CheapestUnlimitedHosting.com Review

[PooKer]

I won the auction for the CUH posted in the VPS offer section http://www.wjunction.com/showthread.php?t=70241
The VPS I won was the following spec:


CPU Usage: Fair
50 GB HDD
250 GB Bandwidth
1 GB Dedicated RAM
1.5 GB Burstable
1 IP Address


So lets start with the Free -m stats. nice and simple.

[root@nlcu ~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1536        284       1251          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        284       1251
Swap:            0          0          0

Thats with my Left 4 Dead 2 server running. sendmail, and httpd.

CPU wise I can see Four of the following:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Four:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 30
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3440  @ 2.53GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2527.075
cache size      : 8192 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
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 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips        : 5054.15
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

Download test now. When I first got the server I did these tests:

[root@nlcu ~]# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--18:27:14--  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: `100mb.test'

100%[======================================================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600  373K/s   in 5m 3s

18:32:22 (338 KB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

From My Other Dutch VPS:

[root@nlcu ~]# wget [URL]http://89.188.9.**/100mb.test[/URL]
--18:43:18--  [URL]http://89.188.9.**/100mb.test[/URL]
Connecting to 89.188.9.**:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[=======================================>] 104,857,600 2.81M/s   in 29s

18:43:47 (3.44 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

My Left 4 Dead 2 install was a 8.1GB download. and took 12mins.

I attempted to re-test the cachefly just now. But the DNS appears to be playing up. Not really a problem for me as I dont use DNS for anything.

Now for upload (using the same VPS I used for the download test)

[root@localhost html]# wget http://85.17.24.227/100mb.test
--2011-02-28 15:38:47--  http://85.17.24.227/100mb.test
Connecting to 85.17.24.227:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 3.68M/s   in 27s

2011-02-28 15:39:14 (3.67 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

Now some hard drive benching.

[root@nlcu ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1k count=100k
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.343814 seconds, 305 MB/s
[root@nlcu ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1k count=1000k
1024000+0 records in
1024000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.81821 seconds, 275 MB/s

Again they where from when I first got the server.
These ones I've run today:

[root@nlcu ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1k count=100k
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.350684 seconds, 299 MB/s
[root@nlcu ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1k count=1000k
1024000+0 records in
1024000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.83694 seconds, 273 MB/s

Compared to my other Dutch VPS:

[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1k count=100k
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.751038 seconds, 140 MB/s
[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=1k count=1000k
1024000+0 records in
1024000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 20.4638 seconds, 51.2 MB/s

Anyway I can't say I've had any problems with the VPS (other than that small DNS but I'm sure if I wanted to solve that I can).
In terms of setup time it was pretty quick. Had to get them to change the invoice for the auction but that was fine. Haven't needed to contact support so cannot comment on that. But no using it is surely a good side.

I myself havent had a chance to play on my Left 4 Dead 2 server. I'll be putting a few other bits on the server when I get time. But if anyone wants to try out the L4D2 server:
85.17.24.227:27035

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Added after 1 26 minutes:

added another nameserver to my conf. and re-did the test for cachefly

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: `100mb.test'

100%[======================================================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 7.58M/s   in 11s

20:05:48 (9.22 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

 

[proloy03]

Hello PooKer,

Thanks for the review.
I reached this thread while I was google'ing my website for stats.

I know I am very late to say you thanks, but Thanks for your time for giving this detailed review.

Regards,
Proloy Roy
Sales Head
CU Hosting Solutions - Best Quality Providers