free trial period

[Rusher]

If a virtual server gives you a free trial period of, say, 14 days, what should you test out specifically? I wouldn't want to do too much work on a server only to realize I'm not going to keep it!

[suwunk]

1.Check your VPS performance

Tools: byte-unixbench - A Unix benchmark suite - Google Project Hosting

2. Test Download speed

Start the test by downloading the file:
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test

3. Test I/O

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync