Rus from Thurst::VPS has sent me an exclusive offer to LowEndBox readers, where you can get 15% off recurring discount when coupon code LOWENDBOX is applied. That means for their US OpenVZ VPS (Los Angeles, Dallas, New Jersey) it’s now starting from $5.05/month and their UK OpenVZ VPS is now starting from £4.21/month (~USD$6.34). Do note that you need to change the currency to GBP before adding package to the cart, as it has much inflated GBP to USD on their site. You will get the following package
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 15GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Thrust::VPS has been adding quite a bit of features lately, including free 1GB backup space and private IP address for unmetered inter-VPS traffic within the same data center.
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I tried, comes the result.
XEN RAM 512 PV， this plan only get one cpu core, the VPS provider will not tell you this.
Have one in OpenVZ.
up nearly 8 days,fine.
not found overselling.
@Terry. We will if you ask it. Our plans are stage that the more you pay the faster the VPS will go and making sure that someone who is on a low end plan can’t bring a machine to its knees seems a responsible approach to me
Yes, I agree.
Hi Rus,
Could you please explain more about Private IP? How does it work?
It means that i will point domain to Private IP, right?
@Rus. When will the Xen.la was available for sell?
@Minh Private IP’s are for free date transfer between two VPS in the same datacenter so you could have an private MySQL server
@vpsbeta 3.xn.la.damnvps.com went live today and its about another 2-3 before software installs etc are complete
@Rus. Good news. Hope it will available asap.
Hi Rus,
Do you have custom package?
I dont need much Ram, i need 256mb and burst 512 but i need much storage 30-40gb.
After several days test on different software, the benchmark scores may be not look so good, but have good stability on each of them, the result won’t show me a suprised result, just keep at almost same level, so limit to different plan from using some idle cpu resource, also limit others to use yours cpu resource if they don’t over sell.
@Terry: Final score of 83 is awful.
@Anonymous – Bear in mind that Terry benchmarked a XEN vps using an ancient version (4.1) of UNIX Bench.
I am sure the score would be much higher if he used the current version (5.12) from: http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/
UnixBench is well known for giving extremely low results for Xen VPS in general when compared to OpenVZ ones.
Hope this helps :)
But I compare to all my VPS in Xen. And another thing is that, the redis benchmark is almost same with another VPS I had, but get unixbech 4.1 about 200, so it’ really depend on different application, the nginx benchmark result shows almost the same ration compare to another 512 MB Xen plan, You got to check it out by yourself, I just shared the result, another good thing is the network bandwidth is also stable and fast enought compare to same level VPS provider.
I’ll post the 5.1.2 benchmark result later.
Thrust::VPS
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: www.xxx.com: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.33.3 -- #1 SMP Thu May 13 22:30:34 BST 2010 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz (4522.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET 13:21:48 up 8:23, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 1.27, 1.58; runlevel 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: 日 7月 11 2010 13:21:48 - 13:49:53 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 10373922.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2344.1 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1543.5 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 201437.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 55702.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 595519.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 306093.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 64037.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3356.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2536.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 349.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 284163.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 10373922.2 888.9 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2344.1 426.2 Execl Throughput 43.0 1543.5 359.0 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 201437.8 508.7 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 55702.5 336.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 595519.9 1026.8 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 306093.0 246.1 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 64037.5 160.1 Process Creation 126.0 3356.0 266.4 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2536.2 598.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 349.5 582.4 System Call Overhead 15000.0 284163.4 189.4 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 399.6 www:~/unixbench-5.1.2#Another 512 plan XEN
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: www.xxx.com: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen -- #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 12:04:23 EDT 2010 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz (5662.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz (5662.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz (5662.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz (5662.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 21:54:04 up 12 days, 9:45, 5 users, load average: 0.52, 0.48, 0.58; runlevel 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sun Jul 11 2010 21:54:04 - 22:22:23 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 11381751.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2571.6 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 990.2 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 208701.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 58407.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 579608.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 363203.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 72886.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 2667.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2584.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 575.2 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 385347.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 11381751.3 975.3 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2571.6 467.6 Execl Throughput 43.0 990.2 230.3 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 208701.1 527.0 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 58407.4 352.9 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 579608.3 999.3 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 363203.8 292.0 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 72886.8 182.2 Process Creation 126.0 2667.5 211.7 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2584.9 609.6 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 575.2 958.6 System Call Overhead 15000.0 385347.8 256.9 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 423.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sun Jul 11 2010 22:22:23 - 22:51:04 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 26586623.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 10082.7 MWIPS (9.1 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 2175.9 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 134443.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 36289.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 418056.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 1271507.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 231606.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3942.1 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4505.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 458.7 lpm (60.3 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 1338050.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 26586623.7 2278.2 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 10082.7 1833.2 Execl Throughput 43.0 2175.9 506.0 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 134443.0 339.5 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 36289.9 219.3 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 418056.6 720.8 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1271507.8 1022.1 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 231606.7 579.0 Process Creation 126.0 3942.1 312.9 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4505.0 1062.5 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 458.7 764.5 System Call Overhead 15000.0 1338050.0 892.0 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 705.5As I know, Linode 360M with unixbech 4.1 was more then 400 SCORE.
