Last week, user Someshzade from Nexaracks reached out at LowEndSpirit. He wanted to know if I would be interested in running Benchmarks and testing out their new VPS. My reply was, hell yes! Withing a few minutes, he sent another message with the VPS details. Default operating system the VPS came with was CentOs, which was not to my liking. In Virtualizor Panel, the options available were : Ubuntu 16,04, CentOS, and Windows . I opted for Ubuntu, even though my personal preference is Debian if available. Anyways, were are not here to discuss the merits or lack of) Linux distributions.
A few months ago, I had run benchmarks on a VPS from Nexracks – Mumbai location (hosted on Leapswitch). Unfortunately, I lost the benchmark results (my fault entirely!). I had reached out to Someshzade via PM on LES – and had volunteered to run another set of tests. At that time, there were some other matters on their plate (as well as mine!). Over the weekend, I was contacted again on PM, and was asked if I would like to run some BM tests. My reply was, Hell Yes!“
A little bit about the VPS: Hosted on IoFlood in Phoenix, Arizona.
Add screenshots of the VPS, some basics. Disk speeds indicate SSD, network speeds to Asia (Tokyo,Singapore, HongKong are in single digits, so also in all European locations. iPerf3 gave relatively better results.
Lets do the basic tests
Ping Test
Below are the speeds I get from Bengaluru
--- 162.213.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 359.231/402.917/449.436/36.880 ms
sanganak-mac:~ amar$ ping -c 3 162.213.xxx.xxx0
PING 162.213.xxx.xxx (162.213.xxx.xxx): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 162.213.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=353.738 ms
64 bytes from 162.213.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=348.638 ms
64 bytes from 162.213.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=294.166 ms
--- 162.213.xxx.xxx0 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 294.166/332.181/353.738/26.961 ms
sanganak-mac:~ amar$ ping -c 3 162.213.xxx.xxx
PING 162.213.210.xxx (162.213.210.xxx): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 162.213.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=286.119 ms
64 bytes from 162.213.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=333.806 ms
64 bytes from 162.213.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=240.396 msCPU
amar@ashes1:~$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 4
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 62
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
Stepping: 4
CPU MHz: 2799.998
BogoMIPS: 5599.99
Hypervisor vendor: KVM
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 25600K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
Memory
amar@ashes1:~$
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 5825 48 5625 7 151 5717
Swap: 0 0 0
Disk
amar@ashes1:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 583M 8.0M 575M 2% /run
/dev/sda1 60G 1.4G 55G 3% /
tmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 583M 0 583M 0% /run/user/1000bench.sh
amar@ashes1:/tmp$ curl -Lso- bench.sh | bash
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CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2799.998 MHz
Total size of Disk : 60.0 GB (2.2 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 5825 MB (69 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 1 hour 27 min
Load average : 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
OS : Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.4.0-21-generic
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I/O speed(1st run) : 565 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 581 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 601 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 582.3 MB/s
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Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 68.8MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 1.47MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 8.55MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 8.56MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 8.37MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 56.3MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 39.2MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 25.4MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 8.99MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 6.99MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 8.25MB/s
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Mon Apr 20 08:19:26 EDT 2020
Basic System Information:
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores : 4 @ 2799.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 5.7G
Swap : 0B
Disk : 60G
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4kb (IOPS) | 64kb (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 4.46 MB/s (1.1k) | 51.22 MB/s (800)
Write | 4.48 MB/s (1.1k) | 51.54 MB/s (805)
Total | 8.95 MB/s (2.2k) | 102.76 MB/s (1.6k)
| |
