Following the change of IP and upgrade to KVM, my lovely VPS 9 Phoenix was not the same VPS any longer. It was still reasonably OK, but not like it used to be. Took me hours and hours to finally get an OS that would work seamlessly with the VPS, an older version of CentOS 6.5. For the more up to date (not that up to date any longer) CentOS 7.0, SELinux has to be disabled and for me that was a step in the wrong direction.
Anyway, about a few weeks ago when I had to do some testing on a spare VPS 9 Dallas, I found a total difference in performance, even better than my VPS 9 Phoenix before the upgrade. Like light and day almost. I then managed to swop VPS 9 Phoenix for Dallas, and it’s almost as though I’ve got my old VPS 9 back again. In retrospect I had a wonderful experience with VPS 9 Phoenix on SolusVM 6 from April 2018 to October 2019. The KVM Lite experience between November 2019 and March 2020 was not bad, but performance of the VPS not nearly as brilliant as it had been before. Looks like I’m finally getting back on the happy track with VPS 9 Dallas in April 2020.
A history of my struggles with VPS 9 Phoenix after the upgrade to KVM, has been recorded in a few posts at post4vps.com. It ended finally in comparing Benchmark tests of the two VPSs and the test results speak for themselves:
VPS 9 Phoenix
System Info
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores : 2
Frequency : 2399.996 MHz
Memory : 7870 MB
Swap : buffers/cache: MB
Uptime : 86 days, 11:25,
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is 50.2.xx.xx
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 66.1MB/s
Lenoir, NC, US Dacentec 28.5MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 43.1MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 34.7MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 52.8MB/s
Washington, DC, US Leaseweb 30.1MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 15.7MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 7.65MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 7.25MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 14.7MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 10.5MB/s
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 129 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 108 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 87.6 MB/s
Average I/O : 108 MB/s or .10 GB/s
Speed Test by Ookla
VPS 9 Dallas
System Info
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
CPU Cores : 2
Frequency : 2499.998 MHz
Memory : 7870 MB
Swap : buffers/cache: MB
Uptime : 2:48,
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is 23.94.xx.xx
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 81.3MB/s
Lenoir, NC, US Dacentec 53.6MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 57.4MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 30.2MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 33.9MB/s
Washington, DC, US Leaseweb 25.4MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 10.2MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 6.91MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 6.20MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 27.2MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 80.6MB/s
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 522 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 473 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 612 MB/s
Average I/O : 535 MB/s or .53 GB/s
Speed Test by Ookla