VPS Benchmark

[pac]

Hi;

I am trying to determine whether the speed I am getting under VPS hosting is typical, as it does seem a little 'slow' to me.

I sometimes have to wait up to 2 minutes for a page to load, and have just timed the changing of FTP password for a domain in Plesk 7.5x reloaded.

From the time I clicked the button to apply the changes to the time the page reloaded, it was 1 minute and 2 seconds.

Of course I fully ubnderstand that RAM has a big affect oin this, I am running 256MB and I would be interested to know what others are getting ??

Thanx

PeterC

 

[deu12000]

That's very slow. Is your site very resource intensive? Do you have a lot of sites or resource intensive sites? If the answer is no to both of those questions, the server is overloaded or it's a horrible datacentre.

I have 256 MB of RAM right now and I have about 50 sites and I have great performance.

 

[123finder.com]

Check out this thread on WHT talk about the benchmark results of VPS & Dedicated so you can compare
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=308055

 

[yeppers]

Hey pac,

What kind of sites are you hosting? Proxys? Image hosts?

If you are hosting high-end sites then your RAM is going to be used up in no time at all, and that's most likely the cause of your problem.

Do you have Virtuozzo? Post us your system resources stats if you do.

If I could get a VPS with 1gb RAM ... I'd be soo happy. RAM as far as I've noticed is the only downside really.

Regards, Rhett.

 

[pac]

Hi;

Thanx for all your replies, I've been away so have just caught up on the threads.

Well, there's nothing running on the site yet, it's a new setup and I am testing to evaluate whether it's worth me going with VPS or just stick to shared hosting, and whether I can justify the cost.

I did think that the response time was a bit slow, but I know that with cpanel / whm with my existing company, some scripts take up to a minute to execute, so I guess I am kind of used to it !!

 

[yeppers]

hmm, sounds odd that it can take that long to load.

The only time you need VPS hosting is if you are using lots of memory or cpu on the host, and are afraid of being kicked off the server. If you're running proxy sites or largish forums (1000+ active members) then you should consider VPS also.

Do you have Virtuozzo installed? Can you post us some stats that show memory/cpu usage perhaps? This will give is a better idea of whats happening.

Thanks,
Rhett.

 

[theparrot]

If I could get a VPS with 1gb RAM ... I'd be soo happy. RAM as far as I've noticed is the only downside really.

You can, but why would you? At that point why not just get a dedi?

 

[pac]

I just ran the benchmark test, came out at 29.9 !!

INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 2497193.1 66.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 726.1 87.4
Execl Throughput 188.3 409.4 21.7
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 20777.0 77.8
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 8193.0 76.1
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 147556.0 95.9
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 80185.9 7.2
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 19906.5 12.9
Process Creation 569.3 1199.8 21.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 116.9 26.1
System Call Overhead 114433.5 54528.1 4.8
=========
FINAL SCORE 29.9