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phpfriends BF deal - 1 year review - rock solid.
As I am moving away from @PHP_Friends (other brand: Avoro) it's time for a review, but no popcorn drama here, sorry LET.
Specs copy-paste:
vServer Black Friday 2021 SSD (Intel Xeon E5 v3 / v4, 4 dedizierte CPU-Kerne, 16 GB DDR4-ECC-RAM, 100 GB SSD-Speicher, 1 GBit/s-Anbindung, kostenfreie DDoS-Protection)
YABS copy-paste:
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2022-12-29 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Mon Feb 13 02:28:05 AM CET 2023
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 73 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v4 @ 2.10GHz
CPU cores : 4 @ 2099.984 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 15.6 GiB
Swap : 4.0 GiB
Disk : 97.9 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Kernel : 5.15.0-56-generic
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 176.69 MB/s (44.1k) | 581.98 MB/s (9.0k)
Write | 177.16 MB/s (44.2k) | 585.04 MB/s (9.1k)
Total | 353.85 MB/s (88.4k) | 1.16 GB/s (18.2k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 614.21 MB/s (1.1k) | 881.27 MB/s (860)
Write | 646.85 MB/s (1.2k) | 939.96 MB/s (917)
Total | 1.26 GB/s (2.4k) | 1.82 GB/s (1.7k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 946 Mbits/sec | 1.87 Gbits/sec | 10.8 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | 940 Mbits/sec | 1.87 Gbits/sec | 12.3 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | busy | 1.85 Gbits/sec | 7.62 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 895 Mbits/sec | 1.26 Gbits/sec | 87.1 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 898 Mbits/sec | 1.18 Gbits/sec | 84.5 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 866 Mbits/sec | 814 Mbits/sec | 119 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 843 Mbits/sec | 546 Mbits/sec | 142 ms
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 662
Multi Core | 2486
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/20545880
YABS completed in 6 min 32 sec
Done YABS dozen times in span of the year - it was always the same - CPU score around ~650/2400, disk speeds like the above, network same solid. Never noticed any CPU steal or any problems - my use case uses CPU quite a bit and there are some differences from time to time, but I've never noticed that it would jump to very high values and next day(s) go back to something totally different - CPU was mine and mine alone, no random throttling or anything like that. Same with disk speeds (as it writes quite a bit) - no problems, no random behavior.
Sure, I did not max it CPU wise, but still impressive
Yes, those are really dedicated resources.
Stable? Reboots? Network?
Let me answer with one image.
Rock f*($%@ solid.
English? Support?
Yeah, website is in German mostly. CRM [services list, invoices etc] is in German - but nothing that translate can't handle.
VPS management is in English - SolusVM[see 1], so no problems here.
Support speaks English - it's not a problem, however I only had to test them mostly in billing related problem (my problem btw.) - I've sent my wire transfer for 2nd invoice with the 1st invoice number/title and it was just returned back to me It needs correct title/number - probably tax reasons. Support was nice, polite, fast with replies - bah, didn't even apply any late fees when my "proper" wire transfer showed few days later then it should
Moving away?
Yeah - wanted to throw more things there so I needed more CPU power - was trying to get some nice deals from there for last few months (who wouldn't with that kind of stability!), but nothing showed up from them (and this 'project' budget is limited to donations so I am very picky - need those unsustainable deals in first place and then they need to align with my needs) - php-friends (and Avoro, second brand) seems to be going more into unlimited transfer/nice network way that I don't really need. Now I am actively testing @LowHosting :-)
[1] Seems like SolusVM is going away - quoting theirs blog for this year BF:
Although our vServer infrastructure has been upgraded in terms of the hardware used over the last nine years - hard to believe, that's how long we've been offering VPS - modernized several times and published several new product generations, a somewhat dusty and hardly developed SolusVM has been working in the background from the very first day - until today. For our other products like Webhosting or TeamSpeak servers we are running dedicated host systems which are virtualized using KVM virtualization to better "encapsulate" them (i.e., simpler backups, migrations, upgrades, ...), but this is no longer quite up to date. Therefore, starting in the summer of 2022, we have been working on building a new virtualization infrastructure that can be used for (virtually) all products in the future and is state of the art in all aspects. There will be a whole blog series on the development of this infrastructure with lots of visual material. Long story short: We've been putting all our energy into the new virtualization infrastructure for several months and are making good progress, but unfortunately it wasn't meant to be for Black Friday.
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Thank you!