The problem with using Unixbench is that there’s so many versions and variations out there…
Unixbech 5.1.2 was double score with unixbech 4.1
@Terry:
About Unix 5.12 Scores : I have two 128MB Xen VPS,1st one has access to a Core of a Core2Duo 2.2GHz,2nd one has access to 4 AMD Opteron Cores 2.2GHz)
Unix Bench Score :
1st VPS =370
2nd VPS : Single Core 339 , MultiCore = 694.
Your Scores seems to be a little Low.
@Marianne:
Wow, if you mean unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2. I’ll love to know which provider, got get one for myself.
Please, Pleas, share with us.
bought one for few days, feel great.
I just took the risk and moved two servers to these guys. I bought a “Aquatic – 512MB RAM” in LA (replacing a PRGMR.COM 256MB VPS), and a “Mystic – 1GB RAM” in Dallas (Replacing a Linode512). My reasons for moving have been primarily centered around more bang for the buck. Performance has been consistently strong and the network stable. I’ve opened two support tickets were both responded to in [no exaggeration] 2 minutes.
Only time will tell, but so far so good.
I just ordered a 512MB RAM Xen PV VPS with Thrust::VPS. With the coupon it’s $6.76 per month.
I’ll test this out to see how it compares to my more expensive Linode 512 (Xen VPS).
Here’s my plan:
Thrust::VPS Aquatic VPS (Los Angeles, CA)
Xen PV, 512MB RAM, 512MB Swap, 15GB Disk Space, 1TB Transfer
CentOS 5.5 32 bit
And here are the Unix Bench (Version 5.1.2) results:
======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.33.3 -- #1 SMP Thu May 13 22:30:34 BST 2010 Machine: x86_64 (x86_64) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4788.0 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET 13:01:51 up 23 min, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00; runlevel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Mon Jul 26 2010 13:01:51 - 13:29:53 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 11671363.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2264.2 MWIPS (10.3 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1843.5 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 232428.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 59638.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 735380.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 329628.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 69648.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3939.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 3154.9 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 435.6 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 347324.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 11671363.7 1000.1 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2264.2 411.7 Execl Throughput 43.0 1843.5 428.7 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 232428.4 586.9 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 59638.0 360.4 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 735380.0 1267.9 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 329628.7 265.0 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 69648.9 174.1 Process Creation 126.0 3939.4 312.6 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 3154.9 744.1 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 435.6 725.9 System Call Overhead 15000.0 347324.6 231.5 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 458.1It looks like a single CPU core is available. On my Linode 512, it has 4 cores available and the Unix Bench results were 410.1/989.2 (run when it was still a Linode 360).
Thrust::VPS drive performance was good when I tested it.
Other initial comments: Ping times to my Thrust VPS are about 30ms higher compared to the speedtest.la.damnvps.com server. The speedtest server has a 66.154.* ip address and my VPS was assigned a 109.169.* ip address, and it gets routed differently for me. Ping times are actually about the same for my LA VPS and the Thrust VPS Texas speedtest server (speedtest.tx.damnvps.com).
