Instance Type: Variable Compute
This plan belongs to the IBM Cloud Variable Compute server line (Classic Infrastructure).
Instance Type Description
Burstable instances. Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers.
Instance Type Specifications
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | Between $13.93 and $13.94 |
| Approximate RAM per vCPU | 2.0GB |
| Hourly billing | yes |
| CPU type | INTEL |
| Shared CPU | yes |
| Storage included | yes |
See also all IBM Cloud instance types.
"U1.2x4" Plan Specifications
| Provider | IBM Cloud |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers |
| Price per month |
$30.24
Warning: network bandwidth costs are not included in this price.
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| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes: $0.0420/hour |
| Disk GB | 25 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 4 |
| Virtualization | Xen |
| Data Transfer GB | |
| Maximum Network Speed | 100 Mbps |
| Burstable CPU | Per core CPU allocation: 100% |
| Dedicated CPU | No |
| Storage | Root storage for this plan is networked. |
Badges of Quality
Badges are awards granted to VPS plans that meet certain quality criteria.
| Meets Bandwidth Specs | IBM Cloud - U1.2x4 delivers all the bandwidth advertised in its specifications | |
|---|---|---|
| Stable Performance | IBM Cloud - U1.2x4 performance is very stable over long periods of time |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst. The grades below are those of the most recent trial run for this plan.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 46
Performance Test Results
We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for IBM Cloud - U1.2x4. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
| Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review | Review | Review | Review |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
Performance trials run on the U1.2x4 plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the U1.2x4 plan with its grade and CPU type.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12 2021 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz | Texas, USA | D |