Gohost.kz - Kasachstan - XEN- starting from 9.45 € / month - 256MB RAM / 4GB HDD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with Gohost.kz 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:

Gohost.kz is offering 4 different types of XEN based Virtual Private Servers in Kazachstan.
The cheapest server "№1" costs 9.45  € per month and is offering:

•     4 GB HDD
•     256MB RAM   
•     100Mbit
•     unlimited transfer
•     full root
•     SolusVM

I bought the server "№1" server.

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

First Start & Support & Communication

You buy the server by the WHCMS panel. Use Google Translate to input the correct personal information. You can pay by Credit Card as a European or American client. I don't remember which distributions they offer, I guess all standard. You can change it at any time at their SolusVM interface at https://95.57.120.200:5656/

I spoke with the support by ICQ before I bought the server, they had no problem to understand English and could give me correct infos.

Hardware Information

CPU-Infos

root@server1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5345  @ 2.33GHz
stepping    : 7
cpu MHz        : 2333.490
cache size    : 4096 KB
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 10
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht constant_tsc up aperfmperf pni ssse3 hypervisor
bogomips    : 4666.98
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Mem-Info:

root@server1:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         253916 kB
MemFree:            4760 kB
Buffers:           75696 kB
Cached:           156988 kB
SwapCached:          400 kB
Active:            94960 kB
Inactive:         140712 kB
Active(anon):       1620 kB
Inactive(anon):     1376 kB
Active(file):      93340 kB
Inactive(file):   139336 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:             0 kB
HighFree:              0 kB
LowTotal:         253916 kB
LowFree:            4760 kB
SwapTotal:        524280 kB
SwapFree:         522912 kB
Dirty:                 8 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:          2648 kB
Mapped:             3988 kB
Shmem:                 8 kB
Slab:              11060 kB
SReclaimable:       9268 kB
SUnreclaim:         1792 kB
KernelStack:         384 kB
PageTables:          420 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:      651236 kB
Committed_AS:      37484 kB
VmallocTotal:     598008 kB
VmallocUsed:         776 kB
VmallocChunk:     597112 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:      262144 kB
DirectMap2M:           0 kB

Inode Allocation:

root@server1:~# df -i
Dateisystem           Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Eingehängt auf
/dev/xvda1            262144   34890  227254   14% /
tmpfs                  31739       4   31735    1% /lib/init/rw
udev                   29101     393   28708    2% /dev
tmpfs                  31739       3   31736    1% /dev/shm

vmstat:


root@server1:~# 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   1368   4460  75720 157284    0    0     0     3    2    1  1  3 96  0

The Network

The network port is a 100Mbit line. On their webpage they write it's 50 Mbit. I can only guess that the speed is a lower outside Kazachstan. Well, it was extremely low. It took again forever to run the speedtest script.

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5345  @ 2.33GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2333.490 MHz
Total amount of ram : 247 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
System uptime :   25 days, 14:07,     
Download speed from CacheFly: 1,39MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 85,6KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 110KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 138KB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 229KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 331KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 472KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 563KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 505KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 1,66MB/s
I/O speed : 0 MB/s

Another test:

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from JSC Kazakhtelecom (178.89.191.xxx)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Megaseed.kz (Karagandy) [428.93 km]: 16.054 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 236.19 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 47.53 Mbit/s

Well, at least its seems fast within Kazachstan.

From speedtest.tele2.net

root@server1:/tmp# wget http://speedtest.tele2.net/100MB.zip -O /dev/null
--2013-12-13 18:13:38--  http://speedtest.tele2.net/100MB.zip
Auflösen des Hostnamen speedtest.tele2.net... 90.130.66.198, 2a00:801:0:11::2
Verbindungsaufbau zu speedtest.tele2.net|90.130.66.198|:80... verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... 200 OK
Länge: 104857600 (100M) [application/zip]
In »/dev/null« speichern.

100%[=====================================>] 104.857.600 2,03M/s   in 44s   

2013-12-13 18:14:23 (2,25 MB/s) - »/dev/null« gespeichert [104857600/104857600]


When you download the same file with axel and 5 threads its much better:


100,0 Megabytes abgerufen in 19 Sekunden. (5377,63 KB/s)

Upload:

ftp> put 100MB.zip
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 21.05 secs (4864.5 kB/s)

Traceroute:

traceroute to qdsl.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  89.218.102.1 (89.218.102.1)  0.304 ms  0.281 ms  0.314 ms
 2  212.154.195.97 (212.154.195.97)  30.410 ms  30.416 ms  30.395 ms
 3  92.47.151.128 (92.47.151.128)  47.669 ms  47.660 ms  47.650 ms
 4  92.47.151.210 (92.47.151.210)  30.329 ms  30.317 ms  30.310 ms
 5  akto-core-l1-1.online.kz (92.47.145.6)  39.673 ms  39.663 ms  39.644 ms
 6  92.47.151.59 (92.47.151.59)  36.996 ms  34.497 ms  34.484 ms
 7  78.25.80.193 (78.25.80.193)  51.007 ms  50.952 ms  50.964 ms
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  119.055 ms  119.130 ms  118.892 ms
11  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  120.469 ms  122.330 ms  122.481 ms
12  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  120.731 ms  119.443 ms  119.668 ms
13  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  120.295 ms  119.940 ms  120.624 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=115 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=2 ttl=242 time=115 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=3 ttl=242 time=116 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=4 ttl=242 time=114 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=5 ttl=242 time=115 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=6 ttl=242 time=115 ms

The Port speed is 100Mbit, but you get only average results outside of Kazakhstan.

Conclusion:

Well, you can't expect a lot of speed in Kazakhstan, around 50Mbit is still ok in my opinion. If you need some "offshore" VPS, then Gohost.kz is a good choice for you.