioping -RC .

--- . (ext3 /dev/xvda1) ioping statistics ---
20235 requests completed in 3000.0 ms, 103934 iops, 406.0 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.0/0.0/0.1/0.0 ms

DD Test Results:

[root@miami ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=1gb1mb bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.69304 s, 291 MB/s

[root@miami ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=1gb16k bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.69069 s, 291 MB/s

[root@miami ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=1gbdsync bs=1M count=1k oflag=dsync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.45297 s, 166 MB/s

Note: The first is 1000, 1mb block files, the second is 16000 16k block files and the third is 1000, 1mb block files without caching. All these “dd tests” are very consistent, reliable and often times better than some budget “SSD VPS” benchmarks.

Conclusion:
Might as well get the POWERUP coupon for 2 additional CPUs! I don’t see why you would need another 1TB of bandwidth when the plans offered by VPS6.NET have more than enough bandwidth unless you’re running some torrent seeding VPS or file sharing host which sucks bandwidth from everyone else on a node.

A lot of people ask when VPS6.NET is going to launch a SSD VPS product line and I see with the high 200s, almost 300 MB/s, on the dd tests it’s comparable to “budget”, “low end” SSD VPS providers in the under $10 range but VPS6.NET offers may more disk space than a budget SSD VPS provider with their Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives in their VPS nodes.

VPS6 (OpenVZ / Chicago) March 2012 Benchmarks

by VPS Benchmarks on March 3, 2012 in Chicago, Gigabit, OpenVZ, VPS6, Xeon 4 Core with No comments

Background:
VPS6 is a VPS hosting company with servers in multiple locations: Chicago, Los Angeles, Germany and Turkey. Like many VPS hosting companies, VPS6 has minimum node requirements of Dual Xeon X5460 CPUs (8 cores), 32gb of ECC RAM, and SSD-Hybrid or 10k RPM SAS drives.

Specifically, OpenVZ nodes have 8x RAID5 SSD-Hybrid Drives and Xen nodes have 8x RAID6 10k SAS Drives.

Chicago servers are located with Lakeside Technology Center / 350 Cermak Rd.

Test IP: 64.250.116.116
Test 100mb File: click here
Test 1000mb File: click here 

Hardware:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 23
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5460  @ 3.16GHz
stepping	: 6
cpu MHz		: 3166.616
cache size	: 6144 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips	: 6333.23
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 23
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5460  @ 3.16GHz
stepping	: 6
cpu MHz		: 3166.616
cache size	: 6144 KB
physical id	: 1
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 4
initial apicid	: 4
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips	: 6344.09
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 2
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 23
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5460  @ 3.16GHz
stepping	: 6
cpu MHz		: 3166.616
cache size	: 6144 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 2
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 2
initial apicid	: 2
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips	: 6333.34
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 3
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 23
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5460  @ 3.16GHz
stepping	: 6
cpu MHz		: 3166.616
cache size	: 6144 KB
physical id	: 1
siblings	: 4
core id		: 2
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 6
initial apicid	: 6
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips	: 6333.35
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

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VPS6 (Chicago / OpenVZ) Jan 2012 Benchmarks

by VPS Benchmarks on January 13, 2012 in Chicago, Gigabit, OpenVZ, Xeon 4 Core with No comments

Background:
VPS6 is a hosting provider with servers in multiple countries with US servers in Chicago, Illinois and in Los Angeles, California. VPS6 has servers in Germany and Istanbul, Turkey also. I am reviewing their OpenVZ services in their Chicago, Illinois facility which is the 1.1 million square foot 350 E. Cermak facility.

VPS nodes are dual quad core Intel Xeon X5460s (8 cores @ 3.16Ghz), 32gb RAM, RAID10 8x300gb 10k SAS hard disks and RAID5 8x500gb SSD Hybrid disks. E. Cermak has connectivity with nLayer, Level3, NTT America, Global Crossing, Hurricane Electric and Equinix.

Price: $5.95/month

Plan: VZ-256

  • 2 cores @ 3.16Ghz
  • 256mb guaranteed RAM
  • 512mb burstable RAM
  • 20gb disk space
  • 1000 gigabytes of bandwidth
  • 1 Gigabit per second uplink
  • RAID5 SSD Hybrid disks
  • 2 IP addresses
  • Instant deployment

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