OVHcloud US VPS Classic 2, January 15th 2015
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the VPS Classic 2 VPS plan of OVHcloud US. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.
On this page, you'll find:
- Price and specifications for the VPS Classic 2 plan.
- The grades that summarize its performance in 5 categories based on the benchmarks results.
- Links to the detailed benchmarks results that can be compared to other providers and other plans.
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | Hourly billing | Num CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk space (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVHcloud US | VPS Classic 2 | $7.00 | No | 2 | 2 | 25 |
| Datacenter | CPU type | CPU details | OS, Kernel and Virtualization | Data transfer (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauharnois, Canada | AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6386 SE |
Frequency: 2.8 GHz |
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 2.6.32 OpenVZ |
10 |
Note: the CPU details Frequency is the frequency observed at the start of the trial. It may vary as the trial progresses.
Test Results
- Web Runs: performance of a web application running on the server with locally generated load. Latencies and max request rate.
- Sysbench: CPU, disk IO and memory speed tests.
- Endurance: output over time of a long running cpu intensive application.
- Network Transfers: maximum HTTP download and upload speeds between the VPS and servers located nearby.
- Yabs: test suite that includes Geekbench CPU tests, Fio for disk IO and Iperf3 for network transfers.
- Live Web Tests: latencies of a web application with live traffic.
Live Web
Web performance is measured locally on the VPS and includes Rails app response times to live web traffic as well as system metrics.
Review and compare OVHcloud US - VPS Classic 2 web performance with other cloud providers.
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OVH VPS classic 2 is the slowest Jan 26 2015
The OVH VPS Classic 2 plan gets the dubious distinction of being the slowest of all plans ever tested at vpsbenchmarks.com.
To be fair this $7 plan is among the cheapest OVH offers so it would wrong to expectations too high. This being said, for the same price both Vultr and Vpsdime offer VMs that are respectively 8 and 2.5 times faster.
Average response time over 9 days: 202ms.
The speed of the VM was very uneven. The range of daily average response time was between 145ms and 273ms. The slowest 1% of request (P99) was over 1400ms over 1 day. On 10 minute interval, the P99 went easily over 2500 ms.
The was no outage during the trial.
Support requests took up...