Genesis VMs Review

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Genesis VMs in its own words

Genesis Hosting Solutions is a leading provider of hosting solutions that are common for businesses of all sizes. Genesis does not focus on any particular vertical, but we have solutions from basic infrastructure hosting to the most critical infrastructure that requires the utmost security and reliability controls.

Genesis VMs was founded as a VPS provider in 1997.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS, Storage and Networking hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • United States

This provider is related to Genesis Public Cloud

Genesis Public Cloud offers cloud servers billed every 30 seconds with a large array of features.


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Genesis VMs VPS Features

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  No
DDOS Protection  Yes

Genesis provides network layer DDoS protection and it also provides network protection with Fortinet's FortiGuard, which thwarts various other attacks, including blacklisted IP blocking. It also helps with anti-hammering.

Backups  Yes

6 image backups are included with each VM.

Control Panel  WHMCS
SSH Keys Setup  No
Total Number of Datacenters  1
Number of Datacenter Continents  1
Monitoring Charts  Yes
Admin REST API  No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  No
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  No

Available on demand by submitting a support ticket.

Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
Firewall  Yes

30 inbound and 30 outbound rules allowed per VM.

Shelving  No
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Pros and Cons

Strengths

  • Choose CPU type when you order.
  • Fast and modern CPUs.

Genesis VMs Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, Genesis VMs also sells the services marked green in the following table:

Backups   Block storage Object storage Load balancer
Floating IP addresses Team Management Managed databases Serverless
DDoS protection   Kubernetes GPU instances Private network  

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Genesis VMs Yabs.sh Runs

VPSBenchmarks and its community have run yabs.sh on Genesis VMs servers. Here are the most recent results. Yabs.sh inscludes Geekbench, Fio and Iperf3 tests.
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The scale in the charts between 0 and 100 represents the performance of this server for each metric relative to the performance of all other servers tested recently at VPSBenchmarks for that same metric.

  • 100 means the server is the fastest for this metric.
  • 50 means the server has exactly median performance for this metric.
  • 0 means the server is the slowest for this metric.
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Genesis VMs Instance Types and Plans

How fast are Genesis VMs servers?
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All Genesis VMs instance types

Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.

Plan Number of CPU cores RAM Storage Monthly Price
Family:
Single server line
Instance Type:
General purpose

Fast inexpensive VM deployment starting at $3/month. When you need something fast and reliable, but don't want the hassle of building a cloud environment.

vm.t5sd.2xlarge 1 4.0GB 50GB $5.00 / month
vm.c5sd.xlarge 2 8.0GB 100GB $20.00 / month
vm.c6sd.xlarge 2 8.0GB 100GB $26.00 / month
vm.c5sd.2xlarge 4 16.0GB 200GB $40.00 / month
vm.c6sd.2xlarge 4 16.0GB 200GB $52.00 / month
Instance Type:
Other

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vm.t5sd.4xlarge (Off rankings) 1 8.0GB 100GB $9.00 / month
vm.c5sd.3xlarge (Off rankings) 6 24.0GB 300GB $60.00 / month
vm.c6sd.3xlarge (Off rankings) 6 24.0GB 300GB $78.00 / month

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