[andriussev]

They offer Atom processors (at least on the 2.99/mo VPS):

link to tests: http://pastebin.com/raw/kfaF7Nas

Pretty bad results compared to the resources offered. I'll just stop now :(

Contemplating moving to Linode now...

[jsnathan]

As far as the CPU goes, try re-running sysbench with --num-threads=2. Since you get two cores, if your app can take advantage of that, the speed is about the same as the others.