some tests of the vps:
root@tbd:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 30.5929 s, 35.1 MB/s
root@tbd:~#
root@tbd:~# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2014-01-13 22:21:50--
http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s in 9.1s
2014-01-13 22:21:59 (11.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
root@tbd:~#
uk speedtest:
9.39M/s after 100mb as i did not want to wait for 1GB.