I’ve been a loyal customer of VPS6.NET for over a year now.
Contrary to what you hear online, VPS6.NET is a very reliable and quality company. Their servers are powerful, their pricing is great and the support is awesome when you require it. I think a lot of customers who had a “bad experience” with VPS6.NET are either spammers, scammers, or just have an unreasonable expectation about what an unmanaged VPS hosting company is supposed to do.
First, my account was instantly activated once my payment cleared which provided me with my login details very quickly. This is awesome and every VPS hosting company should have instant activation! Most orders that are not instantly activated are pending, mainly because of a technical issue related to VPS stock or their order status such as possibly being fraudulent due to a Maxmind error. Most folks who scream THIS WASN’T INSTANTLY ACTIVATED!! SCAM!!! usually fall into the category of there was not enough stock or the order status came up as fraud/suspicious!
If you’ve worked in the hosting industry as long as I have, you will notice that the scam/spam screamers are usually the fraudulent/suspicious order folks.. usually for good reason.
Second, the POWERUP coupon which gives me 2 additional CPU cores or an additional 1TB of bandwidth is great! Since I am running a cPanel DNS Only server, I will choose the 2 additional CPU cores to give me more processing power since bandwidth is dirt cheap and processing power will always cost more.
Third, the Frankfurt location in Germany is great for VPS hosting. Frankfurt is one of the most reliable, most wired cities in Germany and there is more than enough bandwidth at this facility for anyone requiring central Europe VPS hosting or specifically in Germany itself.
The Frankfurt facility has connectivity with TeliaSonera, DE-CIX, Cogent Communications, Deutsche Telekom, Tata Communications and Level3 giving it optimal US and European network carriers.
The VPS node has Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz processors with 12mb of cache size, which is great compared to some hosting providers who only have 2, 4 or 8mb of cache size for their processors.
VPS6.NET UnixBench Benchmarks:
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: dns-de: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab055.10 -- #1 SMP Thu May 10 15:38:32 MSD 2012
Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz (4799.4 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz (4798.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz (4798.1 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz (4798.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
22:28:55 up 1 day, 16:37, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.02, 0.01; runlevel 3
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Benchmark Run: Mon Jan 07 2013 22:28:55 - 22:57:08
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 21893155.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3013.7 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 2360.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 527328.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 148455.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1025225.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1355862.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 126339.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 5434.6 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 3912.8 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1532.8 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1623518.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 21893155.1 1876.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3013.7 548.0
Execl Throughput 43.0 2360.4 548.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 527328.5 1331.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 148455.5 897.0
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1025225.9 1767.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1355862.5 1089.9
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 126339.8 315.8
Process Creation 126.0 5434.6 431.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 3912.8 922.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1532.8 2554.7
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1623518.0 1082.3
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System Benchmarks Index Score 935.9
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Benchmark Run: Mon Jan 07 2013 22:57:08 - 23:25:25
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 81901193.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 11748.4 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 8545.0 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 482777.8 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 140695.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1251679.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 4818918.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 415512.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 17297.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 11672.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1401.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 4231725.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 81901193.6 7018.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 11748.4 2136.1
Execl Throughput 43.0 8545.0 1987.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 482777.8 1219.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 140695.5 850.1
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1251679.9 2158.1
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 4818918.1 3873.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 415512.6 1038.8
Process Creation 126.0 17297.3 1372.8
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 11672.0 2752.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1401.5 2335.9
System Call Overhead 15000.0 4231725.5 2821.2
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System Benchmarks Index Score 2083.1
Very reliable benchmarks, if you ask me!
The uptime is relatively new, with the server just ordered over the weekend, so tune in for more updates from my ongoing VPS6.NET review of their German OpenVZ virtual private servers.
