Last time around I was looking for a large dedicated VPS in the $ 100 / month price range. Since then I have started deploying a lot more tiny cloud instances that cost less than $ 14 / month to run just one or two apps. So this time around I am looking for the best bang for the buck for less $ 12 per month. Unmanaged, of course. Just spin it up with a recent OS and put my public key in the root account. Should be simple enough. Let’s see how they do.
I tested the following providers. To understand why I rated the way I did, click through to read the details:
- A2 Hosting
- Good disk, fast network, good cpu, bad signup. Overall ok.
- Hostwinds
- ok disk, fast network, ok cpu, good signup. Overall ok.
- 1 & 1 Ionos
- Good disk, good network, good cpu, ok signup. Overall Good.
- Clouding.io
ok disk, good network, good cpu, good signup. Overall Good. - HetznerFast disk, fast network, ok cpu, great signup. Overall really Good.
- Upcloud
) Good disk, good network, fast cpu, great signup. Overall really Good.
- vpsdimeFast disk, fast network, fast cpu, bad signup. Overall ok.
- Lunanode) Fast disk, good network, fast cpu, good signup. Overall really Good.
- Vultr
- Good disk, good network, good cpu, good signup. Overall good.
- Linode
- Really fast disk, fast network, ok cpu, good signup. Overall Good.
- OVH
Good disk, ok network, good cpu, bad signup. Overall ok. - RamNode
Good disk, good network, ok cpu, good signup. Overall Good.
- ContaboGood disk, good network, fast cpu, bad signup. Overall ok.
- Scaleway) Good disk, fast network, cool cpu, good signup. Overall really Good.
- DigitalOceanGood disk, really fast network, ok cpu, great signup. Overall really Good.
- BuyVMGood disk, fast network, fast cpu, bad signup. Overall Good.
- Amazon Lightsail Slow disk, slower network, fast cpu, ok signup. Overall ok.
- Microsoft Azure) Really slow disk, fast network, good cpu, bad signup. Overall ok.
- Skysilk) Ok disk, ok network, fast cpu, good signup. Overall ok.
- VPSServerFast disk, good network, fast cpu, good signup. Overall Good.
- 82 VPSOk disk, good network, really slow cpu, bad signup. Overall ok.
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I have included some referral links. I have more than enough hosting available to me, so don’t feel obligated to click them. But some of them give you some free credit as well.
The Tests
My very unscientific overall perf test which combines cpu and disk io is to time how long it takes to compile PHP.
(**************************************** git clone https://git.php.net/repository/php-src .git cd php-src ./buildconf -f ./configure –disable-all time make (make -j N for N vCPUs)
Disk IO testing for large-file read / write along with random buffered reads is done with dd and hdparm like this:
sync; dd if=/ dev / zero of=/ root / tempfile bs=1M count=(*********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************; sync # Then wipe the cache (except on OpenVZ virts since you don't really have your own kernel) / sbin / sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3 dd if=/ root / tempfile of=/ dev / null bs=1M count=/ sbin / sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3 hdparm -Tt / dev / sdaNNetwork perf to California and Netherlands:
iperf3 -c iperf.he.net iperf3 -p -c speedtest. serverius.net************************************** (****************************************** (********************************************** Kamatera
Kamatera has a PHP service option. For $ 9 / month you get a dedicated cpu thread, 1G of ram and G of SSD. That's a nice little setup given the performance should be guaranteed. It is based on Ubuntu************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ - LTS and comes with PHP 7.3 and nginx-1. preconfigured for PHP-FPM.
You can spin up servers in Hong Kong, Toronto, NY, Santa Clara, Texas, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, and 5 different cities in Israel. I chose Santa Clara.
Positives ****************************- nginx / php-fpm works out of the box. You can drop a PHP app into / var / www / html and it will just work
- Free single-server - day trial. Really nice to be able to test out the VPS before check! ************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- no IPv6. It's late 2079. Every service should provide IPv6 alongside IPv4
- Even though the PHP setup has MySQL / MariaDB support, you have to install your own DB server to use it locally. Of course, there is also a MySQL-specific service, so you could run two servers and separate your web from your DB, but at this pricepoint I don't see too many people doing that
- These days any PHP setup is going to need Composer installed. It was.
