Dream.jp - Japan - OpenVZ- starting from 3.45 € / month- 1GB RAM / 50GB HDD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with Dream.jp but I have been a customer of theirs for around 1 month. This server was benchmarked and reviewed whilst it was not in production. Therefore it should be noted that the below results are of a server currently being not used.

 

Introduction:

Dream.jp is offering 3 different types of OpenVZ based Virtual Private Servers in Japan (Tokyo?).
The cheapest server "Entry" costs 3.45 € per monthand is offering:

•     50 GB HDD
•     1GB RAM   
•     100Mbit
•     unlimited transfer??
•     full root

I bought the server "Standard" with 2GB RAM , 100GB HDD. 

First of all: If you don't know how to use Google Translate or you are not able to understand Japanese, then I would not recommend this service. 

First Start & Support & Communication

You buy the server by their own panel. It was quite hard to input my personal data, because I needed to write a lot in Japanese Letters. You will get the login information immediately (in Japanese), but at least you can read the IP and the root password, lol. I don't remember which distributions they offer, I guess all standard. They have a Server Manager, but you can only reboot the system etc. I never figured out how to reinstall the system.

I contacted the support once, but they don't understand english (or don't want). That's quite bad.

Hardware Information

CPU-Infos

root@dti-vps-srv116:~# 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        : 425.022
cache size    : 12288 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 1
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 1
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 11
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc ida arat pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips    : 5361.81
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor    : 1
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 44
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz
stepping    : 2
cpu MHz        : 425.022
cache size    : 12288 KB
physical id    : 1
siblings    : 1
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 1
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 11
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc ida arat pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips    : 5361.81
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Mem-Info:

root@dti-vps-srv116:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      2097152 kB
MemFree:       1854316 kB
Buffers:             0 kB
Cached:              0 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:              0 kB
Inactive:            0 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      2097152 kB
LowFree:       1854316 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:               0 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:           0 kB
Mapped:              0 kB
Slab:                0 kB
PageTables:          0 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:         0 kB
Committed_AS:        0 kB
VmallocTotal:        0 kB
VmallocUsed:         0 kB
VmallocChunk:        0 kB

Inode Allocation:

root@dti-vps-srv116:~# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           3000000   29609 2970391    1% /
tmpfs                 262144       4  262140    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 262144       1  262143    1% /dev/shm

vmstat:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 1  0      0 1854204      0      0    0    0     0     2    0    9  0  0 100  0

The Network

The network port is a 100Mbit line. As you can expect the speed to Europe and USA is bad. It took forever to run the speedtest script. Looks like the speed outside of Japan is max. 10Mbit.

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency :  425.022 MHz
Total amount of ram : 2048 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime :   21 days, 20:39,      
Download speed from CacheFly: 5.48MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 525KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 567KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 6.57MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 189KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 170KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.07MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 886KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 815KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 499KB/s
I/O speed :  107 MB/s

Another test:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Dream Train Internet (27.120.109.xx)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Vladlink (Vladivostok) [1065.71 km]: 28.69 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 11.00 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 6.45 Mbit/s

From speedtest.qsc.de

Connecting to speedtest.qsc.de|195.90.7.115|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10485760 (10M)
Saving to: `10MB.qsc'

100%[============================================>] 10,485,760   331K/s   in 31s    

2013-12-14 01:31:17 (327 KB/s) - `10MB.qsc' saved [10485760/10485760]

Upload:

ftp> put 10MB.qsc
local: 10MB.qsc remote: 10MB.qsc
200 EPRT command successful. Consider using EPSV.
150 Ok to send data.
226 File receive OK.
10485760 bytes sent in 41.73 secs (245.4 kB/s)

Traceroute:

root@dti-vps-srv116:/tmp# traceroute qsc.de
traceroute to qsc.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  v-27-120-109-123.ub-freebit.net (27.120.109.123)  0.075 ms  0.045 ms  0.039 ms
 2  202.216.248.154 (202.216.248.154)  1.359 ms  1.297 ms  1.208 ms
 3  oi-gate-1.otemachi4.dti.ad.jp (203.181.69.1)  0.825 ms  0.788 ms  0.904 ms
 4  xe-0-0-0-6.r00.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net (61.213.161.21)  1.667 ms  1.613 ms  1.552 ms
 5  ae-13.r25.tokyjp05.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.94)  11.989 ms  12.086 ms  11.876 ms
 6  ae-1.r20.tokyjp05.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.6.210)  1.760 ms  1.063 ms  12.842 ms
 7  ae-2.r20.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.12)  94.566 ms  104.792 ms  96.536 ms
 8  ae-1.r05.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.47)  101.533 ms  110.756 ms  107.187 ms
 9  ae-0.level3.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.8.74)  110.464 ms  110.398 ms  103.378 ms
10  ae-32-52.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.69.147.182)  245.430 ms  242.187 ms  247.551 ms
11  ae-2-2.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.54)  240.948 ms  250.046 ms  240.996 ms
12  ae-3-3.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.132.62)  263.360 ms  264.935 ms  268.550 ms
13  ae-1-100.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.132.114)  254.306 ms  268.163 ms  260.096 ms
14  ae-6-6.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net (4.69.148.145)  263.662 ms  271.873 ms  268.081 ms
15  4.69.202.57 (4.69.202.57)  249.985 ms  243.614 ms ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.143.221)  272.353 ms
16  ae-41-41.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.137.49)  265.274 ms ae-43-43.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.137.57)  259.308 ms ae-44-44.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.137.61)  264.584 ms
17  ae-45-45.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.143.133)  251.664 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.143.145)  260.864 ms  260.896 ms
18  ae-81-81.csw3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.10)  267.594 ms ae-91-91.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.14)  250.893 ms ae-71-71.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.6)  262.725 ms
19  * * *
20  core1.fra.qsc.de (195.16.160.6)  249.023 ms  264.272 ms  258.309 ms
21  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  265.868 ms  258.493 ms  264.335 ms
22  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  275.301 ms  285.164 ms  275.143 ms
23  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  268.925 ms  260.085 ms  260.682 ms
24  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  253.903 ms  255.188 ms  253.952 ms

Ping:

PING heise.de (193.99.144.77) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=1 ttl=242 time=268 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=2 ttl=242 time=255 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=3 ttl=242 time=255 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=4 ttl=242 time=268 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=5 ttl=242 time=255 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=6 ttl=242 time=269 ms

Within Japan you "can" around 100Mbit, but don't even mention outside.

Conclusion:

The servers of Dream.jp are cheap, but the CPU speed of around 500 MHZ is bad and their network capacity and the peering to outside of Japan is even worse. If you need to host something in Japan for Japanese Users, then it might be ok.