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NanoKVM NAT-VPSs: A review

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 08:47:23 +0000

It happens that NanoKVM was the first truly free service I got a NAT-VPS from since I joined this community -ie it's running for 17 months and counting.. The specs are indeed modest but the service is astonishingly reliable and with pretty good overall performance as well.

Recently I asked for a VM migration from the Eygelshoven/Netherlands (NL) node to its Nuremberg/Germany (DE) node. This request was motivated by the desire to upgrade the RAM to 2GB, the Nuremberg/Germany node being the only one having that option available. graciously created a new VM on the Nuremberg node as his Proxmox setup doesn't support clustering.

This review's objective is to attempt a comparison of the 2 VMs which will largely reflect:
1-> the performance of the 2 nanoKVM nodes and
2-> the way Neoon partitioned(/capped) their resources among the running VMs on them.

Before we begin, here are the nodes setup based on this NanoKVM info_page:

Code:
             The Nuremberg (DE) node         The Eygelshoven (NL) node

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU:           Intel i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz        Intel Xeon E5-2643 @ 3.30GHz

Memory:        64GB DDR4                       32GB ECC DDR3

HDD:           2x 1TB NVMe (SW Raid 1)         2x 240GB SSD (SW Raid 1)

Traffic:         Unlimited @ 1000Mbit            2TB @ 1000Mbit

(*) Code tag used because data are formatted as a table

From the above table we can see that the German(/DE) node uses a recent, highly perfrmant desktop CPU backed by 64GB of non-ECC DDR4 RAM and an NVMe SSD storage while the NL's node has a 2K12 E5-class server CPU backed by 32GB ECC DDR3 RAM and SATA-based SSD storage.

With those specs in mind, we can now turn our attention into how my 2 NanoKVM VMs are doing on those 2 nodes, performance-wise. Before we get started, I must say that I will also break down this review into a series of posts each one dealing with one resource only.

In this post, I'll only pinpoint to the chipsets, ie the QEMU's machine type, used by NanoKVM VMs.

To answer the question of what virtual hardware did NanoKVM put into their NAT-VPS(s) ?
1. NanoKVM VMs Used Machine-type:
As shown below both NanoKVM VMs are using the most recent version of the old PC machine-type (ie pc-i440fx-5.2, as of QEMU version 5.2.0.) using the latest Seabios version: 1.14.0, released on Aug. 2020.

Code:
[root @ natvps ~]# lshw

natvps.example.com          

    description: Computer

    product: Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

    vendor: QEMU

    version: pc-i440fx-5.2

    width: 64 bits

    capabilities: smbios-2.8 dmi-2.8 vsyscall32

    configuration: boot=normal uuid=xxxxxxxxx

  *-core

       description: Motherboard

       physical id: 0

     *-firmware

          description: BIOS

          vendor: SeaBIOS

          physical id: 0

          version: rel-1.14.0-0-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-prebuilt.qemu.org

          date: 0x/0x/201x

          size: 96KiB

.......................

Code:
[root @ natvps ~]# lshw -businfo

Bus info          Device      Class      Description

====================================================

                              system     Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

                              bus        Motherboard

                              memory     96KiB BIOS

............

pci@0000:00:00.0              bridge     440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma]

pci@0000:00:01.0              bridge     82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]

............

As we'll see going forward, both VMs are using the same virtual hardware config. The only difference I've noticed in the full output of 'lshw' command is that the DE node's VM is missing the memory virtio_balloon driver. This is demonstrated by listing the loaded virtIO drivers into the kernel:
> NL node VM:

Code:
[root @ natvps_NL ~]# lsmod | grep virt

virtio_balloon         20480  0

virtio_net             53248  0

net_failover           24576  1 virtio_net

virtio_scsi            20480  2

> DE node VM:

Code:
[root @ natvps_DE ~]$ lsmod | grep virt

virtio_net             53248  0

net_failover           24576  1 virtio_net

virtio_scsi            20480  2

We may comeback to this later..

Stay tuned for the next post!..

VPS 10 Review

Mon, 31 May 2021 19:02:22 +0000

Introduction: Hey, I am here to review my vps 10 which i have won in the recent giveaway and i know there is already a review made by deanhills but i think i would be provide much more details since i have used it almost for a month and i would like to share my experience with you guys aswell.

Lets start with the VPS specifications and then follow it with some benchmarks.

Terminal

vCPU: 1
Disk Space: 50 GB
RAM: 1 GB
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4 & /112 IPv6
Virtualization: KVM
Monthly Traffic: 1 TB
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Control Panel: Virtualizor
Connection: 125 Mbit/s
Provided by: Evolution-Host
Terms: TOS
Games servers: Not advised
Requirements: Backlinks to Evolution-Host and Post4VPS are required when a Website is hosted.

Here are the specifications of VPS 10 and their TOS and requirements but I don't agree with the Game servers Status: Not advised since its one of VPS which i would recommend for gaming servers but maybe the details are old not updated and if thats the case then i would request to update it.

Terminal

System Info
-----------
Processor : Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU Cores : 1 @ 3599.990 MHz
Memory : 987 MiB
Swap : 1023 MiB
Uptime : 6 days, 8:53,

OS : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.19.0-5-amd64
Hostname : hmrserver

Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 00.00.00.00

Location Provider Speed
-------- -------- -----
CDN Cachefly 95.1MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US 9.15MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 13.2MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 11.1MB/s
Washington, DC, US Leaseweb 11.6MB/s

Sao Paulo, Brazil Softlayer 8.62MB/s

Singapore Softlayer 9.72MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 11.2MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 5.18MB/s

Nuremberg, Germany Hetzner 54.6MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 39.6MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 38.3MB/s
Milan, Italy Softlayer 36.7MB/s

Sydney, AU Future Hosting 222KB/s

Buffered Sequential Write Speed
-------------------------------
I/O (1st run) : 720 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 861 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 869 MB/s
Average I/O : 816.667 MB/s

Geek Bench

Terminal

Running Gathering system information
System Information
Operating System Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Kernel Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64
Model QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Motherboard N/A
BIOS SeaBIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1

Processor Information
Name Intel Core i9-9900K
Topology 1 Processor, 1 Core
Identifier GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 12
Base Frequency 3.60 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 16.0 MB

Memory Information
Size 987 MB

Single-Core
Running AES-XTS
Running Text Compression
Running Image Compression
Running Navigation
Running HTML5
Running SQLite
Running PDF Rendering
Running Text Rendering
Running Clang
Running Camera
Running N-Body Physics
Running Rigid Body Physics
Running Gaussian Blur
Running Face Detection
Running Horizon Detection
Running Image Inpainting
Running HDR
Running Ray Tracing
Running Structure from Motion
Running Speech Recognition
Running Machine Learning

Multi-Core
Running AES-XTS
Running Text Compression
Running Image Compression
Running Navigation
Running HTML5
Running SQLite
Running PDF Rendering
Running Text Rendering
Running Clang
Running Camera
Running N-Body Physics
Running Rigid Body Physics
Running Gaussian Blur
Running Face Detection
Running Horizon Detection
Running Image Inpainting
Running HDR
Running Ray Tracing
Running Structure from Motion
Running Speech Recognition
Running Machine Learning

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https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/819...key=329876

Well, I think the geekbench overall score is a bit low and to be honest i have expected better than this but anyway it still better and working good for my usage.

