This is my benchmark of HostHatch — their Swedish location (Stockholm) is through Portlane Networks AB and is very suitable for somebody like me, who’s located in Scandinavia! 
On this VPS I run a variety of applications. I switch from Fluxbox, Openbox, Gnome and KDE. I cannot ever decide:
As you can tell, it runs quite the load (Skype, Firefox, IRC) + various background applications, even a Syncthing instance. Performance has been superb so far! 
Basics
cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
root@illy:~#
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
stepping : 3
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3499.998
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 4
wp : yes
flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm nopl pni cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm
bogomips : 6999.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
stepping : 3
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3499.998
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 4
wp : yes
flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm nopl pni cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm
bogomips : 6999.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1017756 kB
MemFree: 852764 kB
Buffers: 14716 kB
Cached: 97600 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 37336 kB
Inactive: 87900 kB
Active(anon): 13020 kB
Inactive(anon): 252 kB
Active(file): 24316 kB
Inactive(file): 87648 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 524284 kB
SwapFree: 524284 kB
Dirty: 100 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 12916 kB
Mapped: 8524 kB
Shmem: 356 kB
Slab: 19780 kB
SReclaimable: 10424 kB
SUnreclaim: 9356 kB
KernelStack: 1232 kB
PageTables: 2236 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1033160 kB
Committed_AS: 119032 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 7012 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359724283 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
DirectMap4k: 47092 kB
DirectMap2M: 1001472 kB
dd
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 0.406309 s, 330 MB/s
network
--2014-11-08 17:27:41-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’
100%[=================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 60.7MB/s in 1.6s
2014-11-08 17:27:43 (60.7 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [104857600/104857600]
more on network:
Download Speed From Internode CDN Network : 3.22MB/s
Download Speed From SoftLayer, Dallas, USA : 12.9MB/s
Download Speed From SoftLayer, San Jose, USA : 9.49MB/s
Download Speed From ReliableSite, Piscataway, USA : 6.73MB/s
Download Speed From OVH, Beauharnois, Canada : 4.04MB/s
Download Speed From SoftLayer, Washington, USA : 16.7MB/s
Download Speed From RedStation, Gosport, United Kingdom : 25.8MB/s
Download Speed From Tele2, Stockholm, Sweden : 82.0MB/s
Download Speed From OVH, Roubaix, France : 27.5MB/s
Download Speed From Prometeus, Milan, Italy : 25.0MB/s
Download Speed From LeaseWeb, Frankfurt, Germany : 24.3MB/s
Download Speed From Interactive3D, Amsterdam, Netherlands : 26.5MB/s
Download Speed From SoftLayer, Singapore, Singapore : 4.75MB/s
Download Speed From Linode, Tokyo, Japan : 5.34MB/s
Download Speed From RansomIT, Sydney, Australia : 4.90MB/s
Additional tests
Allgemeine Informationen
Prozessor : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Prozessor-Kerne : 2
Taktfrequenz pro Kern: 3499.998 MHz
Arbeitsspeicher : 994 MB
SWAP : 511 MB
Laufzeit : 1 min,
Netzwerk Benchmark
Download Geschwindigkeit: OVH (FR): 240KB/s
Download Geschwindigkeit: Edis (AT): 335KB/s
Download Geschwindigkeit: Netcologne (DE): 4.96MB/s
Download Geschwindigkeit: FSIT (CH): 2.06MB/s
Download Geschwindigkeit: Softlayer (Hong Kong): 757KB/s
Festplatten Benchmark
I/O Performance [1]: 265 MB/s
I/O Performance [2]: 1.0 GB/s
I/O Performance [3]: 1.3 GB/s
CPU Benchmark
real 0m12.355s
user 0m12.347s
sys 0m0.005s
root@illy:~# iostat
Linux 3.13.0-39-generic (illy) 11/13/2014 _x86_64_ (2 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.82 0.01 0.62 0.23 0.00 98.32
Device: tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_read kB_wrtn
vda 3.57 66.29 19.88 2705977 811512
root@illy:~# mpstat -A