- nginx setup could use some tuning. (switch to a unix-domain socket for php-fpm, enable sendfile, tune proxy buffers)************************** (PHP Notes)
Since this was an nginx / php-fpm service, some nginx / php-fpm specific notes:
- Remember to turn off display_errors in/ etc / php / 7.3 / fpm / php.ini before you go live
- if this is going to be a dedicated PHP server, I would tweak the following:
- opcache.interned_strings_buffer from 8 to
- switch nginx to
- opcache.memory_consumption from********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (to) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* (but leave room for your DB - if you app is DB-heavy, go lower or get a bigger VPS)
- Good PHP 7.3 default config with opcache enabled and mysqlnd plus most common extensions compiled in.
- no way to upload a public key to your profile, so you have to do a password-root-login initially
and php-fpm to listen=/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock
- If you are not going to use a cdn for static files, enable (sendfile) in nginx**************************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Ubuntu) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** - LTS (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (VMware) ************************************************************ Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (3m) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
904 MB / s write, MB / s read, (MB / s buffered reads, 6165 MB / s cached reads ******************************************************************************************* (Network) (Mbits / sec down,**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down,************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) ************************************************************ (******************************************************** I also tried the $ 4 / month non-dedicated cpu thread service. Like the previous test, I spun it up in Santa Clara. This time I just selected a regular VPS. It spun up much quicker than the previous service one. 3 minutes vs. 016. Probably because it installed a lot less on it. One slight annoyance was that Debian was not an option. It has been out for a couple of months, so I would expect to see it by now. Performance-wise the $ 4 / month non-dedicated cpu vps performed about the same as the $ 9 / month dedicated. But, that extra $ 5 gives you some assurance that you will always see this level of performance. With the cheaper option you have to hope a noisy neighbor does show up.
(****************************************************** (Specs) **************************************************** (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian 9.4) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.9.0) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (VMware) ************************************************************ (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5 -************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (v3 @ 2.) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (GHz) (***************************************** (Ram) (1G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk)
(G) (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (5TB / month at) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Gbit / sec) (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 4 / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Santa Clare, CA) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (3 minutes) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (****************************************************Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (3m) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) ************************************************************ (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
1024 MB / s write, 1.0 GB / s read, buffered reads 934 MB / s, cached reads (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down,) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (Conclusion)I like Kamatera. The signup process and the free trial was smooth. I was able to try different configurations without a bunch of billing hassle and the performance was decent. Initial public key server auth, IPv6, and Debian would be at the top of my wishlist for this service.
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They have $ 5 single core, (M ram and****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** G SSD. For $ you get 1G of ram and an extra G of SSD storage. Sounds promising. Locations are limited to Michigan, Arizona, Amsterdam and Singapore. I chose the $ 5 VPS in Arizona. Again, no Debian and the signup process had a bunch of strange upsell options I have never heard of, but whatever, at least they weren't added by default. Also, the "Complete Order" page spun forever on me, but I got an email with an order confirmation so it went through. (******************************************************
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- No Ipv6
- No Debian
- I had to go look at the sshd config to see that the default sshd only listens on port
- OpenVZ virtually means means, amongst other things, that you are usually stuck sharing an ancient kernel with other virts on the box
- Not great disk IO performance************************** (Positives) ***********************************
- Pretty nice HTML5 serial console (which I needed to figure out how to ssh in)
- Good CPU and network performance
- IPv6 with a / (Subnet!)
- It installed the public key I added to my profile, so I could ssh right in!
- Fast network IO************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- No Debian
- There was a key I did not recognize in~ root / authorized_keys
- Really slow disk writes! (perhaps I got unlucky?)
************************************************************************************** (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian 9.1) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.9.0) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (kvm) ************************************************************ (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel Xeon E3 -) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, IBRS) (***************************************** (Ram) (1G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk)(G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (1 TB / month) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 4.) **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** / month (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Seattle) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (minutes) ************************************************************ (********************************************************** (****************************************************Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (5m) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************MB / s write, MB / s read, buffered reads 470 MB / s, cached reads 6828 MB / s(***************************************** (Network)(Mbits / sec down,************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) (******************************************(Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) (********************************************************** (Conclusion) Hostwinds gets almost everything right despite my instance suffers from really slow disk writes. I went back a couple of days later and re-ran the large-file write test and it was slow again.
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1 & 1 IONOS$ 2 / month! (M ram,) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** G SSD , single-core, of course. Locations United States (Kansas), Germany, UK and Spain. They also have 2 vCores with 2G of ram and (G SSD for $) / month which is a really good deal. But I had to try the $ 2 one.
Positives ****************************- Quick sign-up process ************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- No public key initial auth
- No Debian
- No IPv6 (but it looks like they might support it for the larger instances?) **************************************
- Public key initial login
- Nice default firewall setup and a good UI to customize it.
