Category: VPS Review

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_{This post was updated on 2022-01-27}

NATVPS from UK offered 1 GB VPS NAT for testing – more RAM and disk space compared to base case for NAT. But was curious to check how it fared. (more…)

Introduction: VPS service from Webhorizon in Poland

Webhorizon, a webhosting provider from India, had posted an offer on the low end talk about a VPS in November 2021. The location was interesting: Romania. I already had a VPS in that location with the once popular (and now maligned host, Hostsolutions).

For the Webhorizon VPS, the specifications and the price looked interesting enough since this was a pre-launch offer. At that time I was in the process of consolidating the providers, and since I already had a couple of services with Webhorizon, namely an email service as well as a NAT, or a network attached terminal in Singapore. Therefore, it made sense to have one more service with them.

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Introduction

Offer by Stromonic on LES.

Hardware Specs:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680
Memory 64GB – 384GB
Base Frequency 2.70 GHz Turbo Frequency 3.50 GHz
1Gbit/s Ports / Premium Network
SSD Drives with Raid Protection

YABS

Link to this benchmark on LES

$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash

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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2021-06-05                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Thu Oct  7 10:34:20 EDT 2021

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge, IBRS update)
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2699.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 2.0 GiB
Disk       : 47.8 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 109.57 MB/s  (27.3k) | 1.36 GB/s    (21.2k)
Write      | 109.86 MB/s  (27.4k) | 1.36 GB/s    (21.3k)
Total      | 219.44 MB/s  (54.8k) | 2.73 GB/s    (42.6k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 3.34 GB/s     (6.5k) | 3.46 GB/s     (3.3k)
Write      | 3.52 GB/s     (6.8k) | 3.70 GB/s     (3.6k)
Total      | 6.87 GB/s    (13.4k) | 7.16 GB/s     (7.0k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                |                           |                 |                
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 824 Mbits/sec   | 151 Mbits/sec  
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 841 Mbits/sec   | 176 Mbits/sec  
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 798 Mbits/sec   | busy 
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | busy            | busy 
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | 81.3 Mbits/sec 
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | busy            | 115 Mbits/sec  
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 152 Mbits/sec  
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | busy            | 99.9 Mbits/sec 

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 687                           
Multi Core      | 684                           
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10289782

Bench.monster

Link to this benchmark on LES

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 OS           : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (64 Bit)
 Virt/Kernel  : KVM / 5.10.0-8-amd64
 CPU Model    : Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge, IBRS update)
 CPU Cores    : 1 @ 2699.998 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
 CPU Flags    : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
 Load Average : 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
 Total Space  : 48G (1.9G ~4% used)
 Total RAM    : 1982 MB (55 MB + 232 MB Buff in use)
 Total SWAP   : 2046 MB (0 MB in use)
 Uptime       : 0 days 0:2
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 ASN & ISP    : AS133296, Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd.
 Organization : Hostgoi Technologies Private Limited
 Location     : Haldibari, India / IN
 Region       : West Bengal
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

  Single Core : 2887  (GOOD)
   Multi Core : 2858

 ## IO Test

 CPU Speed:
    bzip2     : 101 MB/s
   sha256     : 144 MB/s
   md5sum     : 442 MB/s

 RAM Speed:
   Avg. write : 1774.9 MB/s
   Avg. read  : 4676.3 MB/s

 Disk Speed:
   1st run    : 354 MB/s
   2nd run    : 348 MB/s
   3rd run    : 348 MB/s
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   Average    : 350.0 MB/s

