VPS (virtual server hosting)
There are several VPS hosting with a large kinds of offers. Prices range from few $/mo to lots $/mo.
Some cheapest VPS hosting I found.
However things don’t always go the way we think them to : spend lots of money not always means get a good VPS. On internet there are several users reviews and benchmark results. As often happens there are a lot of people reporting negative experiences just because likely who writes (specially on forum) is generally who is unsatisfied. Fortunately the most VPS hosting let you to try the service (or to buy just one month).
VPS benchmark
DownloadEven if we can’t easily “evaluate” some aspects of the VPS during the trial period (such as the efficiency of customer support, uptime, policy on the new commercial offers…) we can test some other aspects.
Here the script I wrote in order to measure (W! is an early version):
Network Upload speed from VPS to some Geographical sites :
(Austria, Vienna)(Croatia, Zagreb)(Germany, Frankfurt)(Latvia, Riga)
(Lithuania, Vilnius)(Netherlands, Amsterdam)(Sweden, Gothenburg)
(Sweden, Stockholm)(USA, New York)(USA, Walnut)
CPU Test openSSL speeds (openssl signatures speed)….
Disk seek rate test (ioping)…
Disk direct (not cached) disk reads (hdparm)….
We can run the script directly from VPS shell getting remotely the script using wget:
wget https://busylog.net/FILES2DW/busytest.sh -O - -o /dev/null | bash
Output example
VPS benchmark script
Below early version V 0.1 (2016) for updated version : Download
Topics
A way to do multiple statements per bash test && and || statement is to use { }Use of mktemp, in order to create a temporary file, with a custom template filename XXXXXXXX.tmp
GEOLOCATION using http://freegeoip.net/
ftp interaction in a shell-script using Here-Documents (block delimited by <<END_SCRIPT)
Determine the system’s root disk
Enable trap control
#!/bin/sh ### __ # ###|__) _ | _ _ _ _|_# ###|__)|_|_)\/|(_)(_). | )(-|_# ### / _/ # ### busytest ### V 0.1 (2016) ### https://busylog.net # ################################ # Debug #set -x # Debug #set -v #[TODO]> #[TODO]> Complete the list of ftp servers ... #[TODO]> ... the most important thing is to to know bandwidth of those servers #[TODO]> #Define connection params # Server Name FARM_FTP=('demo.wftpserver.com' #'test.talia.net' #'ftp.uconn.edu' 'speedtest.tele2.net' 'wen1-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'zgb-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'fra36-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'bks-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'vln038-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'ams-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'bck-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'kst5-speedtest-1.tele2.net' 'nyc9-speedtest-1.tele2.net' ) # Server Comment FARM_FTP_NOTE=('http://www.wftpserver.com/it/onlinedemo.htm' #'http://test.talia.net/' #'http://dlptest.com/ftp-test/ (not sure if can be used for purpose tests)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Austria, Vienna)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Croatia, Zagreb)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Germany, Frankfurt)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Latvia, Riga)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Lithuania, Vilnius)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Netherlands, Amsterdam)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Sweden, Gothenburg)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (Sweden, Stockholm)' 'http://speedtest.tele2.net/ (USA, New York)' ) # Login UserName FTP_USER=('demo-user' #'anonymous' #'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' 'anonymous' ) # Login Password FTP_PASS=('demo-user' #'anonymous@for.test' #'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' 'anonymous@for.test' ) # Folder for Upload FTP_FOLD=('upload' #'incoming' #'48_hour' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' 'upload' ) FILE_LOG="ftp_busy.log" # ######################### #DEFINE FNCs ######################### # # Check what we have installed #-=- #[NOTE]> A way to do multiple statements per bash test && and || statement is to use { } is below... # At beginning I thought to use ( ) subshell but I could not find a (easy) way to do it. # However here I don't actually need it after && and || I can use more commands using { } check_what_we_can_do(){ echo "Check what we have installed here..."; type -p "openssl" >/dev/null && { ISopenssl=1; echo "openssl......installed (YES)"; }||{ echo "openssl......not installed (NO)"; } type -p "wget" >/dev/null && { ISwget=1; echo "wget.........installed (YES)"; }||{ echo "wget.........not installed (NO)"; } type -p "ftp" >/dev/null && { ISftp=1; echo "ftp..........installed (YES)"; }||{ echo "ftp..........not installed (NO)"; } type -p "ioping" >/dev/null && { ISioping=1; echo "ioping.......installed (YES)"; }||{ echo "ioping.......not installed (NO)"; } type -p "hdparm" >/dev/null && { IShdparm=1; echo "hdparm.......installed (YES)"; }||{ echo "hdparm.......not installed (NO)"; } } # Generate a random temporary file using dd command (filling the file with random contents). #-=- #[NOTE]> Use of mktemp, in order to create a temporary file, with a custom