05Aug 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

RackVM Benchmark

Reviews, Virtual Private Server
Alert: (05-Sep-2010) RackVM is/was a shady business and Ben, owner of RackVM, has run away with hundreds of client's payments. As of today, all of their nodes are down. Ben just tricked everyone to his per annum offers and ran away with cash in hand. Unfortunately, I was also one of these victims. Unix Benchmark results from RackVM using unixbench v 5.1.2 Specs: 128MB / 10GB XEN PV running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS The most amazing part? well, I got this VPS for just 6pounds bi-annually (6 months), thats 1 pound per month :) Note: Although their servers are Core2Quad, I have access to 4 cores and the benchmark results (as compared with my QuickWeb 128MB XEN PV) are very good (more…)
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29Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Using Facebook Graph API to keep an eye on friends activity

Experiments, Personal, Social Networking, Virtual Private Server
Life is really moving in the fast lane for me, and Im pretty sure for most of you readers too. I login to social-networking platforms after weeks and I cant recognize most of these faces (even though they are my friends). Its proven that Humans tend to recognize people by face more quickly then names and email addresses so whenever someone puts on a new face (uploads a new profile-picture), I have hard time getting to know them. Well, I thought today, I have been developing in facebook application for so long now - Why not put online a few hours to fetch Facebook Friends data via API and keeping track of who did what? (status updates) and who changed his/her profile picture? So last night I was up, as…
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28Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

ThrustVPS Benchmark

Reviews, Virtual Private Server
Update (25-Aug-2010): Rus Foster from ThrustVPS.com is a blackmailer and a person with low self-esteem. He actually blackmailed me to hand him over certain domain names which he thinks believes is breaching the AUP. My accounts, VPS and the $60 of affiliate commission was terminated. I will advise everyone to KEEP AWAY from Rus Foster and ThrustVPS.com (click here to read the full review) Unix Benchmark results from ThrustVPS using unixbench v 5.1.2 Specs: 512MB / 15GB XEN PV running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS [code] # # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # #…
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25Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Not getting a package on Ubuntu?

How to, Resources, Reviews, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Ubuntu, Virtual Private Server
If you are not getting a package on Ubunu using apt-get then chances are that it has not been updated in the /etc/apt/sources.list file For example, the following should be there in the sources.list file if you are running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (codename lucid) [code] ## main & restricted repositories deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted ## universe repositories - uncomment to enable deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe [/code]
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24Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

2Host Benchmark

Reviews, Virtual Private Server
Unix Benchmark results from 2Host VPS (WHT offer) using unixbench v 5.1.2 Specs: 512MB / 40GB XEN (using the old "Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2374 HE") [code] # # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # Version 5.1.2 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions…
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24Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 7 Comments

HazeNet Benchmark

Reviews, Virtual Private Server
Update (14-May-2011): HazeNet has been taken over by ThrustVPS / Rus Foster. Read more about it here Update (29-Aug-2010): Please check the latest benchmark results from their XEON node, pretty awesome for a 1024MB VPS. Unix Benchmark results from HazeNet VPS using unixbench v 5.1.2 (please note that these are Quad-Core benchmark and not the new i7s and XEON that they are offering) Specs: 1GB / 50GB OpenVZ [code] # # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # #…
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23Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Linode Benchmark

Reviews, Virtual Private Server
Unix Benchmark results from Linode VPS in London using unixbench v 5.1.2 Specs: 512MB / 16GB XEN [code] # # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # Version 5.1.2 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith, Sunnyvale, CA, USA December 22, 2007…
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23Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

NordicVPS Benchmark

Reviews, Virtual Private Server
Update (Apr 22, 2011): Please read my post NordicVPS is down the drain? to learn more about this host before ordering with them. Unix Benchmark results from Nordic VPS in Hetzner, Germany using unixbench v 5.1.2 Specs: 256MB / 10GB XEN PV [code] # # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # # # ##### ###### # # ####…
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27May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Linode is Blazzing Fast

Personal, Thoughts
I asked my client to buy a Linode for some testing purposes and I tried it for the first time. I must say, Linode is blazzing fast. Downloads are touching 8M/sec and speed, performance is as if its running on a VM on my local system. Update: Now its been almost a month running Linode and I strongly recommend this VPS company.
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