Torqhost.com - Estonia - XEN/KVM/OpenVZ - starting from 15 € / year - 256 MB / 10GB HDD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with Torqhost.com but I have been a customer of theirs for around 7 months. 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:

Torqhost.com is offering 12 different types of XEN/ KVM/OpenVZ based Virtual Private Servers. Their VPSs are located in Estonia

The cheapest server "Level 0 " costs 15 € per year and is offering:

•     10GB HDD
•     2.0 GHz 
•     256 MB RAM
•     1 Gbps connectivity (it should normally be 100Mbit)
•     200 GB transfer
•     full root
•     SolusVM

I bought the this Level 0 server in order to use it a backup VPN server. 

First Start & Support & Communication

You buy the server by the well known WHMCS platform and you will get the login information immediately (as I can remember). 

You can reinstall the system at any time by SolusVM.

I never contacted the support yet, because I never had problems, but it looks like they only offer support by ticket 24/7 h.


Hardware Information

# I will contact them in order to know more about their nodes.

CPU-Infos

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 30
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3450  @ 2.67GHz
stepping    : 5
cpu MHz        : 2666.599
cache size    : 8192 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 8
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 4
apicid        : 0
initial apicid    : 0
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 11
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips    : 5333.19
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Mem-Info:

~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         262144 kB
MemFree:          233716 kB
Cached:            18384 kB
Active:             9576 kB
Inactive:          14284 kB
Active(anon):       2628 kB
Inactive(anon):     2848 kB
Active(file):       6948 kB
Inactive(file):    11436 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:        262144 kB
SwapFree:         259408 kB
Dirty:                 4 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:          5476 kB
Shmem:              5120 kB
Slab:               4560 kB
SReclaimable:       2844 kB
SUnreclaim:         1716 kB

 
Inode Allocation:

df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           4000000   46919 3953081    2% /
tmpfs                  32768       4   32764    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                  32768       1   32767    1% /dev/shm

vmstat:

root@xxxx:~# 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   2736 233552      0  18484    1    1     5    14    0    1  0  0 100  0

The Network

It should normally be a 100Mbit line, but I get much better results:

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3450  @ 2.67GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2666.599 MHz
Total amount of ram : 256 MB
Total amount of swap : 256 MB
System uptime :   26 days, 23:27,      
Download speed from CacheFly: 36.2MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 9.53MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 7.64MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 4.42MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 2.97MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 27.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 3.18MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 6.45MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 7.00MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 10.0MB/s 

Another test:

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Aktsiaselts WaveCom (xxxxxx)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Compic OU (Tallinn) [85.72 km]: 12.08 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 567.31 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 344.45 Mbit/s

From speedtest.tele2.net

Connecting to speedtest.tele2.net|90.130.66.198|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1073741824 (1.0G) [application/zip]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 1,073,741,824 97.5M/s   in 11s   

2013-12-13 18:12:08 (90.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1073741824/1073741824] (sweet!)

Upload:

ftp> put 1GB.zip
local: 1GB.zip remote: 1GB.zip
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Ok to send data.
226 File receive OK.
1073741824 bytes sent in 28.51 secs (36785.1 kB/s)

Traceroute:

traceroute to qsc.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  srv1.ipnames.org (46.22.209.210)  0.035 ms  0.011 ms  0.010 ms
 2  80.79.118.193 (80.79.118.193)  0.363 ms  0.513 ms  0.501 ms
 3  r9-ge-0-2-1-0-Tln-Linx-EE.linxtelecom.net (195.222.7.169)  0.228 ms  0.216 ms  0.262 ms
 4  r9-ae2-0-Sln-Song-SE.linxtelecom.net (212.47.201.190)  5.798 ms  5.788 ms  5.771 ms
 5  r8-xe-5-3-0-0-Fra-Anct-DE.linxtelecom.net (212.47.201.196)  31.139 ms  31.125 ms  31.111 ms
 6  r9-ae4-0-Fra-Anct-DE.linxtelecom.net (212.47.201.188)  30.235 ms  30.106 ms  30.090 ms
 7  peergw-decix.fra.qsc.de (80.81.192.41)  30.084 ms  30.142 ms  30.068 ms
 8  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  33.601 ms  33.591 ms  33.579 ms
 9  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  39.224 ms  35.578 ms  35.681 ms
10  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  34.569 ms  34.549 ms  34.476 ms
11  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  34.881 ms  34.903 ms  35.133 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=245 time=38.8 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=2 ttl=245 time=38.8 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=3 ttl=245 time=38.8 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=4 ttl=245 time=38.9 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=5 ttl=245 time=38.7 ms

Thats a very great results, to be honest, one of the best speedtest I have ever seen. I can recommend Torqhost.com for all people who need a lot of speed. :)


Conclusion:

Torqhost.com is offering one of the cheapest VPSs in Europe. I never had problems with them and my server is running for almost more than a year. I can recommend it to all beginners and linux experts.