Lets benchmark the VPS and Dedicated Servers

You'll only be able to do this if you have root level access.

wget http://members.dslextreme.com/users/...1.0-wht.tar.gz
gunzip -dvc unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd unixbench-4.1.0-wht
make
./Run

Credit to this thread at WHT

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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht)
System -- Linux host.brokensnooze.com 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 18:00:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
/dev/sda3             10317860   3231156   6562584  33% /usr

Start Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 26 21:31:02 EDT 2006
 21:31:02 up 23 days, 10:38,  1 user,  load average: 1.26, 2.18, 2.75

End Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 26 21:41:25 EDT 2006
 21:41:25 up 23 days, 10:49,  1 user,  load average: 15.88, 6.89, 4.26


                     INDEX VALUES
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        376783.7 29118320.0      772.8
Double-Precision Whetstone                      83.1     1456.9      175.3
Execl Throughput                               188.3     9148.2      485.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         2672.0   130159.0      487.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1077.0    35689.0      331.4
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        15382.0  1252436.0      814.2
Pipe-based Context Switching                 15448.6   866274.8      560.7
Pipe Throughput                             111814.6  2687783.5      240.4
Process Creation                               569.3    25451.6      447.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    44.8     1688.7      376.9
System Call Overhead                        114433.5  2571198.0      224.7
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     FINAL SCORE                                                      401.9