Unix Bench:

Terminal

Version 5.1.3 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark

Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
January 13, 2011 johantheghost at yahoo period com

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Use directories for:
* File I/O tests (named fs***) = /root/byte-unixbench/UnixBench/tmp
* Results = /root/byte-unixbench/UnixBench/results
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3

1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3

1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3

1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3

1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Process Creation 1 2 3

1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3

========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

System: hmrserver: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 4.19.0-5-amd64 -- #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-5+deb10u2 (2019-08-08)
Machine: x86_64 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz (7200.0 bogomips)
x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization
13:22:29 up 6 days, 7:54, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.13, 0.07; runlevel 2021-05-25

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Mon May 31 2021 13:22:29 - 13:50:21
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables 41427578.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 7348.7 MWIPS (8.9 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 3842.3 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 709726.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 197164.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2013515.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1105858.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 269923.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 11223.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 8289.8 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1073.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 729096.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 41427578.0 3549.9
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 7348.7 1336.1
Execl Throughput 43.0 3842.3 893.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 709726.4 1792.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 197164.3 1191.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2013515.5 3471.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1105858.7 889.0
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 269923.9 674.8
Process Creation 126.0 11223.4 890.7
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 8289.8 1955.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1073.3 1788.9
System Call Overhead 15000.0 729096.3 486.1
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1322.2

Speed Test:

Terminal

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Hetzner Online GmbH (xx.nx.xx.nx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by SMSnet (Szczecin) [979.31 km]: 45.904 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 322.16 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 322.68 Mbit/s

Just to remind you all that the VPS comes with 125mbps connection but its great to see that VPS connection speed is much better than mentioned.

READ/WRITE Speeds

Terminal

root@hmrserver:~# sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 Gi copied, 1.09776 s, 978 MB/s
root@hmrserver:~# dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 Gi copied, 0.441166 s, 2.4 GB/s
root@hmrserver:~# sudo /sbin/sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3
sudo: unable to resolve host hmrserver: Name or service not known
vm.drop_caches = 3
root@hmrserver:~# dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 Gi copied, 0.375736 s, 2.9 GB/s

Well, I have provided all the benchmarks which were possible for me to provide and i guess its enough for anyone to judge the vps by these benchmarks and i will share my experience as well with VPS.

Control Panel: Yeah you heard it right and we have got a panel as well with this vps and for me their control panel is much friendly to new users than other VPSs panels even than digital ocean etc ones.

Gaming Servers: Well the VPS ram is just 1gb but the vps specifications are quite balance and i can recommend it for small gaming servers since i am hosting a small gaming aswell and it doing well.

Rating: 9/10 I didn't find much issues with this VPS since its one of the perfect i have came across in post4vps VPSs and i am quite happy with this vps.

Thanks for reading

VPS 10 Review

Thu, 06 May 2021 14:21:48 +0000

Introduction
I'm not a VPS 10 Holder, however thought to check it out and provide our members with a brief overview of the VPS. In summary it is not a bad VPS at all. The fact that it originates from a Hetzner server impresses me for sure. Speed and performance wise it is slightly (very slightly) better than VPS 1 with similar specs. Difference is that according to one of our members , VPS 10 can be used as a small games server however with the emphasis on small. Another member tried VPS 10 for Teamspeak but it didn't work as smoothly and had to be dropped. Location of VPS is Helsinki, Finland.

VPS Sponsor
Evolution Host has been providing us with two VPSs and a Virtualizor Panel for a few years, until two years ago when the Plan was reduced to one VPS (possibly due to lack of use). Evolution Host is a premium VPS Hosting provider specializing in games servers and a variety of other software.

VPS 1 Plan Specifications
vCPU: 1
Disk Space: 50 GB
RAM: 1 GB
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4 & /112 IPv6
Virtualization: KVM
Monthly Traffic: 1 TB
Location: Gravelines, France
Control Panel: Virtualizor
Connection: 125 Mbit/s
Provided by: Evolution-Host
Terms: TOS
Games servers: OK
Requirements: Backlinks to Evolution-Host and Post4VPS are required when a Website is hosted.

Network, Performance & Reliability
For some or other reason VPS 10 has not been used that much by members of Post4VPS, particularly over the last two years it has been barely used. So there is not enough feedback really to create a justifiable review of the VPS. However one of our Games enthusiasts at Post4VPS thought it was a great little VPS for a small Games Server and had it for a few months during 2020. as lucky in that he was able to win a free VPS from Evolution Host and since then has only had good things to say about Evolution Host's above average expertise in Games Servers. Their support to him has been excellent.

I'm not sure whether Evolution Host still runs its special free VPS program however if members are interested you could check their Website or you could check the offer at Lowendbox:
https://lowendbox.com/blog/evolution-hos...o-qualify/

One of our members also tried VPS 10 for Teamspeak. And that was not entirely successful.

I didn't have time to do much with the VPS, however the little I worked with it today, compared with VPS 1 it felt slightly faster (only slightly though). This is shown in the speed results below as well.

System Information
The System Information below was generated by the the Benchmark Test script:

Code:
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sohamb03/bench-sh/master/bench.sh && bash bench.sh && rm -rf bench.sh

System Info
-----------
Processor : Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU Cores : 1 @ 3599.990 MHz
Memory : 990 MiB
Swap : 1023 MiB
Uptime : 19 min,

OS : CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64
Hostname : *****

Here are the speedtest results generated by the Benchmark Test:

Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 65.**.**.72

Location Provider Speed
-------- -------- -----
CDN Cachefly 104MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US 13.8MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 8.72MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 6.80MB/s
Washington, DC, US Leaseweb 12.1MB/s

Sao Paulo, Brazil Softlayer 5.50MB/s

Singapore Softlayer 6.39MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 5.97MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 5.07MB/s

Nuremberg, Germany Hetzner 59.2MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 26.8MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 33.3MB/s
Milan, Italy Softlayer 24.4MB/s

Sydney, AU Future Hosting 219KB/s

Buffered Sequential Write Speed
-------------------------------
I/O (1st run) : 410 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 817 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 636 MB/s
Average I/O : 621 MB/s

Here is a speed test that was taken today:

Conclusion
VPS 10 may be a good little VPS to use for a very small Games Server. I cannot vouch for this though as Khadeer143 was the only member who has used the VPS for Games in the last three years. Another member tried Teamspeak and it didn't work that well, so I'd say for more complicated settings, maybe this is not a good VPS to use. I'd only use it for simple Websites.

We've been trying to ask Evolution Host for replacing the Plan with two Games Servers. Regrettably there hasn't been a response yet, so we may try again soon.

Note of Appreciation to Sponsor
We wish to extend a special note of appreciation to Evolution Host for providing our membership with years of continued sponsorship of VPS 10.

VPS 1 Review

Thu, 06 May 2021 13:08:04 +0000

Introduction
I'm not a VPS 1 Holder, however thought to check it out and provide our members with a brief overview of the VPS. In summary it is not a bad VPS at all. Particulatly when one compares it with VPS 9 that I'm used to. From the moment I started to work with VPS 1 in its Virtualizor Panel, I realized that Host4Fun is keeping the panel up to date - the templates were up to date. What is attractive about this VPS is of course the User Panel that the VPS Holder gets so one can reinstall the OS if one needs to do that. One can also boot and reboot the VPS, check out disk and bandwidth use but not much more than that. VPS 1 also comes with VNC access. Location of the VPS is France.

VPS Sponsor
Post4vps is indebted to Host4Fun for the very long duration it has supported us. It has been providing us with six VPSs with very generous specs and a great Admin Panel. Host4Fun offers cheap and budget web hosting and VPS services from 25+ Global Locations and 36+ Datacenters.

