RamNode 2GB KVPS VPS Review

RamNode is one of the trusted and reliable VPS provider. They offer fast SSD VPS and SSD cached VPS at very low price. They offer both OpenVZ VPS and KVM VPS.

Review Details

Date: 18-Dec-2013
VPS: KVM Virtualization, 2GB RAM, 30GB Pure SSD
Location: Netherlands, Europe
Price: $48.00 / Month (Search RamNode Coupon)

Disk I/O test

This is hard disk speed test that the server can read and write a 1GB file. Higher score is better.

root@server [/]# dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.95978 s, 363 MB/s

Result: 363 MB/s
Checked 2-3 times, but result is same. I am not very impressed with this speed. A good result should be above 500 MB/s

Bandwidth Test

The speed at which a 100MB file can be downloaded from the CacheFly CDN edge location. Higher score is better.

root@server [/]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2013-12-18 06:03:39--  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: 100mb.test

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 79.5M/s   in 1.3s

2013-12-18 06:03:41 (79.5 MB/s) - 100mb.test

Result: 79.5M/s
Download speed to server is very good.

Download speed test from server

I am now downloading a 100MB file hosted at RamNode VPS from a server in New York.

[root@server ~]# wget http://176.56.xxx.xxx/100mb.test
--2013-12-18 05:12:13--  http://176.56.xxx.xxx/100mb.test
Connecting to 176.56.xxx.xxx:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M)
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 4.14M/s   in 13s

2013-12-18 05:12:26 (7.43 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

Result: 7.43 MB/s Result is good.