- Good performance on the PHP compile test
- No Debian
- Somewhat slow disk read times
- Only Barcelona data center
- I didn't see a way to configure reverse dns**************************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian 9.3) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.9.0) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel Xeon Virtual CPU) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Ram) (1G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) *********************************************************** (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (2TB / month and € 0.) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** / GB beyond that (***************************************** (Cost) (€ 3.) **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** / month (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Barcelona) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (2 minutes) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (3m) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) ******************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write, 203 MB / s read, buffered reads MB / s, cached reads (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) ******************************************************** (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down,************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) ********************************************************** (********************************************************I tested a 2nd server setup since they were nice enough to contact me. This time a slightly bigger instance for € 9 / month with 1 core, 4G of ram and G of storage. And I went with the "LEMP" template instead of Debian to see what their PHP setup looked like.
It was a standard Ubuntu nginx 1. .0 PHP 7.2. 20 setup. For an instance with 4G of ram like this, assuming it will be a dedicated web server, you would want to edit
/ etc / php / 7.2 / fpm / php.ini and set:[opcache] opcache.enable=1 opcache.memory_consumption=opcache.interned_strings_buffer=opcache.max_accelerated_files=136012 opcache.validate_timestamps=1 opcache.revalidate_freq=5 opcache.save_comments=1 opcache.use_cwd=1 opcache.enable_file_override=0 opcache.enable_cli=0 opcache.max_wasted_percentage=opcache.interned_strings_buffer=opcache.fast_shutdown=1 opcache.huge_code_pages=0 opcache.optimization_level=-1 opcache.log_verbosity_level=2 (*****************************************
And then runsystemctl restart php7.2-fpmto restart PHP-FPM. If you have a ton of PHP code, keep an eye on
(**************************************** and look for any restarts. Especially the OOM restarts (counter you will find the in the (Opcache) **************************************** (section of************************ (phpinfo ()********************. If that is increasing more than once every couple of days as you push new code, then you need to allocate more memory to Opcache.This setup had
fastcgi_pass unix: /run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;in the nginx config to have nginx talk to php over a unix domain socket, which is good. And in general the nginx setup had good defaults.
(****************************************************** (Specs) **************************************************** (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Ubuntu) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 1 LTS**************************** (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0******************************************** (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel Xeon Virtual CPU) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Ram) (4G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk)
(G) (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (2TB / month and € 0.) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** / GB beyond that (***************************************** (Cost) (€ 9 / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Barcelona) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (5 minutes) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (****************************************************Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (2m) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
603 MB / s write, (MB / s read, buffered reads) MB / s, cached reads MB / s (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) ******************************************************** (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands (********************************************************** (Conclusion)The slow network speed to California is to be expected from a server hosted in Barcelona. Disk reads were a bit below average, but overall this was a pleasant experience. The PHP compile time was near the top of the list which is a good indication that the VPS performance is solid.
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Hetzner has been around forever. Locations in Germany (Nuremberg and Falkenstein) and Helskinki. For € 2. 50 / month you get 1 vCPU, 2G RAM and G SSD. Or for € 4. 2vCPU / 4G / 42 G. That's quite a bit of power for a service just over $ 5 / month. I really like Hetzner's provisioning process. You get a lot of control over everything. You can even choose between ext4 and XFS for your filesystem. (**********************************************************************************************
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- Debian
- Public key initial login with your own uploaded key
- IPv6 with a / (subnet and reverse DNS)
- Floating IPs that can be assigned to any VPS
- Backchannel private network
- Choice between ext4 and XFS filesystems (certain workloads are better suited to XFS)
- The way you can create, attach, detach, re-attach and grow storage volumes is extremely nice************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- Debian
- Public key initial login with your own uploaded key
- IPv6
- Easy to use firewall setup
- Custom images, templates and startup scripts
- Really fast raw CPU speed for a $ 5 VPS
************************** (Negatives) *************************************- No IPv6 / 67 subnet. You can only request 5 IPv6 addresses
- Debian
- Amazing performance at this price but beware of load limits and less resource isolation because of OpenVZ
- Emailed me my vpsdime.com password
- Emailed me my VPS root password
- The signup process was super super clear
- No IPv6
- The management UI isn't great
- OpenVZ
