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Searching for a VDS

itachikonohaitachikonoha Member
edited January 15 in General

Mainly required for FFMPEG encoding (either via windows handbrake or ubuntu ffmpeg encoder)

Currently using berohost ryzen 9950x vps 2 core 6gb ram but since it's shared, so I can't run it for a longer time.

Opted for vds of with epyc 7642 2 core but while the yabs runs over 2500 GB6, in case of ffmpeg encoding it seems to be very slow (around avg 10 fps low in the vds than the berohost vps server for the same file in same environment with similar config except cpu) .

So currently searching for a new one where I could run the CPU 100% without worrying about throttling.

Budget is around 10$ per month. 2 core is enough. Location does not matter. Bandwidth preferably around 10tb

I am starting to ignore YABS because in terms of encoding, the real picture seems to be different. I just want to try different ones to check which could suit my needs.

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  • @itachikonoha said:
    Searching for a VDS

    Budget is around 10$ per month. 2 core is enough. Location does not matter. Bandwidth preferably around 10tb

    Four-cores VDS for a two dollars less (set the number of slices in the cart):

    For $10 you can get either basically the same plan, but with 1000 GB NVMe (bigger slices) or add separate 500 GB SAN disk to the offer above.

    / turn off VPN before ordering /

  • sh97sh97 Member, Host Rep
    edited January 15

    Maybe some of these will work for you
    https://lowend-deals.xbit.win/#vds (some links are aff)

    Thanked by 1itachikonoha
  • AlexPadsAlexPads Member, Host Rep

    Hey!

    We offer VDS (dedicated cores) and have multiple people using our services for this purpose. All services include 20TB of bandwidth at a minimum.

    https://s.enzonix.com/vds

    :)

    Thanked by 1ralf
  • @DataRecovery said:

    @itachikonoha said:
    Searching for a VDS

    Budget is around 10$ per month. 2 core is enough. Location does not matter. Bandwidth preferably around 10tb

    Four-cores VDS for a two dollars less (set the number of slices in the cart):

    For $10 you can get either basically the same plan, but with 1000 GB NVMe (bigger slices) or add separate 500 GB SAN disk to the offer above.

    / turn off VPN before ordering /

    Could you mention which epyc cpu?

  • nick_nick_ Member
    edited January 15

    The best VDS deal within your budget is in the first reply btw.

  • remyremy Member
    edited January 15

    Highly recommend

    You can also consider netcup or avoro, with more cores but less powerful single core performance

    Thanked by 1heartbeat_IT
  • @DataRecovery said:

    @itachikonoha said:
    Searching for a VDS

    Budget is around 10$ per month. 2 core is enough. Location does not matter. Bandwidth preferably around 10tb

    Four-cores VDS for a two dollars less (set the number of slices in the cart):

    For $10 you can get either basically the same plan, but with 1000 GB NVMe (bigger slices) or add separate 500 GB SAN disk to the offer above.

    / turn off VPN before ordering /

    If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true.

  • netcup or dataforest for "German dedicated vCore"

  • remyremy Member

    @Rubben said:

    @DataRecovery said:

    @itachikonoha said:
    Searching for a VDS

    Budget is around 10$ per month. 2 core is enough. Location does not matter. Bandwidth preferably around 10tb

    Four-cores VDS for a two dollars less (set the number of slices in the cart):

    For $10 you can get either basically the same plan, but with 1000 GB NVMe (bigger slices) or add separate 500 GB SAN disk to the offer above.

    / turn off VPN before ordering /

    If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true.

    No servarica is great. They use older epyc processors, so maybe not the best choice if it’s the main criteria

    Thanked by 1servarica_hani
  • lirrrlirrr Member

    Super highly recommend, also super great to work with :)

    Thanked by 1heartbeat_IT
  • @itachikonoha said:

    @DataRecovery said:

    @itachikonoha said:
    Searching for a VDS

    Budget is around 10$ per month. 2 core is enough. Location does not matter. Bandwidth preferably around 10tb

    Four-cores VDS for a two dollars less (set the number of slices in the cart):

    For $10 you can get either basically the same plan, but with 1000 GB NVMe (bigger slices) or add separate 500 GB SAN disk to the offer above.

    / turn off VPN before ordering /

    Could you mention which epyc cpu?

    I have a storage VPS (HDD - fixed plan) with them, not this one, but the others say the CPU is AMD EPYC 7551P.

    Thanked by 1servarica_hani
  • davidedavide Member
    edited January 15

    2 Epyc cores around your budget, I don't have more details on this VDS right now:

    Layer7
    2 Epyc Cores (dedicated)
    8192 MB RAM
    120 GB NVMe
    51200 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4 + IPv6
    Hosted in France

  • edited January 15

    @remy said
    No servarica is great. They use older epyc processors, so maybe not the best choice if it’s the main criteria

    Got yabs for this one?

