{"id":29,"date":"2012-07-20T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buyvm.info\/?p=29"},"modified":"2012-07-20T21:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:48:24","slug":"review-ovh-free-micro-vks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Review: OVH Free Micro VKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could see the message every day from the twitter after i followed the @OVH<\/a>. What a energetic salesman\uff01So I decided to try one.<\/p>\n

The detail about the VKS<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. 1 vCPU Processor<\/li>\n
  2. 128MB of RAM<\/li>\n
  3. Storage 5GB<\/li>\n
  4. 500GB monthly traffic<\/li>\n
  5. 10Mbps bandwidth<\/li>\n
  6. IPv4 + IPv6 addresses<\/li>\n
  7. Unauthorised UDP traffic<\/li>\n
  8. Outgoing traffic forbidden on port 25<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Order link is http:\/\/www.ovh.com\/us\/vks\/<\/a>
    \n<\/p>\n

    Attention:<\/span><\/strong>
    \n1. The machine is free during the beta. But it need to renew every month to keep it runing.
    \n2.You need to have a phone to receive the message about the activation code. Of course you can use the google voice to receive it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I choose the Paris location but finally get the machine from Hong Kong location. So strange, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

    The ordering process is so simply and the machine is active after you get the e-mail.<\/p>\n

    Now let me post the testing result:<\/p>\n

    1. Bench.sh testing<\/p>\n

    root@vks19540:~# sh bench.sh\nCPU model :  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172\nNumber of cores : 1\nCPU frequency :  2100.025 MHz\nTotal amount of ram : 128 MB\nTotal amount of swap : 128 MB\nSystem uptime :   1:17<\/pre>\n
    I stop the downloading testing, because it is so slow.
    \n2. RAM testing<\/p>\n
    root@vks19540:~# free -m\n             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached\nMem:           128        123          4          0          0        109\n-\/+ buffers\/cache:         14        113\nSwap:          128         20        107<\/pre>\n
    Looks like the machine is base on OpenVZ with 128MB vswap.
    \n3. IO testing<\/p>\n
    root@vks19540:~# dd if=\/dev\/zero of=test.bin bs=64k count=4k oflag=dsync\n4096+0 records in\n4096+0 records out\n268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 172.829 s, 1.6 MB\/s\n\nroot@vks19540:~# dd if=\/dev\/zero of=testfilex bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync \n16384+0 records in\n16384+0 records out\n1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.17338 s, 150 MB\/s<\/pre>\n
    The IO is no so bad for the machine like this.
    \n4. Network testing<\/p>\n
    root@vks19540:~# wget  cachefly.cachefly.net\/100mb.bin\n--2012-07-20 10:19:30--  http:\/\/cachefly.cachefly.net\/100mb.bin\nResolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 204.93.150.150\nConnecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|204.93.150.150|:80... connected.\nHTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK\nLength: 104857600 (100M) [application\/octet-stream]\nSaving to: \u201c100mb.bin\u201d\n\n100%[===================================>] 104,857,600 16.8M\/s   in 5.5s    \n\n2012-07-20 10:19:35 (18.3 MB\/s) - \u201c100mb.bin\u201d saved [104857600\/104857600]<\/pre>\n
    This totally amazed me. 10Mbps bandwidth? Not only~<\/p>\n
    5. CPU testing<\/p>\n
    root@vks19540:~# cat \/proc\/cpuinfo\nprocessor\t: 0\nvendor_id\t: AuthenticAMD\ncpu family\t: 16\nmodel\t\t: 2\nmodel name\t: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172\nstepping\t: 3\ncpu MHz\t\t: 2100.025\ncache size\t: 512 KB\nphysical id\t: 0\nsiblings\t: 4\ncore id\t\t: 0\ncpu cores\t: 4\napicid\t\t: 0\ninitial apicid\t: 0\nfpu\t\t: yes\nfpu_exception\t: yes\ncpuid level\t: 5\nwp\t\t: yes\nflags\t\t: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca \ncmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt \nrdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc \nunfair_spinlock pni cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm extapic abm sse4a \nmisalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw\nbogomips\t: 4200.05\nTLB size\t: 1024 4K pages\nclflush size\t: 64\ncache_alignment\t: 64\naddress sizes\t: 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual\npower management:<\/pre>\n