- Load limits**************************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (OpenVZ) *********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (4 x Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5 -******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** v2 @ 2. (GHz) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Ram) (6G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 7 / month) ************************************************************ (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (2TB / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Dallas) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (minutes) ************************************************************ (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (1m8.) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (s) ******************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write, 943 MB / s read, buffered reads MB / s, cached reads (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) ********************************************************* (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) (********************************************************** (Conclusion)So, the catch was that it was an OpenVZ VPS. If you can get beyond the rather crappy UI, the terrible password management and the somewhat harsh load limits, this can give you amazing performance for the price. However, as they note:
"Users are REQUIRED to control their - min system load to remain below 2.0 at all times. "
If you don't do this, your VPS can get suspended on you. So really, this isn't actually a VPS. This is more like shared hosting where you are really prone to a noisy neighbor affecting you. They do have a more traditional VPS service called "Premium VPS" at $ / month where you get 1 dedicated vCPU, 4G or RAM and G of SSD. That has no load limits, of course. If you are interested, I have an affiliate link you can use: (https://vpsdime.com/aff.php?aff=) **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (****************************************** (************************************************************************************************** (Lunanode) *************
$ 3. fpr 1 vCPU, 1G of RAM and G of SSD. For $ 7 you can choose between either 2G of RAM or 2 vCPUs along with G of storage. Very nice signup process. It is obvious where to add your SSH public key which is always a good sign. Locations are Toronto, Montreal and Roubaix (France). I went with the $ 7 / month 2vCPU option in Toronto.
Positives ****************************
- IPv6
- Public key initial login (If I hadn't done an ISO install to get Debian 11)************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- Had a weird issue that I couldn't get to the iperf port (on iperf.he.net's IPv6 address It worked ok when I switched to IPv4. It did not appear to be a firewall issue, at least not any firewall I could see.
- Not completely obvious that you have to click your Keypair button to activate it. Since it is solid-filled blue it looks selected, but unless it has an orange border, it isn't.
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- Debian
- IPv6 with a / (**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************!
- $ 2. (!) ************************** (Negatives) *************************************
**************************************- Very low bandwidth limit but the $ 5 option gives you 1TB
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Virtual CPU) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (cbcdd6ca4) ************************************************************ (***************************************** (Ram) (M) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) *********************************************************** (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (0.5TB / month) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 2.) / month (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Atlanta) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (1 minute) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (3m) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* (s) (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write,MB / s read, buffered reads (MB / s, cached reads (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** 201 Mbits / sec down, 201 Mbits / sec up to Netherlands (********************************************************** (Conclusion)Interestingly I was not able to compile PHP without adding a 1G swap file:
(**************************************** dd if=/ dev / zero of=/ swap.img bs=1M count= mkswap /swap.img chmod 606 /swap.img swapon /swap.img
But with that, the performance was pretty good. 3m to compile and we know it went into swap doing so. For $ 2. 54 / month this was a solid little server. Of course, you would have to keep the IPv6-only aspect in mind for any use-cases. But if you need a server withdifferent possible IP addresses, or perhaps just a server where you can make your IP
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. You can even rdns it easily in the management UI:(**************************************** ($ host******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (f0: (***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : 1: 5ee: bad: c0de ed0.cdab0.ee5.0.1.0.0.0.7.1.1.2.1.0.4.5.0.f.9.1.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa domain name pointer iseebadcode.lerdorf.com. (****************************************
You can add an IPv4 address to it for $ 3 / month, but they have better $ 5 deals which include an IPv4. Overall Vultr is a solid service. They get everything right. Referral link********** (******************************************Linode
Plenty of locations world-wide. They have a "Nanode" for $ 5 / month with 1 vCPU, 1G of ram and G of storage. I chose their Fremont location.
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(********************************************************************************************************************** () **************** Positives **************************** - IPv6
- Debian
- Very nice provisioning process
************************** (Negatives) *************************************- No cloud firewall **************************************
- Debian
- IPv6
- Unlimited bandwidth (but at 108 Mbps)
- You can set the VM to "terminate on expiry date" to avoid getting billed for extra time you don't need
************************** (Negatives) *************************************- The difference between the management consoles at us.ovhcloud.com and ca.ovh.com is super-confusing. They have separate logins and I can never figure out which is which.
- Emailed root password! Are SSH keys really that difficult to manage?
- The provided IPv6 was not configured on my VM but it worked ok after I manually added it to the / etc / network / interfaces.d / - cloud-init.cfgfile.
