The first step is to see exactly how your VPS plan performs with a benchmarking soft for this example i will provide results from all of our available VPS hosting plans with the simply installable piece of software named unixbench :1.Install the necessary software:
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
cd /tmp
wget http://members.dslextreme.com/users/andylee/unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz
tar -xvf unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz
cd unixbench-4.1.0-2/
./Run
The first test is with CentOS 86x64 on a VPS Start Package :
( http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-start )BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 3440091.6 91.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1795.7 216.1
Execl Throughput 188.3 1821.9 96.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 101439.0 379.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 24619.0 228.6
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 567573.0 369.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 228963.3 148.2
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 925280.4 82.8
Process Creation 569.3 5419.2 95.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 306.9 68.5
System Call Overhead 114433.5 1788187.0 156.3
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FINAL SCORE 148.3The second test is with a CentOS x86x64 on a VPS Advanced:
( http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-advance )BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 3441333.0 91.3
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1799.9 216.6
Execl Throughput 188.3 1842.7 97.9
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 82393.0 308.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 26775.0 248.6
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 554820.0 360.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 224619.6 175.4
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 872610.4 78.0
Process Creation 569.3 5289.9 92.9
System Call Overhead 114433.5 1765061.2 168.2
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FINAL SCORE 173.3The third test is with CentOS x86_64 on a VPS Power Package:
(http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-power)BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 4841953.1 128.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1780.7 214.3
Execl Throughput 188.3 2550.9 135.5
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 125909.0 471.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 37047.0 344.0
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 710729.0 462.1
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 310352.9 200.9
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 1195860.3 107.0
Process Creation 569.3 7385.1 129.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 416.4 92.9
System Call Overhead 114433.5 2450915.6 214.2
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FINAL SCORE 195.0The fourth test is with CentOS x86_64 on a VPS Custom Package
(http://www.hostcolor.com/vps/vps-custom)BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 3372645.8 89.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1795.6 236.1
Execl Throughput 188.3 1846.0 98.0
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 89918.0 336.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 34746.0 352.6
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 540610.0 351.5
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 215953.3 139.8
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 974468.9 117.2
Process Creation 569.3 5238.0 92.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 309.8 69.2
System Call Overhead 114433.5 1809341.0 158.1
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FINAL SCORE 220.3If you VPS server gives off above 90 score that means good and very good since it means the percentage of performance good . You can use this scoring system, to see exactly what is the difference between some tune up's you do on your system and if they really are useful !
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