Comments on: 2HOST – $5 Xen VPS with 512MB http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/ Hosting Websites on Bare Minimum VPS/Dedicated Servers Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Josh http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2982 Josh Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:18:28 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2982 I should be able to compile my own custom kernel, correct? I've gotten the latest source, added the xen options, and make a few timer tweaks I need, but now I'm confused on how to make that kernel be used. My VPS doesn't have GRUB installed, so I suppose I'm going to try installing GRUB and setting my kernel to the default. If anybody has any tips, it'll be greatly appreciated. I should be able to compile my own custom kernel, correct? I’ve gotten the latest source, added the xen options, and make a few timer tweaks I need, but now I’m confused on how to make that kernel be used. My VPS doesn’t have GRUB installed, so I suppose I’m going to try installing GRUB and setting my kernel to the default.

If anybody has any tips, it’ll be greatly appreciated.

]]> By: Kanga http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2981 Kanga Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:05:04 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2981 2Host $10 VPS 512 is indeed Xen. My 512 2Host Xen Vps outperforms my 1g OpenVZ VPS. Setup time was also a little slow for me but having never needed support apart from requesting the HyperVM login details. 2Host $10 VPS 512 is indeed Xen. My 512 2Host Xen Vps outperforms my 1g OpenVZ VPS. Setup time was also a little slow for me but having never needed support apart from requesting the HyperVM login details.

]]> By: Josh http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2978 Josh Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:48:00 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2978 Just got my 512MB VPS from them set up. I ordered it yesterday around 1PM eastern, and it was set up about 7PM eastern tonight, so about 30 hours for setup. That's not too bad, but quicker is better. Have yet to try what I bought it for (srcds), but I have pretty decent hopes. 10GB of disk space, 512MB ram, approx 300GB bandwidth and Xen for $10 a month isn't bad (at least for my purposes). Does anybody know a way to confirm it is indeed Xen? Just got my 512MB VPS from them set up. I ordered it yesterday around 1PM eastern, and it was set up about 7PM eastern tonight, so about 30 hours for setup. That’s not too bad, but quicker is better. Have yet to try what I bought it for (srcds), but I have pretty decent hopes. 10GB of disk space, 512MB ram, approx 300GB bandwidth and Xen for $10 a month isn’t bad (at least for my purposes).

Does anybody know a way to confirm it is indeed Xen?

]]> By: Eugene http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2134 Eugene Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:23:28 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-2134 Uptime: 07:02:04 up 175 days, 9:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - wow I have never seen such uptime :) Well it was my BEST performance experience, however it was the WORST support experience at the same time. Highly recommend their vps only if you don't need support at all :) Now I'm quitting with them just because I'm moving my developing service from alpha stage at VPS to beta at dedicated, so I don't need this vps anymore. It was great half a year with them. I can also rank by performance some of the vps from this great blog with which I had experience: 1. 2Host 2. Rentavps 3. Sitepenguin 4. Boxvps 5. Burst And by support: 1. Rentavps 2. Boxvps 3. Sitepenguin 4. Burst 5. 2Host Uptime: 07:02:04 up 175 days, 9:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 – wow I have never seen such uptime :)
Well it was my BEST performance experience, however it was the WORST support experience at the same time. Highly recommend their vps only if you don’t need support at all :) Now I’m quitting with them just because I’m moving my developing service from alpha stage at VPS to beta at dedicated, so I don’t need this vps anymore. It was great half a year with them.

I can also rank by performance some of the vps from this great blog with which I had experience:
1. 2Host
2. Rentavps
3. Sitepenguin
4. Boxvps
5. Burst

And by support:
1. Rentavps
2. Boxvps
3. Sitepenguin
4. Burst
5. 2Host

]]> By: 2HOST $5 512MB Ram Xen VPS (LowEndBox) http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1779 2HOST $5 512MB Ram Xen VPS (LowEndBox) Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:40:15 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1779 [...] to be an amazing offer posted on LowEndBox.com. The post claims a company called 2HOST is offering Xen based virtual private servers at $5/mo. How could anyone resist looking into this? Naturally, I did, and here’s the [...] [...] to be an amazing offer posted on LowEndBox.com. The post claims a company called 2HOST is offering Xen based virtual private servers at $5/mo. How could anyone resist looking into this? Naturally, I did, and here’s the [...]