  • remyremy Member
    edited January 15

    @strictlyparmesan said:

    @remy said
    No servarica is great. They use older epyc processors, so maybe not the best choice if it’s the main criteria

    Got yabs for this one?

    No sorry but you can probably find yabs in this thread
    https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/199994/servarica-black-friday-2024-dedicated-servers-unified-plans-and-storage-incredible

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  • @davide said:
    2 Epyc cores around your budget, I don't have more details on this VDS right now:

    Layer7
    2 Epyc Cores (dedicated)
    8192 MB RAM
    120 GB NVMe
    51200 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4 + IPv6
    Hosted in France

    This one I did buy last week and tested.

    For the same criteria (same OS, same file, same ffmpeg preset and parameters), Berohost (2 core ryzen 9950x shared vps) gives avg 10 more fps than the above. I was slightly disappointed.

    Keeping other parameters same, PH24 (4 core genoa) does match with berohost but throttling to 50% does come in to play (as expected).

    The above VDS performs per with (in case of ffmpeg encoder) naranjatech genoa shared vps ($30/year) which is where disappointment does come in.

    Formatted multiple times, tried with different OS later but in my case, the performance remained below expectations which is a bit frustrating because it was a great value for money package otherwise.

    Thanked by 1davide
  • davidedavide Member
    edited January 15

    @itachikonoha said:
    This one I did buy last week and tested.

    For the same criteria (same OS, same file, same ffmpeg preset and parameters), Berohost (2 core ryzen 9950x shared vps) gives avg 10 more fps than the above. I was slightly disappointed.

    Keeping other parameters same, PH24 (4 core genoa) does match with berohost but throttling to 50% does come in to play (as expected).

    The above VDS performs per with (in case of ffmpeg encoder) naranjatech genoa shared vps ($30/year) which is where disappointment does come in.

    Formatted multiple times, tried with different OS later but in my case, the performance remained below expectations which is a bit frustrating because it was a great value for money package otherwise.

    If the GeekBench score does not match the ffmpeg performance it might be due to different compilation flags for ffmpeg set by the different linux distributions. It would be interesting to compare the encoding speed using the same version and build number of ffmpeg from the same linux repository. But I guess you have tried this already?

  • @davide said:

    @itachikonoha said:
    This one I did buy last week and tested.

    For the same criteria (same OS, same file, same ffmpeg preset and parameters), Berohost (2 core ryzen 9950x shared vps) gives avg 10 more fps than the above. I was slightly disappointed.

    Keeping other parameters same, PH24 (4 core genoa) does match with berohost but throttling to 50% does come in to play (as expected).

    The above VDS performs per with (in case of ffmpeg encoder) naranjatech genoa shared vps ($30/year) which is where disappointment does come in.

    Formatted multiple times, tried with different OS later but in my case, the performance remained below expectations which is a bit frustrating because it was a great value for money package otherwise.

    If the GeekBench score does not match the ffmpeg performance it might be due to different compilation flags for ffmpeg set by the different linux distributions. It would be interesting to compare the encoding speed using the same version and build number of ffmpeg from the same linux repository. But I guess you have tried this already?

    Currently have windows server installed on all 4 machines (struggled with subtitles in some particular files so had to resort to handbrake for the time being) but will check your point. There might be something in there because GB6 was indeed very good.

  • sh97sh97 Member, Host Rep

    If you can slightly increase your budget, we (crunchbits) can offer you this:

    Crunchbits
    Ryzen 7950X

    2 Dedicated vCPU (7950X)
    4GB DDR5 ECC RAM
    100GB NVMe
    20TB Bandwidth
    1x IPv4, /64 IPv6
    2.5Gbps Port
    Spokane, WA, US West

    $14 / month
    https://crunchbits.com/vds

    True dedicated - 1 core / 2 threads
    Full passthrough is also enabled.

    If you are a new user, we also offer a 3-day money-back guarantee, so if it doesn't work for you, you can refund.

