BinaryLane - Australian KVM VPS service from AU$4/month

BinaryLane – Australian KVM VPS service from AU$4/month

BinaryLane is one of the best choices in AU. They launched Australian KVM VPS service in 2014, and are currently available in 4 cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.

KVM VPS Features

external firewall with web-interface
good IPv6 support, including a /56 per server and PTR nameserver delegation
“virtual private cloud” (vxlan) for inter-server communication
upload/download disk backups
variety of pre-built distributions or BYO ISO
load-balancer as-a-service
OpenStack Compute API support

KVM VPS Plans

1GB Plan

1 VCPU
1GB RAM
20GB SSD
1TB data @ 1gbps
AU$4.00/mo (~$2.75 USD)
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2GB Plan

1 VCPU
2GB RAM
35GB SSD
2TB data @ 1gbps
AU$9.25/mo (~$6.36 USD)
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A benchmark from LET Forum (1GB Plan)

Processor: Intel KVM Processor v2.2
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 2199.996 MHz
RAM: 985M
Swap: –
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3.553 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
6.245 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.795 seconds

ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 32.8 us / 46.4 us / 5.72 ms / 42.6 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 34.2 k requests in 5.00 s, 8.34 GiB, 6.83 k iops, 1.67 GiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 550.27 MiB/s
2nd run: 953.67 MiB/s
3rd run: 947.00 MiB/s
average: 816.98 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
Cachefly CDN: 44.58 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 6.29 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 2.93 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 4.56 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 5.90 MiB/s

IPv6 speedtests
Leaseweb (NL): 8.06 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 7.73 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 5.10 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 6.74 MiB/s