I've been having a 128MB VPS for TeamSpeak 3 for quite some time now at RamNode and it's performing pretty good. I have this VPS since 30/09/2013. I'm currently paying $13.92 a year for this VPS, which makes it $1.16 a month. Performance is really great, much better than i would expect from a VPS with a price that low.
Specs of the VPS:
1 CPU Core 128MB RAM 80GB HDD 500GB Bandwidth @ 1Gbps 1 IPv4 + /64 IPv6 Block Location: Netherlands
I had an uptime of around 400 days, but sadly there was a kernel panic on their node a few months ago so it's at 72 days now. The kernel panic had been fixed within 30 minutes or something like that. It was fast, that's all i can remember.
CPU Information:
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 45 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2299.896 cache size : 15360 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 0 cpu cores : 6 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 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 4599.79 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
You get 1 core of the Intel Xeon E5-2630 clocked at 2.30Ghz, which is enough for a small 128MB VPS.
Disk I/O Test (Doing this 3 times):
1st one:
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, 2.59913 s, 413 MB/s
2nd one:
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, 2.50722 s, 428 MB/s
3rd one:
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, 4.61067 s, 233 MB/s
As you can see, the last (3rd) test is way below the 400+ we've been getting before. After doing some more tests i keep seeing these results. But it never went below the 200 MB/s.
IOPing Test:
ioping -c 10 / 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=1 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=2 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=3 time=7.8 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=4 time=0.7 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=5 time=0.3 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=6 time=0.1 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=7 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=8 time=0.2 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=9 time=1.9 ms 4096 bytes from / (simfs /vz/private/9929): request=10 time=0.4 ms --- / (simfs /vz/private/9929) ioping statistics --- 10 requests completed in 9012.8 ms, 849 iops, 3.3 mb/s min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/1.2/7.8/2.3 ms
Pretty good I/O Ping, nothing to complain about.
Freevps.us Benchmark:
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 2299.896 MHz Total amount of ram : 128 MB Total amount of swap : 128 MB System uptime : 72 days, 17:41, Download speed from CacheFly: 47.0MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 4.53MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 14.9MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.57MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 81.6MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 77.7MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 3.50MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 11.2MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 7.36MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 12.3MB/s I/O speed : 389 MB/s
Conclusion: Pretty good host, been stable for almost 2 years now (except from a kernel panic, which was resolved really quick as i said before). I would certainly recommend RamNode!
Next review will be about Vultr, so keep an eye at new posts! :)
Original post from my blog: https://joodle.nl/ramnode-com-1-year-review/