Performance Test/Benchmark – 29 Jan 2014 – XVPS1

We like to keep our existing or future clients informed about the performance of our infrastructure and services. We believe transparency and honesty is key for a good business relationship. At the beginning of this year we have launched the new line of VPS servers, built on a brand new infrastructure.

Please keep in mind we have a NO OVERSELLING policy for our virtual private servers. That means all resources (HDD, CPU, bandwidth) are 100% guaranteed!

For the advanced users interested in detailed specs of our virtual private servers we ran a performance test or benchmark how others call it on each of the VPS packages we offer.

Here is a print screen of the results for the XVPS-1 package.

SYSTEM SPECS FOR XVPS-1
RAM: 1 GB
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v2
CPU Cores: 1
CPU Speed: 3.50 GHz
Location: Germany – Europe

SYSTEM SCORE: 1518.3

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The all new 2014 Extraterrestrial Shared Hosting plans are here!

The all new 2014 extraterrestrial Shared Hosting plans are here! With a brand new, more powerful, infrastructure we are now able to offer more resources (disk space and bandwidth) at better prices. We have increased the allocated disk space and monthly bandwidth for all packages and lowered the prices.

The new Shared Hosting packages are:

XSH-1 – 2euro / month
Disk space: 5 GB
Traffic: 100 GB / mo.
MySQL Databases: 1
Email Accounts: 20
FTP Accounts: 1
Subdomains: 20
Free domain for yearly purchase!

XSH-2 – 5euro / month
Disk space: 25 GB
Traffic: 500 GB / mo.
MySQL Databases: 10
Email Accounts: 100
FTP Accounts: 1
Subdomains: 100
Free domain for yearly purchase!

XSH-2 – 10euro / month
Disk space: 50 GB
Traffic: UNMETERED
MySQL Databases: UNLIMITED
Email Accounts: UNLIMITED
FTP Accounts: 1
Subdomains: UNLIMITED
Free domain for yearly purchase!

See the new shared Hosting packages here !

You can compare the new packages with the old 2013 packages.

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The all new 2014 extraterrestrial VPS plans are here!

The all new 2014 extraterrestrial VPS plans are here! With a brand new, more powerful, infrastructure we are now able to offer more resources (CPU, disk space, RAM and bandwidth) at better prices. We gave up the 512MB package and lowered the prices on all packages with up to 33.3%.

Please keep in mind we have a NO OVERSELLING policy for our virtual private servers. That means all resources (HDD, CPU, bandwidth) are 100% guaranteed!

The new VPS packages are as follows:

XVPS-1 – 8euro / month
Memory: 1 GB
Disk space: 50 GB
Traffic: 600 GB / mo.
No. of cores: 1
No. of IPs: 1
Location: Germany – Europe
Platform: OpenVZ

XVPS-2 – 15euro / month
Memory: 2 GB
Disk space: 125 GB
Traffic: 1200 GB / mo.
No. of cores: 2
No. of IPs: 1
Location: Germany – Europe
Platform: OpenVZ

XVPS-3 – 25euro / month
Memory: 4 GB
Disk space: 250 GB
Traffic: 2400 GB / mo.
No. of cores: 4
No. of IPs: 1
Location: Germany – Europe
Platform: OpenVZ

See the new VPS packages here !

You can compare the new packages with the old 2013 packages.

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Partner Datacenter 3 – Romania (Europe)

Here’s a little information about one of our partner datacenters located in Romania (Europe).

CONNECTION
– 4 Gbit/s Telia Sonera
– 10 Gbit/s Romtelecom (OTE)
– 10 Gbit/s Mediasat
– 10 Gbit/s Gbps AdnetTelecom
– 10 Gbit/s Gbps Prime Telecom

POWER
– 2 x 1MW power lines from national provider
– Redundant UPS facilities
– Standby power system
– Diesel power generator for autonomous mode

CLIMATE CONTROL
– Energy efficient cooling
– N+1 redundancy
– Cold aisle containment
– Monitoring of air temperature

LOCATION
– 140 sq m floor space – expandable
– Cold aisle containment
– 24/7 access and on-site service

SECURITY
– Electronic access control system
– Security service on duty
– Surveilance cameras and video recording

FIRE PROTECTION
– Early warning fire system
– Smoke detector
– Water detector

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How to install and run UnixBench on CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu?

