OVHcloud US VPS Cloud 1, June 2nd 2015
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the VPS Cloud 1 VPS plan of OVHcloud US. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.
On this page, you'll find:
- Price and specifications for the VPS Cloud 1 plan.
- The grades that summarize its performance in 5 categories based on the benchmarks results.
- Links to the detailed benchmarks results that can be compared to other providers and other plans.
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | Long term discounted price | Hourly billing | Num CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk space (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVHcloud US | VPS Cloud 1 | $10.07 |
$8.95/month
(-11%) Minimum: 1 year |
No | 2 | 2 | 25 |
| Datacenter | CPU type | CPU details | OS, Kernel and Virtualization | Data transfer (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauharnois, Canada | AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4386 |
Frequency: 3.1 GHz |
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS 3.10.23 KVM |
Unlimited |
Note: the CPU details Frequency is the frequency observed at the start of the trial. It may vary as the trial progresses.
Test Results
- Web Runs: performance of a web application running on the server with locally generated load. Latencies and max request rate.
- Sysbench: CPU, disk IO and memory speed tests.
- Endurance: output over time of a long running cpu intensive application.
- Network Transfers: maximum HTTP download and upload speeds between the VPS and servers located nearby.
- Yabs: test suite that includes Geekbench CPU tests, Fio for disk IO and Iperf3 for network transfers.
- Live Web Tests: latencies of a web application with live traffic.
Live Web
Web performance is measured locally on the VPS and includes Rails app response times to live web traffic as well as system metrics.
Review and compare OVHcloud US - VPS Cloud 1 web performance with other cloud providers.
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Prices
The price per month is a flat $15 and it includes the VM bandwidth and storage. That gives OVH an advantage compared to Linode, DO or Vultr which price their 2GB 2 cores plans at $20. However the plan only includes 25GB of disk compared to 40+ GB for competitors.
There is no per hour pricing option, it's per month.
Provisioning
This is the main weakness of OVH. OVH does...