[Mashiro]

Great review so far. What a bummer to hear that the network speed was so low. Maybe an alternative way to take a few speed tests for you is to use the Speedtest.net CLI client and perform tests from various different servers (locations)? I'm curious to know why the speed is so bad.

Official CLI app: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli
Speedtest-CLI by Sivel: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli


The CPU used is clearly not made for highest peformance per core but rather for multicore applications or hosting of many VMs that don't require high clocks. Generally though the E5s are great CPUs. Many cores and threads plus usually they are dual socket systems meaning dual amount of cores and threads. If a higher performance is necessary one is better off with a Intel Xeon E3 though due to its much higher clock speeds but you pay with reduced amount of cores, threads and less overall RAM support.

To actually show off how well/bad the CPU is a few benchmarks are necessary. For such things there is software like Geekbench or Byte Unixbench. This is something that could be added to actually give some value to the review and the statement about the CPU.