]]> By: Dalibor http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1513 Dalibor Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:48:22 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1513 Thank you for kind and gr8 answer. I'll try it up then i'll post the results.. Best regards from Croatia Thank you for kind and gr8 answer. I’ll try it up then i’ll post the results..

Best regards
from Croatia

]]> By: nullamatix http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1512 nullamatix Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:06:34 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1512 @Dalibor What cling[y] sums it up. You can use that file as a baseline test. From a Linux host in your LAN, just run: wget http://hostname-of-2host-vps.com/100mb-random.img After putting 100mb-random.img in public_html or your web server document root.. @Dalibor

What cling[y] sums it up. You can use that file as a baseline test. From a Linux host in your LAN, just run:

wget http://hostname-of-2host-vps.com/100mb-random.img

After putting 100mb-random.img in public_html or your web server document root..

]]> By: cling[y] http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1511 cling[y] Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:53:19 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1511 @Dalibor I've been wanting to test the speed of my VPS also but haven't found an easy way...the wget command you ran shows that your VPS is capable of download at least 8.5 Megabytes/second so your apt-get command is probably slow because by default 2host has it configured to download from a mirror in the UK instead of a closer/faster mirror, you could speed that up by finding a closer/faster mirror. The command that you ran: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/100MB-random.img bs=1M count=100 pretty much just created a 100megabyte file in your /tmp/ directory, you can then try to download that file to your home computer(if you have a fast conneciton at home) to test how fast your VPS can upload. If you don't have a web server or ftp server setup, you can use scp to download the file from your VPS to your home computer to check the speed. You can also do the same thing with a python webserver which has been faster for me than using scp. So to do this you would ssh to your VPS and do: cd /tmp/ python -m SimpleHTTPServer That will create a web server on your vps which runs on port 8000, so then on your home computer open up your web browser and navigate to http://you.IP.addy.Here:8000 and you should see all the files in your /tmp/ directory, so just click on 100MB-random.img to download it and see how fast it goes. After your done downloading just kill the 'webserver' by going back to your ssh window and pressing ctrl + c Update, so far the fastest speed I've seen from my VPS to my home is 783KB/s @Dalibor

I’ve been wanting to test the speed of my VPS also but haven’t found an easy way…the wget command you ran shows that your VPS is capable of download at least 8.5 Megabytes/second so your apt-get command is probably slow because by default 2host has it configured to download from a mirror in the UK instead of a closer/faster mirror, you could speed that up by finding a closer/faster mirror.

The command that you ran:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/100MB-random.img bs=1M count=100

pretty much just created a 100megabyte file in your /tmp/ directory, you can then try to download that file to your home computer(if you have a fast conneciton at home) to test how fast your VPS can upload. If you don’t have a web server or ftp server setup, you can use scp to download the file from your VPS to your home computer to check the speed. You can also do the same thing with a python webserver which has been faster for me than using scp. So to do this you would ssh to your VPS and do:

cd /tmp/
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

That will create a web server on your vps which runs on port 8000, so then on your home computer open up your web browser and navigate to http://you.IP.addy.Here:8000 and you should see all the files in your /tmp/ directory, so just click on 100MB-random.img to download it and see how fast it goes.

After your done downloading just kill the ‘webserver’ by going back to your ssh window and pressing ctrl + c

Update, so far the fastest speed I’ve seen from my VPS to my home is 783KB/s

]]> By: Dalibor http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1510 Dalibor Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:24:21 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1510 @nullamatix using this command dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/100MB-random.img bs=1M count=100 i got this results 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 14.5247 s, 7.2 MB/s but can you or someone tell me what is this result mean and is it good or bad? next @cling[y] i've tried your command wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.4/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.4-50677_Debian_lenny_i386.deb and i got 43,412,246 8.56M/s in 5.0s but in general when i try like apt-get install something or wget i got averege 995 kbps so in light of this i would like to test how fast can i upload stuff. is it posible to test this? best regards and thank you all i've learned a lot here. @nullamatix
using this command

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/100MB-random.img bs=1M count=100

i got this results

100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 14.5247 s, 7.2 MB/s

but can you or someone tell me what is this result mean and is it good or bad?
next

@cling[y]

i’ve tried your command
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.4/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.4-50677_Debian_lenny_i386.deb

and i got

43,412,246 8.56M/s in 5.0s

but in general when i try like apt-get install something or wget i got averege 995 kbps

so in light of this
i would like to test how fast can i upload stuff.
is it posible to test this?

best regards and thank you all
i’ve learned a lot here.

