BudgetVM is a very attractive priced, virtual private server provider who runs their own network in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Miami, Florida plus in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
This is very impressive.
I signed up for their 512mb OpenVZ plan about 3 weeks ago and this is my review of BudgetVM. BudgetVM is owned by Enzu, Inc. who sells Xen powered cloud servers and Xen VPS servers with RapidXen.
BudgetVM’s pricing is very, very attractive.
Their 512mb OpenVZ is $3.99 per month and you receive 1024mb of burst RAM, 40gb of disk space, 2 Intel Xeon E5-2620 CPUs and 2TB of bandwidth with IP addresses with your choice of Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Miami.
I chose Chicago, since it’s a great central US location and honestly there’s no difference between Chicago and Dallas. I think Dallas has modern infrastructure since the Dallas heavily investing in infrasture in the early 2000s which has paid off with companies like Samsung investing in manufacturing in the area.
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512MB VPS
- 512mb RAM
- 1024mb burstable RAM
- 2 E5-2620 CPUs
- 2TB of bandwidth
- 2 IPv4 addresses, 16 IPv6 addresses
- Chicago, Illinois data center
$3.99 per month
As stated, BudgetVM through their parent company Enzu, Inc. runs their own network.
So far, the VPS has had perfect uptime since I ordered it:
# uptime 00:03:44 up 20 days, 12:34, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.01
BudgetVM Hardware:
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 45 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2000.144 cache size : 15360 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 0 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 4000.28 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 45 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2000.144 cache size : 15360 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 1 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 2 initial apicid : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 4000.28 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
BudgetVM UnixBench:
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)
System: cdn: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-042stab059.7 -- #1 SMP Tue Jul 24 19:12:01 MSK 2012
Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz (4000.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz (4000.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
00:13:53 up 20 days, 12:44, 1 user, load average: 0.62, 0.31, 0.12; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Wed Apr 17 2013 00:13:53 - 00:41:54
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 20049128.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2457.3 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 1651.7 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 227463.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 77942.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 375964.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 805522.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 92747.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 4060.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2168.5 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 669.6 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1132615.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 20049128.5 1718.0
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2457.3 446.8
Execl Throughput 43.0 1651.7 384.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 227463.0 574.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 77942.2 470.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 375964.7 648.2
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 805522.0 647.5
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 92747.8 231.9
Process Creation 126.0 4060.4 322.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2168.5 511.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 669.6 1116.0
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1132615.0 755.1
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System Benchmarks Index Score 565.9
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Benchmark Run: Wed Apr 17 2013 00:41:54 - 01:09:57
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 39305611.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 4883.3 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 3141.8 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 179678.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 80286.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 673088.6 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1521830.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 162735.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 6640.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2851.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 514.1 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 1664153.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 39305611.4 3368.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 4883.3 887.9
Execl Throughput 43.0 3141.8 730.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 179678.3 453.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 80286.1 485.1
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 673088.6 1160.5
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1521830.4 1223.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 162735.2 406.8
Process Creation 126.0 6640.4 527.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2851.2 672.4
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 514.1 856.9
System Call Overhead 15000.0 1664153.7 1109.4
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System Benchmarks Index Score 820.9
Conclusion:
I think for the price and the uptime that BudgetVM is a great deal.
The $3.99/mo price I am paying, which I can pay $1 more per month and get 1024MB RAM, is absolutely amazing for pricing compared to a lot of hosting provders. For $19.99 per month, you can get 4096MB RAM and over 6TB of transfer at any of their US locations.
Comments
I have used BudgetVM. Their service is as cheap as their pricing. I started with their OpenVZ VPS. One day they suspended my VPS all of a sudden - saying it has exceeded the 2% CPU limit. "2%!!!". I thought they were kidding - because some shared hosting provider even allow the customers 10% of the CPU usage and BudgetVM gives only 2% to it VPS customer!! Later I switched to XEN VPS - because their support said it will have some dedicated CPU. Only after a week they suspended my account - saying one of my domains were sending spam.
Well it is acceptable to some extent - but how on earth I can modify/delete those accounts with my VPS suspended. I sent support tickets to them - and they didn't bother to reply in 24 hours... I had around 20 sites hosted on that VPS and all were down for more than 24 hours. After around 26/27 hours they unsuspended my VPS. I requested them to notify me before suspending again. The same happened again. After 1 hard month - I switched to BurstNet. They are far better than budgetvm. STAY AWAY FROM BudgetVM.
@Thinkbroad They do have strict policy for OpenVZ.