- Difficult to figure out how to delete the instance**************************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel Core Processor) Haswell, no TSX, IBRS) (***************************************** (Ram) (2G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (Unlimited at) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbps) (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 3.) / month (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Beauharnois) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (minutes) (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (3m) s
(****************************************** (Disk IO) *********************************************************** 188 MB / s write, 637 MB / s read, buffered reads 486 MB / s, cached reads (MB / s) ******************************************************** (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down, 94 Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** 94 Mbits / sec down, 94 Mbits / sec up to Netherlands (********************************************************** (Conclusion)Disk writes and network performance were quite poor. The emailed root password just grates on my nerves. Having said that, I am actually an OVH US customer Because I have one of their dedicated bare metal servers and the provisioning experience was great for that either. I got it at a great price through some introductory offer when they opened a west coast data center and as bad as some of these provisioning and management interfaces are, once you are up and running it does not matter that much.
Surprisingly the IPv6 I was assigned already had someone else's reverse dns. That is not uncommon for IPv4, but the IPv6 range of addresses is so vast that It is really unusual to see that. And there was an odd thing about needing a number keypad for numbers in the console window. Which was true, of course. When I send itit has no way of knowing if that was typed on number keypad or not.
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- Debian
- IPv6************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- Management UI is a bit sparse. No cloud firewall or any bells and whistles
- They have a "Security Groups" thing but I couldn't figure out how to add my own rules to it
************************************************************************************** (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB) (***************************************** (Ram) (1G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) ********************************************************* (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (2TB / month) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 5 / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** Los Angeles ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (minutes) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (4m8s) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write, 236 MB / s read, buffered reads 133 MB / s, cached reads (MB / s) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down,************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down,********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) (********************************************************** (Conclusion)For a 2-core VPS, I was hoping for a little faster PHP compile time. Disk reads were also a bit slow. But overall for $ 5 this is a good VPS. Everything worked out of the box.
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€ 4. / month for 4 vCPU, 8G of ram and G SSD! And € 8. 111 gets you 6 cores, G of ram and ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ G of storage. They also offer "SSD-boosted" HDD VPS setups if you need lots of storage. Another what's the catch offer. I was a big fan of Contabo last time around, so maybe there is no catch. Let's see. I chose the € 4. (Debian) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* option. It says it is on a (Mbit / s switch port, so I suspect that will be reflected in the bandwidth numbers. The € 8. (option is on a 406 Mbit / s switch port.
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(*********************************************************************************************************************************************- (************************************************************************************************************************************************************ Positives ****************************
- Debian
- Unlimited bandwidth (at************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Mbps
************************** (Negatives) *************************************- Setup fee if you don't commit to a- month contract
- No locations other than Nuremberg (they have a Munich one too, but that was not given as an option)
- Provisioning took a while ( (minutes)
- Emailed cleartext contabo.com account password
- Emailed cleartext VPS root password
- Emailed cleartext VNC root password**************************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (4 x Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5 -************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (v4 @ 2.) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (GHz) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Ram) (8G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (Unlimited at) Mbps (***************************************** (Cost) (€ 4.) / month (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Nuremberg) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (minutes) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (1m) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
MB / s write, (MB / s read, buffered reads (MB / s, cached reads) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (MB / s) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down,Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** Mbits / sec down, 202 Mbits / sec up to Netherlands (********************************************************** (Conclusion)The 202 G of storage and raw performance at this pricepoint is hard to beat. Disk writes were a little slow, but reads were fast and you are a bit limited by the 200 Mbit switch port on the smaller VPS. Jump to the € 8. 100 option for more bandwidth. Those emailed passwords though! I understand from a customer support angle that it is easier to just do that, but it wouldn't hurt them to have an "advanced" option somewhere where people who know what they are doing could add their public keys.
(****************************************** (************************************************************************************************************************************** Scaleway
Locations in Paris and Amsterdam. € 2. / month gets you 2 vCPU with 2G of ram and G NVMe storage. Also, cheap ARM instances! For the same € 2. 100 / month you can get a 4 core ARM instance with 2G of ram and G of SSD. Or a 6 core / 4G instance for € 5. (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. Of course I had to try the ARM instance. I chose the € 2. 100 in their Paris data center.