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1509 noa Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:50:11 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1509 I too live outside the U.S. and pinging the VPS gives something around 167ms but my download speed is unaffected and still top at ~2.2MB/s from home. Kind of strange, but it's probably because it never leaves the Level3 backbone. Though, I don't know for sure. ---- [ISP network] 5 230 ms 96 ms 55 ms te-9-1.car2.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.207.189] 6 46 ms 45 ms 45 ms ae-34-52.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.225] 7 54 ms 53 ms 54 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.141.234] 8 54 ms 55 ms 54 ms ae-91-91.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.14] 9 54 ms 55 ms 54 ms ae-92-92.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.29] 10 144 ms 143 ms 144 ms ae-41-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.137.50] 11 161 ms 161 ms 162 ms ae-2-2.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.132.69] 12 173 ms 162 ms 163 ms ae-5.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.140.193] 13 168 ms 168 ms 169 ms ae-4-4.car2.StLouis1.Level3.net [4.69.132.189] 14 209 ms 204 ms 203 ms ae-11-11.car1.StLouis1.Level3.net [4.69.132.185] 15 168 ms 167 ms 169 ms RIVER-CITY.car1.StLouis1.Level3.net [4.53.160.10] [VPS IP] ----- I too live outside the U.S. and pinging the VPS gives something around 167ms but my download speed is unaffected and still top at ~2.2MB/s from home. Kind of strange, but it’s probably because it never leaves the Level3 backbone. Though, I don’t know for sure.

—-
[ISP network]
5 230 ms 96 ms 55 ms te-9-1.car2.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.207.189]
6 46 ms 45 ms 45 ms ae-34-52.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.139.225]
7 54 ms 53 ms 54 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.141.234]
8 54 ms 55 ms 54 ms ae-91-91.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.14]
9 54 ms 55 ms 54 ms ae-92-92.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.29]
10 144 ms 143 ms 144 ms ae-41-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.137.50]
11 161 ms 161 ms 162 ms ae-2-2.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.132.69]
12 173 ms 162 ms 163 ms ae-5.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.140.193]
13 168 ms 168 ms 169 ms ae-4-4.car2.StLouis1.Level3.net [4.69.132.189]
14 209 ms 204 ms 203 ms ae-11-11.car1.StLouis1.Level3.net [4.69.132.185]
15 168 ms 167 ms 169 ms RIVER-CITY.car1.StLouis1.Level3.net [4.53.160.10]
[VPS IP]
—–

]]> By: cling[y] http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1508 cling[y] Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:40:14 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1508 So I used wget to test the download speed of my VPS and got 9.24MB/s which downloaded a 43.4megabyte file in 4.5seconds, which is amazingly fast IMO. In case you want to try to download from a fast site I downloaded the following file. wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.4/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.4-50677_Debian_lenny_i386.deb I then downloaded that file(http,ftp,and scp) from my VPS to my home computer and the best speed I saw was about 550KB/s. My home connection is pretty reliable and levels off at 3.0MB/s so I'm guessing that I am not getting full speed either because I am physically located on the other side of the U.S.(I have a 75ms ping), or because the server which hosts my VPS has an upload limit which is being used up by other people who have a VPS on the same server. So I used wget to test the download speed of my VPS and got 9.24MB/s which downloaded a 43.4megabyte file in 4.5seconds, which is amazingly fast IMO. In case you want to try to download from a fast site I downloaded the following file.

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.4/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.4-50677_Debian_lenny_i386.deb

I then downloaded that file(http,ftp,and scp) from my VPS to my home computer and the best speed I saw was about 550KB/s. My home connection is pretty reliable and levels off at 3.0MB/s so I’m guessing that I am not getting full speed either because I am physically located on the other side of the U.S.(I have a 75ms ping), or because the server which hosts my VPS has an upload limit which is being used up by other people who have a VPS on the same server.

