On: Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers

[kevinchen]

Sequential write on my $5/month DigitalOcean instance in NYC2 region:

    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000
    1000+0 records in
    1000+0 records out
    1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.84267 s, 273 MB/s

It used to be about 80 MB/s last year, so it's gotten a lot better since.

[hackerboos → kevinchen]

Atlantic.Net 256mb VPS

    root@hackerboosblog:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000
    1000+0 records in
    1000+0 records out
    1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.11193 s, 337 MB/s

[SwellJoe → hackerboos]

And, for comparison, the latest server I installed in our colo on the host system (with Corsair M500 SSDs):

    [root@srv3 joe]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M  count=1000
    1000+0 records in
    1000+0 records out
    1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.310283 s, 3.4 GB/s

And, from within a VM on the same machine (running KVM with an LVM volume):

    [root@joe2 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000
    1000+0 records in
    1000+0 records out
    1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.967834 s, 1.1 GB/s

So, Atlantic.net isn't too bad, I guess. My newest system isn't very heavily loaded yet; only has three VMs and a couple dozen websites on it.