Since last year, TransIP offers virtual private servers (VPSes). I have been playing with the M version for the past week. This particular VPS has 512 MB of RAM, 10 GB of harddisk space and one CPU core, and I ran UnixBench on it. Here are the results:
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 24917048.3 2135.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3413.4 620.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 4520.4 1051.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 882288.4 2228.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 260223.5 1572.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1378435.4 2376.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2369954.3 1905.1
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 387771.4 969.4
Process Creation 126.0 14882.1 1181.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 6816.5 1607.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 898.3 1497.2
System Call Overhead 15000.0 4303337.7 2868.9
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System Benchmarks Index Score 1537.7Edit 29/03/2012: their offer has gotten better, with more disk space.