This tutorial explains how to install and run UnixBench on a CentOS Linux or Debian Linux / Ubuntu Linux dedicated server or VPS.

The purpose of UnixBench is to provide a basic indicator of the performance of a Unix-like system; hence, multiple tests are used to test various aspects of the system’s performance. These test results are then compared to the scores from a baseline system to produce an index value, which is generally easier to handle than the raw scores. The entire set of index values is then combined to make an overall index for the system.

Some very simple graphics tests are included to measure the 2D and 3D graphics performance of the system.

Multi-CPU systems are handled. If your system has multiple CPUs, the default behaviour is to run the selected tests twice — once with one copy of each test program running at a time, and once with N copies, where N is the number of CPUs. This is designed to allow you to assess:
– the performance of your system when running a single task
– the performance of your system when running multiple tasks
– the gain from your system’s implementation of parallel processing

Do be aware that this is a system benchmark, not a CPU, RAM or disk benchmark. The results will depend not only on your hardware, but on your operating system, libraries, and even compiler.

How to install UnixBench 5.1.3 on a CentOS machine

# yum install gcc gcc-c++ make libXext-devel
# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
# yum install libX11-devel mesa-libGL-devel perl-Time-HiRes
# wget -c http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.3.tgz
# tar xvzf unixbench-5.1.3.tgz
# cd unixbench-5.1.3
# make
# ./Run

How to install UnixBench 5.1.3 on a Debian / Ubuntu machine

# apt-get install libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev perl perl-modules make
# wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.3.tgz
# tar xvf unixbench-5.1.3.tgz
# cd unixbench-5.1.3
# ./Run

Partner Datacneter 2 – France (Europe)

Here’s a little information about one of our partner datacenters located in France (Europe).

CONNECTION
– 2 Tbps total bandwidth
– 33 peering points on 3 different continents

POWER
– Double electrical supply as standard
– 250KVA UPS
– Generators with 48 hours autonomy
– 2 power connections to the datacenter

CLIMATE CONTROL
– Free from air conditioning
– Water cooling dispersing 70% of heat emitted by the processors
– Air cooling evacuates the remaining 30%

LOCATION
– Cold aisle containment
– 24/7 access and on-site service

SECURITY
– Biometric access and via ID card
– Security service on duty
– Surveilance cameras

FIRE PROTECTION
– Modern early warning fire system
– Smoke detection system
– Water detection system

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Partner Datacenter 1 – Germany (Europe)

Here’s a little information about one of our partner datacenters located in Germany (Europe).

CONNECTION
– 200 Gbit/s DE-CIX
– 60 Gbit/s Level3
– 60 Gbit/s Init7
– 40 Gbit/s Deutsche Telekom
– 30 Gbit/s Noris Network
– 20 Gbit/s KPN
– 20 Gbit/s Cogent
– 10 Gbit/s Global Crossing
– 10 Gbit/s N-IX
– 10 Gbit/s ECIX
– 10 Gbit/s DATA-IX
– 10 Gbit/s AMS-IX
– 10 Gbit/s V-IX
– 80 Gbit/s Private Peerings

POWER
– AC: 230V, 16A
– Redundant UPS facilities
– Battery mode: Approx. 15 minutes
– Standby power system
– Diesel power generator for autonomous mode
– Power supply is effected by a raised floor system

CLIMATE CONTROL
– Energy efficient direct free cooling
– N+2 redundancy
– Cold aisle containment
– Under-floor air conditioning
– Above average raised floor system
– Monitoring of air temperature and server/distribution cabinets

LOCATION
– 3,500 sq m Colocation floor space
– Up to 49 rack height units (1U) in 19″ racks
– Cold aisle containment
– 24/7 access and on-site service

SECURITY
– Electronic access control system
– 24/7 camera monitoring of entrances and server rooms

FIRE PROTECTION
– Modern early warning fire system with direct connection to the local fire department
– Special door locking systems

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New XTservers.com website launched!

The new XTservers.com website has been launched! What comes along with this major facelift?! A new billing system with a lot of automatization like instant setup for domains, shared and reseller hosting after the payment is made.

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With a new logo, with brand new packages and prices, with a brand new infrastructure and 2 new locations on the map, it is now time to put the old website to rest in our archives.

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