Big Brain Host - $5 512MB OpenVZ VPS in Ashburn

Jul 17, 2011 @ 2:15 pm

Brian from Big Brain Host emailed me their new LowEndBox exclusive offer. It has been a while since their last offer here. They are now back with a new fancy design + a nice low end deal. Here is the sign up link and for $5/month you can get the following VPS “LEB-512MB Special”.

512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
40GB storage
600GB/month data transfer on 100Mbps
OpenVZ/SolusVM

They have recently turned one year old. According to Brian, they have had some big changes since late last year. They now have their own colo space in Northern Virginia and have been doing pretty well. You can traceroute their home page to find out that their servers are now with InfoRelay in Ashburn VA. That has been a big change since the early days where they were reselling VPS from Virpus.

Pretty standard AUP. Take Credit Card and PayPal. One nice review on WHT and from previous posts, Big Brian Host excel in support.

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Francisco:

va:~# 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, 11.8047 s, 91.0 MB/s
va:~# time sync

real    0m2.212s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.013s
va:~#
va:~# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-07-17 15:57:51--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[==========================================================>] 104,857,600 11.0M/s   in 9.4s


va:~# tracert cachefly.cachefly.net
traceroute to cachefly.cachefly.net (205.234.175.175), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  iad1ovz.bigbrainhost.com (205.251.65.17)  0.045 ms  0.014 ms  0.011 ms
 2  cr1.iad1.inforelay.net (66.231.176.241)  1.976 ms  1.982 ms  1.997 ms
 3  xe-3-0-7-301.ar2.iad1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.30.229)  3.009 ms  3.009 ms  3.008 ms
 4  ae0-30g.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.31.133)  3.146 ms  3.147 ms  3.145 ms
 5  vip1.G-anycast1.cachefly.net (205.234.175.175)  2.022 ms  2.038 ms  2.037 ms
va:~#
va:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 26
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5520  @ 2.27GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2266.801
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 16
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dt
s acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_c
pl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4533.60
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

July 17, 2011 @ 9:27 pm | Reply

Francisco:

apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev perl  perl-modules make

cd /usr/local/src

wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz

tar -zxvf unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz

cd unixbench-5.1.2

make

./Run dhry2reg whetstone-double syscall pipe context1 spawn execl shell1 shell8 shell16



 BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)

   System: va: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 -- #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:25:15 MSK 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 E5520 @ 2.27GHz (4533.6 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Inte
l virtualization
   21:20:17 up  5:36,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; runlevel 2

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Sun Jul 17 2011 21:20:17 - 21:45:59
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       16456318.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     2646.2 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               3507.7 lps   (29.5 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             1834925.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 377767.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              10933.5 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   5876.4 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                   331.1 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    757.4 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        3156495.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Partial Index              BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   16456318.6   1410.1
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2646.2    481.1
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       3507.7    815.7
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    1834925.7   1475.0
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     377767.2    944.4
Process Creation                                126.0      10933.5    867.7
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       5876.4   1386.0
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                     ---        331.1      ---
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        757.4   1262.3
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    3156495.5   2104.3
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only)                         1105.3

July 17, 2011 @ 9:48 pm | Reply

Brian Smith:
Hello,
Thanks for listing us again, LowEndAdmin!
We’re just about out of stock on these orders! All orders from the last day or so have been processed and have been successfully setup.
July 18, 2011 @ 12:14 pm | Reply
- Francisco:
  Hi,
  I guess you are firewalling the VPS ports which precludes the use of SSH alternative ports. Is it possible to disable your firewall on a per VPS basis?
  Thanks.
  July 18, 2011 @ 2:13 pm | Reply
  - Brian Smith:
    Hi Francisco,
    We do use a firewall to protect users. Just submit a ticket to the helpdesk if you require another port for SSH.
    Regards,
    Brian
    July 18, 2011 @ 2:15 pm | Reply