VPS 1 Plan Specifications
vCPU: 1
Disk Space: 100 GB
RAM: 1 GB RAM
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4
Virtualization: KVM
Monthly Traffic: 1 TB
Location: Roubaix, France
Control Panel: Virtualizor
Connection: 1 GBit/s
Games servers: Allowed
Provided by: Host4Fun
Terms: TOS
Requirements: Backlinks to Host4Fun and Post4VPS are required when a Website is hosted. And a sig backlink

Network, Performance & Reliability
From feedback from previous VPS holders, performance and reliability of VPS 1 is very good. We very rarely have needed to submit any tickets except in the case of using VPS 1 as a Games Server. Although Host4Fun says it's OK to use VPS 1 for a Games Server, members have experienced repetitive Firewall issues that couldn't be solved by the sponsor. So regrettably we have had to advise our members not to use VPS 1 as a Games Server.

One of our members also tried VPS 1 for Teamspeak. And that was not entirely successful either. So maybe the way Firewall works with Host4Fun it's not an ideal VPS for scripts that require Firewall to be set up to deal with it.

For regular use however, this VPS is great. I loaded some WordPress sites on it. And speed is completely acceptable. Fast by normal standards, just a little less fast than VPS 9. So I can recommend it for regular use.

System Information
The System Information below was generated by the the Benchmark Test script:

Code:
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sohamb03/bench-sh/master/bench.sh && bash bench.sh && rm -rf bench.sh

Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
CPU Cores : 1 @ 4199.996 MHz
Memory : 991 MiB
Swap : 0 MiB
Uptime : 21:47,

OS : CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
Hostname : ******

Here are the speedtest results generated by the Benchmark Test:

Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 164.***.**.220

Location Provider Speed
-------- -------- -----
CDN Cachefly 9.22MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US 14.8MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 2.48MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 2.09MB/s
Washington, DC, US Leaseweb 3.51MB/s

Sao Paulo, Brazil Softlayer 1.86MB/s

Singapore Softlayer 1.66MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 4.30MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 2.10MB/s

Nuremberg, Germany Hetzner 6.40MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 12.9MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 10.7MB/s
Milan, Italy Softlayer 8.81MB/s

Sydney, AU Future Hosting 233KB/s

Buffered Sequential Write Speed
-------------------------------
I/O (1st run) : 326 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 380 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 391 MB/s
Average I/O : 365.667 MB/s

Here is a speed test that was taken yesterday:

Conclusion
As previously mentioned VPS 1 is a very good VPS. Specs are great for regular straight up and down Websites or blogs. However, as soon as it gets more involved where the Firewall ports need to be opened up, there may be issues. So the VPS is not recommended for use as a Games Server or for Teamspeak or similar projects.

Note of Appreciation to Sponsor
We wish to extend a special note of appreciation to Host4Fun for providing our membership with years of continued sponsorship of VPS 1.

VPS 3 review

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:33:25 +0000

A.Prologue

Since I am amateur to vps,I am glad to get one to experiment on.However seems this forum lacks review of vps3 so would like to make one.

B.Server info

Please note:All these tests are not running on a bare system.It has a LNMP+aapanel running on background.
System Info

Code:
-----------

Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz

CPU Cores       : 1 @ 2899.996 MHz

Memory          : 810 MiB

Swap            : 1023 MiB

Uptime          : 15:36,

OS              : CentOS Linux 8

Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)

Kernel          : 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64

Hostname        : sponsoredvps.1

Speedtest.py

Code:
[root@sponsoredvps ~]# python3 speedtest.py

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...

Testing from Multacom Corporation (***.***.***.***)...

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...

Selecting best server based on ping...

Hosted by Cox - Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV) [1546.07 km]: 7.222 ms

Testing download speed................................................................................

Download: 475.86 Mbit/s

Testing upload speed......................................................................................................

Upload: 755.70 Mbit/s

Multi-node speedtest

Quote:Modified from 's script for some node speed is low which lags the benchmark speed.

Code:
Location                Provider        Speed

--------                --------        -----

CDN                     Cachefly        91.6MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         @sohamb03       33.2MB/s

Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       7.97MB/s

San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       69.4MB/s

Washington, DC, US      Leaseweb        4.28MB/s

Singapore               Softlayer       5.81MB/s

Taiwan                  Hinet           18.1MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          3.12MB/s

Nuremberg, Germany      Hetzner         3.13MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         90.0MB/s

Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        4.75MB/s

Milan, Italy            Softlayer       1.64MB/s

A-1.additional results

Code:
[root@sponsoredvps ~]# wget http://speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

--2021-04-11 23:17:02--  http://speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip

Resolving speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com (speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com)... 2607:f0d0:1d01:12::4, 169.57.128.148

Connecting to speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com (speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com)|2607:f0d0:1d01:12::4|:80... failed: No route to host.

Connecting to speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com (speedtest.sao01.softlayer.com)|169.57.128.148|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]

Saving to: ‘test100.zip’

test100.zip          25%[===>             ]  25.03M  1.47MB/s    eta

(Worst times can be 30KB/s)

[root@sponsoredvps ~]# wget http://87.76.16.10/test100.zip

--2021-04-11 21:03:19--  http://87.76.16.10/test100.zip

Connecting to 87.76.16.10:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]

Saving to: ‘test100.zip.1’

test100.zip.1         7%[>                ]   7.38M   433KB/s    eta 3m 36s ^C

[root@sponsoredvps ~]#

Quote:If you are aiming to make business to South America and Australia,you might want to seek another provider as the speed is not much reliable(maybe related to data transfer peaks) however the overall speed is good.

Buffered Sequential Write Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 226 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 274 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 238 MB/s
Average I/O : 246 MB/s

Geekbench 4(4.3.3)
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16129262

At that time,the background processes are:https://ibb.co/gvL6kMh .I stopped aapanel and LNMP to try to make the result fair.

C.Usage review

China-specific connection speed 3.5/5
Since this provider provides a looking glass I chose the provider.And I have to say that despite the GFW my download speed can still achieve 2MB/s using multi-thread download utility,the same as upload.I noticed that some vps customers of them here (as this brand is somehow known to Chines vps holders for the low price) say Recknerd is using CN2(Chinatelecom Next Carrier Network) networks but at least for me they are using traditional network(Chinanet Backbone).Understandable as using CN2 is another part of cost.

Website hosting 4/5
If you decide to host a blog that's enough for you and you can expect it to run at good speed.(at least not considering the server to be another delay for your website load speed)
Seesingle run as it takes time)
https://report.wpbenchmark.io/wDqZefxg1C/
But if you use heavy scripts like nextcloud,you may want to consider disable some plugins.

RDP Usage 2/5
Get a better one.Usable but not recommended.

D.Conclusion
Having not experience much in the vps world I really can't give too much thoughts.But anyway I can say it worth your posts - definitely you can apply for a better one,but consider your use case and leave more powerful one for advanced members.I know euserv provides free vps that looked almost identical to this from the specs,but you can easily hike the vcpu to 100% while not installing/benchmarking when using euserv while here you can only expect 100% usage when benchmarking or installing applications.That's the difference.

VPS 14 Review (Post Chicago Migration)

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:45:56 +0000

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Short introduction

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Here we go again, reviewing the VPS 14 sponsored by BladeNode (). Why a second review? Well, VPS 14 has changed it's node, you can read the official announcement here. There isn't much to talk about, I am doing the same usage as ever. I just switched my OS from a debian-based (Debian 10 Buster) to a rhel-based (Fedora 33).

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Review

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Let's start again with the Specifications

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Disk Space: 200 GB SSD

RAM: 8 GB + (6GB of Swap)

vCores: [i]4 cores (3.60GHz)[/i]

IP Addresses: 1x IPv4

Virtualization: KVM

Monthly Traffic: 1 TB

Location: Chicago (US)

Control Panel: No CP for the Holder

Connection: 1Gbps

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Do you like benchmark? I do

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To give the possibility to compare the VPS based on the node I used the same benchmark script that I used for the first review:"Yet-Another-Bench-Script" available on github.

