Reg.ru - Russia - OpenVZ/XEN- starting from 2.8 € /month - 128MB RAM / 2GB HDD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with Reg.ru 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:

Reg.ru is offering 5 different types of XEN and OpenVZ based Virtual
Private Servers in Russia. The cheapest server costs around 2.8 € per month and is offering:

•     2GB HDD
•     2 GHZ CPU
•     128MB RAM   
•     20Mbit limited
•     unlimited Transfer
•     full root
•     Reg.ru Control Panel

I bought the "XEN-2" server with 5GB HDD and 256 MB RAM one month ago.

First Start & Support & Communication

You buy the server by their own Product panel. That was quite easy, when you found the English version of the webpage.

They seem to have 24h support, I never contacted them, but expect their hotline to be in Russian language.

Their own control panel offers standard options like Reboot, Reinstall etc.




Hardware Information

CPU-Infos

root@russia1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 45
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
stepping    : 7
microcode    : 0x70d
cpu MHz        : 2300.084
cache size    : 15360 KB
physical id    : 1
siblings    : 1
core id        : 2
cpu cores    : 1
apicid        : 36
initial apicid    : 36
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 13
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc up rep_good nopl pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes avx hypervisor lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm
bogomips    : 4600.16
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Mem-Info:

root@russia1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 45
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
stepping    : 7
microcode    : 0x70d
cpu MHz        : 2300.084
cache size    : 15360 KB
physical id    : 1
siblings    : 1
core id        : 2
cpu cores    : 1
apicid        : 36
initial apicid    : 36
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 13
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 sep cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc up rep_good nopl pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes avx hypervisor lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm
bogomips    : 4600.16
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Inode Allocation:


root@russia1:~# df -i
Filesystem     Inodes IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs         327680 25880 301800    8% /
udev            27052   276  26776    2% /dev
tmpfs           31061   168  30893    1% /run
/dev/xvda1     327680 25880 301800    8% /
tmpfs           31061     1  31060    1% /run/lock
tmpfs           31061     2  31059    1% /run/shm

Vmstat:

root@russia1:~# 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   4444  19884 200128    0    0     8    57   55  198  0  0 100  0


The Network

The network port seems to be a "100Mbit Line", but its limited according to the support to 20Mbit. This are my results:

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2300.084 MHz
Total amount of ram : 242 MB
Total amount of swap : 255 MB
System uptime :   3:28,      
Download speed from CacheFly: 12.1MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 829KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 652KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 360KB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 2.45MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 2.60MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 367KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 547KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 549KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 833KB/s
I/O speed :  87.7 MB/s

Another test:

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Domain names registrar REG.RU, Ltd (151.248.112.xxx)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by cemka.org (Krasnoyarsk) [610.35 km]: 13.351 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 8.16 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 17.41 Mbit/s

From speedtest.tele2.net

Connecting to speedtest.tele2.net (speedtest.tele2.net)|2a00:801:0:11::2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.69M/s   in 60s   

2013-12-14 14:36:49 (1.67 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

Upload:

local: 100MB.zip remote: 100MB.zip
200 EPRT command successful. Consider using EPSV.
150 Ok to send data.
226 File receive OK.
104857600 bytes sent in 152.33 secs (672.2 kB/s)

Traceroute:

traceroute to qsc.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  xenhost33.vps.reg.ru (37.140.193.64)  0.067 ms  0.049 ms  0.031 ms
 2  37.140.192.1 (37.140.192.1)  0.466 ms  0.556 ms  0.675 ms
 3  ae20-343.RT.MR.MSK.RU.retn.net (87.245.253.89)  0.498 ms  0.478 ms  0.451 ms
 4  * ae2-3.RT.EQX.FKT.DE.retn.net (87.245.233.58)  110.357 ms *
 5  peergw-decix.fra.qsc.de (80.81.192.41)  109.983 ms  109.999 ms  109.977 ms
 6  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  86.053 ms  85.927 ms  85.899 ms
 7  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  127.077 ms  127.890 ms  127.726 ms
 8  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  116.930 ms  116.943 ms  117.000 ms
 9  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  124.233 ms  123.979 ms  123.977 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=248 time=87.4 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=2 ttl=248 time=89.2 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=3 ttl=248 time=91.2 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=4 ttl=248 time=88.6 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=5 ttl=248 time=90.4 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=6 ttl=248 time=95.3 ms

The connectivity could be better.
 

Conclusion:

Reg.ru is cheap. But you can't expect to get a highspeed VPS for the price. The network speed is limited to 20Mbit.