Good VPS provider just got better. FrontRangeHosting recommended.

Unlike others, I don't always recommend VPSs to people unless they are really good products. Today I would like to recommend a few products to you from FrontRangeHosting

Front Range Hosting founded in 2011 is a leading provider of web hosting services. They offer Cloud VPS Powered by OnApp, OpenVZ VPS, Cloud Shared Hosting, Anycast DNS Hosting, Content Delivery Network, Domains, and SSL Certificates.

Whois information:

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Domain Name FRONTRANGEHOSTING.COM
Registrar DYNAMIC NETWORK SERVICES, INC
Whois Server whois.dyndns.com
Referral URL http://www.dyn.com
Name Server NS1.FRONTRANGEHOSTING.COM
Name Server NS2.FRONTRANGEHOSTING.COM
Status clientDeleteProhibited
Status clientTransferProhibited
Status clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date 19-jun-2013
Creation Date 03-jul-2011
Expiration Date 03-jul-2014

FRH's frontend is using Hostbill which has less problem compared to WHMCS. Backend is Solusvm. They provide excellent 7x24 fast customer service. When I say their responses are fast, they are FAST. Their customer service is just as good as DigitalOcean and Linode.

Before 26/10/2013 Their KVM product is based in Denver data centre. After 26/10/2013, they are merged to Total Server Solutions. All nodes are in LA. Customers get a free upgrade on hardware. HDD is upgraded to SSD. The brand will be merged under WIRESIX brand.

Their LA node SSD performace test:

[email protected]:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512k count=4k oflag=dsync
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 26.1553 s, 82.1 MB/s
[email protected]:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.20346 s, 335 MB/s
[email protected]:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/vda: 47.2 GB, 47244640256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5743 cylinders, total 92274688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004a1b3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/vda1 * 2048 89126527 44562240 83 Linux
/dev/vda2 89126528 92272255 1572864 82 Linux swap / Solaris
[email protected]:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/vda1

/dev/vda1:
Timing cached reads: 11494 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5750.99 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1074 MB in 3.03 seconds = 354.63 MB/sec
[email protected]:~#

CPU model :  QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency :  2266.746 MHz
Total amount of ram : 742 MB
Total amount of swap : 1535 MB
System uptime :   30 min,       
Download speed from CacheFly: 77.9MB/s 
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 23.4MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 28.6MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 10.3MB/s 
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 3.22MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 4.35MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.65MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 34.8MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 66.2MB/s 
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 15.4MB/s 
I/O speed :  364 MB/s