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System Info

Code:
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1271 v3 @ 3.60GHz

CPU cores  : 4 @ 3599.998 MHz

AES-NI     : Enabled

VM-x/AMD-V : Disabled

RAM        : 7.8 GiB

Swap       : 5.9 GiB

Disk       : 197.9 GiB

OS         : Fedora Server 33

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Network speed (IPv4 only)

Code:
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed

                |                           |                 |

Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 895 Mbits/sec   | 385 Mbits/sec

Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | (not available) | [size=small][font=Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace](not available)[/font][/size]

WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 876 Mbits/sec   | 56.4 Mbits/sec

Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 687 Mbits/sec   | 114 Mbits/sec

Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 37.9 Mbits/sec  | 933 Mbits/sec

Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 930 Mbits/sec   | 825 Mbits/sec

Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 924 Mbits/sec   | 40.0 Mbits/sec

Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 859 Mbits/sec   | 318 Mbits/sec

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Disk Speed (I/O operations)

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

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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)

  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----

Read       | 266.49 MB/s  (66.6k) | 2.33 GB/s    (36.5k)

Write      | 267.19 MB/s  (66.7k) | 2.35 GB/s    (36.7k)

Total      | 533.69 MB/s (133.4k) | 4.69 GB/s    (73.3k)

           |                      |

Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)

  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----

Read       | 3.62 GB/s     (7.0k) | 3.63 GB/s     (3.5k)

Write      | 3.82 GB/s     (7.4k) | 3.87 GB/s     (3.7k)

Total      | 7.44 GB/s    (14.5k) | 7.50 GB/s     (7.3k)

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GeekBenchmark

Code:
Test            | Value

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Single Core     | 1026

Multi Core      | 3229

Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7102117

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My experience

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The migration added a lot of new stuff speaking of performance:

A slightly powerful CPU, on real world tasks the change is unnoticeable to be fair but the CPU physically changed so I must report it!
5GB more of SWAP, the VPS jumped from 1GB to 6GB of swap memory ssd-based... with the already equipped 8GB of ram and you get powerful combination of 14GB!
Storage technology changed from HDD to SSD, it should do a huge improvements but as you can see from the I/O operations the speed is likely the same, previous location was running a RAID configuration to get the best performance out of standard HDD. I think that running heavy process that works with file the SSD will do the difference.
The networks speeds according to me are the same, on the benchmark there are some slow connection but I think it is related to that specific moment, maybe it was busy? The VPS is still amazing fast with its 1GBit connection.

I also changed my environment by switching from Debian 10 Buster to Fedora 33. I have always liked RHEL-based distros, on VPS 9 I used for a lot of time CentOS. This time, unfortunately, I had to switch to Fedora 33 because CentOS Stream is just a joke--- we are all waiting for Rocky Linux

I am doing very well with Fedora, some feature pre-installed are a bit a blotware but they are easily removable, such as cockpit... I have never used it because I am a CLI guy and I don't give any trust to "static" control panel that just run blindly commands.

Another change I have made is switching from nginx to caddy2, an amazing web server that auto-manage the SSL certificate with a very easy to understand configuration.

Regarding my usage... it is still unchanged, you can read it on my first review.

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Conclusion

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Before the migrations, VPS 14 was an amazing VPS. After the migration and the my issue ticket I can clearly say that my experience with 's BladeNode is superior to my previous sponsor Virmach. They are both amazing company that offer a super service but with Bladenode I received a better "care". I remember the old days when I got a DDoS attack and virmarch's ticket response was a bit vague or slow. Nothing like this happen with bladenode

I still think very high about Virmach... they took from me a very huge DDoS load and they didn't complain, their network just kept up my VPS. I hope that I will never give the same experience to Bladenode, I am working very hard with Cloudflare firewall and protection on it!

Like always, I want to end this review thanking:

, as always, for creating Post4VPS community that allowed me to use this VPS;
, this time I opened a support ticket and he replied very fast!;
for his tutorials, I used some of them to set-up my environment;
Bladenode () for sponsoring this amazing VPS and his amazing support, he "closed" my issue ticket in less that 1 day doing also some "extra" work is not pre-configured;

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Limitless Hosting - VPS 13 Honest Review

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:25:55 +0000

Short Introduction

I got VPS 13 at 61st giveaway in October. This VPS provider is Limitless Hosting (https://limitlesshost.net) that's why I give it a try to grab a VPS from Limitless Hosting. And I got it! I have used the VPS for 4 months and it's going pretty well. This VPS located in Finland, Europe. While using it I never get any kind of really massive lag, all perfectly runs well.

Specifications and Benchmark

Benchmark below is using script.
Specs

Quote:System Info
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Processor : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 2 @ 3593.248 MHz
Memory : 1987 MiB
Swap : 1987 MiB
Uptime : 20 days, 18:37
OS : Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 5.4.0-60-generic
Hostname : Censored

This VPS uses AMD Ryzen processor. I really don't see providers use AMD Ryzen in their VPS. They usually use Intel Xeon instead. This is new and pretty interesting to see how it works.

Internet Speed

Quote:Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is hehe

Location Provider Speed
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CDN Cachefly 108MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US 14.3MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 5.13MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 5.13MB/s
Washington, DC, US Leaseweb 4.51MB/s
Sao Paulo, Brazil Softlayer 4.38MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 4.68MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 2.57MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 2.05MB/s
Nuremberg, Germany Hetzner 12.8MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 10.3MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 10.6MB/s
Milan, Italy Softlayer 15.9MB/s
Sydney, AU Future Hosting 228KB/s

Well, I cannot complain about their internet speed. Not so fantastic but enough for me. For the one from Future Hosting, it probably their server instead of this VPS connection. When using this VPS, I, which located near Singapore, can quickly load my website without Cloudflare at ~1 second on the first time visit.

Disk Speed

Quote:Buffered Sequential Write Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 604 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 866 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 868 MB/s
Average I/O : 779.333 MB/s

Disk speed is beyond expectation. I cannot complain this kind of speed. Based on Limitless Hosting's VPS plan, the VPS is equipped with NVME SSD which is the fastest disk drive (AFAIK).

Benchmark below is using bench.monster script (thanks to for providing this script).

Specs

Quote:---------------------------------------------------------------------------
OS : Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : KVM / 5.4.0-65-generic
CPU Model : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 2 @ 3593.248 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
Load Average : 0.08, 0.02, 0.00
Total Space : 21G (12G ~57% used)
Total RAM : 1987 MB (355 MB + 1050 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 1987 MB (146 MB in use)
Uptime : 5 days 10:32 (benchmark taken at different time to previous benchmark)
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ASN & ISP : AS24940, Hetzner Online GmbH
Organization :
Location : Helsinki, Finland / FI
Region : Uusimaa
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CPU Benchmark

Quote:Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

Single Core : 5490 (EXCELLENT)
Multi Core : 9567

I'm not a computer geek that know what score is high but since it says excellent then it's excellent .

IO Speed

Quote: IO Test

CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 135 MB/s
sha256 : 266 MB/s
md5sum : 600 MB/s

RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 3140.3 MB/s
Avg. read : 8021.3 MB/s

Disk Speed:
1st run : 377 MB/s
2nd run : 868 MB/s
3rd run : 881 MB/s
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Average : 708.7 MB/s

RAM speed is very awesome! Disk speed somehow at 1st run it always run "slow" then on 2nd and 3rd run it's in its maximum speed. Probably need to "start the machine" first?

Another Speedtest!

