Hostry Singapore VPS Review: 1 Core 1GB for $5/Month with Unlimited Traffic
HOSTRY is a web hosting company established in 2006, with data centers located in the Netherlands, the USA, Luxembourg, and Russia. A month ago, I purchased a Singapore VPS; its performance is good and it is quite stable, so I am conducting a simple review.
Hostry Data Centers
Hostry currently has 8 data centers (if I counted correctly): Netherlands, USA, Latvia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Singapore, Czech Republic, and Poland. I found some test IPs online and discovered that the network in Singapore is relatively good. Below are the prices and configurations for the Singapore VPS. (Note: Hostry VPS data centers do not limit traffic.)
Payment Methods
- PayPal
- Credit Card
Purchase Address: https://hostry.com/
Disk I/O
The bench.sh average read/write speed is 384.7 MB/s.
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CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2099.998 MHz
Total size of Disk : 9.8 GB (6.5 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 985 MB (220 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 1023 MB (103 MB Used)
System uptime : 30 days, 13 hour 55 min
Load average : 0.07, 0.19, 0.18
OS : CentOS 7.6.1810
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 5.2.1-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
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I/O speed(1st run) : 384 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 417 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 353 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 384.7 MB/s
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Network & Bandwidth
The SuperPing test shows an average latency of 138.0ms across the country.
According to the Grafana monitoring, the upload bandwidth of the Hostry Singapore VPS can reach 100Mbps without issues.
However, the download speed is a bit disappointing. The fastest download speed is 2.52MB/s, which converts to approximately 20Mbps bandwidth. Therefore, Hostry may limit download speeds. However, for website hosting, we usually focus on upload bandwidth.
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 167.88.158.176 2.52MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 918KB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 2.54MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 422KB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 701KB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 389KB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 305KB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 565KB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 444KB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 2.42MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 1.12MB/s
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Route Tracing
For China Telecom and China Unicom, the outbound route goes through Japan NTT and then to Singapore. China Mobile goes through Hong Kong to Singapore. I will not include screenshots for these, but there are official test IPs at the bottom for you to trace yourself.
All three networks return via Hong Kong. Below are the test data from the mping script.
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【Sichuan Telecom】 - 61.139.2.69
traceroute to 61.139.2.69 (61.139.2.69), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gw.ipv4.layer6.net (195.123.236.1) 1.56 ms AS204957 Singapore itldc.com
2 ip-103-239-220-233.basicbrix.com (103.239.220.233) 1.44 ms AS64010 Singapore basicbrix.com
3 ae1.edge1.sg2.basicbrix.com (103.239.220.21) 7.48 ms AS64010 Singapore basicbrix.com
4 unknown.telstraglobal.net (210.176.138.93) 0.85 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
5 i-92.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net (202.84.224.193) 18.20 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
6 i-15150.sgcn-core01.telstraglobal.net (202.84.140.165) 1.84 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
7 i-21151.hkhh-core02.telstraglobal.net (202.84.136.174) 32.93 ms AS4637,AS10026 China Hong Kong telstra.com
8 i-0-10-0-0.hkhh01.bi.telstraglobal.net (202.84.154.218) 34.68 ms AS4637,AS10026 China Hong Kong telstra.com
9 chinatelecom-peer.hkhh01.pr.telstraglobal.net (134.159.158.242) 81.97 ms AS4637,AS10026 China Hong Kong telstra.com