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********** Positives ****************************
- IPv6 with a / and rDNS (have to run
enable_ipv6 and reboot to activate it. (************************************** ($ ping 2a) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: c (**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (*****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: 1: 5ee: dead: c0de PING 2a (**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: c 207: 2054: (**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: 1: 5ee: dead: c0de (2a (********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: c (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: 1: 5ee: dead c0de) data bytes (bytes from 2a) *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (c) : (****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : 1: 5ee: dead: c0de: icmp_seq=1 ttl=(time=) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ms (bytes from 2a) *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (c) : (****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : 1: 5ee: dead: c0de: icmp_seq=2 ttl=(time=) ms (bytes from 2a) *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (c) : (****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : 1: 5ee: dead: c0de: icmp_seq=3 ttl=(time=) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ms (bytes from 2a) *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (c) : (****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : 1: 5ee: dead: c0de: icmp_seq=4 ttl=(time=) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ms (bytes from 2a) *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (c) : (****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : 1: 5ee: dead: c0de: icmp_seq=5 ttl=(time=) ms $ host 2a (********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: c (****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : (**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: 1: 5ee: dead: c0de ed0.cdaedee5.0.1.0.0.0.9.4.8.5.0.3.0.2.7.0.2.c.2.0.a.2.ip6.arpa domain name pointer iseedeadcode.lerdorf.com. (****************************************** - IPv6************************** (Negatives) *************************************
$ 3 1vCPU, M ram and G SSD. $ 5 for 2 vCPU, 1G and G SSD. I chose the $ 5 option in their LA data center. They also have Atlanta, NYC, Seattle and Netherlands.
Positives ****************************
- Public key initial login with my own key
- Debian
- It would be nice if you could add an IPv6 network via the Web UI. It is only possible by contacting support.****************************************************************************************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5 -******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** v2 @ 2. (GHz) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Ram) (1G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) ********************************************************* (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (1TB / month) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 5 / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Fremont) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (1 minute) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (4m6s) ************************************************************ (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write, 1.2 GB / s read, buffered reads 1.2 GB / s, cached reads (MB / s) ************************************************************ (***************************************** (Network) (1.1 Gbits / sec down, 1.1 Gbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) *********************************************************** (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands**************************************** (********************************************************** (Conclusion)Very nice network performance from Fremont to Fremont 🙂 The new Web UI is much much better than the old one, and the performance of the $ 5 Nanode was excellent. Referral link********** (****************************************** (****************************************************************************************************************************** (OVH) ****************************************
$ 3. 34 for 1 vCPU, 2G ram and G SSD. Double ram and storage for $ 6. 87. They have data centers all over, but for some reason I was only able to choose the Beauharnois Canada location. And the ordering experience is terrible. You select your VPS and provide billing info and you get a:
“Within a maximum of hours, you will receive an email confirming that your VPS has been delivered, along with your bill. "
where other providers spin up your VPS within minutes at that point. In the end I got that email about 15 minutes later on a Sunday evening.
(********************************************************************************************************************************(******************************************************************************************************************************************** Positives ****************************
- Debian
- Public key initial login with my own key
- IPv6 with a / (**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************!
- No Debiantemplate, but they did have a Debian 12 ISO option so it took a little longer to bring up because I had to do a manual install in a VNC window
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************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (2 x Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5 -********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (v2 @ 3.) ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (GHz) (***************************************** (Ram) (1G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 7 / month) ************************************************************ (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (2TB / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Toronto) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server minutes (because I did an ISO install) (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (1m) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) ************************************************************ (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
342 MB / s write, 1.8 GB / s read, buffered reads 1.5 GB / s, cached reads (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down,******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) *********************************************************** (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) (********************************************************I also tried the $ 3. 52 VPS but this time used the Debian 9 template so I wouldn 't have to go through the manual ISO install again. Interestingly you log in as debian @ instead of root @ then you can
sudo bashfrom there.(****************************************************** (Specs) **************************************************** (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian 9.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
- ************************************************ (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.9.0) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5 -******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (v2 @ 3.) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* (GHz) (***************************************** (Ram)
(M) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk)
(G) ************************************************************ (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 3.) / month (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (1TB / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Toronto) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (1 minute) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (****************************************************
Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (3m) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (s) (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write,MB / s read, buffered reads (MB / s, cached reads (MB / s) ************************************************************ (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down,************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) ************************************************************ (********************************************************** (Conclusion)I like Lunanode. I had some networking confusion, but they were my own doing. If you remove the default security group in the management UI you can't get anywhere. Performance for the 2vCPU $ 7 VPS was great and if you are looking for a Canadian presence or a non-US North American one, this is a great choice. For a $ credit you can use my referral link
(****************************************** (**************************************************************************************************************** (Vultr) ******************************
$ 2. (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************, $ 3. and $ 5 plans with increasing ram, storage and bandwidth. The $ 2. 54 plan is IPv6-only! There are certainly use-cases where you don't need IPv4. So, of course I had to try that one out. 1 vCPU, (M of ram andG of SSD. Lots of locations all over the world. I chose Atlanta because the $ 2. 54 IPv6-only was only available there and in new jersey .
