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[james_l]

Hi Readers,

This is a review of two virtual servers I purchased from VPSUnlimited.COM

The VPS are located in Kansas ( Whole Sale Internet ) and Los Angeles ( Quadranet). I ordered a 768MB VPS in Kansas and the 1GB VPS in L.A.

My first thought of these VPS is 'wow'. Both run fairly high end kit and have SolusVM as a VPS control panel. Now, In the past i've had a lot of trouble with SolusVM and less than great setups of it. That being said, The control panel at VPSUnlimited works just fine and functions as it should.

Within minutes of logging into the L.A. server I can tell its not oversold/laggy or anything else that pisses me off. I run a pretty demanding PHP/SQL app that usually doesnt stand up to the run-of-the-mill OpenVZ provider. VPSUnlimited uses XEN on at both thier DC's.

The Kansas server has comparable latency but downloads are a bit slower. It also runs my system demanding PHP app. Both handle it quite nicely with CPU/Ram to spare.

The Linux install (I got centos) is very good and minimal. Very secure, and fast starting environment.

As for speed im able to get the full 12MB from the L.A DC and about 5-6MB from Kansas. As of writing:
2011-06-18 23:43:45 (9.97 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
^ LA
2011-06-19 06:45:27 (3.53 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
^ Kansas

The LA node also appears to have very nice routing to Asia.

All in all, I am most satisfied with the service and servers provided to me. I pay roughly $15 and $20 for the servers. At this price you cant really argue with it.

I suggest you all give them a ring and try out a server.

Thanks for reading,
James

[zahirw]

Good to see a positive review amongst all the negative ones off late! Good for you james.

[firefox10]

Can you post disk IO

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=32k conv=fdatasync

[james_l]

/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 16716 MB in 1.99 seconds = 8398.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1302 MB in 3.00 seconds = 433.67 MB/sec


vps2 ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=32k conv=fdatasync
32768+0 records in
32768+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 1.80406 seconds, 298 MB/s

[MyResellerHost]

Wow, that's a nice I/O.

Thanks for the review, please report your domain to the moderators to verify using this link:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/report.php?p=7516526

Until then, this may not be considered reliable one.

[james_l]

What do you mean? Report my domain?

[ransome]

Originally Posted by james_l

What do you mean? Report my domain?

you can give your domain or your ip address in public or use the report button to send it in private which will be only visible to wht staff, its just for the verification (u r really a customer of their's and no-foul play exists)

[james_l]

Oh, not sure how tthat actually verifies anything but the ips are
[jl@myhost .ssh]$ grep vps /etc/hosts
204.12.237.117 vps1
96.44.134.33 vps2