BudgetVM SSD VPS 1GB, February 22nd 2016

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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the SSD VPS 1GB VPS plan of BudgetVM. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.

On this page, you'll find:

  • Price and specifications for the SSD VPS 1GB 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)
BudgetVM SSD VPS 1GB $4.99 No 1 1 75

Datacenter CPU type CPU details OS, Kernel and Virtualization Data transfer (GB)
Chicago, IL Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz Frequency:
2.0 GHz

Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

2.6.32

OpenVZ

3000

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 BudgetVM - SSD VPS 1GB web performance with other cloud providers.

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BudgetVM $5 plan is very limited Feb 28 2016

At less than $5 per month for 1 CPU core, 1GB RAM and 75GB SSD appears to be a great deal. Further scrutiny reveals the plan has many weaknesses.

Setup

Setup was quite fast, payment with Paypal is simple.

The Ubuntu 14.04 image has a awkward choice of packages:

  • No locale is selected, resulting in a flood of warning messages whenever installing new packages.
  • Apache 2 is pre-installed conflicting with other HTTP servers that you'd rather use.

Performance

Quite bad: 149ms average response time. That puts this BudgetVM plan next to last just above the Scaleway ARM based plan. The response times vary a lot raising the p99 to 550ms on most days (dead last).

Reliability

Monitoring reported the server could not be reached...

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