Quote: Global Speedtest.net

Location Upload Download Ping
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Nearby 876.36 Mbit/s 84.80 Mbit/s 5.274 ms
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USA, New York (Optimum) 10.36 Mbit/s 46.66 Mbit/s 98.700 ms
USA, Chicago (Windstream) 165.94 Mbit/s 47.90 Mbit/s 110.675 ms
USA, Dallas (Frontier) 133.45 Mbit/s 36.04 Mbit/s 144.566 ms
USA, Miami (Frontier) 22.45 Mbit/s 22.61 Mbit/s 141.490 ms
USA, Los Angeles (Windstream) 121.94 Mbit/s 38.89 Mbit/s 162.196 ms
UK, London (toob Ltd) 103.48 Mbit/s 130.53 Mbit/s 34.563 ms
France, Lyon (SFR) 315.96 Mbit/s 122.23 Mbit/s 45.006 ms
Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 431.33 Mbit/s 153.04 Mbit/s 30.837 ms
Spain, Madrid (MasMovil) 322.56 Mbit/s 137.84 Mbit/s 46.633 ms
Italy, Rome (Unidata) 152.58 Mbit/s 105.28 Mbit/s 65.124 ms
Russia, Moscow (Rostelecom) 138.27 Mbit/s 175.21 Mbit/s 28.289 ms
Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 234.98 Mbit/s 103.36 Mbit/s 74.785 ms
India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 130.77 Mbit/s 28.71 Mbit/s 150.037 ms
Singapore (FirstMedia) 38.54 Mbit/s 20.66 Mbit/s 204.278 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 41.55 Mbit/s 22.35 Mbit/s 245.728 ms
Australia, Sydney (Optus) 3.22 Mbit/s 24.43 Mbit/s 312.531 ms
RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas) 90.89 Mbit/s 119.95 Mbit/s 193.019 ms
Brazil, Sao Paulo (Criare) 66.82 Mbit/s 18.58 Mbit/s 208.472 ms
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Upload speed is awesome in many location but download speed is a little bit questionable. I prefer faster upload speed than download since it's a server tho. We're serving not consuming data. Therefore will need more speed in upload instead.

Checkout another benchmark (that I don't know what it is) here: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16044438

My Experience with VPS 13

In short, it's an awesome VPS.

I got this VPS back in October 2020. Four months have passed with more than 80 posts posted to keep this VPS alive. When I decide to get this VPS, my plan is to have a working website and can run my Discord bot. So then I think, "Hmm ..., VPS with 2GB RAM should be enough. This VPS 13 met that requirement and have a control panel."

Turns out, I also need a mail server. Yandex Mail doesn't work as expected that all of my email marked as spam by their system. That's sucks.
I really need a working mail server since my website should send mail to the user daily. Well some sort like a notification if they have miss something.

When I got the VPS, I reinstalled the OS because I want to start from scratch. The panel is intuitive, just like another Virtualizator panel. It's easy to use for a person with SolusVM experience before. The reinstalling phase is also easier but doesn't give so much room for configuration during installation since Virtualizator control all of them, and it's a KVM not a Xen HVM. Not a big deal! I can leave the VPS for another work while it's working on it.

After installation done, I decide to try for VestaCP alternative but all of them are suck (or I am the one that don't understand? HAHA). So then I reinstall the OS again and install Cyberpanel instead. All work very smoothly without error. I haven't reinstall the OS since that time.

Remember about the mail server I talked before? I installed them with help of Cyberpanel. The panel install it without issue when I request the panel to do so. Then I configured my DNS to match the record by Cyberpanel and now it's working.
One thing to done about this mail server is none of the receivers' mail server complain the mail received is a spam (not like Yandex before). AFAIK this only can happen if the sender's server IP address is green and high reputation. It's like from D+7 I got this VPS and the IP is already have high reputation.

What does this high reputation means then?
It means that Limitless Hosting really take care their business carefully and keep their IP address and business clear from hacker or something like that. I highly recommend this company.

What's next?
Limitless Hosting currently only have VPS that is located in the Europe. If they have one in Singapore or Australia, I might pick one and move to them as a paid user instead.

I hope someday Limitless Hosting will cover more location and be bigger than what they're right now. We also know that the owner of Limitless Hosting is the expert in this field (probably that's why it's already have high reputation when I got this VPS).

Conclusion

Well, I think I need to conclude anything here. As you read the review, you already know that the VPS is fast and the provider is fantastic. It's worth it to be paid users of Limitless Hosting. I may be one when they start provide Singapore or Australia location.

If you're interested to grab one, checkout their plan here. You can start now

Making VPS Reviews More Beneficial for Sponsors

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 06:18:06 +0000

I thought to write this because There are so many reviews in the VPS section which are great but many missing few things which can make those posts very very valuable for Sponsors too. First of all we have to understand why these reviews are important and to whom. I think reviews are lot more important for Sponsors than for users and holders. Because that's one of the few ways they can get a return for their investment here. It's holders duty to provide something worthy in return for the server you get to use without spending money. I won't say free since we do pay for it in a way. But it has to be something which has a value. I think I have told these in some other post too but i think it's better to do it in a dedicated topic. Also hope this will give some pointers for those who not sure how to write a proper review.

01. I think it's a common mistake here many just use only the VPS name in review title. Like VPS1 Review etc. It should be like SponsorName - VPSName - Review. It's important for Sponsor to have their Brand Name in the title. Nobody knows VPS number outside the forum and Sponsor has no use in that either. Sponsor want these reviews to show up in Google search when someone search for the brand name. IMO, this is a must in a good view.

02. At the first paragraph of the post make sure you include Sponsor name in Bold letters along with Url to their site. This is very helpful for their brand name as well as add weight to their site SEO wise. If they have a staff member in forum then mention him or her too.

03. Talk about what are you doing in this server and how this vps work for whatever you task. Give your honest opinion about this. This is one of the most important parts of a review.

04. Benchmarks. Benchmarks are part of the review not the whole things. It's more for members than sponsors. Personally even I do benchmarks I don't post those if someone else has already posted it. It only matter if there is a difference.

05. It's great if you talk about what sponsor offers in their site and packages at end of the review. Provide a link to their package page.

06. Use word phrases like VPS Hosting, Web Hosting in your review when you can. Don't over do by using same word in too many places but there are plenty of related words to use.

Nothing hard to do here, but these would make your review appear in right places for right people.

VPS-9 Review

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:34:51 +0000

VPS-9 is heart favorite VPS of P4V community, Here is a short review of my VPS-9 experience with this amazing VPS sponsored by "Virmach"

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Short introduction/Specifications
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Standard Information of container as per VPS Plans head:

Disk Space 100 GB SSD

RAM: 8 GB

IP Addresses: 1x IPv4

Virtualization - KVM

Monthly Traffic: 4 TB

Location: US

Control Panel: Ask Admin " However if you said no CP, is much better"

Connection: 1Gbps

Games servers: Allowed
Provided by: VirMach

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Review
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Benchmark Results:
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All information is got from "Yet-Another-Bench-Script" available on github.
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System Info
Code: (Select All)

Code:
Processor  : Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge, IBRS update)

CPU cores  : 2 @ 2499.998 MHz

AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled

VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled

RAM        : 7.8 GiB

Swap       : 32.0 MiB

Disk       : 4.8 GiB

Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
Code: (Select All)

Code:
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)

  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----

Read       | 60.74 MB/s   (15.1k) | 584.74 MB/s   (9.1k)

Write      | 60.87 MB/s   (15.2k) | 587.82 MB/s   (9.1k)

Total      | 121.61 MB/s  (30.4k) | 1.17 GB/s    (18.3k)

           |                      |

Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)

  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----

Read       | 805.86 MB/s   (1.5k) | 753.36 MB/s    (735)

