SpeedyPage – The Best Affordable VPS Option Right Now?
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What is SpeedyPage?
SpeedyPage is a UK-based hosting provider that offers web hosting, WordPress hosting, and Virtual Private Servers (VPS). They also have a very affordable reseller hosting plan, if you’re interested in that. For this review, I will focus on their VPS offer, but SpeedyPage offers other hosting services that you may be interested in, including:
- Web Hosting
- WordPress Hosting
- Reseller Hosting
- Managed VPS Hosting
VPS pricing plans
Depending on server location, SpeedyPage offers VPS from 1 vCPU core and 1 GB of RAM up to 22 vCPU cores and 120 GB of RAM. Pricing starts at $4.29/mo.
For this review, I’m using a VPS with 4 vCPU cores and 8 GB of RAM, priced at $17.99 a month. This price is extremely reasonable compared with a similar plan on Vultr or Digital Ocean, which would cost you $48 a month.
Server locations
The current locations that SpeedyPage offers VPS servers in are:
- London, UK
- Los Angeles, USA
- Ashburn, USA
- Singapore
- Tokyo, Japan
- Sydney, Australia
Managing your VPS on SpeedyPage
You can manage your VPS server on SpeedyPage through their control panel. The panel provides you with an overview including hardware specs, installed OS, memory, network use, and more. You can also configure DNS servers, assign IP6 addresses, and take backups.
Backups
EDIT: SpeedyPage no longer offers backup options on new plans!
The backup system on SpeedyPage provides you with only a single slot, which means that older backups will be deleted as you create new ones. Furthermore, you are only allowed to create one backup once per week, so for those who want daily backups this is not possible.
SpeedyPage recommends that you “power down your server before creating a backup to ensure data consistency on the disk”, which is a bit concerning. Backups take from 30-60 minutes to complete depending on disk use, and no one is going to take a live server offline for that long.
I have yet to try to restore a server from a backup, so I’m unsure about the consistency when doing the backups on a running server. Luckily, there are other ways of backing up a server. Personally, I use Wasabi Cloud Storage, which is really affordable.
Benchmarks
I ran benchmarks using YABS on a SpeedyPage VPS with 4 vCPUs and 8G RAM, compared against Vultr’s High Performance VPS, also with 4 vCPUs and 8G RAM. You can see the results for yourself below.
SpeedyPage KVM 8G VPS
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Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 11 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes
Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
CPU cores : 4 @ 3393.622 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 7.7 GiB
Swap : 2.0 GiB
Disk : 116.2 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Kernel : 5.15.0-91-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : SpeedyPage Ltd
ASN : AS142594 SpeedyPage Ltd
Host : SpeedyPage Ltd
Location : Singapore, North East (02)
Country : Singapore
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 492.56 MB/s (123.1k) | 1.96 GB/s (30.7k)
Write | 493.86 MB/s (123.4k) | 1.97 GB/s (30.8k)
Total | 986.43 MB/s (246.6k) | 3.94 GB/s (61.5k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
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Read | 1.84 GB/s (3.6k) | 1.63 GB/s (1.5k)
Write | 1.94 GB/s (3.8k) | 1.74 GB/s (1.7k)
Total | 3.79 GB/s (7.4k) | 3.37 GB/s (3.2k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 879 Mbits/sec | 1.05 Gbits/sec | 164 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | busy | 160 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 941 Mbits/sec | 1.08 Gbits/sec | 175 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 1.24 Gbits/sec | 1.25 Gbits/sec | 176 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 562 Mbits/sec | busy | 237 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 699 Mbits/sec | 682 Mbits/sec | 199 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 846 Mbits/sec | 699 Mbits/sec | 166 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 896 Mbits/sec | 1.02 Gbits/sec | 164 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.02 Gbits/sec | 1.05 Gbits/sec | 145 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 915 Mbits/sec | 1.09 Gbits/sec | 175 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 789 Mbits/sec | 629 Mbits/sec | 177 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | busy | 592 Mbits/sec | 237 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 675 Mbits/sec | 665 Mbits/sec | 199 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 855 Mbits/sec | 653 Mbits/sec | 166 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 1864
Multi Core | 5498
Vultr High Performance VPS
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Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