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- ************************************** (**************************************************************************************************** Positives ****************************
- Public key initial login
- Public key initial login (If I hadn't done an ISO install to get Debian 11)************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- $ free trial credit - affiliate link:https://www.lunanode.com/?r=
- Disk IO and network performance is average
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************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** CPU @ 3 . 005 GHz (***************************************** (Ram) (2G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) ********************************************************* (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (1TB / month) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 5 / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (San Jose) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (1 minute) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (2m) s (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
MB / s write, 422 MB / s read, buffered reads (MB / s, cached reads) ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down,Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands**************************************** (********************************************************** (Conclusion)It is impressive to see a single core VPS compile PHP in under 3 minutes! The provisioning process is amazing and now that they have a San Jose location I get ms pings from my home connection.
(****************************************** (******************************************************************************************************** (vpsdime)
Interesting note during their signup process:
(**************************************** Anything related to ZenCash, Digital currency mining, Mass mailing, Torrents, TOR, Mining , IRC, Teamspeak, Starbound, Runescape, Minecraft and Multics are NOT ALLOWED. Please read our TOS before ordering.
The signup process was a bit confusing to me. You didn't really get to configure anything
This also happened to be the first provider to cleartext email me both the root and management console passwords. I was a little hard on them in my instant cancellation. As it turns out a number of providers I tried after them did the same thing. From a customer support angle I can understand it. It is hard to explain SSH keys. It is much easier to just give out a password. But, I still insist on the public key option, even if a provider wants to default to passwords.
Positives ****************************
************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- No public key initial login
- IPv6
- Only European data centers**************************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)) (***************************************** (Ram) (2G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk) (G) (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (TB / month) (***************************************** (Cost) (€ 2.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (/ month) (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Nuremberg) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (1 minute) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (**************************************************** Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (4m) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (s) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write, 1.2 GB / s read, buffered reads 1.1 GB / s, cached reads (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** (********************************************************** (2.2 Gbits / sec down, 2.2 Gbits / sec up to Netherlands) ********************************************************* (********************************************************I also tested the € 4. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ 2vCPU / 4G / G config.
(****************************************************** (Specs) **************************************************** (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian) **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. 1 (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** 0 (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (KVM) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (CPU) (2 x Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)) (***************************************** (Ram) (2G) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk)
(G) (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (TB / month) (***************************************** (Cost) (€ 4.) / month (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Nuremberg) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (1 minute) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (****************************************************Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (2m) *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
MB / s write, 710 MB / s read, bu ffered reads (MB / s, cached reads) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down,**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** (********************************************************** (1.5 Gbits / sec down, 1.5 Gbits / sec up to Netherlands) ********************************************************* (********************************************************** (Conclusion)Hetzner is a very polished service to use. New servers spin up almost instantly. It is up to date with the latest OS versions and gives you all sorts of configuration options. IPv6 with your own / 69 subnet and reverse DNS and the price vs. performance is awesome. If you need a place to host in Europe, you can't go wrong with Hetzner.
(****************************************** (************************************************************************************************** (upcloud)
Disclaimer:I really like Upcloud. Through their great referral program from my first article I got a lot of free credits and have been using those to host small projects. If you sign up using myreferral linkyou will get a $ 27 credit on the service.
$ 5 / month gets you 1 core, 1G of ram and G of SSD. For $ you get double the ram and storage. Locations are Frankfurt, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Singapore, London, Chicaco and San Jose. You have plenty of configuration options, including the type of network adapter (VirtIO, Intel E or RealTek RTL 8339 emulation) and a choice between standard VGA and Cirrus Logic for your display adapter. The display adapter probably makes a difference if you are doing Windows hosting, which they also support. For my Linux hosting I don't see how it comes into play.
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- ********** Positives ****************************
(*********************************************************************************************** () ********** Positives ****************************
************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian 9.) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** - ************************************************ (****************************************** (Kernel) (4.9.0) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Hypervisor) (VMware) ************************************************************ (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (CPU @ 2.) ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (GHz) (***************************************** (Ram)(M) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk)(G) *********************************************************** (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (Unlimited) ******************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 2 / month) ************************************************************ (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Kansas) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server(minutes) ************************************************************ (********************************************************** (****************************************************
Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (3m) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) ************************************************************ (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************397 MB / s write, 451 MB / s read, buffered reads (MB / s, cached reads) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* (MB / s) (***************************************** (Network)(Mbits / sec down,********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA) ********************************************************** (******************************************(Mbits / sec down,************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands) (********************************************************** (Conclusion) Hard to beat $ 2 / month for a capable VPS with supposedly unlimited bandwidth.
