Introduction: Avoro’s offer for VPS Webhosting in Frankfurt
Note: The KVM VPS service from Avoro was discontinued in July 2020. Avoro and PHP Friends have merged in early 2022, a good combination of two good German webhosts. They continue to offer webhosting in Frankfurt.
Below you will find the original post which was published in February 2020.
Avoro recently posted their AMD EPYC special offer on Low End Talk. This was the same offer they had posted during the “Palindrome Day” deals thread.
Previously I had had considered their Black Friday offer but decided against it. This time around, for a little over 3 Euros a month, they offered the following:
Specifications of the KVM VPS
AMD EPYC special
1 dedicated CPU core
5 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
50 GB SSD
10 Gbit / s shared
1x IPv4 & 1x IPv6 / 64
2 TB traffic
DDoS Protection
Location: First Colo / Frankfurt am Main
This was a good set of specs for the price and I decided to dive in.A KVM VPS on AMD Epyc Processor, 5 GB RAM, for under 4 US Dollars a month is a good price. Note that this is a minimum 3 months term contract, and you have to pay in advance. For non-EU residents,at the time of check out, do not pay the invoice, wait till a new invoice (which excludes the VAT) is generated.
Upon ordering, the server took about 6 hours to be provisioned.
Benchmarks for Webhosting based in Frankfurt
I ran the usual battery of tests : YABS, Bench.sh, nench.sh
The results from Speedtest and YABS are posted below.
YABS or Yet Another Benchmark Script
> $ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
Fri Feb 7 00:32:27 CET 2020
Basic System Information:
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Processor : AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core Processor
CPU cores : 2 @ 2299.996 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 4.8G
Swap : 975M
Disk : 48G
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4kb (IOPS) | 64kb (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 163.75 MB/s (40.9k) | 511.28 MB/s (7.9k)
Write | 164.18 MB/s (41.0k) | 513.97 MB/s (8.0k)
Total | 327.93 MB/s (81.9k) | 1.02 GB/s (16.0k)
| |
Block Size | 512kb (IOPS) | 1mb (IOPS)
------ | ----- ---- | --- ----
Read | 648.12 MB/s (1.2k) | 685.66 MB/s (669)
Write | 682.55 MB/s (1.3k) | 731.32 MB/s (714)
Total | 1.33 GB/s (2.5k) | 1.41 GB/s (1.3k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Bouygues Telecom | Paris, FR (10G) | 2.67 Gbits/sec | 6.02 Gbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 3.09 Gbits/sec | 4.87 Gbits/sec
Worldstream | The Netherlands (10G) | 1.96 Gbits/sec | 5.09 Gbits/sec
wilhelm.tel | Hamburg, DE (10G) | 4.03 Gbits/sec | 6.07 Gbits/sec
Biznet | Bogor, Indonesia (1G) | 532 Mbits/sec | 91.3 Mbits/sec
Hostkey | Moscow, RU (1G) | 923 Mbits/sec | 922 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 715 Mbits/sec | 1.48 Gbits/sec
Airstream Communications | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G) | 491 Mbits/sec | 1.04 Gbits/sec
Hurricane Electric | Fremont, CA, US (10G) | 760 Mbits/sec | 1.07 Gbits/sec
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 4358
Multi Core | 7819
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15206423
Speedtest
Speeds to Bengaluru are not bad!
The below tests were run separately using the official command line (CLI) tool from speedtest.net
DBroadband (the slow boat)
Jio Broadband
Conclusion: Avoro’s KVM VPS on AMD EPYC Processor
This AMD Epyc based KVM – Virtual Private Server from Avoro looks like a good buy. I am setting it up with Gridpane to create a test website, for further testing. At 3 Euros a month (less than 250 INR at current exchange rate) this one looks like a keeper? Time will tell.
This post was updated on 15 Feb ’13