Bass Host Unmanaged VPS Hosting Review

Website: http://basshost.com

Whois

Spec and Features

System Information

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

Location: DE – 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

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

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

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

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

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

2 x Process Creation  1 2 3

2 x Execl Throughput  1 2 3

2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)  1 2 3

2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1 2 3

2 x Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)  1 2 3

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   BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

   System: server.xxx.xxx: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-274.xxx -- #1 SMP Mon Oct 24 20:49:2
4 MSD 2011
   Machine: i686 (i386)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
   CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (5665.5 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT,
SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   CPU 1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (5664.5 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT,
SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
   05:36:41 up 49 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.42, 0.23, 0.09; runlevel 3

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Benchmark Run: Fri Feb 03 2012 05:36:41 - 06:02:28
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       11861780.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     2604.8 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               4111.3 lps   (29.8 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              823349.9 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 263677.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              12901.8 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   3335.7 lpm   (60.3 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                   276.8 lpm   (60.2 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    525.9 lpm   (60.3 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         726400.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Partial Index              BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   11861780.8   1016.4
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       2604.8    473.6
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       4111.3    956.1
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     823349.9    661.9
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     263677.5    659.2
Process Creation                                126.0      12901.8   1024.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       3335.7    786.7
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                     ---        276.8      ---
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        525.9    876.5
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     726400.8    484.3
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System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only)                          742.6

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Benchmark Run: Fri Feb 03 2012 06:02:28 - 06:29:20
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       11921027.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     5183.8 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               4289.9 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              823052.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                 281592.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              13055.4 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   4285.4 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                   299.4 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    573.8 lpm   (60.3 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         727678.4 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Partial Index              BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   11921027.5   1021.5
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       5183.8    942.5
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       4289.9    997.6
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     823052.4    661.6
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     281592.4    704.0
Process Creation                                126.0      13055.4   1036.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       4285.4   1010.7
Shell Scripts (16 concurrent)                     ---        299.4      ---
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        573.8    956.4
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     727678.4    485.1
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System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only)                          844.0

Summary
Let’s review this unmanaged vps hosting provide, Bass Host, if you take a look at the logo on their page, it is a bass (large mouth) fish showed within their logo. I don’t know maybe the founder of basshost’s hobby is fishing bass fish or something like that, but certainly it has nothing to do with the web hosting thing, lol. Allright, look at the whois picture of Bass Host, they are using server(s) from FDC Servers, i heard so much bad review about it but that’s just another people’s review, don’t trust. Okay next, for five bucks you got 384MB memory, 25GB storage, and 250GB data transfer @ i don’t have any idea how much port speed they are using, because sometimes they are fast and some other time they are slow, but i got a good speed when i tested from two of my servers located in United States and Deutschland. For the disk I/O test we cannot rely on this unmanaged (or we could probably say budget) vps, 50MB/s on average and around 800 for benchmark score (two Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz). I guess that is for my personal review, five bucks is still worthed for this VPS, 8 points from 10 points for this provider.