## Asia Speedtest.net

 Location                         Upload           Download         Ping   
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 Nearby                           34.20 Mbit/s     300.28 Mbit/s   * 288.816 ms
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 India, New Delhi (Weebo)         229.53 Mbit/s    1.24 Mbit/s      40.079 ms
 India, Mumbai (SevenStar)        280.90 Mbit/s    249.29 Mbit/s     1.197 ms
 India, Bengaluru (I-ON)          241.63 Mbit/s    454.71 Mbit/s    18.641 ms
 Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom)  19.52 Mbit/s     16.93 Mbit/s    235.924 ms
 Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel)       51.45 Mbit/s     110.82 Mbit/s    76.766 ms
 Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 146.69 Mbit/s    41.63 Mbit/s     88.698 ms
Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo)      151.24 Mbit/s    254.80 Mbit/s   102.583 ms
 Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone)       12.57 Mbit/s     100.56 Mbit/s   204.067 ms
 Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom)  7.88 Mbit/s      95.65 Mbit/s     83.642 ms
 Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart)     145.46 Mbit/s    20.88 Mbit/s     83.110 ms
 Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel)         63.07 Mbit/s     4.60 Mbit/s     107.500 ms
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 155.38 Mbit/s    13.61 Mbit/s     93.548 ms
 Singapore (PT FirstMedia)        193.10 Mbit/s    141.16 Mbit/s    53.564 ms
ping: speedtest.desnet.id: Temporary failure in name resolution
 Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet)      48.18 Mbit/s     75.18 Mbit/s    ping error!
 Philippines, Manila (Globe Tel)  73.66 Mbit/s     85.12 Mbit/s    110.637 ms
 Hong Kong (fdcservers)           19.99 Mbit/s     61.98 Mbit/s    241.143 ms
Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO)           10.51 Mbit/s     17.19 Mbit/s    216.055 ms
 Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther)       101.80 Mbit/s    61.49 Mbit/s    141.998 ms
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 Finished in : 25 min 55 sec
 Timestamp   : 2021-10-07 12:19:31 GMT
 Saved in    : /root/speedtest.log

 Share results:
 - https://www.speedtest.net/result/12150072690.png
 - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16372858

Speedtest Result

Note: 1. About this provider: Hostgoi, Stomonic, HostWinks are related companies. https://bgp.he.net/AS146930#_whois

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_{This post was updated on 2022-03-06}

In this post, you will find results form running a benchmark on Nexusbytes’ Entry level series (called Entrybytes) for Netherlands location.

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In November 2020, I decided to upgrade the Nexusbytes Ryzen KVM VPS in Singapore, and by end of December 2020, the New York VPS will be discontinued. Below are the results from the benchmarks for the upgraded server in Singapore. Update February 2022: This service was discontinued in Mid-2021, but as on January 2022, I have re-subscribed to a VPS in Singapore under a special offer posted by Nexusbytes. The benchmark results for the same has been added in lieu of the “incomplete” YABS that was posted earlier. (more…)

In this post I will write about the Greencloud’s KVM based VPS in Singapore, a hefty machine with 12 GB RAM from last month. This deal was a part of Black Friday 2020 offers.

During Black Friday 2020, Greencloud VPS had posted several offers with some great discounts. It was not just the pricing but also the combination and the locations that made things really interesting. Particularly in Asia, their locations (Vietnam-Hanoi, Singapore and Tokyo) were quite interesting.

I noticed in one of the discussions that they had a particular plan in Singapore (titled BFNVMeSG-3), with the following specifications:

12GB, 4CPU, 50GB NVMe, 4TB @1gbps. Price recurring at US $65/yr. In terms of price to specifications ratio, getting this VPS was a no brainer.

This would make it probably one of the cheapest servers and data limits are was also quite generous.

 

Ordering (mini) Hiccup

When I placed my order, it actually got detected as a fraud. I sent them my ID proof, and within 10 minutes the server was provisioned. This has been one of the smoothest purchase experiences for me, in spite of the minor hiccup of my order initially getting flagged.

With this information, let us move on to the server itself. Note that I limited the number of locations for YABS because my main interest is in connectivity to Asia, particularly India.

Benchmark Tests

bench.monster

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 OS           : Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (64 Bit)
 Virt/Kernel  : KVM / 5.4.0-54-generic
 CPU Model    : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
 CPU Cores    : 4 @ 2599.996 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
 CPU Flags    : AES-NI Disabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
 Load Average : 0.31, 0.26, 0.10
 Total Space  : 49G (7.1G ~16% used)
 Total RAM    : 11981 MB (188 MB + 1844 MB Buff in use)
 Total SWAP   : 4095 MB (0 MB in use)
 Uptime       : 1 days 15:24
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 ASN & ISP    : AS38001, NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
 Organization : 365 Group LLC
 Location     : Singapore, Singapore / SG
 Region       : 
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 Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

