123Systems Linux VPS Review

Website: http://123systems.net

Whois

Datacenter Whois

Spec and Features

System Information

Download and Upload From International Location
Location: US – Port Speed: 1Gbit – Method: WGET & cURL

Disk I/O Test

Benchmark Test (I/O test disabled)

1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x System Call Overhead  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Pipe Throughput  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Process Creation  1 2 3

1 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)  1 2 3

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   BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

   System: server.rapidsharepremiumaccounts.org: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab081.1 -- #1 SMP Thu Dec 23 20:17:
23 MSK 2010
   Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
   CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz (4000.1 bogomips)
          x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   09:30:41 up 34 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.19, 0.12, 0.25; runlevel 3

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Benchmark Run: Tue Apr 12 2011 09:30:41 - 09:55:13
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       10931792.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     2188.2 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               2180.1 lps   (29.6 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              780939.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 212174.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               6108.9 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   2445.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                   162.0 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    335.9 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         703926.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Partial Index              BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   10931792.2    936.7
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2188.2    397.9
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       2180.1    507.0
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     780939.9    627.8
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     212174.5    530.4
Process Creation                                126.0       6108.9    484.8
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       2445.0    576.7
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                     ---        162.0      ---
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        335.9    559.9
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     703926.5    469.3
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System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only)                          550.2

Summary
123Systems, one of (probably) budget vps provider in the web hosting world. I was trying to use this vps as a repo mirror for my NginX Auto Installer, but then decide not to use it because of their network and disk I/O is very far from my expectation. It is hard for me to even do yum update, network was very slow, i got almost under 1MB/sec for downloading files to the box. And about I/O, take a look at the result, 12MB/sec – 18MB/sec – 23MB/sec, that makes data reading and / or transferring became so slow, not even good for development. But there’s still one good thing about them, their support response’s good, always respond to my queries in under half an hour, that’s a plus point. So 7 points from 10 points will be given to 123Systems from my personal rating.