Hey DP'ers, I've decided to write a review about 5ite.com, i've been using them since the past 1 and half months now and they have been undoubtly the best managed vps provider i have used in a while. I had a chat with one of there support staff(Can't remember name), they were very nice and guided me through the process of setting the VPS to my requirements such as installing LAMP and other things i needed. Both the vps's were setup instantly after i had paid and my request of custom setup(long list of things like LAMP,phpMyAdmin etc.) was done within 24hours. I currently have 2 vps's there, one is for my personal/production sites which i purchased recently which is the "Storm" package with cPanel/WHM after i loved there "Entry" package, which i used to test there support and server quality. Another reason why i love them is that they allow IRC & Adult content to be hosted, which is everything i need for my sites to be up. I havn't seen much hosts which allow both and i respect them for it. I now use the first vps i bought(Entry) for development and testing purposes. I have ran a Unix benchmark for DP'ers to see the quality of the vps. INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 20397577.5 541.4 Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 1375.8 165.6 Execl Throughput 188.3 14207.7 754.5 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 333184.0 1246.9 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 94119.0 873.9 File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 2422263.0 1574.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 893402.5 578.3 Pipe Throughput 111814.6 2680391.3 239.7 Process Creation 569.3 41378.0 726.8 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 2740.5 611.7 System Call Overhead 114433.5 2436206.2 212.9 ========= FINAL SCORE 554.5 Code (markup): top -c top - 10:40:05 up 48 days, 5:30, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.18, 0.25 Tasks: 19 total, 1 running, 18 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2097152k total, 25116k used, 2072036k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached Code (markup): From my knowledge and abit of research, 554.5 is a very good score for a VPS. If you dp'ers have any other commands that will show how good the VPS is feel free to post it and i will run the commands and post results as well. 5ite.com is the name!
Hi, I have also hosted with 5ite.com, however my experience was very different. They have a lot of downtime, don't meet their 99% uptime guarantee and refuse to give money back! You can read more here on my review: http://www.carlwalker.me/websites/5ite-com-shared-web-hosting-review