    The cpu is 2.1Ghz. But I am sure it is perfect to run many program although it has only one core.<\/p>\n
    6. Ping testing<\/p>\n
    I use the http:\/\/just-ping.com<\/a> to finish this job.<\/p>\n
    Singapore, Singapore:\t    Okay\t32.8\t37.4\t56.8\t\n Amsterdam2, Netherlands:   Okay\t252.6\t252.8\t253.0\t\n Florida, U.S.A.:\t    Okay\t271.8\t272.3\t276.1\t\n Amsterdam3, Netherlands:   Okay\t274.1\t274.9\t280.0\t\n Hong Kong, China:\t    Okay\t2.8\t3.1\t3.6\t\n Sydney, Australia:\t    Okay\t166.1\t173.2\t178.1\t\n M\u00c3\u00bcnchen, Germany:\t    Okay\t261.3\t271.9\t281.0\t\n Cologne, Germany:\t    Okay\t271.1\t271.2\t271.4\t\n New York, U.S.A.:\t    Okay\t220.9\t226.6\t228.2\t\n Stockholm, Sweden:\t    Okay\t278.3\t281.6\t289.7\t\n Santa Clara, U.S.A.:\t    Okay\t152.2\t167.1\t179.1\t\n Vancouver, Canada:\t    Okay\t159.0\t170.3\t175.0\t\n London, United Kingdom:    Okay\t300.7\t309.6\t317.2\t\n Madrid, Spain:\t            Okay\t338.0\t349.0\t356.5\t\n Padova, Italy: \t    Okay\t355.3\t357.9\t362.2\t\n Austin, U.S.A.:\t    Okay\t189.4\t200.4\t214.3\t\n Amsterdam, Netherlands:    Okay\t333.6\t340.4\t352.9\t\n Shanghai, China:\t     Packets lost (30%)\t224.9\t227.7\t233.4\t\n Melbourne, Australia:\t    Okay\t145.9\t146.8\t148.3\t\n Copenhagen, Denmark:\t    Okay\t327.1\t334.2\t341.7\t\n Lille, France:\t            Okay\t271.2\t271.5\t271.8\t\n San Francisco, U.S.A.:\tCheckpoint temporarily not available\n Zurich, Switzerland:\t    Okay\t340.2\t348.5\t363.0\t\n Mumbai, India:\t            Okay\t93.7\t95.7\t98.8\t\n Nagano, Japan:\t            Okay\t58.5\t58.8\t60.1\t\n Haifa, Israel:             Okay\t364.7\t376.5\t387.7\n Auckland, New Zealand:\t    Okay\t171.7\t176.3\t179.3\t\n Antwerp, Belgium:\t    Okay\t319.5\t324.0\t326.8\t\n Groningen, Netherlands:    Okay\t306.7\t317.7\t330.5\n Moscow, Russia:\t    Okay\t310.0\t310.2\t310.3\t\n Dublin, Ireland:\t    Okay\t268.4\t276.5\t284.1\t\n Kharkov, Ukraine:\t    Okay\t288.0\t304.4\t360.0\t\n Manchester, United Kingdom:Okay\t263.3\t268.4\t271.2\t\n Vilnius, Lithuania:\t    Okay\t333.2\t344.2\t357.0\t\n Bucharest, Romania:\t    Okay\t336.3\t345.7\t353.9\t\n Bangkok, Thailand:\t    Okay\t65.6\t66.0\t66.2\t\n Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:    Okay\t40.2\t40.8\t41.3\t\n Cape Town, South Africa:   Okay\t453.6\t460.7\t473.4\t\n Glasgow, United Kingdom:   Okay\t301.4\t306.9\t320.1\t\n Lisbon, Portugal:\t    Okay\t342.9\t348.5\t352.6\t\n Chicago, U.S.A.:\t    Okay\t196.8\t202.1\t208.9\t\n Dallas, U.S.A.:\t    Okay\t192.6\t205.3\t219.5\t\n Cairo, Egypt:\t            Okay\t318.0\t329.5\t335.4\t\n Amsterdam1, Netherlands:    Packets lost (100%)\t\t\t\t\n Buenos Aires, Argentina:   Okay\t392.0\t392.1\t392.7\t\n Istanbul, Turkey:\t     Packets lost (10%)\t356.5\t372.4\t391.0\t\n Gdansk, Poland:\t    Okay\t276.9\t277.3\t277.5\t\n Beijing, China:\t     Packets lost (10%)\t322.0\t345.4\t364.5\t\n Belgrade, Serbia:\t    Okay\t243.7\t277.9\t284.5\t\n Toronto, Canada:\t    Okay\t222.4\t231.7\t245.7\t\n Athens, Greece:\t    Okay\t298.8\t299.1\t299.3\t\n Frankfurt, Germany:\t    Okay\t311.6\t319.4\t330.0\t\n Sofia, Bulgaria:\t    Okay\t301.7\t308.2\t312.6\t\n Budapest, Hungary:\t    Okay\t280.1\t285.2\t291.0\t\n Sao Paulo, Brazil:\t    Okay\t359.6\t362.5\t363.3\t\n Paris, France:\t            Okay\t322.6\t328.8\t338.7\t\n Mumbai, India:\t            Okay\t95.7\t100.0\t105.4\t\n New Delhi, India:\t    Okay\t107.8\t108.0\t109.8\t\n Bangalore, India:\t    Okay\t88.7\t91.5\t100.7\t\n Chicago, U.S.A.:\t    Okay\t191.1\t207.7\t221.5\t\n Montreal, Canada:\t    Okay\t237.1\t237.3\t237.6<\/pre>\n
    Packets lost in four place.Not so bad as a beta machine.<\/p>\n
    Anyway, It is nice of OVH offer the free machine for us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    I could see the message every day from the twitter after i followed the @OVH. What a energetic salesman\uff01So I decided to try one. The detail about the VKS 1 vCPU Processor 128MB of RAM Storage 5GB 500GB monthly traffic 10Mbps bandwidth IPv4 + IPv6 addresses Unauthorised UDP traffic Outgoing traffic forbidden on port 25 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,27],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ovh","tag-vks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buyvm.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}