Research of virtual servers with SSD disks

Recently, SSD drives have become noticeably cheaper, and increasingly they can be seen as an advantage of a virtual server. For example, tariffs with SSD drives now - 370 pieces from 65 hosters . Naturally, SSD drives are much more expensive than other types of drives, so to keep costs low, hosters offer less space at a similar price compared to SATA or SAS tariffs.

Me and my friend amoskvin from https://theideahosting.com decided to conduct a small study of cheap rates for virtual servers with SSD drives. I would like to thank all the hosters who provided virtual servers for free for testing.
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For testing, the maximum price bracket was chosen - $ 5 per month. The only thing I immediately want to note is that testing was done slowly and because of currency fluctuations at the time of publication of this article the $ 5 bar may be slightly shifted, but the general idea remains the same: - to test hosters and cheap rates with SSD disks.


DigitalOcean is a fairly well-known foreign hoster that positions itself as a cloud provider. It offers 8 different fares starting at $ 5 to $ 640. SSD drives are used everywhere, a large number of data centers are available in different countries (UK, Netherlands, USA, Singapore).
At a minimum rate of $ 5, a 20 GB hard drive is provided, which is quite a lot for such a price. All data centers use an IntelXeon E5-2630L processor with a core frequency of 2400 MHz.
Quite often, you can find promotional codes to get $ 10 on the account, which is enough for two months of service at the minimum rate. KVM virtualization is used, so the list of operating systems that can be installed is quite large.

London

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-2630L	2400	512	20	286	641

Singapore

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-2630L	2400	512	20	226	525

San Francisco

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-2630L	2400	512	20	864	935

Amsterdam

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-2630L	2400	512	20	318	1016

FriendHosting offers servers in 4 different countries (Bulgaria, Netherlands, USA, Ukraine) only on SSD drives. The minimum tariff is 4.99 dollars for a virtual server with a 15 GB SSD disk, 512 MB of RAM and one 3400 MHz processor core. Similar to the previous hoster, KVM virtualization is used.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
QEMU Virtual	3390	512	15	252	245

ITL DC has a minimum tariff of just 3.5 euros and the list of countries fully coincides with FriendHosting. The difference in the initial tariff of this hoster from the previous one is the processor frequency: 2400 against 3400 MHz. You can put almost any OS, it is also possible to connect your own ISO image.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
QEMU Virtual	3390	512	15	184	146

Mne.ru offers to use a virtual server with an SSD drive for only 83 rubles (1.74 dollars). The equipment is located in Russia and this tariff plan provides for a 3 GB hard drive. For obvious reasons, such a small disk space does not allow using a virtual server for hosting sites and other similar operations, but for specific tasks, especially when you need a fast disk, the server should be suitable, especially for such a low price.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-2640	1200	256	3	262	418

Yourserver.se - a company from Latvia has a website in English, but in tickets you will always be happy to answer Russian.
Previously, this company had a tariff for 2 euros per month, but just a few days ago this tariff was updated and now with an increased disk space the minimum cost is 4 euros (4.99 dollars). For this fee, the user has 10 GB of disk and 512 Mb of RAM. The choice of two locations - Latvia and Sweden. OpenVZ virtualization is used, so there are restrictions on the list of operating systems that can be installed.

Sweden

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E3-1241	1750	256	five	545	2373

Latvia

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-1620	1850	256	five	2042	498

At the VDSina hoster the minimum rate is 149 rubles (3.13 dollars) and the equipment is located in the Netherlands. For this money, the user gets 15 GB of SSD disk, 1 processor core and 512 MB of RAM, at the current dollar exchange rate a rather advantageous offer is obtained in terms of price and resources. When registering, the user receives into the account 149 rubles, which is enough for one month of service. And the use of KVM virtualization allows the user to install almost any OS: Linux, FreeBSD, Windows or any other of his disk image.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
QEMU Virtual	2600	512	15	1424	952

M4host offers virtual servers in Latvia. The initial fare is $ 5 and the user is provided with a 5 GB SSD drive. When using KVM virtualization, the user can install Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, or FreeBSD.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-2620	2100	500	20	696	532

RackServer offers servers in the USA and the cost starts from 150 rubles. The client has 10 GB SSD disk and 512 MB of RAM. OpenVZ virtualization is used, so only Linux distributions can be installed on the server.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-2620	1300	512	eleven	557	3356

BeriHoster's minimum fare with an SSD is 188 rubles: the equipment is placed in Russia and the user is provided with 10 GB of hard disk and 256 MB of RAM.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
QEMU Virtual	2270	256	ten	380	553

JustHosting offers virtual servers in France and for 120 rubles (2.5 dollars) you can get a virtual server with a 10 GB hard disk and 256 MB of RAM.

CPU	Frequency	Memory	Disk	IOZone W Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB	IOZone R Record Size: 1MB File Size: 512MB
Intel Xeon E5-1620	3700	256	ten	282	208

In conclusion, I can say that the prices for virtual servers with SSD disks have been falling recently due to a decrease in the cost of the disks themselves, however, if you need a large amount of space, storing information on the SSD will not be a cheap pleasure. However, I am almost sure that in the future we will be waived from slow SATA drives.