]]> By: nullamatix http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1507 nullamatix Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:28:36 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1507 @DailiBor To create a 100 mb file on your VPS, try: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/100MB-random.img bs=1M count=100 @DailiBor

To create a 100 mb file on your VPS, try:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/100MB-random.img bs=1M count=100

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1506 noa Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:42:06 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1506 Unless you install gnome or kde on your VPS to use an internet browser, forget about online websites to check your connection speed. To check how fast your VPS can download stuff, load putty, or any ssh client, and connect to your VPS via SSH and use "wget ". Example: wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-502-amd64-netinst.iso This url/mirror is not the fastest from my 2host VPS and you can do CTRL+C in putty if you down't want to download the whole image to save bandwidth. After, to check how fast you can download FROM the VPS you got two solutions; one is you have a fast connection at home and download from your vps via ftp/http and the second is to put a big file in your http server root dir and use wget from another server. There plenty of other methods to check your vps speed, but this one if probably the easiest. If your vps is on the 206.225. range, the speed I posted above is what you should get. Unless you install gnome or kde on your VPS to use an internet browser, forget about online websites to check your connection speed.
To check how fast your VPS can download stuff, load putty, or any ssh client, and connect to your VPS via SSH and use “wget “.

Example:
wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-502-amd64-netinst.iso
This url/mirror is not the fastest from my 2host VPS and you can do CTRL+C in putty if you down’t want to download the whole image to save bandwidth.

After, to check how fast you can download FROM the VPS you got two solutions; one is you have a fast connection at home and download from your vps via ftp/http and the second is to put a big file in your http server root dir and use wget from another server.

There plenty of other methods to check your vps speed, but this one if probably the easiest.

If your vps is on the 206.225. range, the speed I posted above is what you should get.

]]> By: Dalibor http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1505 Dalibor Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:16:40 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1505 Hey you guys. I would like to test a speed of my vps. Can someone give me some tutorials on how to do that? Like speedtest.net or something like that but for vps. Best regards Hey you guys. I would like to test a speed of my vps. Can someone give me some tutorials on how to do that? Like speedtest.net or something like that but for vps. Best regards

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1504 noa Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:40:16 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1504 Glad to hear that somebody's back at 2hosts. Speed is fine here. It's not as fast as it used to be at the beginning, but it's still pretty decent. download site to VPS speed using wget: 2009-08-15 23:31:49 (3.17 MB/s) - `debian-502-amd64-netinst.iso' saved [137713664/137713664] VPS to home speed using flashfxp: Transferred: debian-502-amd64-netinst.iso 131.33 MB in 1 minute 4 seconds (2.04 MB/s) Glad to hear that somebody’s back at 2hosts. Speed is fine here. It’s not as fast as it used to be at the beginning, but it’s still pretty decent.

download site to VPS speed using wget:
2009-08-15 23:31:49 (3.17 MB/s) – `debian-502-amd64-netinst.iso’ saved [137713664/137713664]

VPS to home speed using flashfxp:
Transferred: debian-502-amd64-netinst.iso 131.33 MB in 1 minute 4 seconds (2.04 MB/s)

]]> By: cling[y] http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1503 cling[y] Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:44:32 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1503 I ordered my $5 VPS on Friday August 14 at 2:30pm, and it was activated by 5am August 15. So far I am very happy with 2host. My only concern was that I can only seem to download off my VPS at about 250KB/s(1 megabyte every 4seconds) I was wondering if anyone has seen faster speeds? I ordered my $5 VPS on Friday August 14 at 2:30pm, and it was activated by 5am August 15. So far I am very happy with 2host. My only concern was that I can only seem to download off my VPS at about 250KB/s(1 megabyte every 4seconds) I was wondering if anyone has seen faster speeds?

]]> By: Terii http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1502 Terii Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:34:19 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1502 For those of you getting SSH key errors. Which OS are you guys using? I have Debian 5 and was getting those errors till I disabled DenyHosts... For those of you getting SSH key errors. Which OS are you guys using? I have Debian 5 and was getting those errors till I disabled DenyHosts…

]]> By: badstue http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1501 badstue Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:30:32 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1501 Yea.. im getting replies too :) Now the client area works again.. but im still getting errors with ssh/putty.. but that happened alot in the start. Yea.. im getting replies too :) Now the client area works again.. but im still getting errors with ssh/putty.. but that happened alot in the start.

]]> By: Dalibor http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1500 Dalibor Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:46:02 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1500 Got a ticker reply. They had to reboot server. I do not know why. But that seem to do the trick. Best regards Got a ticker reply.
They had to reboot server. I do not know why. But that seem to do the trick. Best regards

]]> By: CheapVPS http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1498 CheapVPS Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:10:17 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/2host-5-xen-vps-with-512mb/#comment-1498 No problem with SSH here. Could it be that the SSH keys somehow got changed? Did you look at the putty log and see what it says? No problem with SSH here.

Could it be that the SSH keys somehow got changed? Did you look at the putty log and see what it says?

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