Introduction
I am publishing a post about running benchmarks on server after a while. In this post, you will find the benchmark tests on a VPS located in Chicago, by Racknerd.
Background
During Black Friday 2020, I had surprisingly won a 1 year “freebie” from Racknerd… they had posted their offers on LowEndTalk. I actually won twice, but I ended up returning one freebie.You can read about my Black Friday 2020 “bounty” (web hosting plans I signed up for) in this post.
I was not sure then what to do with this VPS. Racknerd after all have a mixed reputation. Without getting into the debate, let me share my experience with this VPS, which is located in Chicago.The VPS has been running non stop for 276 days.
Update December 2021
I have discontinued this service as a part of consolidating services. You can read my other reviews for VPS on this page.
$amar@vyas26:~$ uptime 15:40:58 up 276 days, 8:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Specifications of the VPS are as follows
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz, 2 vCores RAM: Mem:1987 Swap: 2047 Disk: 49 GB Bandwidth: 5 TB
Running Benchmarks on Server
How is this VPS performing nearly 9 months later, in August 2021?
Let us take a look at the benchmarks (BM) on this server and some questions may get answered automatically. The following BM’s were run on this VPS by me:
1. YABS – Yet Another Benchmarking Script
3. Nench
YABS (Yet Another Benchmarking Script)
YABS is a popular script to run Benchmarks on Server. You can learn more about this benchmarking script on their github page.
Fri Aug 27 12:45:37 BST 2021
Basic System Information:
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores : 2 @ 2800.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 2.0 GiB
Disk : 42.3 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 76.39 MB/s (19.0k) | 652.21 MB/s (10.1k)
Write | 76.60 MB/s (19.1k) | 655.64 MB/s (10.2k)
Total | 152.99 MB/s (38.2k) | 1.30 GB/s (20.4k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
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Read | 779.13 MB/s (1.5k) | 718.94 MB/s (702)
Write | 820.52 MB/s (1.6k) | 766.82 MB/s (748)
Total | 1.59 GB/s (3.1k) | 1.48 GB/s (1.4k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 344 Mbits/sec | 256 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 370 Mbits/sec | 293 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 157 Mbits/sec | 224 Mbits/sec
Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | busy | busy
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 760 Mbits/sec | 514 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 508 Mbits/sec | 439 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 508 Mbits/sec | 409 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 270 Mbits/sec | 343 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 2521
Multi Core | 4485
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16322153
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 511
Multi Core | 918
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/9533276Bench.monster for India
Bench.monster is another popular script that is used to run benchmarks on server.
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OS : Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : Dedicated / 5.4.0-28-generic
CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Cores : 2 @ 2800.000 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
Load Average : 0.05, 0.42, 0.32
Total Space : 43G (4.5G ~12% used)
Total RAM : 1987 MB (120 MB + 696 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 2047 MB (2 MB in use)
Uptime : 276 days 6:1
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ASN & ISP : AS36352, ColoCrossing
Organization : ColoCrossing
Location : Chicago, United States / US
Region : Illinois
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Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : 2555 (GOOD)
Multi Core : 4480
IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 90.6 MB/s
sha256 : 144 MB/s
md5sum : 368 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 786.5 MB/s
Avg. read : 2389.3 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 381 MB/s
2nd run : 423 MB/s
3rd run : 854 MB/s
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Average : 552.7 MB/s
Location Upload Download Ping
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Nearby 487.87 Mbit/s 383.19 Mbit/s 40.93 ms
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India, New Delhi (Weebo) 24.19 Mbit/s 58.54 Mbit/s 275.687 ms
India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 18.87 Mbit/s 59.90 Mbit/s 239.708 ms
India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 19.95 Mbit/s 14.33 Mbit/s 235.391 ms
India, Nagpur (optbb) 46.36 Mbit/s 125.35 Mbit/s 246.516 ms
India, Patna (Airtel) 20.16 Mbit/s 97.62 Mbit/s 249.685 ms
India, Kolkata (Vodafone) 19.78 Mbit/s 10.84 Mbit/s 229.018 ms
India, Visakhapatnam (Alliance) 46.26 Mbit/s 89.77 Mbit/s 262.781 ms
India, Hyderabad (I-ON) 45.49 Mbit/s 97.84 Mbit/s 249.643 ms
India, Madurai (Niss Broadband) 16.78 Mbit/s 15.36 Mbit/s 239.633 ms
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Finished in : 8 min 39 sec
Timestamp : 2021-08-27 12:11:42 GMT
Saved in : /root/speedtest.log
Share results:
- https://www.speedtest.net/result/11944504714.png
- https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16322168
- https://clbin.com/ccgoSRunning nench.sh benchmarks on server
I have not run this test on a VPS for a long time, so I thought f giving it a try here. Below are the results from the test. Nench. sh runs the benchmarks on server twice, posting results from one run only.
Click to expand and view
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2021-08-27 14:57:48 UTC
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Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores: 2
Frequency: 2800.000 MHz
RAM: 1.9Gi
Swap: 2.0Gi
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-28-generic x86_64
Disks:
vda 45G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3.388 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
5.881 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.968 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 76.9 us / 123.8 us / 8.03 ms / 118.1 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 18.7 k requests in 5.00 s, 4.56 GiB, 3.74 k iops, 934.9 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 339.51 MiB/s
2nd run: 605.58 MiB/s
3rd run: 638.01 MiB/s
average: 527.70 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 198.46.160.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 80.26 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 8.94 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 45.84 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.05 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 34.47 MiB/s
No IPv6 connectivity detected
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Disk Performance
As a sanity check I ran the good ol’ dd test on this VPS
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 32.9251 s, 32.6 MB/s
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 16 Feb ’23