[LightDestory]

So, I received VPS 14 likely 3-4 months ago, I couldn't review the VPS sooner due to my busy life. But here I am, ready to let you know about my experience with this amazing VPS sponsored by BladeNode (
@phoenixwolf)!

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Short introduction

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VPS 14 is a new VPS which entered Post4VPS family on October. This VPS is one of the most powerful available, it comes with no control panel so it is suggested to apply only to advanced user. It is located in Dallas, USA. I am from Italy and the latency has not affected me in any way. There isn't much to say with words... let's numbers speak!

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Review

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Let's start with the Specifications

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Disk Space: 200 GB HDD

RAM: 8 GB + (1GB of Swap)

vCores: [i]4 cores (3.50GHz)[/i]

IP Addresses: 1x IPv4

Virtualization: KVM

Monthly Traffic: 1 TB

Location: Dallas(US)

Control Panel: No CP for the Holder

Connection: 1Gbps

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Do you like benchmark? I do

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Unfortunately I couldn't use Post4VPS's benchmark script by @sohamb03 because it couldn't complete the test successfully. So this time I used an interesting script called "Yet-Another-Bench-Script" available on github.

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System Info

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Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz
CPU cores  : 4 @ 3491.912 MHz
AES-NI     : Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : Disabled
RAM        : 7.8 GiB
Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
Disk       : 196.8 GiB
OS         : Debian 10

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Network speed (IPv4 only)

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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 874 Mbits/sec   | 864 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 866 Mbits/sec   | 863 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 845 Mbits/sec   | 867 Mbits/sec
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 573 Mbits/sec   | 365 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 928 Mbits/sec   | 926 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 888 Mbits/sec   | 909 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 924 Mbits/sec   | 929 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 823 Mbits/sec   | 828 Mbits/sec

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Disk Speed (I/O operations)

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fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
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Read       | 284.44 MB/s  (71.1k) | 2.88 GB/s    (45.0k)
Write      | 285.19 MB/s  (71.2k) | 2.90 GB/s    (45.3k)
Total      | 569.64 MB/s (142.4k) | 5.78 GB/s    (90.3k)
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Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.83 GB/s     (3.5k) | 3.39 GB/s     (3.3k)
Write      | 1.93 GB/s     (3.7k) | 3.61 GB/s     (3.5k)
Total      | 3.76 GB/s     (7.3k) | 7.01 GB/s     (6.8k)

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GeekBenchmark

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Test            | Value
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Single Core     | 999
Multi Core      | 2667
Full benchmark here: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5383431

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My experience

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Due to my busy life I didn't have much time to play around with the VPS. I have manly deployed stuff using FTP and github. I have successfully setup a CI/CD pipeline from github to my vps. I didn't much stress test because... let's be clear: the specs are listed above, what you do except from them? Bottleneck? Don't joke. To give troubles to this machine you must do very very heavy workload. I have never experience a down time since October.
Some of my adventures are:

• Deploying web service stuff related to university projects;
  
• Run for a week or so a minecraft server;
  
• Setting up a sort of certificates vault
  

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Conclusion

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VPS 14, sponsored by Bladenode, is a very powerful and valuable VPS. Like my previous VPS, VPS 9 sponsored by VirMach, this VPS comes with no control panel, so if you don't want flood our poor @deanhills of support tickets you need to know how to use Unix-systems.
You can run almost everything on this VPS, just be a good user and respect Bladenode's ToS!

I want to end this review thanking:

• @Dynamo, as always, for creating Post4VPS community that allowed me to use this VPS;
  
• @deanhills, this time around I didn't open any support ticket but he is always there ready to reply;
  
• @Mashiro for his tutorials, I used some of them to set-up my environment;
  
• Bladenode (@phoenixwolf) for sponsoring this amazing VPS;
  

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