Write      | 848.68 MB/s   (1.6k) | 803.53 MB/s    (784)

Total      | 1.65 GB/s     (3.2k) | 1.55 GB/s     (1.5k)

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Network speed (IPv4 only)

Code: (Select All)

Code:
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed

                |                           |                 |

Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.01 Gbits/sec  | 599 Mbits/sec

Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 1.51 Gbits/sec  | 142 Mbits/sec

WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 1.09 Gbits/sec  | 184 Mbits/sec

Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 849 Mbits/sec   | 21.4 Mbits/sec

Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 2.54 Gbits/sec  | 989 Mbits/sec

Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 2.62 Gbits/sec  | 1.42 Gbits/sec

Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 4.36 Gbits/sec  | 2.35 Gbits/sec

Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 386 Mbits/sec   | 134 Mbits/sec

GeekBenchmark
Code: (Select All)

Code:
Test            | Value

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Single Core     | 376

Multi Core      | 646

Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5391725

Okla Speedtest Results:

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Experience
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I Never face any downtime or crash from day first to til now.
Never face any DDos Attack
Running very smoothly even not a managed VPS but i run it as a learner with the help of all forum experts.

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Conclusion
=========================
VPS 9, sponsored by Virmach, is a very powerful and valuable VPS, 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 Virmach 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;
@HR & arsalahmed786 for supporting me always as a professional teacher;
Virmach for sponsoring this amazing VPS;

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VPS 14 Review (TLDR: It is amazing)

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:08:06 +0000

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 (
)!

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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 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

Code:
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)

Code:
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

===============

Disk Speed (I/O operations)

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

---------------------------------

Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)

  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----

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)

           |                      |

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)

===============

GeekBenchmark

Code:
Test            | Value

                |

Single Core     | 999

Multi Core      | 2667

Full benchmark here: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5383431

=========================

My experience

=========================

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

=========================

Conclusion

=========================

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 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:

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

=========================

VPS5 Review - VPS Hosting - Shadow Hosting

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 07:36:03 +0000

So the VPS5 servers are moved to a different location and received different hardware too. I guess it's time to review the new server compared to old one. So lets check the Spec list,

6 GB RAM.
1 Core.
200 GB SSD Space.
1 Gbps connection.
Un-metered Bandwidth.
KVM with Virtualizor.
1x IPv4.
Finland Location.
Game Servers Allowed.

These specs make ShadowHosting Sponsored VPS5 is one of the best in our server pool. Now there are few VPS which has more RAM than this but when you look at specs in generally I would say VPS5 can beat any of those. For example VPS9 does have 8GB RAM but have no control panel. VPS15 has 8GB RAM but game servers are not allowed. I guess not everyone needs a panel but I like it. That way I can get things done faster and no need to pester staff members. So as a total package I think VPS5 take the cake as the best one among our vps.

I have used the VPS only about 12 days so I can't do full review on how sites work and performance. But I will do share what I have seen so far. Plus I guess I need to do few benchmarks of the server since nobody has posted yet. Usually I prefer to review the web server performance rather than about hardware but in this case I have to do the both. So lets start with basic Specs,

Now you can see it has a AMD Ryzen 9 3900 12 core processor. Previous VPS had Intel Core i7 3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz. I guess it's no news that Ryzen processor is the clear winner here. But we had 2 cores with last VPS but new one has only 1. So lets do a small CPU benchmark.

I think this looks quite impressive. But for those who love benchmarks I thought better run Geekbench 4 too. Got 4942 for Single-Core Score and 4689 Multi-Core Score. Anything over 4000 suppose to be exallant. You can check result is in the link below,

Code:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15904968

You can get more details about both these processors and compare in the link below. Both processors are Desktop processors.

Code:
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-3770-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-3900X/1979vs4044

I/O Speed -

You can see in first screen shot I/O speed is very good at average of 613.3 MB/s. That's very good IMO. Compared to other VPS i have used here so far and many I see in Reviews VPS5 have better I/O speed. Also I did a small test to check the more about the drive.

That's not bad at all. Also it's copied under 3 seconds which show's it's SSD. I think HDD would take more than 15 seconds.

Location - Finland

I was curious about the location since it's the first time I got a vps in Finland. I want my sites to load fast for North America since that's audience. So I have been checking how WordPress sites preform and results are very impressive. The sites loads for Canadian locations less than 1.3 seconds. These are not heavily loaded sites but this is impressive even for fresh WordPress installation. So I can safely recommend Shadow Hosting to anyone who looking for a WordPress Hosting.

OS and Server usage -

I'm using the VPS as a web server. 6GB RAM and 2.5 GB SWAP makes room for bigger sites than average. It's Amazing Processor and SSD space make VPS5 perfect for the job. WordPress sites preform great and I might move one of my small forums into this too. It's a Fast and powerful beast. I installed CyberPanel as web hosting panel which I have started liking a lot. First I tried to install it on Ubuntu but that didn't work. It's not a fault of this VPS since I had this problem in other servers too. So I installed CentOS 8.2.x and then everything worked so perfect. Cyberpanel installed very fast. UPtime is great too!

ShadowHosting -

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Conclusion -

When you do something for a long time you start sensing things even long before you do actual test. From the moment I logged into ssh for first time I kind of started feeling this new VPS5 is faster and better. I was not wrong since i found it works fast and can take a hard bunch. So I thing I can say without a double this is the VPS from all the servers I have used here till now. Kudos for and ShadowHosting for Sponsoring us 2great VPS.

Sometimes the best things in life are free. (Racknerd Review)

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:10:38 +0000

I recently was awarded a free VPS for 1 year from a recent promotion by https://racknerd.com

I've been a client at racknerd since august, and have had a positive experience thus far, so I was very happy to win this prize. My first service is a 3vcpu 4gb ram vps with 45gb ssd. It has great networking, the cpu load almost never goes over 50%, and no noticeable downtime. A fine vps: my only comment would be that the disc speed could be improved. Here's the YABS of my old Racknerd vps:

Wed 25 Nov 2020 04:20:28 PM GMT

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Processor : Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz
CPU cores : 3 @ 2899.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 3.8 GiB
Swap       : 3.7 GiB
Disk       : 44.0 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
------   | ---            ---- | ----           ----
Read       | 2.05 MB/s      (514) | 30.37 MB/s     (474)
Write      | 2.07 MB/s      (519) | 30.79 MB/s     (481)
Total      | 4.13 MB/s     (1.0k) | 61.17 MB/s     (955)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
------   | ---            ---- | ----           ----
Read       | 99.85 MB/s     (195) | 96.22 MB/s      (93)
Write      | 105.16 MB/s    (205) | 102.63 MB/s    (100)
Total      | 205.01 MB/s    (400) | 198.86 MB/s    (193)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 511 Mbits/sec   | 327 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 109 Mbits/sec   | 155 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 235 Mbits/sec   | 105 Mbits/sec
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 240 Mbits/sec   | 118 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 636 Mbits/sec   | 548 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 627 Mbits/sec   | 421 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 691 Mbits/sec   | 691 Mbits/sec

This cost me 77$USD over 2 years. At less than 40$ a year, I'm very satisfied.

Then there's my new racknerd promo. It's a smaller package; only .5gb ram and 15gb of disk, and 1vcpu. I like that it comes provisioned with swap (some providers don't). I find it curious that nested virt is enabled... does it have much use with half a gig of ram? doubtful....

