Dedicube recently launched their VPS brand, BoltVM. Although rollout was rather sloppy, I have to say, so far I'm quite happy with the service.
I signed up the day they launched (invoice #2), however didn't pay until earlier today, which @Steven_F allowed me to do. At time of signup, fraud verification was done manually - I don't know if this is still like this, however I was verified pretty quickly.
After paying the invoice at around 7 this morning, I then opened a ticket, noticing that they didn't have auto-provision on payment. Ticket was set to Low priority, and was off-business hours, yet I got a reply in under 30 minutes. Not too bad, if you ask me.
They use Virtualizor for VPS control, and everything seems to work fine, less installing Control Panels. Template availability is rather limited, but I've been told this is going to change.
I did have an issue with my IP address not being in the Server Info email, but this was easily found in Virtualizor.
Server itself seems super snappy. Initial apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ran faster than the eye could catch. I have yet to do in-depth testing, but I do have numbers for you to look at.
OS is Debian 7 (Latest) 64-bit
9.4MB used with standard Debian utilities. Decent.
root@Bolt1024:~# free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1.0G 21M 1.0G 0B 0B 12M
-/+ buffers/cache: 9.4M 1.0G
Swap: 1.0G 0B 1.0G
All currently running processes.
root@Bolt1024:~# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 3144 1756 ? Ss 17:08 0:00 init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:08 0:00 [kthreadd/122]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:08 0:00 [khelper/122]
root 94 0.0 0.0 2392 800 ? S 17:08 0:00 upstart-udev-bridge --daemon
root 102 0.0 0.0 2364 976 ? Ss 17:08 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 156 0.0 0.0 2360 704 ? S 17:08 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 157 0.0 0.0 2360 704 ? S 17:08 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 263 0.0 0.0 2384 616 ? S 17:08 0:00 upstart-socket-bridge --daemon
root 1557 0.0 0.1 33848 1456 ? Sl 17:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c5
root 1602 0.0 0.0 10032 816 ? Ss 17:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/run/saslauthd -n 2
root 1604 0.0 0.0 10032 464 ? S 17:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/run/saslauthd -n 2
root 1669 0.0 0.1 9932 1632 ? Ss 17:09 0:00 sendmail: MTA: accepting connections
root 1706 0.0 0.0 6344 1048 ? Ss 17:09 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 1777 0.0 0.0 2184 868 ? Ss 17:09 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 1807 0.0 0.0 1976 736 tty1 Ss+ 17:09 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 console
root 1809 0.0 0.0 1976 748 tty2 Ss+ 17:09 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root 1813 0.0 0.0 2468 852 ? Ss 17:09 0:00 /usr/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid -stayalive -inetd_compat -inetd_ipv6
root 1815 0.0 0.2 9144 2988 ? Ss 17:09 0:00 sshd: root@pts/0
root 1817 0.0 0.1 3040 1684 pts/0 Ss 17:09 0:00 -bash
root 1827 0.0 0.0 2692 976 pts/0 R+ 17:12 0:00 ps aux
50GB SSD for $24/yr? Hell yes. Nothing much to see here..
root@Bolt1024:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 50G 810M 50G 2% /
none 512M 4.0K 512M 1% /dev
none 103M 976K 102M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 410M 0 410M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
I'm not sure what this actually means, but someone asked me to include it. Explain plz?
root@Bolt1024:~# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 1000000 35917 964083 4% /
none 131072 89 130983 1% /dev
none 131072 68 131004 1% /run
none 131072 1 131071 1% /run/lock
none 131072 2 131070 1% /run/shm
none 131072 1 131071 1% /run/user
No IOWait = goodness.
root@Bolt1024:~# 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 1026228 0 12556 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 100 0
No failcount, and everything else looks good.
Due to formatting errors, cat /proc/user_beancounters output can be viewed here: http://pastebin.com/v5tkWaQK
Dual-core, unthrottled. More goodness.
root@Bolt1024:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 60
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 3399.650
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 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 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm
bogomips : 6799.30
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 60
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 3399.650
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 1
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 2
initial 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 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 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm
bogomips : 6799.30
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Not much to see here..
root@Bolt1024:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1048576 kB
MemFree: 1026276 kB
Cached: 12568 kB
Buffers: 0 kB
Active: 16052 kB
Inactive: 2812 kB
Active(anon): 4976 kB
Inactive(anon): 1320 kB
Active(file): 11076 kB
Inactive(file): 1492 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 1048576 kB
SwapFree: 1048576 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 6296 kB
Shmem: 3540 kB
Slab: 3408 kB
SReclaimable: 1488 kB
SUnreclaim: 1920 kB
I also have these 3 benchmarks that I ran:
http://t.co/GB8wPGyfBP - 32 bit OS
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/08/07/AJABbqUcEmDeYZR1 - 32 bit OS
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/08/07/3F2V2iuVUiWoKAK9 - 64 bit OS
I think I included most relevant tests - if anyone has anything they'd like me to run, feel free.
As of writing this, BoltVM has 55 Bolt512s (at $15/yr) left, and 0 Bolt1024s (at $24/yr) left. However, this was officially 'pre-launch', and I'm pretty sure only half (or less) of their stock was released.
I have talked with Steven, and it seems he's got his gameplan on lockdown. Better hurry and grab your Bolt while it's available, the prices won't be this low forever!