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davidm
05-21-2005, 11:29 AM
Hello folks,

As per my post http://forums.deftechgroup.com/showthread.php?t=199 i had the opportunity to test a P0 cPanel and to compare it with a P1 cPanel.

Thanks to Tom and Charles to have taken the time to set that up.
Now, you are not forced to take my word for it but i've just ordered a P1 and didn't asked them to make the P0 cPanel as a public product...

Here's the review i've sent to PowerVPS:

After having tested both P0 cPanel and P1 cPanel, i must admit that the bottom line result is that the P0 cPanel just sucks.. Sorry to be so rude

With UNIXBENCH wht variant the P0 makes a very poor score of 14.9, whilst the P1 make 63.7! Impressive for a VPS!
Your competitor VPS in the P1 range doesn't go over 40...
See the full results below.

With the P0, everythings goes all the time at the limit (see PowerPanel QOS)

Now, let's make some stress test on it.. The test was conducted using a default phpBB installation using the homepage and the FAQ page.
I have made this test with 10 concurrent users (trial limitations) and from the Rackspace network to ahve a good pipe.

With the P0 the response time is between 400 and 1100 ms and they are very versatile.
The P1 outperforms it by far with a stable 300ms for the homepage and 500ms for the FAQ page.
Just have a look on the attachments and you'll see that the P1 remains very stable, whilst the P0 is already overloaded with that kind of traffic. Not that much after all, we're just talking of 10 concurrent users....

Anyway, the P0 cPanel is a product that works, and could be interessing for users with VERY low requirements, but the majority won't understand the limitations and your reputation will be affected by this.

Hope this helps, even it's more or less the same thing that Charles/Tom said before opening a test account.

If you want, i can post this message to your forum so that others can have some comparaison. Please advice if it's something you want to be published.

Last point, I want a P1 cPanel ;) I'll just go order one!

Cheers,
David



UNIX BENCH P0:
================================================== ============
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht)
System -- Linux cpanelp0.hostname.be 2.4.20-021stab028.12.777-smp #1 SMP Fri May 13 16:04:37 MSD 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
/dev/vzfs 5242880 1783840 3459040 35% /

Start Benchmark Run: Thu May 19 13:41:58 EDT 2005
13:41:58 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 1.27, 0.59, 0.22

End Benchmark Run: Thu May 19 14:01:16 EDT 2005
14:01:16 up 21 min, 1 user, load average: 11.95, 6.22, 3.72


INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 734388.4 19.5
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 651.1 78.4
Execl Throughput 188.3 344.9 18.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 5488.0 20.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 1453.0 13.5
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 54632.0 35.5
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 51510.2 4.6
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 12447.0 8.1
Process Creation 569.3 1114.0 19.6
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 59.9 13.4
System Call Overhead 114433.5 33529.8 2.9
=========
FINAL SCORE 14.9



UNIXBENCH P1:

================================================== ============
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht)
System -- Linux cpanelp0.hostname.be 2.4.20-021stab028.12.777-smp #1 SMP Fri May 13 16:04:37 MSD 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
/dev/vzfs 10485760 1790020 8695740 18% /

Start Benchmark Run: Sat May 21 07:30:49 EDT 2005
07:30:49 up 1:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

End Benchmark Run: Sat May 21 07:42:25 EDT 2005
07:42:25 up 1:57, 1 user, load average: 12.59, 5.58, 2.59


INDEX VALUES
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables 376783.7 3658260.0 97.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 83.1 590.0 71.0
Execl Throughput 188.3 1746.8 92.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 2672.0 20765.0 77.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1077.0 7148.0 66.4
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 15382.0 308169.0 200.3
Pipe Throughput 111814.6 256831.1 23.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 15448.6 59724.5 38.7
Process Creation 569.3 5530.9 97.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 44.8 359.9 80.3
System Call Overhead 114433.5 176440.0 15.4
=========
FINAL SCORE 63.7

AndyB78
10-11-2005, 08:38 AM
Hi David,

What exactly is a Power-0? I thought they start from Power-1 and they go up to Power-3.

Regards,
Andy

charles
10-11-2005, 11:23 AM
It's a VPS with lower resources than a power-1. You get the complete flexibility of a dedicated server, but it does have limited resources. So if you need it for a specific purpose, and that purpose doesn't require a high end server, this will work for you - things like secondary mail and DNS, development or test servers etc.

Since there is no panel, and we do little to no configuration (since the whole point is for you to install and configure only what you need) you need to be technically proficient to setup and maintain it yourself.

hth
charles

AndyB78
10-12-2005, 03:29 AM
Hi Charles,

I thought so but I was amazed that David said "P0 cPanel and to compare it with a P1 cPanel". At first I thought that maybe he wanted to say "P1 cPanel compared to P2 cPanel". Now I have read the initial thread and I understood the P0 cPanel was never a commercial offer but a simple test meant to show everybody that mixing 128MB RAM and cPanel doesn't make sense.

Regards,
Andy

charles
10-12-2005, 07:47 AM
Yup. It works great as a cpanel dns only server, and many other uses, but not as a general hosting solution with a heavy commerical panel.

charles