IPXcore - OpenVZ 128mb VPS

[wlanboy]

Provider: IPXcore
Plan: OpenVZ 128mb VPS
Price: 1.25$ per month
Location: Buffalo, NY

Purchased: 01/2013

Hardware information:

• cat /proc/cpuinfo
  
  processor : 0
  vendor_id : GenuineIntel
  cpu family : 6
  model : 58
  model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
  stepping : 9
  cpu MHz : 3401.000
  cache size : 8192 KB
  physical id : 0
  siblings : 8
  core id : 0
  cpu cores : 4
  apicid : 0
  initial apicid : 0
  fpu : yes
  fpu_exception : yes
  cpuid level : 13
  wp : yes
  flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
  bogomips : 6800.31
  clflush size : 64
  cache_alignment : 64
  address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  power management:
  
  
• cat /proc/meminfo
  

  MemTotal:         131072 kB
  MemFree:           41408 kB
  Cached:            24644 kB
  Active:            35844 kB
  Inactive:          40948 kB
  Active(anon):      17184 kB
  Inactive(anon):    34964 kB
  Active(file):      18660 kB
  Inactive(file):     5984 kB
  Unevictable:           0 kB
  Mlocked:               0 kB
  SwapTotal:         65536 kB
  SwapFree:          33008 kB
  Dirty:                 4 kB
  Writeback:             0 kB
  AnonPages:         52148 kB
  Shmem:              3580 kB
  Slab:              12860 kB
  SReclaimable:       7884 kB
  SUnreclaim:         4976 kB

• dd
   
  
  
  dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -rf test
  16384+0 records in
  16384+0 records out
  1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.44253 s, 144 MB/s
  
  
• wget
   
  
  
  wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
  
  --2013-05-17 23:14:05-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
  Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175
  Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (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%[=================================================================================================
  
  2013-05-17 23:14:28 (4.27 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
  
  

What services are running?

• lighttpd + php
• xinetd
• munin
• rabbitmq
• ruby scripts

Support:

I have opened 9 support tickets since January. All get polite answers within one hour. If I look to the numbers:

- 1 Ticket for a R-DNS entry

- 1 Ticket asking for IPV6

- 1 Ticket asking for FUSE support

- 5 Tickets asking stupid things

- 1 Tickets about a reboot problem after a kernel update of the node

I really cannot complain. Sometimes the answers a quite short, but as long as I get the information I am able to do without small talk.

Overall experience:

I am a happy customer. I simply trust them. They inform their customers about all things. No shady excuses just clear statements. The performance is ok. My wordpress blog is running and the network is fast enough to use it for VPN. Compile time for Ruby was ok too. Load times for ruby scripts are fast enough.

I also did not get any fork errors even on the limit of having only 3 MB of free RAM left. I/O performance is ok too.

One last thing: I do highly appreciate the monthly paying period. The plan is only 15$ a year.

Canceled due to bandwith/routing issues with Buffalo -> EU.

 

[willie]

I agree with this review (I have 3 vps's with them in Buffalo).  Ipxcore is IMHO not the most technologically bleeding edge of the LEB hosts, and they had some bogus drama at their previous (Atjeu) colo maybe because of this.  But they seem very determined to make things work, and you really get the feeling that you are dealing with humans when you interact with them.  They have been willing to accomodate all kinds of weird requests I've made (they even offered to build a custom storage array just for me) and their network performance in Buffalo (whatever anyone says about Colocrossing) has always been great for a cheap VPS.  (I don't know about San Diego).  I like very much that they offer Stripe as a payment method, though it currently doesn't work (at least for me), they are trying to get it fixed.  Their storage special may or may not be still available but it is/was an amazing deal.  (Nm, it's out of stock, but it was 150GB of disk and 1GB of ram for $4 a month, which was great).  There's been a few outages and interruptions typical of this industry, but overall my expectations are very well satisfied with them.

 

[sv01]

I've 1 VPS with them and really happy so far. I only use my vps for VPN nothing else.