Decent cloud hosting? (obviously not afrihost)

[Tinuva]

Some interesting values here.

KVM VPS on my Fileserver at home, which is using commodity hardware (not server hardware) on ZFS/Illumos:

root@dl:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/vda

/dev/vda:
 Timing cached reads:   19230 MB in  2.00 seconds = 9624.30 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 650 MB in  3.03 seconds = 214.80 MB/sec
root@dl:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 30.0691 s, 35.7 MB/s

Thus cached reads, super fast, buffered reads, not bad it goes from 100-200MB/s from a 6 disk raidz2 (like raid6). Writing pretty slow.
Reads are good, because ZFS loves caching in memory, and I have a 256GB L2ARC cache SSD.
Writes are going to be slow'ish, ZFS uses Copy-on-Write model, but I have to mention, when I was moving data to this fileserver, it maxed out a 1Gbps port with the copying going at ~100MB/sec.

VPS from Web Africa at R200 or so p/m

root@bez03-nix1:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   14528 MB in  1.99 seconds = 7288.01 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 226 MB in  3.07 seconds =  73.51 MB/sec
root@bez03-nix1:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.62159 s, 112 MB/s

Writing much better than my own KVM VPS, reading is so so.

VPS from DigitalOcean in Amsterstam, costs me $5 p/m (love it)

root@ares:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/vda

/dev/vda:
 Timing cached reads:   15338 MB in  2.00 seconds = 7676.67 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 1282 MB in  3.00 seconds = 427.24 MB/sec
root@ares:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.93682 s, 554 MB/s

Now THAT is speed! I do know their storage is using direct SSDs in the hosts, can't get much better than that for speed at that price!

 

[koeksGHT]

VPS from DigitalOcean in Amsterstam, costs me $5 p/m (love it)

root@ares:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/vda

/dev/vda:
 Timing cached reads:   15338 MB in  2.00 seconds = 7676.67 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 1282 MB in  3.00 seconds = 427.24 MB/sec
root@ares:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.93682 s, 554 MB/s

Now THAT is speed! I do know their storage is using direct SSDs in the hosts, can't get much better than that for speed at that price!

wow, their pricing and offers on cloud hosting is the best so far I have seen overseas!

 

[Tinuva]

wow, their pricing and offers on cloud hosting is the best so far I have seen overseas!

They are also the fastest growing VPS provider in the US right now for the past couple of months.