Block Size | 512kb (IOPS) | 1mb (IOPS)
------ | ----- ---- | --- ----
Read | 164.62 MB/s (321) | 196.13 MB/s (191)
Write | 173.37 MB/s (338) | 209.19 MB/s (204)
Total | 338.00 MB/s (659) | 405.32 MB/s (395)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Bouygues Telecom | Paris, FR (10G) | 836 Mbits/sec | 362 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 860 Mbits/sec | 363 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | busy | busy
wilhelm.tel | Hamburg, DE (10G) | 697 Mbits/sec | 279 Mbits/sec
Biznet | Bogor, Indonesia (1G) | 704 Mbits/sec | 81.3 Mbits/sec
Hostkey | Moscow, RU (1G) | 812 Mbits/sec | 672 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 903 Mbits/sec | 613 Mbits/sec
Airstream Communications | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G) | 899 Mbits/sec | 833 Mbits/sec
Hurricane Electric | Fremont, CA, US (10G) | 944 Mbits/sec | 934 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 645
Multi Core | 2418
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1856436
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2020-04-20 12:35:46 UTC
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Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores: 4
Frequency: 2799.998 MHz
RAM: 5.7G
Swap: -
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
Disks:
sda 60G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
2.990 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
4.964 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.539 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 293.6 us / 458.2 us / 18.8 ms / 253.2 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 6.54 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.60 GiB, 1.31 k iops, 326.7 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 444.41 MiB/s
2nd run: 523.57 MiB/s
3rd run: 556.95 MiB/s
average: 508.31 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 162.213.210.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 77.07 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 9.88 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 38.71 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 9.09 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 21.30 MiB/s
No IPv6 connectivity detectedamar@ashes1:/tmp$ ./speedtest -s 16529
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: WOW Solutions & Systems Pvt. Ltd - Pune (id = 16529)
ISP: Input Output Flood LLC
Latency: 243.15 ms (0.96 ms jitter)
Download: 756.95 Mbps (data used: 1.1 GB)
Upload: 323.20 Mbps (data used: 396.5 MB)
Packet Loss: Not available.
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/1d09d57b-6277-4879-a482-fd76cc29f122
amar@ashes1:/tmp$ ./speedtest -s 19176
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: Seans Media Pvt Ltd - Bangalore (id = 19176)
ISP: Input Output Flood LLC
Latency: 227.70 ms (1.97 ms jitter)
Download: 375.62 Mbps (data used: 577.6 MB)
Upload: 229.01 Mbps (data used: 380.9 MB)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/bd5db77e-3653-41b3-b1ce-ec1312e7ef91
amar@ashes1:/tmp$ ./speedtest -s 18976
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: Airtel Broadband - Bangalore (id = 18976)
ISP: Input Output Flood LLC
Latency: 251.78 ms (0.10 ms jitter)
Download: 319.41 Mbps (data used: 407.8 MB)
Upload: 271.77 Mbps (data used: 410.9 MB)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/05da6798-25d0-4c91-bb13-467e3dae904b
amar@ashes1:/tmp$ ./speedtest -s 10388
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: Speedtest.net - Chennai (id = 10388)
ISP: Input Output Flood LLC
Latency: 216.67 ms (0.07 ms jitter)
Download: 906.92 Mbps (data used: 1.4 GB)
Upload: 339.13 Mbps (data used: 442.2 MB)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/5e691358-f39c-4ef6-a2bb-2beaef29f2c2Concluding remarks and comments
Good speeds for Pune / Mumbai region (download and upload). Others in APAC region may want to check for respective locations. Overall a stock VPS with no surprises, which is not a bad thing. With the exception of Ubuntu 16.04 as the default, there were no other quirks. Connection was steady. Geekbench scores show the processor to be decent, nothing that will fly a rocket ship – so to speak.
The question(s) that need to be answered are:
a. What will be the price point(s) at which this VPS will be offered, and what configurations?
b. Long-term how will it perform?
This is not to question IOflood’s service or the intent of the provider, but too early to call it either ways. As far as the provider’s ability to communicate, customer support, bugs, error addressing etc are concerned- again no experience for VPS. I do have a shared hosting plan with them, but in the overall scheme of things, those are questions for which time can provide answers. To sum it all up, a new player in the market is always welcome!
This post is a part of the series of Benchmarks and reviews I have done for multiple providers and Virtual Private Servers.You can review the entire list by clicking here.
This post was updated on 2022-03-07