Update (April 25, 2011): Added two slideshares at the end of the blog post to show the initial notice that I received and the followup almost supportless support ticket
Well it may be shocking for some but its true. NordicVPS.com is down the drain for most. I believe it all started when they introduced BuyVMish (as Francisco calls it) $15/year package in Oct, 2010 (apparently many did and no one can kick it off as smooth as BuyVM did).
Update (Apr 22, 2011): Please read my post NordicVPS is down the drain? to learn more about this host before ordering with them.
EXPIREDRUS.COM is a lame name that I will be using for my Expired Domain Harvesting Experiment that I have been doing in the last many weeks. The records I have collected are totally around 5.5million using lighttpd, PHP5 and MySQL (without innodb) on a 128MB XEN PV box with just 5GB of space.
Wow, it will serve me two major purposes
I am doing all this on a low-budget but extremely powerful XEN VPS from multiple providers including QuickWeb and NordicVPS.
Note: Although, right now the domain name points no-where but I will soon point it to the vps where I am willing to host a public-portal about this.
Update (Apr 22, 2011): Please read my post NordicVPS is down the drain? to learn more about this host before ordering with them.
Unix Benchmark results from Nordic VPS in Hetzner, Germany using unixbench v 5.1.2
Specs: 256MB / 10GB XEN PV
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Version 5.1.2 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
December 22, 2007 johantheghost at yahoo period com
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 Execl Throughput 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3
1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3
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 System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3
1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3
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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)
System: fra.li-node.com: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.32-305-ec2 -- #9-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 15 04:14:01 UTC 2010
Machine: i686 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (5351.4 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
21:20:07 up 17:00, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.23, 0.19; runlevel 2
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Benchmark Run: Fri Jul 23 2010 21:20:07 - 21:48:49
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 14219975.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2531.0 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 1814.0 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 402343.6 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 121184.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1203280.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 713357.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 84853.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 3918.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2756.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 361.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 629430.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 14219975.8 1218.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2531.0 460.2
Execl Throughput 43.0 1814.0 421.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 402343.6 1016.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 121184.7 732.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1203280.3 2074.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 713357.0 573.4
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 84853.7 212.1
Process Creation 126.0 3918.4 311.0
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2756.7 650.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 361.2 602.0
System Call Overhead 15000.0 629430.4 419.6
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System Benchmarks Index Score 602.1
root@fra:~/unixbench-5.1.2#