Instance Type: Balanced
This plan belongs to the IBM Cloud Balanced server line (Classic Infrastructure).
Instance Type Description
Public multi-tenant servers with local storage and balanced ratio of CPU and RAM.
Instance Type Specifications
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | Between $24.00 and $28.25 |
| 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.
"BL2.1x2" Plan Specifications
| Provider | IBM Cloud |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic |
| Price per month |
$24.00
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 |
| Disk GB | 100 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 2 |
| Virtualization | Xen |
| Data Transfer GB | 0 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | No |
| Storage | Root storage for this plan is local. |
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: 25
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for IBM Cloud - BL2.1x2. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
| Yabs | Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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| Review | Review | Review | Review | Review |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
Performance trials run on the BL2.1x2 plan
This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the BL2.1x2 plan with its grade and CPU type.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30 2022 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8260 CPU @ 2.40GHz | Washington DC, USA | E |
| Nov 02 2020 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz | Washington DC, USA | D |