A quick benchmark of CityCloud’s offering in Karlskrona, Sweden. They use OpenStack:

bench-with-cpu.sh

Allgemeine Informationen 

Prozessor :  Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge)
Prozessor-Kerne :  1
Taktfrequenz pro Kern:  2494.224 MHz
Arbeitsspeicher : 489 MB
SWAP : 0 MB
Laufzeit :   13 min,       

Netzwerk Benchmark 

Download Geschwindigkeit:  SoftLayer (EU): 36.7MB/s 
Download Geschwindigkeit:  DigitalOcean (EU): 54.5MB/s 
Download Geschwindigkeit:  RamNode (EU): 17.6MB/s 
Download Geschwindigkeit:  LeaseWeb (EU): 49.4MB/s 
Download Geschwindigkeit:  YourServer (EU): 345MB/s 

Festplatten Benchmark

I/O Performance [1]:  286 MB/s
I/O Performance [2]:  287 MB/s
I/O Performance [3]:  326 MB/s

CPU Benchmark

real	0m11.674s
user	0m11.663s
sys	0m0.005s

Their network is good, as I’m located in Scandinavia as well. The ping from my workstation here at home to my VM averages 19.4 ms. I will deploy another unbound instance on this VM for use as backup when/if any of my other instances fail.

Visit https://www.citycloud.com/ for more information about their services.