VPSDATABASE.com - Switzerland - OpenVZ/KVM - starting from 6 USD per month - 512 MB RAM / 50 GB HDD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with VPSDATABASE.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:

VPSDATABASE.com is offering 4 different types of KVM and OpenVZ based Virtual Private Servers
in Switzerland and USA. The cheapest server costs 6$ per month and is offering:

•     50GB HDD
•     512MB RAM   
•     1Gbit
•     100 GB transfer
•     full root
•     SolusVM

I bought "VPS-1" one month ago.

First Start & Support & Communication

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

The Control Panel is available under : http://panel.vpsdatabase.com:5353

I contacted the support several times and the response time was good and the staff very friendly. One thing I have to mention is, that they offer no SSL Connection on their webpage, but the admin told me, they will fix this at the beginning of 2014.

You can also pay by Bitcoin.


Hardware Information

CPU-Infos (12 Cores!)

root@server1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 45
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
stepping    : 7
cpu MHz        : 1200.000
cache size    : 15360 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 12
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 6
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 pdpe1gb 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 dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips    : 3999.99
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Inode Allocation:

Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           26214400   32226 26182174    1% /
tmpfs                 131072       4  131068    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 131072       1  131071    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      0 1008008      0  25200    0    0     0     0    0    0  0  0 100  0


The Network

The network port is a 1Gbit line. This are my results:

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Number of cores : 12
CPU frequency :  2001.000 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1024 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime :   3 days, 20:15,      
Download speed from CacheFly: 111MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 8.61MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 387KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 2.84MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 5.94MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 14.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 539KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 1.81MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 456KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 405KB/s
I/O speed :  38.0 MB/s

Another test:

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Private Layer Inc (185.12.46.35)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by SolNet (Solothurn) [42.04 km]: 14.067 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 276.38 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 148.36 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: 104857600 (100M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `100MB.zip'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.93M/s   in 97s    

2013-12-14 15:36:28 (1.03 MB/s) - `100MB.zip' saved [104857600/104857600]

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 5.88 secs (17429.2 kB/s)

Traceroute:

traceroute to qdsl.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  81.17.31.26 (81.17.31.26)  0.031 ms  0.010 ms  0.009 ms
 2  r1zrh2.core.init7.net (77.109.146.49)  0.265 ms  0.362 ms  0.389 ms
 3  r1zrh1.core.init7.net (77.109.128.241)  0.210 ms  0.210 ms r1bas1.core.init7.net (77.109.128.130)  13.334 ms
 4  r1fra2.core.init7.net (77.109.128.133)  6.009 ms  5.998 ms r1fra1.core.init7.net (77.109.128.250)  6.875 ms
 5  peergw-decix.fra.qsc.de (80.81.192.41)  6.697 ms  6.715 ms  7.217 ms
 6  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  10.741 ms  10.182 ms  10.163 ms
 7  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  16.177 ms  16.507 ms  16.248 ms
 8  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  11.875 ms  11.284 ms  11.385 ms
 9  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  11.763 ms  12.219 ms  12.208 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=247 time=13.1 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=2 ttl=247 time=13.3 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=3 ttl=247 time=13.2 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=4 ttl=247 time=13.1 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=5 ttl=247 time=13.1 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=6 ttl=247 time=13.2 ms

Its for sure a 1Gbit line as you can see with the Cachefly Results (actually their server is at the same DC), but their peering doesn't seem to be the best.
 

Conclusion:

I like VPSDATABASE.com very much because their support was very friendly, the speed is OK and you can buy by Bitcoin. I might also test their server in USA, maybe the speed is there better.