Webhostportal.net - Turkey - XEN/OpenVZ- starting from 9.99 $ /month - 512MB RAM / 15GB SSD

Disclaimer:

I am in no way affiliated with Webhostportal.net 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:

Webhostportal.net is offering 5 different types of XEN and OpenVZ based Virtual Private Servers
in Turkey, Luxembourg, Russia and Netherlands. The cheapest server costs 4€ per month and is offering:

•     15GB SSD
•     512MB RAM   
•     1Gbit
•     upto 2TB Traffic
•     full root
•     SolusVM

I bought the server SSDVZ in Turkey one month ago.

First Start & Support & Communication

You buy the server by the WHCMS panel. I got the login information within after 2 days because they had to wait for new free IPs in Turkey.

I contacted the support to get information why the network speed was slow at the beginning. I received a response within 10 Minutes. They fixed the problem immediately. :)

 

Some facts about the node:

 

Dell 210ii
CPU E3-1270v2
Ram DDR3 16Gb 1333Mhz
HDD 4*240Gb Intel SSD (Raid 10)
1Gbps Shared Connectivity on nodes .

Hardware Information

CPU-Infos

root@turkey:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 42
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
stepping    : 7
cpu MHz        : 800.000
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 lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips    : 6799.77
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Mem-Info:

root@turkey:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         524288 kB
MemFree:          407364 kB
Cached:           101672 kB
Buffers:               0 kB
Active:            47104 kB
Inactive:          62296 kB
Active(anon):       2828 kB
Inactive(anon):     4900 kB
Active(file):      44276 kB
Inactive(file):    57396 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:        524288 kB
SwapFree:         524288 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:          7728 kB
Shmem:              2632 kB
Slab:               7520 kB
SReclaimable:       4008 kB
SUnreclaim:         3512 kB

Inode Allocation:

Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs           7864320   32125 7832195    1% /
tmpfs                2035854       4 2035850    1% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                2035854       1 2035853    1% /dev/shm

vmstat:

root@turkey:~# 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 407164      0 101844    0    0     0     1    0    8  0  0 100  0
The Network

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

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  1700.500 MHz
Total amount of ram : 512 MB
Total amount of swap : 512 MB
System uptime :   28 min,      
Download speed from CacheFly: 23.5MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 9.01MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 719KB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 4.37MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 225KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 17.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 600KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 6.29MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 338KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 474KB/s
I/O speed :  630 MB/s (SSD rocks!)

Another test:

Testing from Radore Veri Merkezi Hizmetleri A.S. (46.45.178.xxx)...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by eso-es.net (Eskisehir) [394.47 km]: 12.954 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 79.32 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 57.17 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 13.7M/s   in 8.9s   

2013-12-14 18:47:29 (11.3 MB/s) - `100MB.zip' saved [104857600/104857600]

Upload:

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 21.57 secs (4746.8 kB/s)

Traceroute:

root@turkey:/tmp# traceroute qdsl.de
traceroute to qdsl.de (213.148.129.40), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  hosted-by.donothinghost.info (31.210.96.210)  0.035 ms  0.198 ms  0.007 ms
 2  10.250.0.1 (10.250.0.1)  0.159 ms  0.213 ms  0.297 ms
 3  31.210.10.81 (31.210.10.81)  42.738 ms  42.743 ms  42.736 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  core4.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.12.218)  51.489 ms  47.234 ms  47.222 ms
 7  core5.cgn.qsc.de (87.234.11.202)  64.756 ms  66.253 ms  66.372 ms
 8  gw.qsc.de (213.148.128.70)  61.914 ms  61.158 ms  62.077 ms
 9  www.qsc.de (213.148.129.40)  47.819 ms  47.802 ms  46.809 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=243 time=43.9 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=2 ttl=243 time=43.9 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=3 ttl=243 time=43.8 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=4 ttl=243 time=43.8 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=5 ttl=243 time=43.9 ms
64 bytes from 193.99.144.77: icmp_req=6 ttl=243 time=43.9 ms

The connectivity to Europe is good. My highest download speed from Sweden was around 32MB/s.
 

Conclusion:

The Turkish Server of Webhostportal.net is recommended for all users, who need good connectivity to Asia as well to Europe. I can recommend their service as well. I might also test other VPS of them.