Linux 3.13.0-39-generic (illy) 11/13/2014 _x86_64_ (2 CPU)
08:13:40 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
08:13:40 PM all 0.82 0.01 0.58 0.22 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.32
08:13:40 PM 0 0.91 0.01 0.63 0.15 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.21
08:13:40 PM 1 0.73 0.02 0.52 0.30 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.43
08:13:40 PM CPU intr/s
08:13:40 PM all 111.69
08:13:40 PM 0 65.92
08:13:40 PM 1 22.83
08:13:40 PM CPU 0/s 1/s 6/s 8/s 9/s 10/s 11/s 12/s 14/s 15/s 40/s 41/s NMI/s LOC/s SPU/s PMI/s IWI/s RTR/s RES/s CAL/s TLB/s TRM/s THR/s MCE/s MCP/s ERR/s MIS/s
08:13:40 PM 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 31.68 0.00 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.54 0.00 32.53 0.00 0.00 2.65 0.00 6.77 0.01 0.67 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
08:13:40 PM 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.87 0.00 0.00 0.89 0.00 1.93 0.00 22.93 0.00 0.00 1.03 0.00 8.26 0.01 0.83 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
08:13:40 PM CPU HI/s TIMER/s NET_TX/s NET_RX/s BLOCK/s BLOCK_IOPOLL/s TASKLET/s SCHED/s HRTIMER/s RCU/s
08:13:40 PM 0 0.00 13.59 0.01 40.30 0.05 0.00 0.02 7.38 0.03 4.54
08:13:40 PM 1 0.00 8.86 0.21 3.95 0.44 0.00 0.00 5.81 0.02 3.54
root@illy:~# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
0 0 0 114964 27812 398776 0 0 33 10 56 104 1 1 98 0 0
root@illy:~# vnstat
Database updated: Thu Nov 13 20:16:13 2014
eth0 since 11/10/14
rx: 2.13 GiB tx: 2.16 GiB total: 4.29 GiB
monthly
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
Nov '14 2.13 GiB | 2.16 GiB | 4.29 GiB | 32.40 kbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 4.98 GiB | 5.03 GiB | 10.01 GiB |
daily
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
yesterday 219.08 MiB | 334.09 MiB | 553.17 MiB | 52.45 kbit/s
today 1.42 GiB | 1.22 GiB | 2.64 GiB | 302.96 kbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 1.68 GiB | 1.44 GiB | 3.12 GiB |
Speedtest.net Test
cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS" VERSION_ID="14.04" HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" root@illy:~#
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) stepping : 3 microcode : 0x1 cpu MHz : 3499.998 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 4 wp : yes flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm nopl pni cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm bogomips : 6999.99 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) stepping : 3 microcode : 0x1 cpu MHz : 3499.998 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 4 wp : yes flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm nopl pni cx16 hypervisor lahf_lm bogomips : 6999.99 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1017756 kB MemFree: 852764 kB Buffers: 14716 kB Cached: 97600 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 37336 kB Inactive: 87900 kB Active(anon): 13020 kB Inactive(anon): 252 kB Active(file): 24316 kB Inactive(file): 87648 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 524284 kB SwapFree: 524284 kB Dirty: 100 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 12916 kB Mapped: 8524 kB Shmem: 356 kB Slab: 19780 kB SReclaimable: 10424 kB SUnreclaim: 9356 kB KernelStack: 1232 kB PageTables: 2236 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 1033160 kB Committed_AS: 119032 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 7012 kB VmallocChunk: 34359724283 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 47092 kB DirectMap2M: 1001472 kB
dd
8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out 134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 0.406309 s, 330 MB/s
network
--2014-11-08 17:27:41-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘/dev/null’ 100%[=================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 60.7MB/s in 1.6s 2014-11-08 17:27:43 (60.7 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [104857600/104857600]
more on network:
