During the recent Black Friday sale, I purchased a special machine from virmach. I recalled seeing various VPS performance and network test charts before, so I wanted to test this Virmach Black Friday KVM VPS, which looks pretty good. I found a bench-scripts on GitHub and decided to use it. This repository contains multiple test scripts, but the first one is the most useful. Here, I will test the $27 VPS performance.
VPS Performance and Network One-Click Test Command
wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
The command output includes system info such as CPU, memory, I/O, etc., and network speed tests from Linode and other data centers worldwide.
- Displays various system information currently being tested;
- Runs I/O test three times and shows the average;
- Performs network tests from famous data centers worldwide like Linode.
Here are the results from the Virmach Black Friday VPS:
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CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 2099.998 MHz
Total size of Disk : 30.0 GB (1.7 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 4419 MB (134 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 255 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 16 min
Load average : 0.00, 0.02, 0.05
OS : CentOS 7.7.1908
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.10.0-1062.4.3.el7.x86_64
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I/O speed(1st run) : 169 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 345 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 346 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 286.7 MB/s
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 48.8MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 3.32MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 3.04MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 5.52MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 7.48MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 7.02MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 27.6MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 17.4MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 5.22MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 5.00MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 5.83MB/s
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Comparison with Vultr $5/month VPS
To compare VPS performance, I tested a Vultr VPS I’ve been using, which costs $5 per month. Here are the Vultr test results:
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CPU model : Virtual CPU a7769a6388d5
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2394.454 MHz
Total size of Disk : 25 GB ( GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 990 MB (403 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 1023 MB (55 MB Used)
System uptime : 18 days, 18 hour 29 min
Load average : 0.01, 0.04, 0.05
OS : CentOS 7.7.1908
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64
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I/O speed(1st run) : 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.23266 seconds, 332 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.62318 seconds, 232 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.0579 seconds, 351 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 305 MB/s
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 125MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 23.4MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 15.0MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 18.8MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 14.78MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 171MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 59.6MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 62.6MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 12.8MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 16.9MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 18.9MB/s
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Summary
Comparing the two, Virmach’s Black Friday VPS is much slower on network speed compared to Vultr. The I/O speeds are similar. Virmach offers relatively more memory and a disk 5GB larger, with 2 CPU cores but lower frequency. Vultr has strong snapshot backup capabilities with nearly unlimited quick recovery. Virmach’s advantage is its cheaper price. Other aspects will be explored later.
