Review and benchmarks for the Virmach KVM with: 1cpu, 1GB ram, 5GB SSD, 300Gb bandwidth, 1Gbps port in Buffalo for $5.50 USD annually.
| Provider: | Virmach |
| Vps: | KVM |
| Price: | $5.50 USD Annual |
| CPU: | 1 @ 2199 Mhz |
| Ram: | 1GB |
| Swap: | 992MB |
| Disk: | 5GB SSD Raid 10 |
| Location: | Buffalo |
| Bandwidth: | 300GB |
| Port: | 1Gbps |
| Other: | No support |
Positives
- Very Cheap yearly
- Stable provider
- Awesome value
- Fast network
Negatives
- No support
- Tiny disk space
- Small bandwidth allowance
For what ever reason this VPS was slower network wise? maybe a busy node.. but for ~$5 a year it is excellent value.
Test 1
Benchmark started on Tue Nov 28 23:17:31 EST 2017 Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log System Info ----------- Processor : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) CPU Cores : 1 Frequency : 2199.998 MHz Memory : 992 MB Swap : MB Uptime : 4 days, 1:53, OS : \S Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 Hostname : HeartyPiercing-VM Speedtest (IPv4 only) --------------------- Location Provider Speed CDN Cachefly 41.8MB/s Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 17.4MB/s Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 15.3MB/s Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 8.47MB/s San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 9.09MB/s Washington, DC, US Softlayer 11.6MB/s Tokyo, Japan Linode 11.4MB/s Singapore Softlayer 3.90MB/s Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 2.97MB/s Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 15.8MB/s Disk Speed ---------- I/O (1st run) : 140 MB/s I/O (2nd run) : 210 MB/s I/O (3rd run) : 167 MB/s Average I/O : 172.333 MB/s
Test 2
Benchmark started on Tue Nov 28 23:20:56 EST 2017 Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log System Info ----------- Processor : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) CPU Cores : 1 Frequency : 2199.998 MHz Memory : 992 MB Swap : MB Uptime : 4 days, 1:56, OS : \S Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 Hostname : HeartyPiercing-VM Speedtest (IPv4 only) --------------------- Location Provider Speed CDN Cachefly 49.3MB/s Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 18.3MB/s Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 14.6MB/s Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 9.03MB/s San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 9.23MB/s Washington, DC, US Softlayer 7.77MB/s Tokyo, Japan Linode 11.1MB/s Singapore Softlayer 3.59MB/s Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 3.01MB/s Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 13.9MB/s Disk Speed ---------- I/O (1st run) : 194 MB/s I/O (2nd run) : 141 MB/s I/O (3rd run) : 136 MB/s Average I/O : 157 MB/s