HostSailor KVM - 1GB RAM (Seaman) VPS Review
Introduction
Before you read: I'm going to warn you that this is a VERY LONG review. I recently purchased a KVM VPS with 1GB RAM from HostSailor, a 2-year-old web hosting company (according to their domain's WHOIS). So I decided to write a review.
Specs
- 1GB RAM
- 40GB HDD
- 4 vCPU Cores
- 1 Gbit Port
- 1TB Bandwidth
- 1 IPv4 address
- /64 IPv6 addresses
- Romania
- KVM
- SolusVM
The specs aren't bad, but wait until you see the stuff below.
It has an average amount of RAM, and HDD space. 4 CPU cores is quite useful when you're doing certain things. A 1Gbps uplink with 1TB bandwidth is nice. And being in Romania is good too, however some network latency is caused by me being in Detroit (US). And the best thing is, it's KVM!
Note: You do not see the IPv6 addresses upon activation in SolusVM, you have to ask support to assign them for you. This is why I do not have an IPv6 network test.
General Info
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 @2.40Ghz (http://ark.intel.com/products/83352/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2620-v3-15M-Cache-2_40-GHz)
Number of cores: 4
L1 Instruction Cache: 32KB
L1 Data Cache: 32KB
L2 Cache: 4096KB (4MB)
L3 Cache: 15MB
Memory: 1024MB
Architecture: x86_64 (64 bit)
Network
Like I said, this is a server in Romania and I have quite a bit of latency (~400ms), even with my decent internet (30Mbps down, 10Mbps up). Speedtest.net:
It's pretty cool how HostSailor is an ISP. But that proves that they own their own hardware (that's what the chat support told me). Their speeds are extremely fast, even with a ST server that's ~50 miles away. Their network has been very reliable for me, too. Now for the FreeVPS.us benchmark script (apologies for the appearance, I can't get the code thing to show up properly) :
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
Your public IPv4 is Redacted for Security Reasons
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 53.3MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 13.1MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 8.97MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 7.43MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 7.29MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 11.8MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 7.03MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 5.74MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 22.8MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 40.1MB/s
Download speeds are good, however as you may have noticed, the farther away the server is the slower the speeds are. The NL server has a surprising 40MB/s.
Disks
More from the FreeVPS Benchmark Script
Disk Speed
I/O (1st run) : 611 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 573 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 553 MB/s
Average I/O : 579 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.3053 s, 823 MB/s
Considering they use plain old mechanical HDDs, I/O is extremely fast.
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 39G 1.8G 35G 5% /
tmpfs 499M 0 499M 0% /dev/shm
CPU
This VPS comes with a decent quad core 2nd gen Xeon processor running at 2.40GhZ. This processor WILL NOT be killed by ANY amount of stressing (bitcoin miners?)
lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 4
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 13
Stepping: 3
CPU MHz: 2399.996
BogoMIPS: 4799.99
Hypervisor vendor: KVM
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 4096K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
Control Panel
As I haven't ever used SolusVM with a KVM box before, I can't rate the control panel.
Conclusion
This VPS is very good, with high I/O speeds, a bunch of fast CPU cores, and decent amount of RAM. There could be more RAM, however for the price (6.99/mo) it is a pretty good deal!
Order: https://clients.hostsailor.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=114