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There's a lot of ways to make a VPS suck, by not spending money where it's needed. An under-powered disk subsystem is probably going to contribute to these suck

There's a lot of ways to make a VPS suck, by not spending money where it's needed. An under-powered disk subsystem is probably going to contribute to these sucking (as Digital Ocean sucked in the beginning; not sure if they've fixed their disk bandwidth problems). But, assuming they aren't horribly under-powered on any of the vectors that affect performance, this is a great deal. 256MB is just enough to run a reasonable web server on, even with a database-backed application. Two more servers for DNS, and one for SMTP, and you'd have a solid setup for a large variety of tasks for under 5 bucks, and you'd control all of your services and all of your data. You couldn't run a big community site with lots of users, but you could definitely run a blog (for potentially hundreds of thousands of visitors, depending on how you setup that blog) or simple site.

kevinchen 12y ago
Sequential write on my $5/month DigitalOcean instance in NYC2 region: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.84267 s, 273 MB/s It used to be about 80 MB/s last year, so it's gotten a lot better since.
- hackerboos 12y ago
  Atlantic.Net 256mb VPS root@hackerboosblog:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.11193 s, 337 MB/s
  - SwellJoe 12y ago
    And, for comparison, the latest server I installed in our colo on the host system (with Corsair M500 SSDs): [root@srv3 joe]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.310283 s, 3.4 GB/s And, from within a VM on the same machine (running KVM with an LVM volume): [root@joe2 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.967834 s, 1.1 GB/s So, Atlantic.net isn't too bad, I guess. My newest system isn't very heavily loaded yet; only has three VMs and a couple dozen websites on it.

kevinchen 12y ago

Sequential write on my $5/month DigitalOcean instance in NYC2 region: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.84267 s, 273 MB/s It used to be about 80 MB/s last year, so it's gotten a lot better since.

hackerboos 12y ago
Atlantic.Net 256mb VPS root@hackerboosblog:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.11193 s, 337 MB/s
- SwellJoe 12y ago
  And, for comparison, the latest server I installed in our colo on the host system (with Corsair M500 SSDs): [root@srv3 joe]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.310283 s, 3.4 GB/s And, from within a VM on the same machine (running KVM with an LVM volume): [root@joe2 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.967834 s, 1.1 GB/s So, Atlantic.net isn't too bad, I guess. My newest system isn't very heavily loaded yet; only has three VMs and a couple dozen websites on it.