[Review] - UrPad - Kansas City | Budget VPS 768MB Burst

· 4 min read

This evening, I make a purchase of Urpad VPS, because I want to test them, and make some review of it.

  • 384MB Guaranteed Memory/ 768MB Burstable
  • 15GB Storage
  • 250GB Monthly Bandwidth
  • OpenVZ/ SolusVM
  • 1 IPv4
  • $3.49/month

CPU Information :

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 1197.354
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
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 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6385.88
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 1197.354
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 2
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 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6385.31
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
processor       : 2
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 1197.354
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 4
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 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6385.52
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      :           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 1197.354
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 6
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 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6385.43
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

IO Test :

# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf iotest
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 21.483 seconds, 50.0 MB/s

Network Test :

# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.bin
--2011-11-26 08:42:17--  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 11.2M/s   in 9.5s
2011-11-26 08:42:27 (10.5 MB/s) - `100mb.bin' saved [104857600/104857600]

Next Page : Geekbench Testing

Geekbench Testing :

# wget http://www.primatelabs.ca/download/Geekbench21-Linux.tar.gz
# tar xf Geekbench21-Linux.tar.gz
# ./dist/Geekbench21-Linux/geekbench_x86_32
System Information
  Platform:                  Linux x86 (32-bit)
  Compiler:                  GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
  Operating System:          Linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5.028stab095.1 i686
  Model:                     Linux PC (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz)
  Motherboard:               Unknown Motherboard
  Processor:                 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
  Processor ID:              GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
  Logical Processors:        4
  Physical Processors:       1
  Processor Frequency:       1.20 GHz
  L1 Instruction Cache:      0.00 B
  L1 Data Cache:             0.00 B
  L2 Cache:                  256 KB
  L3 Cache:                  0.00 B
  Bus Frequency:             0.00 Hz
  Memory:                    15.6 GB
  Memory Type:               N/A
  SIMD:                      1
  BIOS:                      N/A
  Processor Model:                     Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
  Processor Cores:           4
Integer
  Blowfish
    single-threaded scalar    2077 ||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     8600 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Text Compress
    single-threaded scalar    2824 |||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4477 |||||||||||||||||
  Text Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    2991 |||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6191 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Compress
    single-threaded scalar    2352 |||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     5199 ||||||||||||||||||||
  Image Decompress
    single-threaded scalar    2306 |||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     5259 |||||||||||||||||||||
  Lua
    single-threaded scalar    3937 |||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6087 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floating Point
  Mandelbrot
    single-threaded scalar    2670 ||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     6141 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Dot Product
    single-threaded scalar    4393 |||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    10404 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    5214 ||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded vector    13156 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  LU Decomposition
    single-threaded scalar    3405 |||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     4079 ||||||||||||||||
  Primality Test
    single-threaded scalar    4718 ||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar     5721 ||||||||||||||||||||||
  Sharpen Image
    single-threaded scalar   10644 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    20830 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Blur Image
    single-threaded scalar    8382 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    multi-threaded scalar    12734 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory
  Read Sequential
    single-threaded scalar    7446 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Write Sequential
    single-threaded scalar   12051 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Allocate
    single-threaded scalar    4630 ||||||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Write
    single-threaded scalar    8725 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stdlib Copy
    single-threaded scalar   17098 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream
  Stream Copy
    single-threaded scalar    6628 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    8120 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Scale
    single-threaded scalar    6993 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    7963 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Add
    single-threaded scalar    6524 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    7496 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Stream Triad
    single-threaded scalar    7115 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
    single-threaded vector    5550 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Integer Score:                4358 |||||||||||||||||
Floating Point Score:         8035 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Score:                 9990 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stream Score:                 7048 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Geekbench Score:      7040 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Geekbench Results : http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/520767