Edis.at - Isle of Man - OpenVZ/KVM - starting from 1.45 € / month- 128 MB / 2GB HDD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with Edis.at but I have been a customer of theirs for around 1month. 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:

Edis.at is offering 6 different types of OpenVZ and KVM based Virtual Private Servers at 17 different locations.
The cheapest server "VRS micro" costs 1.45 € per month (you have to pay it annually)  and is offering:

•     2 GB HDD
•     128 MB RAM   
•     100Mbit or 1Gbit
•     500 GB transfer
•     full root
•     SolusVM

I bought the server "KVM Smart" with 256 MB RAM , 1TB Traffic and 5GB HDD at Isle of Man (real offshore, yeah!).

First Start & Support & Communication

You buy the server by the well known WHMCS platform and you will get the login information immediately. You can also install Windows 2008/2012 server if you don't like windows.

You can reinstall the system at any time at: https://manage.edis.at/vps/

Control Panel of Edis.at VPS

I contacted the support hotline in order to get my password for the control panel. The support was very nice and helpful. I can recommend it at any time. :) I like it very too as well, that you have VNC access for the KVM based VPS's

Hardware Information

CPU-Infos

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 2
model name    : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0
stepping    : 3
cpu MHz        : 2533.918
cache size    : 4096 KB
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 4
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm up rep_good nopl pni cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm
bogomips    : 5067.83
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Mem-Info:

~# cat /proc/meminfo
root@197-55-235-37:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         250900 kB
MemFree:            6768 kB
Buffers:              12 kB
Cached:           207576 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           127372 kB
Inactive:          87700 kB
Active(anon):       1988 kB
Inactive(anon):     5656 kB
Active(file):     125384 kB
Inactive(file):    82044 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:        241660 kB
SwapFree:         241660 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:          7508 kB
Mapped:             4148 kB
Shmem:               160 kB
Slab:              18644 kB
SReclaimable:      12684 kB
SUnreclaim:         5960 kB
KernelStack:         432 kB
PageTables:         1020 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:      367108 kB
Committed_AS:      38788 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:         816 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359737543 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:       38900 kB
DirectMap2M:      223232 kB
Inode Allocation:

Filesystem                                              Inodes IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs                                                 4902912 21572 4881340    1% /
udev                                                     29881   308   29573    2% /dev
tmpfs                                                    31362   216   31146    1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/fce0e65b-0f4d-4a43-a63d-4649e3994c27 4902912 21572 4881340    1% /
tmpfs                                                    31362     1   31361    1% /run/lock
tmpfs                                                    31362     2   31360    1% /run/shm
/dev/vda1                                                24096   240   23856    1% /boot

vmstat:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0      0   6632     12 207680    0    0     1     3    6    8  0  0 100  0

The Network

The network port is a 100Mbit line and the results are average. The connectivity to USA seems to be not so good.

CPU model :  QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2533.918 MHz
Total amount of ram : 245 MB
Total amount of swap : 235 MB
System uptime :   25 days, 48 min,     
Download speed from CacheFly: 9.90MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 1.19MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 989KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 474KB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 4.11MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 5.31MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 466KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 786KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 764KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 1.32MB/s
I/O speed :  76.4 MB/s

Another test:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from EDIS GmbH (37.235.55.xxx)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Wi-Manx Limited (Douglas) [1.95 km]: 16.371 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 81.29 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 80.13 Mbit/s

From speedtest.tele2.net

Connecting to speedtest.tele2.net (speedtest.tele2.net)|90.130.66.198|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[====================================================>] 104,857,600 2.91M/s   in 35s   

2013-12-13 16:13:49 (2.87 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Upload:

local: 100MB.zip remote: 100MB.zip
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Ok to send data.
226 File receive OK.
104857600 bytes sent in 15.20 secs (6734.6 kB/s)

Traceroute:

traceroute to qsc.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  1-55-235-37.static.edis.at (37.235.55.1)  4.508 ms  4.708 ms  4.704 ms
 2  ge-0-0-4-csw3.hh.iom.wimanx.com (84.246.207.5)  1.904 ms  2.404 ms  2.407 ms
 3  xe-1-3-0-cr1.hh.iom.wimanx.com (84.246.207.133)  0.315 ms  0.324 ms  0.322 ms
 4  xe-1-2-0_vl3007-er1.tcw.man.wimanx.com (84.246.207.142)  3.037 ms  3.043 ms  3.031 ms
 5  gi2-34.man.core.enta.net (188.39.69.181)  9.852 ms  10.204 ms  10.198 ms
 6  te0-0-0-0.telehouse-north.core.enta.net (188.39.127.42)  10.680 ms  10.603 ms  10.582 ms
 7  te5-1.telehouse-north0.core.enta.net (188.39.127.126)  9.850 ms  9.673 ms  9.638 ms
 8  te5-4.frankfurt.core.enta.net (188.39.127.108)  25.749 ms  25.511 ms  25.711 ms
 9  * * *
10  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  23.953 ms  23.965 ms  23.961 ms
11  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  29.315 ms  29.533 ms  29.781 ms
12  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  24.368 ms  24.380 ms  24.379 ms
13  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  24.588 ms  24.541 ms  24.566 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=21.3 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=2 ttl=242 time=21.6 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=3 ttl=242 time=21.4 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=4 ttl=242 time=21.4 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=5 ttl=242 time=21.5 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=6 ttl=242 time=21.4 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=7 ttl=242 time=21.2 ms

The results are average for a 100MBit Line, the upload seems to be quite good. Don't forget the test was made from Isle of Man. Other locations of EDIS.at VPS's could vary. They also offer a 1Gbit Port server in Netherlands.


Conclusion:

Edis.at is also offering one of the cheapest VPS's I have seen on the European Market. It's specially nice, they offer 17 different locations. Their support is superb. If you need a average 100Mbit Line or 1Gbit Line (did not test them), then EDIS.at is a good choice.