OWS Octopus Web Solution Singapore Intel Xeon Elastic Virtual Machine Test and Review
To gauge the real-world potential of the OWS Octopus Web Solution Singapore Elastic Virtual Machine (Plan: 2C-4G), our team put this modest cloud server through its paces. Powered by an Intel Xeon Skylake processor, it offers 2 CPU cores, 4 GB of RAM, 40 GB of SSD storage, and a 1 Gbps internet port—specs tailored for small to mid-sized businesses seeking affordable infrastructure. The goal? Assess its performance for IT managers and decision-makers eyeing a reliable VPS for workloads like web hosting, content delivery, or regional services, focusing on CPU, memory, disk, network, and streaming capabilities.
About OWS (Octopus Web Solution)
OWS, also referred to as OWS.US, is headquartered in Spokane, Washington, and was founded in 2021. Its mission is to provide low-latency, high-bandwidth, flexible, and reliable edge computing services, empowering businesses with faster, cost-effective, and efficient computing resources. This focus positions OWS as a modern solution for digital transformation, particularly in cloud and edge computing environments.
Services Offered
OWS offers a diverse range of services tailored to various business needs:
- Virtual Machines (VMs): Ideal for scalable computing, with plans like ECS (Elastic Compute Service) for smaller companies, offering excellent performance, stability, and reliability with elastic expansion capabilities.
- Bare Metal Servers (BMS): Designed for medium to large enterprises, providing on-demand, high-performance solutions.
- Infrastructure and Platform Services: Includes NVIDIA GPUs, virtual CPUs, Kubernetes, storage, and networking solutions, supporting advanced computing needs.
- Software and Application Support: Ensures compatibility and functionality across different environments.
The company supports a wide array of operating systems, including Debian 10, 11, 12; Windows 2012, 2016, 2019; Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04; and CentOS 7.3, 7.5, 7.6, 7.9, 8, ensuring flexibility for users.
Pricing
Official Website: https://ows.us
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Basic Information
Processor : Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU Numbers : 2
CPU Frequency : 2494.138 MHz
CPU Cache : L1: 128.00 KB / L2: 8.00 MB / L3: 32.00 MB
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 286.43 MiB / 3.83 GiB
Swap : [ no swap partition or swap file detected ]
Disk Space : 1.43 GiB / 36.48 GiB
Boot Disk : /dev/sda3
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 10 min
Loads : 0.47, 0.32, 0.20
OS Release : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) (x86_64)
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel Version : 5.10.0-31-amd64
TCP Acceleration : bbr
VM Type : KVM
NAT Type : Full Cone
IPV4 ASN : AS984 OCTOPUS WEB SOLUTION INC
IPV4 Location : Singapore / Singapore / SG
IPV6 Subnet Mask : 128
CPU Benchmark
---------------------------CPU-Sysbench-Test----------------------------
-> CPU test in progress (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
1 Thread(s) Test: 911 Scores
2 Thread(s) Test: 1799 Scores
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 803
Multi Core | 1382
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/13150578
YABS completed in 10 min 48 sec
RAM Read/Write Tests
----------------------------Memory-Test---------------------------------
-> Memory Test (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
Single Read Test: 17953.41 MB/s
Single Write Test: 12799.34 MB/s
Running memory speed test with the following options:
block size: 1KiB
total size: 102400MiB
operation: read
scope: global
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
Total operations: 50637782 (5060725.09 per second)
49450.96 MiB transferred (4942.11 MiB/sec)
General statistics:
total time: 10.0006s
total number of events: 50637782
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.00
max: 6.00
95th percentile: 0.00
sum: 3273.49
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 50637782.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 3.2735/0.00
Running memory speed test with the following options:
block size: 1KiB
total size: 102400MiB
operation: write
scope: global
