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05-01-2012, 07:41 PM #1Hosting seer
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SSD-powered VPSes: first results
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I was in quest of SSD-powered VPS/DSes. There are several providers available right now. The analysis isn't scientifically precise, but it gives some kind of general feeling about that.
The task was to find most cost-performance efficient DS/VPS solutions at a cost equal or below 40 USD/month. I was ordering the most cheap solution (hence the result can't be very precise) and run several types of tests:
- Copying large files (command used looks like dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/2gb.dat bs=8k count=256k conv=fdatasync, "DD"), measured in MB/sec
- Byte UnixBench, "UB"
- Running a copy of site using 'heavy' engine such as Drupal ('heavy' in terms of disk I/O requests and computing required, not in terms of overall efficiency)
Whereas the third option is hard to reliably measure, the first two can be. Here are the results ordered by UB rating decreasing:
64u.com: UB score 1678, DD speed 352
infinitie.net: UB 1128, DD 501
vpsdeploy.com: UB 359, DD 216
digicube.fr: UB 288, DD 99
serveraxis.com: UB 251, DD 89
I haven't tried miniVPS and SSDNodes yet (to be done in the future). If I haven't noticed any other SSD VPS providers able to provide a VPS at or below 40 USD/month, let me know.
Comments on the providers.
64u.com. They offer a single plan. Fantastic speed, quick professional setup. I like the first impression.
infinitie.com. The most DD-efficient VPS I saw so far. The only problem I had were strangely long connection times from my location. I ad even decided to cancel the VPS, but in the last few days the situation changed, I decided to keep the lowest SSD VPS from them and used it for further testing.
vpsdeploy.com. The general impression of this provider is it's too young so far. The site lacks certain useful information (such as 'About' page), but I will watch its development.
digicube.fr. I used their only low-end SSD-powered dedicated server. Alas, even though the facility is run very professionally, the DS itself isn't too impressive. I'll watch their news, however, perhaps they will have more interesting things in stock in the near future.
serveraxis.com: quick, efficient setup, overall feeling is rather positive. I cancelled their VPS, though, to me it's the least efficient (it doesn't mean all of their SSD VPS plans are - if I have time to test 'larger' plans, ratings can change)
Currently I am using cloud hosting from bluelighthost.com, but if I firmly decide to move to SSD VPS, 64u.com and infinitie.com will be the first candidates, after at least 3-4 months come and I have better impression.
I would be grateful for more SSD VPS providers suggestions. However, I can't guarantee I will do the comparison quick enough, since my month budget I use to order/test new VPSes isn't endless, and my day is limited by 24 hours.
If the above results and further studying is of interest to someone, perhaps I'll run a site dedicated to finding and using good reliable inexpensive VPS/DS providers.
Your suggestions and feedback on the mentioned providers are very welcome.
I think it's rather unlikely, but if a SSD VPS provider would offer a VPS to run tests and watch overall stability (for a month), or offer moneyback, I will be glad to test that candidate. Most VPS providers do not grant moneyback at all, and in that case I am limited by a set budget I can exhaust.
SSD-powered shared hosting will be studied later, when there are at least 5-10 reliable candidates.
Sorry for several corrections of the post, it was really full of typos. This was the last correction.Last edited by Master Bo; 05-01-2012 at 07:53 PM. Reason: correction, typos
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05-01-2012, 07:58 PM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
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Nice testing.
But if you care about SSD performance wouldn't it be better to look at random accesses (rather then sequential) and more thorough read-world simulations?
Look into fio. See Fusion-IO's method to check basics and there is some other useful server patterns in fio's examples folder.
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Thanks for the reference. I used the same sequence of tests I do every time I get a VPS/DS. beyond the usual 'face control' and sanity checks prior to ordering.
Yes, I will perhaps add more tests to have broader scale of results. My third test is VERY real-life, but save LoadImpact-type of tests it's hard to offer any meaningful figures.
Talking of LoadImpact, my current host kept the same page loading time in case of up to 200 simultaneous concurrent requests. Not all the providers like the idea of heavy LoadImpact tests (since it's hard to tell from a DDoS)
Thanks for the references, adding to queue. When I grow to the above monthly price, I'll test the Storm as well.
Please tell your impression from 64u.com, it would be interesting to learn.███ IT blog is under reconstruction, please standby
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Do you test IOPs, by any chance?
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Shall I?
The only problem is, testing VPS always gives a generalization. I don't know how really busy is hardware, how real is the promised CPU/etc share. Those tests are for ideal cases, a "spherical ideal SSD in a physical vacuum".
That means I can run as many tests as possible, but the one I mentioned saved me time and efforts many a time already, when I was looking for a VPS for a particular purpose.███ IT blog is under reconstruction, please standby
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05-01-2012, 09:17 PM #14
It might also be worth noting not only the drives used (as EndServer suggested) but also what their arrangement is.
Though this thread is a good reference as to what other providers can generally provide.
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Hope to see more detailed results. Really a useful thread!
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I think you need to fix the link you gave to this "infinitie.com" it's been taken down the website so what's the point of having them in the test? I would much rather see SSDNodes reviewed as they are on SoftLayer Network which would be interesting to see the results if anything will outperform it should defiantly be there! I know SSDNodes are using Micron P300's it would be also nice to know if we could be told what SSD's they're using Intel, Micron, etc just my observation...
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That's my typo.
The site is infinitie.net.
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First you need to know what method they're accelerating their disks. For many of us we are moving into this field using SSD based cacheing which means our raid cards determine which blocks of data are being commonly requested and those get cached on the SSD array and the rest of it stays on the less expensive and larger HDD's. So the dd test is not going to be completely accurate. So Mysql queries that are constantly getting hit will see improvement, while files that get a few hits a day will not. Using this technology is better for all because SSD's are very expensive when it comes to going to an all SSD solution and we cant offer large disk space for the same price, but with SSD Cacheing we can do this and performance increases for all users at a reasonable price point.
Truth be told, most vps servers max out on the Disk IO before the CPU's are maxed out, eventually someday this might become an even issue or completely reversed.
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