Processor : Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
CPU cores : 4 @ 2992.968 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 7.7 GiB
Swap : 8.0 GiB
Disk : 168.7 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Kernel : 5.15.0-91-generic
VM Type : MICROSOFT
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : The Constant Company, LLC
ASN : AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC
Host : The Constant Company, LLC
Location : Singapore, Central Singapore (01)
Country : Singapore
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda2):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 352.35 MB/s (88.0k) | 1.02 GB/s (15.9k)
Write | 353.28 MB/s (88.3k) | 1.02 GB/s (16.0k)
Total | 705.63 MB/s (176.4k) | 2.04 GB/s (31.9k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
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Read | 1.14 GB/s (2.2k) | 1.18 GB/s (1.1k)
Write | 1.20 GB/s (2.3k) | 1.26 GB/s (1.2k)
Total | 2.34 GB/s (4.5k) | 2.44 GB/s (2.3k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.10 Gbits/sec | 481 Mbits/sec | 194 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | busy | 164 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 1.04 Gbits/sec | 1.25 Gbits/sec | 157 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 2.24 Gbits/sec | busy | 253 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 707 Mbits/sec | 938 Mbits/sec | 236 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 842 Mbits/sec | 1.09 Gbits/sec | 198 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 917 Mbits/sec | 1.12 Gbits/sec | 171 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 857 Mbits/sec | 968 Mbits/sec | 194 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | 4.21 Gbits/sec | 1.54 Gbits/sec | 231 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 943 Mbits/sec | 1.22 Gbits/sec | 157 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 1.24 Gbits/sec | 2.27 Gbits/sec | 254 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 674 Mbits/sec | 845 Mbits/sec | 236 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 846 Mbits/sec | 1.10 Gbits/sec | 198 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 964 Mbits/sec | 488 Mbits/sec | 174 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 580
Multi Core | 1762
As you can see from the benchmark scores, SpeedyPage outperforms Vultr on almost every metric. Vultr’s network speed is slightly faster in some instances, but their CPU performance is abysmal and only one-third of SpeedyPage.
Uptime and status page
The uptime on SpeedyPage is very good at 99.99%. You can check the status of your server on their status page.
Support and customer service
I have found the level of technical support and customer service of SpeedyPage to be top-notch. They are friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable.
They usually answer tickets within an hour or so, at least during their office hours. If you’re in a different time zone you might have to wait longer.
But remember, running a VPS is only for admins who know what they’re doing. If you have no sysadmin experience, go with managed hosting and save yourself a lot of time and headaches.
Reviews
The reviews of SpeedyPage I could find are overwhelmingly positive. On Trustpilot, there are only 5-star reviews, and on Google, 9 out of 10 reviews are 5-star:
SpeedyPage is green powered
According to information on their website, SpeedyPage tries to use 100% renewable energy only, and where they fall short due to circumstances outside of their control, they plant trees to make up for the difference.
Taking action against climate change is something that I believe is very important, and I like to support companies that take a stand against this global issue.
Things I’d like to see in the future
There is one function that I’m missing on SpeedyPage, and that is snapshots. The ability to take snapshots is very helpful to a sysadmin and can save you a ton of time and headaches.
For example, before upgrading the production system, you can take a snapshot and spin it up on another server instance, testing it for any issues before deploying the upgrade live.
One caveat is that snapshots are only efficient if you also have hourly billing because no one wants to pay the hosting fee for a month just to test some things for a few hours.
Conclusion
To sum up, I’m very impressed with the VPS offerings of SpeedyPage. The CPU performance is 3 times as fast as Vultr High Performance at less than half the price.
The only drawback I can think of is the lack of snapshots, and I don’t consider this crucial. It’s certainly not worth paying an extra 30 bucks just for this feature on Vultr, when there are other ways of doing backups.
In short, I highly recommend SpeedyPage. Feel free to post your experiences with them in the comments below. If you need help provisioning or managing your VPS server, reach out.