Just got a Xen 512 VPS with them. Provisioned in about 30 seconds, that’s awesome considering I’m switching from Enotch (who, after 40 hours still hadn’t set up my VPS; I gave up). Installing debian 5.0 i386 now, we’ll see how it goes.
I got a Xen 512 VPS. Here’s my UnixBench. Looks like one core only. I’m running Debian 5.0 i386.
======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: somesite.hostedonthrustvps.com: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.33.3 -- #1 SMP Thu May 13 22:30:34 BST 2010 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (4800.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET 20:17:31 up 1:58, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00; runlevel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Tue Jul 27 2010 20:17:31 - 20:45:52 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 11998185.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2538.6 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1721.8 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 207141.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 54105.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 654004.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 294138.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 63702.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 3700.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 3042.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 421.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 284998.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 11998185.9 1028.1 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2538.6 461.6 Execl Throughput 43.0 1721.8 400.4 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 207141.5 523.1 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 54105.5 326.9 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 654004.0 1127.6 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 294138.8 236.4 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 63702.5 159.3 Process Creation 126.0 3700.8 293.7 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 3042.0 717.5 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 421.5 702.5 System Call Overhead 15000.0 284998.2 190.0 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 429.0Just a follow up. Everything is still looking good with my Xen Thrust::VPS in Los Angeles, CA. It looks like the routing issue I had initially has cleared up and ping times are the same to the speedtest server and my VPS now (nice and fast), and is within 10ms of my Linode in Fremont, CA.
Here are some transfer tests:
Download from Linode to Thrust::VPS (Linode caps uplink at 50mbps):
2010-07-31 11:11:55 (5.68 MB/s) – `100MB-testfile.zip’ saved [104857600/104857600]
Download from Thrust::VPS to Linode
2010-07-31 11:14:35 (11.0 MB/s) – `100MB-testfile.zip’ saved [104857600/104857600]
Anyone know what their policy is when it comes to late payments and cancellation?… I’m a fan of the policy of pay in advance, if you don’t make payment you are suspended for a certain number of days, then completely canceled. Basically, I like it where if I don’t pay, that’s as good as canceling, no need to give 30 days notice and no late fees. So far I’ve only found one provider that does this.
We suspend a service after 3 days and terminate it after 5 days
If that means I don’t have to worry about late fees / giving X days in advance notice , I’m sold.
This offer is now closed
@Rus when can we all see another offer from you? I have a XEN HVM and im happy, now im planning to move all other VPSes to you too
We aren’t planning on doing another offer any time soon. Our prices are still very competative without this coupon
I ended up cancelling. It started out good, but the last week has been rough; 15 downtimes totalling more than 8 hours. It didn’t help that after one of the incidents the vps never came back up until I noticed it was down in the morning and restarted it.
That was our 6.xn.la.damnvps.com server which we have literally chucked in the bin and replaced with a brand new server
Mine was on 4xnla.
That box was a bit shakey for a few days as well but that has been resolved as well but I totally understand your situation. Hope that you reconsider at somepoint in the future
I was also on 4xnla and I experienced the same. Asked Rus and he moved me to XEN HVM node. Now I am on 5xnla. Pretty stable since the last 24+ hrs.
I wanted to order another one with XEN PV but this coupon code expired :(
4xnla has a little problem in the pass, 6xnla has a big problem in the pass, I dont know they fixed or not. and now, my vps are on 5xnla, this node was very good. Thrustvps was still thurst, they do hard with their services.
I wish them the best of luck. Hopefully they can get things sorted out.
Oops!
Just tried to order from France (I’m working there this week) with my UK address and it didn’t go through as I’m my IP address wasn’t in the same country as my billing address.
So far, so fair enough.
But now my account status is marked ‘FRAUD’ and is all in red!
Would have been nice to have had a warning or a chance to cancel before being labelled a fraud.
;-)
Never mind. Maybe I’ll try again when I get back to Blighty.