10 202.97.60.170 77.99 ms AS4134 China Guangdong Guangzhou Telecom
11 202.97.94.117 78.45 ms AS4134 China Guangdong Guangzhou Telecom
12 202.97.90.169 79.90 ms AS4134 China Guangdong Guangzhou Telecom
13 202.97.36.226 114.63 ms AS4134 China Sichuan Chengdu Telecom
14 171.208.203.62 118.30 ms AS4134 China Sichuan Chengdu Telecom
15 61.139.113.58 163.50 ms AS4134 China Sichuan Chengdu Telecom
16 ns.sc.cninfo.net (61.139.2.69) 112.07 ms AS4134 China Sichuan Chengdu Telecom
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【Hebei Unicom】- 202.99.160.68
traceroute to 202.99.160.68 (202.99.160.68), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gw.ipv4.layer6.net (195.123.236.1) 1.72 ms AS204957 Singapore itldc.com
2 ip-103-239-220-233.basicbrix.com (103.239.220.233) 2.06 ms AS64010 Singapore basicbrix.com
3 ae1.edge1.sg2.basicbrix.com (103.239.220.21) 0.98 ms AS64010 Singapore basicbrix.com
4 unknown.telstraglobal.net (210.176.138.93) 2.96 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
5 i-92.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net (202.84.224.193) 3.24 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
6 i-15150.sgcn-core01.telstraglobal.net (202.84.140.165) 6.17 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
7 i-15251.hkth-core02.telstraglobal.net (202.84.141.110) 42.84 ms AS4637,AS10026 China Hong Kong telstra.com
8 i-92.hkth12.telstraglobal.net (202.84.153.38) 34.66 ms AS4637,AS10026 China Hong Kong telstra.com
9 219.158.40.237 193.04 ms AS4837 China Hong Kong Unicom
10 219.158.10.49 176.12 ms AS4837 China Guangdong Guangzhou Unicom
11 219.158.20.221 196.01 ms AS4837 China Guangdong Guangzhou Unicom
12 219.158.19.65 186.79 ms AS4837 China Guangdong Guangzhou Unicom
13 219.158.115.78 202.64 ms AS4837 China Beijing Unicom
14 202.99.160.106 188.78 ms AS4837 China Hebei Shijiazhuang Unicom
15 61.182.175.194 205.77 ms AS4837 China Hebei Shijiazhuang Unicom
16 221.192.35.2 198.90 ms AS4837 China Hebei Shijiazhuang Unicom
17 202.99.160.68 211.86 ms AS4837 China Hebei Shijiazhuang Unicom
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【Anhui Mobile】 - 211.138.180.2
traceroute to 211.138.180.2 (211.138.180.2), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gw.ipv4.layer6.net (195.123.236.1) 3.59 ms AS204957 Singapore itldc.com
2 ip-103-239-220-233.basicbrix.com (103.239.220.233) 3.08 ms AS64010 Singapore basicbrix.com
3 ae1.edge1.sg2.basicbrix.com (103.239.220.21) 2.24 ms AS64010 Singapore basicbrix.com
4 unknown.telstraglobal.net (210.176.138.93) 2.93 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
5 i-92.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net (202.84.224.193) 12.30 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
6 i-93.istt04.telstraglobal.net (202.84.224.190) 9.64 ms AS4637,AS10026 Singapore telstra.com
7 223.119.48.2 10.15 ms AS58453 China Hong Kong Mobile
8 223.118.3.109 37.02 ms AS58453 China Hong Kong Mobile
9 223.118.3.141 44.69 ms AS58453 China Hong Kong Mobile
10 221.183.30.133 40.63 ms AS9808 China Guangdong Guangzhou Mobile
11 221.176.24.57 45.14 ms AS9808 China Guangdong Guangzhou Mobile
12 221.176.22.113 42.48 ms AS9808 China Guangdong Guangzhou Mobile
13 221.176.18.6 77.17 ms AS9808 China Anhui Hefei Mobile
14 221.183.19.126 74.55 ms AS9808 China Anhui Hefei Mobile
15 120.210.247.1 75.49 ms AS9808 China Anhui Hefei Mobile
16 *
17 ns1.ah.chinamobile.com (211.138.180.2) 72.23 ms AS9808 China Anhui Hefei Mobile
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This result was generated by mping: https://blog.xiaoz.org/archives/13044
Summary
The Hostry Singapore VPS is actually located in the ITLDC Singapore data center. I originally intended to purchase directly from the ITLDC official website but found that ITLDC does not offer low-spec machines. If you want to purchase low-spec machines, consider Hostry. The Hostry Singapore data center's outbound route for Telecom and Unicom goes through NTT, while Mobile goes through Hong Kong. All three networks return via Hong Kong. The outbound route is average, but the return route is acceptable. Hostry Singapore limits download speeds, but the upload speed can currently reach 100Mbps. Since Hostry does not limit traffic, it is suitable for use as a CDN node or for some high-traffic applications.
- Official Test Address: http://lg-sg1.hostry.com/
- Test IP: 195.123.237.74
Purchase Address: https://hostry.com/