QuickWeb - $6.95 512MB OpenVZ VPS

Oct 10, 2010 @ 11:38 pm

Via this WHT offer. QuickWeb has released some “SUPA” packages that are based in either Phoenix AZ or Germany. You can get SUPA VZ1 for $6.95/month, which comes with

512MB guaranteed/768MB burstable memory
25GB storage with RAID10
250GB/month data transfer (100Mbps in Germany and 1Gbit in US)
OpenVZ/SolusVM

Here are the order links for Germany and US. QuickWeb is a New Zealand based web hosting company that have been offering cheap/low-end VPSs from all over the place. They have pretty good reviews here and on WHT when you search for them.

And the usual disclaimer: LowEndBox.com is currently hosted on one of those 80MB Xen VPS in Dallas provided by QuickWeb free of charge.

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21 Comments

QuickWeb-Joe:
thanks LEA, now i know what’s the reason of sudden surge of web traffic to our site :) LEB really rocks! If anyone have any questions or require custom package please drop me an email.
October 10, 2010 @ 11:59 pm | Reply
Sonic:
@Joe: what does SUPE means? :D
October 11, 2010 @ 12:46 am | Reply
QuickWeb-Joe:
Maybe you meant supa? well Kiwis pronounced Super like Supa lol. :)
October 11, 2010 @ 12:53 am | Reply
Sonic:
THanks! Please give me test IP for US node
October 11, 2010 @ 12:57 am | Reply
QuickWeb-Joe:
Hello, here’s the test IP 174.138.164.131
October 11, 2010 @ 1:13 am | Reply
- Daniel:
  Securedservers an awesome ISP you use there :)
  October 11, 2010 @ 2:34 am | Reply
Sonic:
@joe: how do you handle dmca/abuse complaint? I want to host porn site, is it ok?
October 11, 2010 @ 3:04 am | Reply
QuickWeb-Joe:
@Sonic,
depends on the nature of abuse and the given by the DC of we are given enough time you will be contacted to remove the said material.
@Daniel,
Yes are only hearing good things about them and we carefully select our upstream provider to ensure reliability and long term business.
October 11, 2010 @ 3:58 am | Reply
QuickWeb-Joe:
@Sonic sorry for the typo, I meant to say “depends on the time given to us by DC to resolve the matter” otherwise we may temporarily suspend the VPS until i get hold of you for compliance, this is not to put the whole node I jeopardy.
We allow legal adult.
October 11, 2010 @ 4:00 am | Reply
Andreas:
I tried to order a Xen VPS – my order got marked as fraud. Website said I would be contacted. Nothing happened. I opened a ticket, and was promised a manual invoice. Few days later automatic e-mail that my ticket was closed. Polite question by e-mail about said invoice. No answer. Today last trial by online ticket, and was asked to order again.
No hard feelings, just to much work to order from this place. (Non-Fraud) Greetings from Germany …
October 11, 2010 @ 1:07 pm | Reply
- drmike:
  Interesting how Germany is getting marked as Fraud. Haven’t really seen that before.
  October 11, 2010 @ 10:01 pm | Reply
  - QuickWeb-Joe:
    well there are a lot of reason why our fraud system thought it is fraud order, one is if one is using proxy, provided incorrect address or simply the IP/email address he is using has a history and was in the database of fraud systems provider. In this case we review it manually but not necessarily it is exactly fraud that’s why i told him to place another order so it can be processed manually.
    October 11, 2010 @ 10:05 pm | Reply
QuickWeb-Joe:
Sorry about that, we deal with fraud order seriously as chargebacks is hurting this business. I told you to just order again so i can easily spot it and process manully on the spot. Please give us another try and i’ll make it sure we will review it ASAP :)
October 11, 2010 @ 6:51 pm | Reply
tommy:
additional ip $2.50USD Monthly? really expensive :P
October 12, 2010 @ 5:01 am | Reply
- QuickWeb-Joe:
  due to scarcity of IPv4 we always assume 1 IP per budget VPS would be enough.
  October 12, 2010 @ 6:13 am | Reply
fordam:
Which data center in Germany you use ?
October 13, 2010 @ 10:04 am | Reply
- QuickWeb-Joe:
  Hello,
  We are at Equinix Datacenter in Dusseldorf see http://bit.ly/92rzql
  October 13, 2010 @ 10:57 am | Reply
Sonic:
Hi Joe, please give me test IP for DE node :D
October 13, 2010 @ 11:14 am | Reply
- QuickWeb-Joe:
  sure thing, go and hit 80.83.125.200
  October 13, 2010 @ 11:39 am | Reply

Bent:

I have received my VPS yesterday from Phoenix AZ node. It has 512MB and 2 cores. UnixBench 5.1.2 score:

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   Version 5.1.2                      Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark

   Multi-CPU version                  Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
                                      Sunnyvale, CA, USA
   December 22, 2007                  johantheghost at yahoo period com


1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3

1 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Process Creation  1 2 3

1 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1 2 3

2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1 2 3

2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1 2 3

2 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Process Creation  1 2 3

2 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

========================================================================
   BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)

   System: backup.tdc.com: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.5 -- #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 19:10:36 MSD 2010
   Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
   CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3440 @ 2.53GHz (5066.8 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3440 @ 2.53GHz (5066.7 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   06:42:07 up  3:43,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00; runlevel 3

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 14 2010 06:42:07 - 07:10:21
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       14607614.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     2800.2 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               4176.0 lps   (29.8 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        589277.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          161781.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1427012.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             1063423.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 319747.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              12122.8 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   4816.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    654.7 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         903597.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   14607614.4   1251.7
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2800.2    509.1
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       4176.0    971.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     589277.2   1488.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     161781.5    977.5
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1427012.9   2460.4
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    1063423.0    854.8
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     319747.3    799.4
Process Creation                                126.0      12122.8    962.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       4816.0   1135.9
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        654.7   1091.2
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     903597.8    602.4
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        1007.0

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 14 2010 07:10:21 - 07:40:43
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       14558971.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     5753.5 MWIPS (9.7 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               4067.7 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        550140.7 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          153684.6 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1383597.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             1035700.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 314617.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              12328.1 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   4935.1 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    694.8 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         903356.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   14558971.7   1247.6
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       5753.5   1046.1
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       4067.7    946.0
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     550140.7   1389.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     153684.6    928.6
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1383597.4   2385.5
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    1035700.6    832.6
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     314617.7    786.5
Process Creation                                126.0      12328.1    978.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       4935.1   1163.9
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        694.8   1158.0
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     903356.7    602.2
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        1058.4

The score is quite great: 1058.4

But I don’t see any improvement when using 2 cores over 1 core. A little bit weired???

October 14, 2010 @ 7:24 am | Reply

Bent:

Here’s my disk speed test:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.32414 seconds, 811 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=8k count=256k
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 3.25042 seconds, 661 MB/s

Simply amazing! I think there is just a few vps in my node :)

October 14, 2010 @ 4:19 pm | Reply