(****************************************** (******************************************************************************** Clouding.io***********************************************0.5 (!) VCores, 1G of ram and 5G of SSD for € 3 / month. Each additional 5G of SSD is € 0. 52. I was not given a choice of where to host it, but the ip shows up as being in Barcelona, so I guess that is the only data center available. The signup process was easy, and while they did not let me upload my own public key, they created one for me and let me create additional ones and had me download the private key. Then justssh -i ~ /. ssh / clouding.pem root @
and I was off and running.
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One interesting note was that the marketing folks from Clouding were the only ones to catch on and reach out to me while I was writing this. I suppose it helps being a smaller provider for this, but i thought it was pretty impressive that they connected the dots and figured out I was probably writing a follow-up to my January (VPS Testing article.) Positives ****************************
- Easy signup with a free trial
************************** (Negatives) *************************************
- No IPv6
- $ 2 / month!
- Kind of annoying contract-based signup and billing system makes it h ard to switch and try different services
- There was a key I did not recognize in~ root / authorized_keys
- I had issues booting the server initially. Had to pop into the VNC console and Ctrl-Alt-Del it
- No Debian
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************************************************ (Specs) (******************************************************** (******************************************** (OS) (Debian 9.) ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** - ************************************************ (****************************************** (Kernel) (2.6.) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (****************************************** (Hypervisor)
OpenVZ (not really a hypervisor, of course) (***************************************** (CPU) (Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5 -************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (v3 @ 2.) *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (GHz) (***************************************** (Ram)
(M) ********************************************************** (****************************************** (Disk)
(G) (****************************************** (Bandwidth) (2 TB / month) ********************************************************** (***************************************** (Cost) ($ 5 / month) ********************************************************** (**************************************** (Server location) ********************************************************** (Arizona) ********************************************************** (****************************************** Time to spin up new server (********************************************************** (5 minutes) ********************************************************** (********************************************************** (****************************************************
Performance (******************************************************** (********************************************************** (PHP compile time) (2m) ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** (s) (****************************************** (Disk IO) ***********************************************************
(MB / s write (no way to clear disk cache on OpenVZ so skipped read tests) (***************************************** (Network) (Mbits / sec down, 691 Mbits / sec up to Fremont, CA (****************************************** (Mbits / sec down, (Mbits / sec up to Netherlands (********************************************************** (Conclusion)I am not a fan of OpenVZ VPS '. The performance tends to be quite good as long as your provider Does not oversell the host. OpenVZ doesn't isolate you very well from noisy neighbors, so the risk for performance degradation is higher. My test VPS performed well and if it continues to perform at the current level then it is good bang for the buck at $ 5 / month.
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1G Ram with 32 G of SSD for $ 4. and 2G / for G for $ 8 . (****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************. Locations in Dallas, Seattle and Amsterdam. I chose the $ 4. ($ 4. (recurring) plan in Seattle. Simple and transparent signup process. I really like when providers give me my own IPv6 / subnet to play with. In this case the management console did not let you set the rDNS for arbitrary addresses in that subnet though. I'd have to hit that "Add IPv6 Address" button a lot to get to
(******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: 44 f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0deBut adding it manually on the VM without worrying about the console worked ok. You just don't get reverse dns for it.
(**************************** PING: (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: : f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0de ((****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: 3456: (f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0de) 60 data bytes (bytes from) (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0de: icmp_seq=1 ttl=t ime=30. 1 ms (bytes from) (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0de: icmp_seq=2 ttl=t ime=31. 0 ms (bytes from) (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (*******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0de: icmp_seq=3 ttl=(time=0 ms (bytes from) (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0de: icmp_seq=4 ttl=t ime=28. 5 ms (bytes from) (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: (******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************: f: 1: 5ee: bad: c0de: icmp_seq=5 ttl=t ime=28 .8 ms
There is also a "Firewall Profile" thing, but I couldn't figure out how to create a new profile. It just had a default profile that allowed all traffic.
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- You get to see all your configuration options before paying)
- No Debian
- No public key initial access
- Kamatera Really fast disk, ok network, ok cpu, ok signup. Overall Good.
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