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  • FreeBSD VPS in Development

    10:56 am on February 15, 2011 | 4 | # |

    Our development team are currently working on an i386 FreeBSD 8.1 template that can be deployed within our network.

    Once the template is live, we will be looking for experienced FreeBSD users/administrators to BETA Test the template. We will offer 5 people £50 credit to these testers to use as they with on UK-VPS.co.

    Signup for an Account now (No Need to Purchase), and leave your username in a comment, along with a brief description of experience. First Five to comment with relevant experience will be used as our BETA testers.

     

  • UK-VPS.co – Xen Two Unixbench

    11:11 am on February 10, 2011 | 1 | # |

    Product Details

    • Provider – UK-VPS
    • Purchase Link – HERE
    • £20 Per Month

    Product Specification

    • Xen Paravirtualization
    • 1 CPU Core
    • 752MB RAM
    • 40GB HDD
    • 1000GB Bandwidth
    • CentOS 5 x64
    • IP: 109.123.119.226

    Unix Bench – Full Results

    ========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2)

System: test: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5xen -- #1 SMP Tue Sep 21 06:28:04 EDT 2010
Machine: i686 (i386)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz (5335.5 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, MMX, Physical Address Ext, Intel virtualization
05:37:31 up  9:34,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.04, 0.03; runlevel 3

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Thu Feb 10 2011 05:37:31 - 06:05:24
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        9938393.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     1957.7 MWIPS (10.2 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                               1978.9 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        345498.3 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           96476.5 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        848980.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              598635.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  99549.5 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               3659.3 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   3189.4 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    441.2 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         492952.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0    9938393.3    851.6
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       1957.7    356.0
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       1978.9    460.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     345498.3    872.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      96476.5    582.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     848980.0   1463.8
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     598635.8    481.2
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      99549.5    248.9
Process Creation                                126.0       3659.3    290.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       3189.4    752.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        441.2    735.3
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     492952.8    328.6
========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         543.0

    HTTP Download

    2011-02-10 06:06:59 (45.0 MB/s) - `CentOS-5.5-x86_64-LiveCD.iso' saved [728184832/728184832]

    This equates to 360mbit per second of bandwidth throughput.

    Summary

    If you’ve seen our other benchmarks of VPS.NET and VPS247.com, you should find that these offer a improvement on their results.

     

  • Debian Squeeze 6 images now available

    8:42 pm on February 9, 2011 | 1 | # |

    After two years, Debian development have reached the next milestone and have released Debian 6.

    We are happy to announce Debian 6 images available on the network.

    Click Here to view our pricing scale.

    Click Here to Order!

     

  • UK-VPS and the iPhone App

    2:48 pm on February 6, 2011 | 0 | # |

    Available at the iPhone App Store

    Using the Solus based API, our users are are able to take advantage of iSolus.

    iSolusVM allows you manage your Virtual Private Server (VPS) that are hosted with any provider that uses SolusVM. You can add multiple VPS into iSolusVM to Manage, Boot, Reboot, Shutdown and see the current Live Status of your virtual server.

    Adding a Virtual Server to iSolusVM

    Login to https://solus.uk-vps.co:5656/ and select the virtual server you want to manage from the list. In the manage area for the vps, click on the API Settings icon. You will be presented with the following:

    API Settings

    Click the Generate button to create a new key and hash. Once finished the key, hash and status will be displayed:

    API Settings

    Start the iSolusVM app on your iPhone and click the + icon on the right hand top bar.

    Fill in all the fields with the relevant details:

    iPhone Settings

    Now click save to add the virtual server to the app.

    Please note: The Hostname is solus.uk-vps.co

    More information is available about iSolus, here.

    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/isolusvm/id391984854?mt=8Available
     

  • New UK London VPS Location Now Live

    1:55 pm on February 5, 2011 | 0 | # |

    UK-VPS.co have now finished commissioning a new UK Location.

    Based in London, our latest cloud location offers an extension of our high performing stable network and resources, thus increasing our capacity to how more VPS services.

    The Xen infrastructure features the same great Control Panel and benefits available at our other data facilities. These include;

    • Instant Setup
    • Resource Flexibility and Instant Upgrades
    • High Bandwidth Products on a High Quality network
    • 99.9% SLA on Network Uptime
    • Full Control via SSH and Console Access within the CP
    • Secure Data with RAID data systems and Backup Facilities available.

    All these are available from just £10 per month. Signup now.

     

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