Download Speed From Internode CDN Network : 3.22MB/s Download Speed From SoftLayer, Dallas, USA : 12.9MB/s Download Speed From SoftLayer, San Jose, USA : 9.49MB/s Download Speed From ReliableSite, Piscataway, USA : 6.73MB/s Download Speed From OVH, Beauharnois, Canada : 4.04MB/s Download Speed From SoftLayer, Washington, USA : 16.7MB/s Download Speed From RedStation, Gosport, United Kingdom : 25.8MB/s Download Speed From Tele2, Stockholm, Sweden : 82.0MB/s Download Speed From OVH, Roubaix, France : 27.5MB/s Download Speed From Prometeus, Milan, Italy : 25.0MB/s Download Speed From LeaseWeb, Frankfurt, Germany : 24.3MB/s Download Speed From Interactive3D, Amsterdam, Netherlands : 26.5MB/s Download Speed From SoftLayer, Singapore, Singapore : 4.75MB/s Download Speed From Linode, Tokyo, Japan : 5.34MB/s Download Speed From RansomIT, Sydney, Australia : 4.90MB/s
Additional tests
Allgemeine Informationen Prozessor : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) Prozessor-Kerne : 2 Taktfrequenz pro Kern: 3499.998 MHz Arbeitsspeicher : 994 MB SWAP : 511 MB Laufzeit : 1 min, Netzwerk Benchmark Download Geschwindigkeit: OVH (FR): 240KB/s Download Geschwindigkeit: Edis (AT): 335KB/s Download Geschwindigkeit: Netcologne (DE): 4.96MB/s Download Geschwindigkeit: FSIT (CH): 2.06MB/s Download Geschwindigkeit: Softlayer (Hong Kong): 757KB/s Festplatten Benchmark I/O Performance [1]: 265 MB/s I/O Performance [2]: 1.0 GB/s I/O Performance [3]: 1.3 GB/s CPU Benchmark real 0m12.355s user 0m12.347s sys 0m0.005s
root@illy:~# iostat
Linux 3.13.0-39-generic (illy) 11/13/2014 _x86_64_ (2 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.82 0.01 0.62 0.23 0.00 98.32
Device: tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_read kB_wrtn
vda 3.57 66.29 19.88 2705977 811512
root@illy:~# mpstat -A Linux 3.13.0-39-generic (illy) 11/13/2014 _x86_64_ (2 CPU) 08:13:40 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle 08:13:40 PM all 0.82 0.01 0.58 0.22 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.32 08:13:40 PM 0 0.91 0.01 0.63 0.15 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.21 08:13:40 PM 1 0.73 0.02 0.52 0.30 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.43 08:13:40 PM CPU intr/s 08:13:40 PM all 111.69 08:13:40 PM 0 65.92 08:13:40 PM 1 22.83 08:13:40 PM CPU 0/s 1/s 6/s 8/s 9/s 10/s 11/s 12/s 14/s 15/s 40/s 41/s NMI/s LOC/s SPU/s PMI/s IWI/s RTR/s RES/s CAL/s TLB/s TRM/s THR/s MCE/s MCP/s ERR/s MIS/s 08:13:40 PM 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 31.68 0.00 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.54 0.00 32.53 0.00 0.00 2.65 0.00 6.77 0.01 0.67 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 08:13:40 PM 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.87 0.00 0.00 0.89 0.00 1.93 0.00 22.93 0.00 0.00 1.03 0.00 8.26 0.01 0.83 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 08:13:40 PM CPU HI/s TIMER/s NET_TX/s NET_RX/s BLOCK/s BLOCK_IOPOLL/s TASKLET/s SCHED/s HRTIMER/s RCU/s 08:13:40 PM 0 0.00 13.59 0.01 40.30 0.05 0.00 0.02 7.38 0.03 4.54 08:13:40 PM 1 0.00 8.86 0.21 3.95 0.44 0.00 0.00 5.81 0.02 3.54
root@illy:~# vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 0 114964 27812 398776 0 0 33 10 56 104 1 1 98 0 0
root@illy:~# vnstat
Database updated: Thu Nov 13 20:16:13 2014
eth0 since 11/10/14
rx: 2.13 GiB tx: 2.16 GiB total: 4.29 GiB
monthly
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
Nov '14 2.13 GiB | 2.16 GiB | 4.29 GiB | 32.40 kbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 4.98 GiB | 5.03 GiB | 10.01 GiB |
daily
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
yesterday 219.08 MiB | 334.09 MiB | 553.17 MiB | 52.45 kbit/s
today 1.42 GiB | 1.22 GiB | 2.64 GiB | 302.96 kbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 1.68 GiB | 1.44 GiB | 3.12 GiB |
Speedtest.net Test
That’s it for now.
Get your HostHatch
You can get your VPS with HostHatch, here:
https://www.hosthatch.com/
HostHatch has quite the variety of plans — both KVM and OpenVZ based ones at affordable prices! Staff appears to be friendly too 
Get your HostHatch
You can get your VPS with HostHatch, here:
https://www.hosthatch.com/
https://www.hosthatch.com/
HostHatch has quite the variety of plans — both KVM and OpenVZ based ones at affordable prices! Staff appears to be friendly too
Please send an email to me abdullah at hosthatch dot com with the invoice # and I will take care of it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yeah, right. I can’t imagine why Abdullah would post this from Kyivstar PJSC ???