  Single Core : 3265  (VERY GOOD)
   Multi Core : 10647

 IO Test

 CPU Speed:
    bzip2     : 102 MB/s
   sha256     : 180 MB/s
   md5sum     : 486 MB/s

 RAM Speed:
   Avg. write : 2116.3 MB/s
   Avg. read  : 4369.1 MB/s

 Disk Speed:
   1st run    : 1.0 GB/s
   2nd run    : 995 MB/s
   3rd run    : 930 MB/s
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   Average    : 983.0 MB/s

Asia Speedtest

 Location                         Upload           Download         Ping   
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 Nearby                           728.08 Mbit/s    784.23 Mbit/s    2.732 ms
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 India, New Delhi (GIGATEL)       16.86 Mbit/s     126.55 Mbit/s   166.329 ms
 India, Mumbai (SevenStar)        21.61 Mbit/s     53.59 Mbit/s    147.268 ms
 India, Bengaluru (I-ON)          65.45 Mbit/s     325.78 Mbit/s    39.896 ms
 Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 55.75 Mbit/s     8.48 Mbit/s      34.303 ms
 Pakistan, Islamabad (Telenor)    33.27 Mbit/s     91.61 Mbit/s    102.809 ms
 Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom)  15.55 Mbit/s     38.43 Mbit/s    152.010 ms
 Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel)       39.36 Mbit/s     128.93 Mbit/s    46.092 ms
 Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 29.56 Mbit/s     158.71 Mbit/s    80.688 ms
 Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo)      70.55 Mbit/s     303.43 Mbit/s    53.243 ms
 Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone)       122.75 Mbit/s    249.25 Mbit/s    37.827 ms
 Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom)  109.36 Mbit/s    159.41 Mbit/s    27.235 ms
 Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart)     91.08 Mbit/s     231.88 Mbit/s    34.039 ms
 Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel)         98.35 Mbit/s     300.42 Mbit/s    48.031 ms
 Singapore (PT FirstMedia)        728.35 Mbit/s    742.82 Mbit/s     3.688 ms
 Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet)      31.36 Mbit/s     196.37 Mbit/s    32.837 ms
 Philippines, Manila (Globe Tel)  108.54 Mbit/s    173.93 Mbit/s    37.769 ms
 Hong Kong (fdcservers)           97.73 Mbit/s     205.09 Mbit/s    36.170 ms
 Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO)           49.56 Mbit/s     129.85 Mbit/s    60.046 ms
 Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther)       49.80 Mbit/s     53.19 Mbit/s     85.314 ms
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 Finished in : 19 min 37 sec
 Timestamp   : 2020-12-02 07:20:14 GMT
 Saved in    : /root/speedtest.log
 Share results:
 - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15916591
 - https://clbin.com/NK592

YABS

Wed 02 Dec 2020 08:29:15 AM UTC

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2599.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ❌ Disabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 11.7 GiB
Swap       : 4.0 GiB
Disk       : 49.0 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 246.31 MB/s  (61.5k) | 1.96 GB/s    (30.7k)
Write      | 246.96 MB/s  (61.7k) | 1.97 GB/s    (30.8k)
Total      | 493.27 MB/s (123.3k) | 3.94 GB/s    (61.5k)
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Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 3.00 GB/s     (5.8k) | 3.21 GB/s     (3.1k)
Write      | 3.16 GB/s     (6.1k) | 3.42 GB/s     (3.3k)
Total      | 6.17 GB/s    (12.0k) | 6.63 GB/s     (6.4k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                |                           |                 |                
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 5.16 Mbits/sec  | 52.5 Mbits/sec 
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 2.65 Mbits/sec  | 84.7 Mbits/sec 
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 12.9 Mbits/sec  | 84.4 Mbits/sec 

Thoughts on 12 GB KVM from Greencloud, Singapore

The server specificaitons lookg good, and looking to putting the server to use for this particular website. Let me state that I am perfectly happy with the current PHP friends server, but this presents a good opporunity to move the data slowly to Asia. The ping speeds of mid 40s compared to about 170 odd for Germany also are a positive.

This review is a part of the Black Friday 2020 vps offers. You can find similar posts from Index page where my other reviews are catalogued.

(Images obtained under CC0 license)

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_{This post was updated on 2022-03-08}