At first glance, you might not think it worth the 27$ a year they ask for it. But the YABS tell a different tale:
Wed 25 Nov 2020 09:45:08 PM GMT

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
CPU cores : 1 @ 3792.870 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 478.0 MiB
Swap       : 512.0 MiB
Disk       : 15.7 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
------   | ---            ---- | ----           ----
Read       | 398.70 MB/s (99.6k) | 1.58 GB/s    (24.8k)
Write      | 399.75 MB/s (99.9k) | 1.59 GB/s    (24.9k)
Total      | 798.45 MB/s (199.6k) | 3.18 GB/s    (49.7k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
------   | ---            ---- | ----           ----
Read       | 1.76 GB/s     (3.4k) | 1.86 GB/s     (1.8k)
Write      | 1.86 GB/s     (3.6k) | 1.98 GB/s     (1.9k)
Total      | 3.63 GB/s     (7.0k) | 3.84 GB/s     (3.7k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 628 Mbits/sec   | 271 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 102 Mbits/sec   | 140 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 218 Mbits/sec   | 243 Mbits/sec
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 249 Mbits/sec   | 44.6 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 758 Mbits/sec   | 638 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 763 Mbits/sec   | 577 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 793 Mbits/sec   | 794 Mbits/sec

The Ryzen processor and NVME disk make a huge difference in the promo VPS. I'm very impressed by performance with such small specs. While I am (only slightly) sad that my older vps seems overpriced and underpowered now, grats to RN for making huge strides in improving the performance of their service, and for allowing me to participate in this promotion.

CubeData - VPS 8 - Review

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:28:01 +0000

Hello all! I am going on month two of using my VPS provided by and I have learned a lot to say the least. In this review I will be breaking things down by my thoughts, some benchmarks followed by my current use and what I hope to accomplish with the VPS in the next month or so. So let’s get right into it.

My thoughts:
I honestly did not know what to expect when I first got the keys and got behind the wheel of this VPS. As you will see in the benchmarks, there’s a lot of power behind this plan and honestly with my love of Wordpress I needed something that was going to be able to handle the load that my main site and developer site were going to produce. My last host, many of you noticed the long load times, but with the transition of my main site nearing completion I could not be happier. The panel was a little confusing for me to understand right off of the jump, but I quickly got use to it, using the built in HTML5 VNC client to fool around with things until I was able to get the VNC client built into macOS setup properly followed by getting SSH enabled so I can tinker even on my iPhone. I would say CubeData exceeds expectations with 99.99% uptime, so I know my clients and business will always be connected.

Pros:
Consistant uptime
Fast and easy to setup
Panel Tools are powerful, limited and direct

Cons:
I noticed with the Panel that the Virtual CDROM would often unmount itself while I was trying to get my server reset up and optimized.

Server Specs:
OS: Ubuntu Server 18.04.5
Virtualization: XenHVM
Location: Huston, TX
Web Server: Apache2
Configurations: Domain + Subdomains with SSL, SSH and MFA
Storage: 50GB
Memory: 3.91GB
Bandwidth: Unmetered
Swap: Disabled
Network Card: Intel E1000

Benchmarks:
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CPU Model : Intel® Xeon® CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Cores : 2
CPU Frequency : 2800.136 MHz
CPU Cache : 8192 KB
Total Disk : 45.5 GB (4.3 GB Used)
Total Mem : 3833 MB (600 MB Used)
Total Swap : 4119 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 5 days, 9 hour 23 min
Load average : 0.05, 0.03, 0.01
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.15.0-123-generic
TCP CC : cubic
Virtualization : Xen
Organization : AS40676 Psychz Networks
Location : Houston / US
Region : Texas
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O Speed(1st run) : 211 MB/s
I/O Speed(2nd run) : 232 MB/s
I/O Speed(3rd run) : 202 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 215.0 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
Speedtest.net 937.72 Mbps 927.97 Mbps 1.59 ms
Shanghai CU 1.06 Mbps 287.86 Mbps 314.52 ms
Guangzhou CT 0.18 Mbps 124.39 Mbps 230.33 ms
Shenzhen CU 0.27 Mbps 232.71 Mbps 303.80 ms
Hongkong CN 464.33 Mbps 368.77 Mbps 190.04 ms
Singapore SG 388.06 Mbps 301.57 Mbps 212.40 ms
Tokyo JP 191.15 Mbps 23.63 Mbps 151.87 ms
----------------------------------------------------------------------

My plans for the future:
With this server going above and beyond my expectations, some of my plans for the future is to continue developing softwares and CMSs that I've had in development for a while now along with venturing into new technologies such as creating an AI Assistant for said projects.The sky is the limit and I see my self keeping up with and continuing to maintain access to this VPS until I out grow it. One thing I would like to do is create a small mail server, so I can move my email from gmail to have a jdoe@tbelldesign.co, but that can come at a later time and date. Thank you once again to Post4VPS and for the wonderful server.

VPS 18 - Review By Decent12

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:39:36 +0000

Hey Guys,
I hope you all are good and safe from coronavirus, Today I will review my VPS 18 and big thanks to Hostlease and especially to Post4vps for getting them in this forum otherwise we would not have got this golden chance of grabbing VPS just in return of 20 posts.

VPS 18 SPECIFICATIONS

Disk Space: 75 GB SSD
RAM: 4 GB
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4
Virtualization:KVM
Monthly Traffic: 5 TB
Location: Amsterdam/Lelystad, Netherlands
Control Panel: Ask Admin
Windows: Yes. Windows is allowed.
Connection: 1 Gbps
Provided by: Hostlease
Game Servers are allowed without limitation - both private and public

Aight now let's go in detail and analyze every single thing but first I will post every benchmark scripts information and give my comments at the end of my review.

Benchmark Scripts by Hidden Refugee(Modified by sohamb)

Terminal

Benchmark started on Tue Jul 28 16:28:11 EDT 2020
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
-----------
Processor : Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz
CPU Cores : 2 @ 2095.006 MHz
Memory : 3963 MiB
Swap : buffers/cache: MiB
Uptime : 16 days, 2:54,

OS : Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.16.0-4-amd64
Hostname : P4v2.hostlease.com

Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is 5.253.86.232

Location Provider Speed
-------- -------- -----
CDN Cachefly 39.5MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US allas, TX, US Softlayer 9.60MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 5.64MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 4.61MB/s
Washington, DC, US Leaseweb 8.09MB/s

Sao Paulo, Brazil Softlayer 4.94MB/s

Singapore Softlayer 5.47MB/s
Taiwan Hinet 2.67MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 4.10MB/s

Nuremberg, Germany Hetzner 21.9MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 3.78MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 19.5MB/s
Milan, Italy Softlayer 3.78MB/s

Melbourne, AU Softlayer 3.30MB/s

Buffered Sequential Write Speed
-------------------------------
I/O (1st run) : 45.3 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 128 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 159 MB/s
Average I/O: 110.767 MB/s

Geek Bench

Terminal

Running Gathering system information
System Information
Operating System Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64
Model Red Hat KVM
Motherboard N/A
BIOS Seabios 0.5.1

Processor Information
Name Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2
Topology 2 Processors, 2 Cores
Identifier GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 62 Stepping 4
Base Frequency 2.10 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB
L2 Cache 4.00 MB

Memory Information
Size 3.87 GB

Single-Core
Running AES-XTS
Running Text Compression
Running Image Compression
Running Navigation
Running HTML5
Running SQLite
Running PDF Rendering
Running Text Rendering
Running Clang
Running Camera
Running N-Body Physics
Running Rigid Body Physics
Running Gaussian Blur
Running Face Detection
Running Horizon Detection
Running Image Inpainting
Running HDR
Running Ray Tracing
Running Structure from Motion
Running Speech Recognition
Running Machine Learning

