Review of VPS.net Free Trial

· 2 min read

Today I saw an offer in the LET and also WHT of a VPS.net Trial, so I decide o give it a try :

  • Dedicated CPU 600MHZ
  • Memory 376 MB
  • Disk Space 10 GB
  • Bandwidth 1TB
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • XEN
  • Free Trial for 1 Month and then $20 after
  • Node SLC / Salt Lake City

CPU Info :

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2400.084
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6005.09
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 44
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2400.084
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6005.09
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Memory Info :

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       385024 kB
MemFree:        130420 kB
Buffers:          6080 kB
Cached:          50832 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          47004 kB
Inactive:        41276 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       385024 kB
LowFree:        130420 kB
SwapTotal:     1048568 kB
SwapFree:      1048568 kB
Dirty:               8 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       31312 kB
Mapped:           9032 kB
Slab:            12112 kB
PageTables:       3816 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   1241080 kB
Committed_AS:   111280 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      2624 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359735743 kB

Network Speed :

# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
--2012-03-25 02:35:43--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.bin'
100%[===================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 25.1M/s   in 4.3s
2012-03-25 02:35:48 (23.2 MB/s) - `100mb.bin' saved [104857600/104857600]

Disk IO Test

# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 108.053 seconds, 9.9 MB/s