Linode Xen 1GB SSD Hard Drive Japan Tokyo Simple Review

I grabbed a Japanese one at around 5am in the morning, and here’s the review.

Server Information:
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency : 2800.068 MHz
Total amount of ram : 990 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
System uptime: 1 min,
Download speed: (63.5MB/s)
I/O speed: 725MB/s

Hard disk data:
dd bs=64k count=4k if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=dsync

4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 2.86287 s, 93.8 MB/s

Ping data:

International speed test:
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency : 2800.068 MHz
Total amount of ram : 990 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
System uptime: 4 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 65.8MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 3.67MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 9.39MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 58.9MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 2.50MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 15.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 17.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 11.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 14.3MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 8.52MB/s
I/O speed: 753 MB/s

linode VPS: linode: $10/month/1 vCPU/1G/24G SSD/2T/1 IP/Xen/Tokyo