Multi-Core
Running AES-XTS
Running Text Compression
Running Image Compression
Running Navigation
Running HTML5
Running SQLite
Running PDF Rendering
Running Text Rendering
Running Clang
Running Camera
Running N-Body Physics
Running Rigid Body Physics
Running Gaussian Blur
Running Face Detection
Running Horizon Detection
Running Image Inpainting
Running HDR
Running Ray Tracing
Running Structure from Motion
Running Speech Recognition
Running Machine Learning

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Unix Benchmarks

Terminal

1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3

1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3

1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3

1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3

1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Process Creation 1 2 3

1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3

1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3

2 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3

2 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3

2 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3

2 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3

2 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Process Creation 1 2 3

2 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3

2 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3

========================================================================
BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

System: P4v2.hostlease.com: GNU/Linux
OS: GNU/Linux -- 3.16.0-4-amd64 -- #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-07)
Machine: x86_64 (unknown)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
CPU 0: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4190.0 bogomips)
x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
CPU 1: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (4190.0 bogomips)
x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
16:57:14 up 16 days, 3:23, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.26, 0.27; runlevel 2020-07-12

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Jul 28 2020 16:57:15 - 17:25:24
2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables 18798465.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 2638.5 MWIPS (9.7 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 868.8 lps (29.6 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 493687.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 143827.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1019575.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 1223053.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 192892.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 2410.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 3821.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 921.3 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 2531969.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 18798465.3 1610.8
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2638.5 479.7
Execl Throughput 43.0 868.8 202.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 493687.8 1246.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 143827.8 869.1
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1019575.2 1757.9
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 1223053.0 983.2
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 192892.7 482.2
Process Creation 126.0 2410.2 191.3
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 3821.4 901.3
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 921.3 1535.5
System Call Overhead 15000.0 2531969.1 1688.0
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 794.2

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Tue Jul 28 2020 17:25:24 - 17:53:36
2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables 37808313.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 5259.7 MWIPS (9.4 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 5131.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 588495.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 186496.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1588821.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 2301048.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 373172.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 9885.9 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5921.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1065.4 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 3583359.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 37808313.0 3239.8
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 5259.7 956.3
Execl Throughput 43.0 5131.4 1193.4
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 588495.3 1486.1
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 186496.2 1126.9
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1588821.5 2739.3
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2301048.5 1849.7
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 373172.2 932.9
Process Creation 126.0 9885.9 784.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5921.7 1396.6
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1065.4 1775.6
System Call Overhead 15000.0 3583359.1 2388.9
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 1505.9

Speed Test

Terminal

root@P4v2:~# speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from HostSlick (127.0.0.1)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Tarr ltd. (Szekszard) [1740.50 km]: 1800000.0 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 121.08 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 83.50 Mbits/s

Conclusion:
Aight now you guys can take a look at benchmarks and I did run every benchmark which HR has posted in his review resources topic so you guys can judge it as well.

VPS 18 is a great VPS but there are few problems due to which you can't run game servers smoothly not every time but sometimes as the connection speed of the VPS is not stable and it keeps going up and down and the spikes in VPS connection speed is annoying as sometimes I check the speed its 20mbps/s download and 4mbps upload but sometimes the connection is good as you guys can check the speed which I provided now.

CPU: The CPU of VPS 18 is not much reliable since if you give it a bit heavy task it will start lagging the whole thing for which I think
the VPS cpu is quite weak as the tasks I ran were not much heavy but still, the VPS CPU caused a bit lagg.

Overall I like the VPS 18 when its connection speed is stable and running smoothly but sometimes the VPS goes crazy and start lagging everything I do on VPS which is a bit disturbing but I can't complain much as we got this just for 20 posts but the up point of the VPS is we got 4gb and games servers are allowed which is a major plus.

Rating: 7.5/10

Have a nice day

VPS 7 - ReadiDedis - VPS Review

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 14:42:22 +0000

Hello there,
A few days back i received a replacement VPS as there were many issues going on with the VPS 10. Here is my review for the amazing VPS 7!

I have been using this for 4 days now and i can say the speed and the performance of the VPS is outstanding, The network speed and the SSD are just too good. Sadly, I'm currently using it for my personal Voice Server and the ping and latency is absolutely solid!

Specs :

Disk Space : 25GB SSD
RAM : 1GB
Virtualization : KVM
Bandwidth : Unmetered
Location : Locations are multiple like US: AT LA NY but i chose Germany
Provided by : ReadiDedis

Benchmark :

System Info
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Processor : AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 1 @ 3593.250 MHz
Memory : 992 MiB
Swap : 0 MiB
Uptime : 4 days, 14:18,

OS : Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.4.0-21-generic

System Info
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Processor : AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 1 @ 3593.250 MHz
Memory : 992 MiB
Swap : 0 MiB
Uptime : 4 days, 14:18,

OS : Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.4.0-21-generic

Code:
Speedtest (IPv4 only)

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Your public IPv4 is xxx.xxx.xxx

Location                Provider        Speed

--------        --------        -----

CDN                     Cachefly        86.2MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         @sohamb03       16.1MB/s

Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       12.2MB/s

Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       10.0MB/s

San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       9.94MB/s

Washington, DC, US      Leaseweb        12.1MB/s

Sao Paulo, Brazil       Softlayer       7.25MB/s

Singapore               Softlayer       10.1MB/s

Taiwan                  Hinet           4.99MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          4.84MB/s

Nuremberg, Germany      Hetzner         30.9MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         60.1MB/s

Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        91.3MB/s

Milan, Italy            Softlayer       60.1MB/s

Melbourne, AU           Softlayer       6.47MB/s

Speedtest-CLI Result : 

Testing from Hetzner Online GmbH (148.xx.xx.xx)...

Selecting best server based on latency...

Hosted by Keyweb AG (Erfurt) [112.91 km]: 8.493 ms

Testing download speed........................................

Download: 785.92 Mbit/s

Testing upload speed..................................................

Upload: 322.04 Mbit/s

Disk Speed :

Code:
Buffered Sequential Write Speed

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I/O (1st run)   : 1.9 GB/s

I/O (2nd run)   : 2.1 GB/s

I/O (3rd run)   : 2.2 GB/s

Average I/O     : 2.06667 MB/s

HDParm :
Direct :

Code:
/dev/vda1:

 Timing O_DIRECT cached reads:   3846 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1922.70 MB/sec

 Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 7840 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2612.88 MB/sec

/dev/vda1:

 Timing O_DIRECT cached reads:   3934 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1967.23 MB/sec

 Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 8032 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2677.11 MB/sec

Cached :

Code:
/dev/vda1:

 Timing cached reads:   23816 MB in  2.00 seconds = 11918.81 MB/sec

 Timing buffered disk reads: 3246 MB in  3.00 seconds = 1081.69 MB/sec

/dev/vda1:

 Timing cached reads:   22428 MB in  2.00 seconds = 11223.47 MB/sec

 Timing buffered disk reads: 3200 MB in  3.00 seconds = 1066.61 MB/sec

Geek Bench :

Code:
1260

Single-Core Score

1277

Multi-Core Score

Usage/Pros/Cons :
My Usage is usually hosting a TeamSpeak3 Server and hosting a small RankSystem for my TeamSpeak3 Server and some music bots. The pros of the VPS are the performance of the VPS is pretty solid, I have seen much much more worse performance in paid one, The connection speed is impressive and as promised. The VPS is available in multiple locations, I personally chose Germany and i usually get 110MS which is pretty decent for me. I haven't encountered anytype of issue right now with the VPS, I'm pretty happy with the VPS, The specs are decent, CPU is Ryzen 3700x!
I would like to thanks ReadiDedis and Post4VPS for this amazing VPS!
I hope you like my review as it is my first review, If there are any mistakes or is there something missing please do let me know!
Regards,