I’ve always been curious about this €1 cloud server plan, I’ve finally decided to try it out. Is €1 worth it? I chose France location simply because I never had a vps/cloud server in France before.
Cloud Server Smart
The cheapest solution to enter the world of cloud computing. This type of service is based on VMware technology with a small set of functionalities at affordable prices with a monthly rate. There are servers of various sizes to choose from.
You have to sign-up first before you can order any services from them. All orders automatically has a 20% Euro tax. If you’re not European, you have to contact their support for them to manually reimburse you; I heard they ask for an ID for proof. Since I didn’t bother contacting them, I never had to send an ID. I paid a total of 1,20 €. They accept paypal and credit cards.
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Resource Statistic
Usage statistic of the server is not available from the web panel. You have to install their “Extra Control” service to your server yourself.
System Information
CPU Information
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processor : 0 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz |
Memory Usage
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total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1000 513 486 29 134 294 -/+ buffers/cache: 84 916 Swap: 1903 0 1903 |
Disk Performance
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hello@ohnorandom:~# time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=100k count=1k && sync" 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.12661 s, 828 MB/s real 0m0.193s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.120s |
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hello@ohnorandom:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k; rm -f /tmp/output 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB) copied, 0.878928 s, 458 MB/s |
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hello@ohnorandom:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 12540 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6272.89 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 2802 MB in 3.00 seconds = 933.42 MB/sec |
400 MB/s to 900 MB/s … that’s fast.
Network Speed (France)
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hello@ohnorandom:~# wget http://speedtest.frankfurt.linode.com/100MB-frankfurt.bin 100%[===========================================================>] 100.00M 6.28MB/s in 18s 2015-12-07 06:26:14 (5.58 MB/s) - ‘100MB-frankfurt.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600] |
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hello@ohnorandom:~# wget http://speedtest.newark.linode.com/100MB-newark.bin 100%[===========================================================>] 100.00M 13.4MB/s in 8.1s 2015-12-07 06:26:37 (12.4 MB/s) - ‘100MB-newark.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600] |
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hello@ohnorandom:~# wget http://speedtest.singapore.linode.com/100MB-singapore.bin 100%[===========================================================>] 100.00M 8.32MB/s in 14s 2015-12-07 06:27:01 (6.97 MB/s) - ‘100MB-singapore.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600] |
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hello@ohnorandom:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test 100%[===========================================================>] 100.00M 41.6MB/s in 2.4s 2015-12-07 06:27:29 (41.6 MB/s) - ‘100mb.test’ saved [104857600/104857600] |
From the above tests, the network speed may be a bit lacking, but hardware wise, I’ll definitely use Aruba for my next project.