Vultr Hosting
Okay, so I decided to give Vultr Hosting a test so as to base my judgement from my own (actual) experience.
Here is (briefly) what happened:
- Money deposited from PP, no hitches, and it doubled as per the promo offer
- I picked one of the primary locations (Amsterdam, Netherlands) for deployment
- OS: Ubuntu 13.10 x64
- Server becomes ready, did not take very long (not even one minute)
- I try to reach the instance via SSH – connection times out, repeatedly, so I reboot it: same result.
- So I decided to try to reinstall the OS, perhaps there was some hiccup for w/e reason…okay, all done, I wait a few moments extra just to be sure everything is deployed, and then I SSH to it: connection refused.
- After I had written the above I try it again (SSH) and it now works :)
I’ll do some (again only superficial / brief) testing on it:
VPS specs
| CPU model : | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz |
| Number of cores : | 1 |
| CPU frequency : | 3300.014 MHz |
| Total amount of ram : | 490 MB |
| Total amount of swap : | 511 MB |
| System uptime : | 20 minutes |
| I/O Speed | 472 MB/s |
| HDD | 20 GB |
DD
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.27012 s, 473 MB/s
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.06191 s, 264 MB/s
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.8949 s, 90.3 MB/s
UnixBench
| UnixBench (w/ all processors) | 2447.2 |
| UnixBench (w/ one processor) | 2451.1 |
Speedtest.net Speed Test
PetaByet.com Benchmark
ServerBear Benchmark
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/02/24/59PJIiMbmxTdAWzg
Conclusion
There is no conclusion yet, but my initial impressions of Vultr Hosting is not exactly bad — when concentrating purely on the VPS itself, and leaving all else aside. I will update this post with a ServerBear benchmark when it completes. If the VPS proves to be stable (evaluation time for that — in my case — is at least one month), I’ll put up another IRC node. There is one perk with my location — as with all primary locations — and that is it comes DDoS protected, or so they claims or claimed.
That’s all for now 
Update
I also ran a benchmark on their 512 MB VPS at their New Jersey location, here’s that benchmark (ServerBear):
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/02/24/syxJ8n3UMjwFcFbn
I felt there was no need to create a separate post just for this, so I add it here. Over and out! 
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The reason you couldn’t connect is because the instance is not ready within a minute. while the VM is created pretty quickly, it has to go through the entire install process for the OS. After you create the instance and get the ‘Manage’ link, click on that, then go to view the console in the web browser – you can follow the install process there. In my case, installing with Ubuntu 13.10 x64 took 6 minutes and 10 seconds; not quite ‘under 60 seconds’. @CrowdThunder
Aha, I see! Thank you for that, Steven.
Here’s three speedtest.net tests for Vultr Hosting’s New Jersey location:
https://k0nsl.org/blog/k1/uploads/2014/02/vultr-speedtest-NY01_k0nsl.png
https://k0nsl.org/blog/k1/uploads/2014/02/vultr-speedtest-NY02_k0nsl.png
https://k0nsl.org/blog/k1/uploads/2014/02/vultr-speedtest-NY03_k0nsl.png
I’m not that much of a VPS buff to be honest but your blog is really nice, keep it up! I’ll go ahead and bookmark your website to come back later on. Cheers regards from Nicola.
Yeap, also when you deploy a new VM, just open console and u’ll see the automated script installer going on =)
BTW, how do you make those speedtest.net tests while being in a linux console ? thx =)
Hi,
You can use this Python script (for example):
https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
That’s what I’m using :)