VPSAce.com - Nethelands - XEN- starting from $18.00/Year - 128MB RAM / 10GB SSD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with VPSAce.com 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:

VPSAce.com is offering 6 different types of OpenVZ based Virtual Private Servers in USA and Netherlands. The cheapest server costs 18 USD per month and is offering:

•     10GB SSD
•     128 RAM   
•     100Mbit
•     100GB Transfer
•     full root
•     SolusVM

I bought the server "Standard" with 256 MB RAM and a 20GB SSD located in Netherlands. 

First Start & Support & Communication

You buy the server by the WHCMS panel. That was quite easy, I got the login information within minutes.

I never contacted the support, never had problems as well.

Hardware Information

CPU-Infos

[root@vps ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 58
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz
stepping    : 9
cpu MHz        : 2475.006
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    : 13
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 pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips    : 6600.01
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Mem-Info:
 

[root@vps ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         262144 kB
MemFree:          135884 kB
Cached:            63336 kB
Buffers:               0 kB
Active:            34672 kB
Inactive:          77776 kB
Active(anon):       1644 kB
Inactive(anon):    47468 kB
Active(file):      33028 kB
Inactive(file):    30308 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:        262144 kB
SwapFree:         240744 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         49112 kB
Shmem:              3076 kB
Slab:              13796 kB
SReclaimable:       3028 kB
SUnreclaim:        10768 kB
Inode Allocation:

[root@vps ~]# df -i
Filesystem       Inodes IUsed    IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs     10485760 31803 10453957    1% /
none              32768   151    32617    1% /dev
none              32768     1    32767    1% /dev/shm
vmstat:

[root@vps ~]# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0  21400 135276      0  63900    3    3     1    11    0   37  1  0 98  0  0

The Network

The network port is a "100Mbit" line, but I got even better results.

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2475.006 MHz
Total amount of ram : 256 MB
Total amount of swap : 256 MB
System uptime :   1 day, 17:40,     
Download speed from CacheFly: 27,4MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 11,4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 4,24MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 2,68MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 27,6MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 58,7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 2,40MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 5,23MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 4,74MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 4,66MB/s
I/O speed :  140 MB/s

Another test:

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from RouteLabel V.O.F. (176.56.235.xxx)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Qweb | Full-Service Hosting (Rotterdam) [13.88 km]: 14.385 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 343.61 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 195.39 Mbit/s

From speedtest.tele2.net

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: 1073741824 (1,0G) [application/zip]
In »»1GB.zip«« speichern.

100%[====================================>] 1.073.741.824 36,4M/s   in 39s    

2013-12-13 21:46:42 (26,5 MB/s) - »»1GB.zip«« gespeichert [1073741824/1073741824]

Upload:

local: 1GB.zip remote: 1GB.zip
227 Entering Passive Mode (90,130,66,198,156,192)
150 Ok to send data.
226 File receive OK.
1073741824 bytes sent in 49,9 secs (21510,30 Kbytes/sec)

Traceroute:

traceroute to qdsl.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  176.56.235.2 (176.56.235.2)  0.033 ms  0.010 ms  0.010 ms
 2  as198203.nikhef.jointtransit.nl (217.170.23.233)  6.912 ms  6.976 ms  7.033 ms
 3  jointtransit.nikhef.openpeering.nl (82.150.153.89)  9.870 ms  10.006 ms  10.056 ms
 4  equinix-fr4.openpeering.nl (82.150.154.29)  12.527 ms  12.591 ms  12.527 ms
 5  core2.dus.qsc.de (194.146.118.8)  12.502 ms peergw-decix.fra.qsc.de (80.81.192.41)  12.541 ms  12.316 ms
 6  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  13.074 ms core4.cgn.qsc.de (213.148.139.38)  13.761 ms  13.739 ms
 7  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  18.804 ms  18.597 ms  18.433 ms
 8  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  13.963 ms  14.217 ms  14.086 ms
 9  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  13.682 ms  14.385 ms  13.623 ms

Ping:

[root@vps tmp]# ping heise.de
PING heise.de (193.99.144.77) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=9.54 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=2 ttl=248 time=9.39 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=3 ttl=248 time=9.48 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=4 ttl=248 time=9.43 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=5 ttl=248 time=9.46 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=6 ttl=248 time=9.48 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=7 ttl=248 time=9.54 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_seq=8 ttl=248 time=9.42 ms

The connectivity is great and for this price just awesome.

Conclusion:

I really can recommend VPSAce.com. They offer good price VPSs in Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles and Netherlands. Very good when you need a lot of speed.