Benchmark of Vultr ($5 plan)

arsalanj

The specifications are following:

Price: $5 per month
25 GB SSD
1 CPU
1 GB RAM
1 TB bandwidth

Geekbench: http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14632055

nench.sh log is following:

Processor:    Virtual CPU a7769a6388d5
CPU cores:    1
Frequency:    2399.996 MHz
RAM:          993M
Swap:         511M
Kernel:       Linux 3.13.0-170-generic x86_64

Disks:
vda     25G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    3.493 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    6.241 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    2.027 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 130.4 us / 244.6 us / 8.50 ms / 257.3 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 3.67 k requests in 5.00 s, 917.8 MiB, 734 iops, 183.5 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    418.66 MiB/s
    2nd run:    441.55 MiB/s
    3rd run:    440.60 MiB/s
    average:    433.60 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    104.238.141.xxxx

    Cachefly CDN:         150.57 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        13.08 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   65.32 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      15.54 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         33.34 MiB/s

No IPv6 connectivity detected
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 nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2019-09-17 12:12:32 UTC
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Processor:    Virtual CPU a7769a6388d5
CPU cores:    1
Frequency:    2399.996 MHz
RAM:          993M
Swap:         511M
Kernel:       Linux 3.13.0-170-generic x86_64

Disks:
vda     25G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    3.491 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    6.364 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    1.894 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 122.7 us / 250.9 us / 12.2 ms / 262.8 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 3.90 k requests in 5.00 s, 973.8 MiB, 778 iops, 194.7 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    422.48 MiB/s
    2nd run:    432.97 MiB/s
    3rd run:    438.69 MiB/s
    average:    431.38 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    104.238.141.xxxx

    Cachefly CDN:         152.54 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        16.31 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   64.52 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      16.20 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         34.01 MiB/s

No IPv6 connectivity detected
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bench.sh log is following:

willie

Live a little and try the $6 plan. It is amazing.

uptime

guessing that's in San Jose? (Howdy, neighbor!)

arsalanj

@willie said:
Live a little and try the $6 plan. It is amazing.

Which plan is it? The next one is of $10 and it has 2 GB RAM. https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/

arsalanj

@uptime said:
guessing that's in San Jose? (Howdy, neighbor!)

It's Los Angeles.

uptime

you'll find the $6/m one here -> https://www.vultr.com/products/high-frequency-compute/#pricing

arsalanj

My overall experience has been good. Their support is fast and there is rarely any downtime. If there is any, it doesn't last for more than 2-3 minutes.

arsalanj

@uptime said:
you'll find the $6/m one here -> https://www.vultr.com/products/high-frequency-compute/#pricing

Oh I missed that.

uptime

here's a geekbench for a $3.50/m 512 MB ram instance I've been holding onto in San Jose https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14631814

The $3.50/m deals seem to be out of stock everywhere except for their "New York" location - which is actually in New Jersey - and that also seems to have some of the $2.50/m IPv6-only deals in stock at the moment

note the modestly clocked single-core performance on this little 512 MB instance is indeed delivering superior potassium.

Processor Information                                                           
  Name                          Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, IBRS)          
  Topology                      1 Processor, 1 Core                             
  Identifier                    GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 2       
  Base Frequency                2.39 GHz                                        
  L1 Instruction Cache          32.0 KB                                         
  L1 Data Cache                 32.0 KB                                         
  L2 Cache                      4.00 MB                                         
  L3 Cache                      16.0 MB                

Compare the single-core performance with for example a higher-clocked "compute optimized" instance at Lunanode (which is also very nice - but is a much different beast, and for $40 per month - or, let's just maybe call it $0.05556 per hour) https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14377647

And (it's not explicitly displayed in the geekbench) might also note the SSD performance is consistently decent (considering I'm using full-disk encryption via LVM on LUKS)

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k conv=fdatasync

Tue Sep 17 03:42:30 PDT 2019
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 0.975732 s, 275 MB/s
 03:42:31 up 9 days, 20:15,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.02
Tue Sep 17 03:42:31 PDT 2019

Tue Sep 17 03:52:31 PDT 2019
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 0.947557 s, 283 MB/s
 03:52:32 up 9 days, 20:25,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tue Sep 17 03:52:32 PDT 2019

Tue Sep 17 04:02:32 PDT 2019
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 0.906028 s, 296 MB/s
 04:02:33 up 9 days, 20:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tue Sep 17 04:02:33 PDT 2019

corbpie

Stop using the old cloud compute plans and give the high frequency a twirl

cirrus_cloud

Fun fact: I made a Vultr server with one of the Minecraft templates, and I kept getting disconnected after running in a straight line for like 30 seconds. I realize it's a $5 instance, but the CPU was getting throttled massively. Vultr advertises their ability to run Minecraft, but I find it hard to believe anyone can have a good experience considering that it couldn't handle one player running in a line for a few seconds.

jbuggie

@corbpie said:
Stop using the old cloud compute plans and give the high frequency a twirl

Worth the try. Vultr strength is their 10GB network connectivity, even with the $5 plan.

manlivo

Let try High Frequency Compute Instance.