template filename XXXXXXXX.tmp generate_bin() { file_name=$(mktemp -p . -t XXXXXXXX.tmp); if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "$0: create file error..." exit 1 fi echo "Generate temporary file $file_name with size $((1024*$1))KB ... please wait a wile" dd if=/dev/urandom of=$file_name bs=1024K count=$1 2>&1 | grep copied if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "$0: error while file was filling..." exit 1 fi echo "Created" } # Delete random temporary file #-=- destroy_bin() { echo "Remove temporary file $file_name" if [[ -z $file_name ]]; then echo "no temp file defined." else rm $file_name if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "$0: error in file deletion..." fi fi } # GEOLOCATION using http://ipinfo.io VERSION #-=- #[TODO]> is a incomplete implementation (don't use) ipinfo_geolocation (){ #[TODO]> improve output echo "! NEEDS IMPROVEMENT" nslookup $1 | awk '/^Address: / { print $2 ; exit }' | wget -qO - http://ipinfo.io/$(cat -) | grep "city\|region\|country\|org" | sed 's/[\" \t,]//g' tr "," " " } # GEOLOCATION using http://freegeoip.net/ VERSION #-=- freegeoip_geolocation (){ wget -qO - http://freegeoip.net/csv/$1 | sed 's/,,/,unknow,/g;s/,,/,unknow,/g;'| awk -F "," '{print $6", "$5" ("$3")"}' } # Latency : repeat ping 5 times in order to get the avg. latency #-=- ftp_latency(){ ping -c 5 $1 | grep 'min/avg/max/' | cut -d"/" -f 5 } # Human readable ftp speed ouput #-=- #[TODO]> is a incomplete implementation (works only on Kb and returns only M and not Mi) ftp_speed_hr (){ awk '{IGNORECASE=1;if ($0 ~ /Kb/){ printf("%4.1f Mbps/s - %4.1f MB/s \n",$1*8/1000,$1/1000)} else {print "?"} }' <<<$1 } # Connect to & upload the tmp file (100MB) #-=- #[TODO]>: improve error handling and reporting #-=- #[NOTE]> ftp interaction in a shell-script using Here-Documents (block delimited by <<END_SCRIPT) #[NOTE]> In "grep" the option -q suppresses the output result to standard output (stdout). # grep exits immediately with zero status if any match is found, even if an error was detected. # This is useful just to check the presence of substring in the output... and with || and && tests. test_speed (){ # ftp interaction in a shell-script OUT=$(ftp -v -n <<END_SCRIPT open $1 quote USER $2 quote PASS $3 cd $4 binary put $5 quit END_SCRIPT ) #grep -q avoid to printout the content of "$OUT" and grep exits zero status if any match is found, even if an error was detected. grep -q "^226" <<<"$OUT" || echo "Transfer seems to be in error! (answer '226 Transfer complete' not found)" #extract speed echo "$OUT" | grep 'bytes sent in'| sed -e 's/.*(\(.*\))/\1/g' } # Trap control+c #-=- #trap ctrl-c and is handled by fnc control_c() #[NOTE]> Enable job control control_c() { echo "....STOP" echo "----------EXIT----------" destroy_bin exit } trap control_c SIGINT SIGTERM # Determine the system's root disk #-=- get_root_device(){ df | grep "/$" | cut -d " " -f 1 } # ##################### # START CODE ##################### # echo " __ " echo "|__) _ | _ _ _ _|_ " echo "|__)|_|_)\/|(_)(_). | )(-|_ " echo " / _/ " echo "https://busylog.net " echo "-----------------------------" echo "busyupload.sh V0.1" echo "\|/" echo "This is a early version with learning purpose... check the TODO" echo "Some logs here: $FILE_LOG" echo "-----------------------------" #DEBUG #test_speed "zgb-speedtest-1.tele2.net" "anonymous" "test@test.tst" "upload" "test" #ftp_speed_hr "11257.46 Kbytes/sec" #freegeoip_geolocation #echo $OPENSSL; #exit 1; echo "-----------$(date)-----------" >>$FILE_LOG check_what_we_can_do echo "-----------------------------" echo "Network upload test...." if [[ -z $ISftp || -z $ISwget ]]; then echo "not performed tests.... test needs ftp and wget installed" else #Generate 100MB tmp file do uplpad generate_bin 100 echo "-----------------------------" echo "This server is located in :"$(freegeoip_geolocation) #Upload tmp file for each FTP server count=0; for ftp_host in ${FARM_FTP[@]}; do echo "-----------------------------" ftp_user=${FTP_USER[count]} ftp_pass=${FTP_PASS[count]} ftp_fold=${FTP_FOLD[count]} ftp_note=${FARM_FTP_NOTE[count]} #DEBUG #echo "Target : HOST=$ftp_host / USER=$ftp_user / PASS=$ftp_pass / FOLDER=$ftp_fold / FILE=$file_name /MOTE=$ftp_note ..." echo "Upload $ftp_host -[ $ftp_note ]- located in: $(freegeoip_geolocation $ftp_host)" echo "Latency : "$(ftp_latency "$ftp_host") speed=$(test_speed $ftp_host $ftp_user $ftp_pass $ftp_fold $file_name) speedhr=$(ftp_speed_hr "$speed") echo "Upload speed : $speed ($speedhr)" count=$(( $count + 1 )) done destroy_bin fi echo "-----------------------------" echo "Test openSSL speeds (openssl signatures speed)...." if [[ -z $ISopenssl ]]; then echo "not performed tests.... test needs openssl installed" else openssl speed rsa fi echo "-----------------------------" echo "Disk seek rate test (ioping)...." if [[ -z $ISioping ]]; then echo "not performed tests.... test needs ioping and wget installed" else ioping -R . fi echo "-----------------------------" echo "Direct (not cached) disk reads (hdparm)...." if [[ -z $IShdparm ]]; then echo "not performed tests.... test needs hdparm installed" else disk2test=$(get_root_device) echo "Test disk $disk2test" hdparm -t --direct $disk2test fi exit 0
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