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
Total operations: 39659036 (3964744.07 per second)
38729.53 MiB transferred (3871.82 MiB/sec)
General statistics:
total time: 10.0003s
total number of events: 39659036
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.00
max: 11.99
95th percentile: 0.00
sum: 4669.54
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 39659036.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 4.6695/0.00
Disk Read/Write Tests
------------------------Disk-dd-Read/Write-Test-------------------------
-> Disk test in progress (4K Block/1M Block, Direct Mode)
Block Size Write Test Read Test
100MB-4K Block 8.3 MB/s (2015 IOPS, 12.70s) 4.4 MB/s (1075 IOPS, 23.80s)
1GB-1M Block 53.4 MB/s (51 IOPS, 19.63s) 136 MB/s (129 IOPS, 7.71s)
-----------------------Disk-fio-Read/Write-Test-------------------------
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 7.98 MB/s (1.9k) | 97.59 MB/s (1.5k)
Write | 8.02 MB/s (2.0k) | 98.10 MB/s (1.5k)
Total | 16.01 MB/s (4.0k) | 195.69 MB/s (3.0k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 93.17 MB/s (181) | 92.05 MB/s (89)
Write | 98.12 MB/s (191) | 98.18 MB/s (95)
Total | 191.29 MB/s (372) | 190.23 MB/s (184)
Iperf3 Network Tests
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 950 Mbits/sec | 353 Mbits/sec | 166 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 909 Mbits/sec | 552 Mbits/sec | 241 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 975 Mbits/sec | 272 Mbits/sec | 133 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 1.10 Gbits/sec | 1.05 Gbits/sec | 1.29 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 943 Mbits/sec | 398 Mbits/sec | 168 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 867 Mbits/sec | 902 Mbits/sec | 234 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 706 Mbits/sec | 263 Mbits/sec | 318 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | busy | busy | 166 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | busy | busy | 241 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | busy | busy | 134 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | busy | busy | 1.73 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy | busy | 168 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | busy | busy | 235 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | busy | busy | 318 ms Streaming Unlock Tests
============[ Multination ]============
Dazn: Yes (Region: SG)
Disney+: Yes (Region: SG)
Netflix: Yes (Region: SG)
YouTube Premium: Yes (Region: SG)
Amazon Prime Video: Yes (Region: SG)
TVBAnywhere+: Yes
Spotify Registration: Yes (Region: SG)
OneTrust Region: SG [Unknown]
iQyi Oversea Region: SG
Bing Region: SG
Apple Region: SG
YouTube CDN: Singapore
Netflix Preferred CDN: Failed (CDN IP Not Found)
ChatGPT: Yes
Google Gemini: Yes (Region: SGP)
Claude: Yes
Wikipedia Editability: Yes
Google Play Store: Singapore
Google Search CAPTCHA Free: Yes
Steam Currency: SGD
---Forum---
Reddit: Yes
---Game---
SD Gundam G Generation Eternal: Yes
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IP Quality Detection
Data for reference only, does not represent 100% accurate, if and the actual situation is not consistent with the manual query multiple database comparison
The following is the number of each database, the output will come with the corresponding number of the database source
ipinfo databases [0] | scamalytics databases [1] | virustotal databases [2] | abuseipdb databases [3] | ip2location databases [4]
ip-api databases [5] | ipwhois databases [6] | ipregistry databases [7] | ipdata databases [8] | db-ip databases [9]
ipapiis databases [A] | ipapicom databases [B] | bigdatacloud databases [C] | dkly databases [D] | ipqualityscore databases [E]
IPV4:
Security Score:
Reputation: 0 [2]
TrustScore: 28 [8]
VpnScore: 19 [8]
ProxyScore: 100 [8]
CommunityVoteHarmless: 0 [2]
CommunityVoteMalicious: 0 [2]
ThreatScore: 98 [8]
FraudScore: 16 [1] 65 [E]
AbuseScore: 0 [3]
ASNAbuseScore: 0.0001 (Very Low) [A]
CompannyAbuseScore: 0.0078 (Low) [A]
ThreatLevel: low [9]
Blacklist_Records_Statistics(how many blacklisted websites have records):
HarmlessnessRecords: 0 [2] MaliciousRecords: 0 [2] SuspiciousRecords: 0 [2] NoRecords: 94 [2]
Security Info:
