LWS Low Cost VPS
LWS VPS LowCost
from 2.99€ HT
Pros
- Good Performance
- SSD storage
- Extremely cheap
Cons
- Shared kernel
- Hostname can't be changed
LWS (Ligne Web Service SARL) is a high reputation french web hosting company. I was their customer since 2015. Here is my review for their LWS Low Cost VPS.
LWS Company Overview
LWS, acronym of “Ligne Web Services” is a SARL company (Société Anonyme à Responsabilité Limitée – just like an LTD company in UK or LLC company in US).
They were founded in 1999 and claim to have over 195 000 websites hosted. LWS is a reputable company and is a good alternative for french hosting companies like OVH, PlanetHoster, …
More information is available on their company website.
LWS VPS Overview
As I see on multiple forums and as I had with their support, it seems that VPS is their main (and best-seller) product. Currently, they mainly provide OpenVZ VPS. However, they are starting to sell LXC powered VPS. This review article will use a LXC VPS. Their KVM VPS are coming soon.
They also have their own ASN with their own IP block. About their network protections, they rely on their house-made firewalls. Datacenter is an Equinix Datacenter.
LWS VPS plans
There are multiple plans:
- VPS Low Cost: cheapest VPS without backup and minimum support.
- VPS Starter: better support and free server management with ISPConfig as control panel, regular backup, Xeon CPU (LC CPU are mainly AMD).
- VPS Pro: same as VPS Starter but with higher quotas and less VPS per physical host (means better CPU and I/O performances).
- Cloud: same as VPS Starter & VPS Pro but with better up time (backup with VPS Starter sometimes requires that the VPS is offline). For managed Cloud with cPanel, they provide a WHM/cPanel account on a cloud cPanel server. So, it is not really a VPS but resources are warranted (using CloudLinux advantages).
- Private Cloud: almost like a dedicated server. Big resources, almost one customer per physical host.
VPS Benchmark
I took two LC1 VPS (2.99 €). Some remarks:
- The CPU is Xeon E5-2620 v4 @ 1.20 GHz with these two VPS. Not AMD Opteron.
- All other ZFS partitions of other VPS (and ZFS pool of the host) were found during the benchmark, however only my own storage can be mounted. But I think it can be used to count how much VPS is on each physical host.
- Disk rate is over 400 MiB/s, 4x better than Pulseheberg KVM VPS, but network is slower.
- Long time download (and upload) reduce network speed. There is QoS policies on their network.
First VPS :
root@vps:~# ./nench.sh
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2019-09-23 11:14:39 UTC
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Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 1200.006 MHz
RAM: 1.0G
Swap: 1.2G
Kernel: Linux 5.0.21 x86_64
Disks:
sda 1.8T SSD
sdb 1.8T SSD
zd0 15G SSD
[...]
zd2240 15G SSD
[...]
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
4.997 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
10.072 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
3.055 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 4.16 us / 8.51 us / 105.8 ms / 308.0 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 43.9 k requests in 5.00 s, 10.7 GiB, 8.78 k iops, 2.14 GiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 405.31 MiB/s
2nd run: 423.43 MiB/s
3rd run: 449.18 MiB/s
average: 425.97 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 31.207.35.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 11.33 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 10.83 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 5.70 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.31 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 8.73 MiB/s
IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2a00:7ee0:9:xxxx
Leaseweb (NL): 10.92 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 6.81 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.04 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 9.35 MiB/s
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Second VPS :
root@vps:~# ./nench.sh
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2019-09-23 11:15:45 UTC
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Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 1200.164 MHz
RAM: 1.0Gi
Swap: 1.2Gi
Kernel: Linux 5.0.21 x86_64
Disks:
sda 1.8T SSD
sdb 1.8T SSD
zd0 15G SSD
[...]
zd960 15G SSD
[...]
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
5.566 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
10.190 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
3.468 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 4.10 us / 9.00 us / 105.6 ms / 284.9 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 36.2 k requests in 5.00 s, 8.84 GiB, 7.24 k iops, 1.77 GiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 230.79 MiB/s
2nd run: 350.95 MiB/s
3rd run: 329.02 MiB/s
average: 303.59 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 192.162.68.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 11.29 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 11.14 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 4.66 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.29 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 9.26 MiB/s
IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2a00:7ee0:2:xxxx
Leaseweb (NL): 11.02 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 5.74 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.11 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 8.45 MiB/s
-------------------------------------------------Update from 14 april 2021 : Docker now seems to be working on LWS VPS.