UsageType: hosting [A] unknown [C] corporate [9] business [8] FixedLineISP [3] isp [0 7]
CompanyType: hosting [A] isp [0 7]
IsCloudProvider: No [7]
IsDatacenter: Yes [1 A] No [0 5 6 8 C]
IsMobile: No [5 A C] Yes [E]
IsProxy: Yes [E] No [0 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 A C]
IsVpn: Yes [E] No [0 1 6 7 A C]
IsTor: No [0 1 3 6 7 8 A C E]
IsTorExit: No [1 7]
IsCrawler: No [9 A E]
IsAnonymous: No [1 6 7 8]
IsAttacker: No [7 8]
IsAbuser: No [7 8 A C E]
IsThreat: No [7 8 C]
IsRelay: No [0 7 8 C]
IsBogon: No [7 8 A C]
IsBot: No [E]
DNS-BlackList: 315(Total_Check) 0(Clean) 7(Blacklisted) 25(Other)
Google search feasibility: NO
Email Port Detection
Platform SMTP SMTPS POP3 POP3S IMAP IMAPS
LocalPort ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
QQ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
163 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Sohu ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Yandex ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Gmail ✔ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Outlook ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Office365 ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Yahoo ✔ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
MailCOM ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
MailRU ✔ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘
AOL ✔ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
GMX ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Sina ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Apple ✘ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
FastMail ✘ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
ProtonMail✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
MXRoute ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Namecrane ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘
XYAMail ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
ZohoMail ✘ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Inbox_eu ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘
Free_fr ✘ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘ Looking Glass
None
Global Latency Tests
Query: ping 154.196.187.68, interval: 5s, dense mode: no
Probing 154.196.187.68 – ARIN /17 AS984 OWS-NETWORK – Singapore, Singapore [hosting]
CloudFlare Internet Tests
PageSpeed Insights
Admin Control Panel
Conclusion
The VM’s CPU held its own, posting Geekbench 6 scores of 803 (single-core) and 1382 (multi-core)—decent for moderate tasks. Memory performance was surprising, with read speeds hitting 17,953 MB/s, though write speeds lagged at 12,799 MB/s. Disk I/O told a mixed story: 4K block tests crawled at 4.4 MB/s (read) and 8.3 MB/s (write), but 1M block speeds jumped to 136 MB/s (read) and 53.4 MB/s (write). Network tests shone locally, with 1.05 Gbps receive and 1.10 Gbps send in Singapore, yet global speeds tapered to 263-902 Mbits/sec. Streaming unlocked Netflix and Disney+ seamlessly in Singapore, but IP quality raised red flags, with a ProxyScore of 100 and a TrustScore of 28.
This VM flexes its muscles for Asia-centric deployments—think of it as a sprinter dominating a local track but losing steam on a global marathon. The robust local network and streaming prowess make it a gem for content delivery or regional apps. Yet, the sluggish disk write speeds could trip up database-heavy operations, much like a sports car stuck in city traffic. The IP reputation issues—flagged as a potential proxy—might spook services strict about security, though its email port versatility (supporting SMTP and IMAPS across platforms) adds a handy twist. For lighter workloads, it’s a solid contender; for write-intensive tasks, proceed with caution.
The OWS Singapore VM strikes a compelling balance of cost and capability for businesses targeting the Asia-Pacific. Its local network speeds and streaming support are standout features, ideal for media or communication hubs. That said, IT admins should weigh the disk write bottlenecks and IP trust concerns against their needs, especially for global or security-sensitive applications. It’s not flawless, but for regional performance on a budget, this VM delivers where it counts. Consider it a practical pick, not a perfect one.
Official Website: https://ows.us