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  • dev_vpsdev_vps Member
    edited January 15

    Here is bash script to limit cpu resources to 35% for ffmpeg encoding on a VPS

    I am using this on 6x vCores 9950x VPS
    35% of 6x vCores ≈ 2x dedicated vCores

    #!/bin/bash
    
    # Define input and output file variables
    INPUT_FILE="$1"
    OUTPUT_FILE="$2"
    
    # Check if input and output files are provided
    if [ -z "$INPUT_FILE" ] || [ -z "$OUTPUT_FILE" ]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 <input_file> <output_file>"
        exit 1
    fi
    
    # ffmpeg command with x265 encoding and limited CPU usage
    ffmpeg -i "$INPUT_FILE" \
        -c:v libx265 \               # Use the x265 codec for encoding the video
        -crf 28 \                    # Set Constant Rate Factor (CRF), which adjusts quality (lower is better, default is 28 for x265)
        -preset slow \               # Use 'slow' preset for better compression efficiency
        -c:a aac \                   # Use AAC codec for audio encoding
        -b:a 128k \                  # Set audio bitrate to 128k
        -threads 4 \                 # Limit encoding to four threads
        "$OUTPUT_FILE" &             # Run the encoding process in the background
    
    # Get the Process ID (PID) of the background ffmpeg process
    FFMPEG_PID=$!
    
    # Limit CPU usage to 35% of a single thread using cpulimit
    cpulimit -p $FFMPEG_PID -l 35   # Restrict the CPU usage of the ffmpeg process to 35%
    
    # Wait for the ffmpeg process to complete
    wait $FFMPEG_PID
    

    This also may be helpful — last column is filesize

    ffmpeg.7  SVT-AV1 v.2.1.0  speed=5.1x   101438801
    ffmpeg.6  SVT-AV1 v.1.7.0  speed=4.7x   213118472
    
    ffmpeg.7  libx265          speed=2.2x    192051029
    ffmpeg.6  libx265          speed=2.3x    192051020
    
  • For best performance, 1st one is famesystem.de 2nd is avaro.eu 3rd is netcup.

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  • nohavpsnohavps Member, Patron Provider

    @bdspice said:
    For best performance, 1st one is famesystem.de 2nd is avaro.eu 3rd is netcup.

    There are more companies that offer a good service and can adjust to what the user is looking for.

    Sometimes it's not all about quantity, what counts is quality. :)

  • @nohavps said:

    @bdspice said:
    For best performance, 1st one is famesystem.de 2nd is avaro.eu 3rd is netcup.

    There are more companies that offer a good service and can adjust to what the user is looking for.

    Sometimes it's not all about quantity, what counts is quality. :)

    Yes. And they are start from 4th here. For price+spec+performance=1 to 3 is listed already

  • @davide said:

    @itachikonoha said:
    This one I did buy last week and tested.

    For the same criteria (same OS, same file, same ffmpeg preset and parameters), Berohost (2 core ryzen 9950x shared vps) gives avg 10 more fps than the above. I was slightly disappointed.

    Keeping other parameters same, PH24 (4 core genoa) does match with berohost but throttling to 50% does come in to play (as expected).

    The above VDS performs per with (in case of ffmpeg encoder) naranjatech genoa shared vps ($30/year) which is where disappointment does come in.

    Formatted multiple times, tried with different OS later but in my case, the performance remained below expectations which is a bit frustrating because it was a great value for money package otherwise.

    If the GeekBench score does not match the ffmpeg performance it might be due to different compilation flags for ffmpeg set by the different linux distributions. It would be interesting to compare the encoding speed using the same version and build number of ffmpeg from the same linux repository. But I guess you have tried this already?

    Current YABS seems way too low for a VDS or am I missing something?

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2025-01-01                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Thu Jan 16 20:35:34 CST 2025
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
    Processor  : AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core Processor
    CPU cores  : 2 @ 2295.684 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM        : 7.8 GiB
    Swap       : 0.0 KiB
    Disk       : 117.5 GiB
    Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
    Kernel     : 6.8.0-51-generic
    VM Type    : KVM
    IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
    
    IPv6 Network Information:
    ---------------------------------
    ISP        : FBW NETWORKS SAS
    ASN        : AS49434 FBW NETWORKS SAS
    Host       : Layer7 Networks GmbH
    Location   : Paris, Île-de-France (IDF)
    Country    : France
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda2):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 14.87 MB/s    (3.7k) | 159.63 MB/s   (2.4k)
    Write      | 14.88 MB/s    (3.7k) | 160.47 MB/s   (2.5k)
    Total      | 29.75 MB/s    (7.4k) | 320.10 MB/s   (5.0k)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 240.05 MB/s    (468) | 236.82 MB/s    (231)
    Write      | 252.81 MB/s    (493) | 252.59 MB/s    (246)
    Total      | 492.86 MB/s    (961) | 489.41 MB/s    (477)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 916 Mbits/sec   | 921 Mbits/sec   | 7.27 ms
    Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 741 Mbits/sec   | 984 Mbits/sec   | 12.9 ms
    Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 84.0 Mbits/sec  | 607 Mbits/sec   | 98.3 ms
    Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 201 Mbits/sec   | 738 Mbits/sec   | 149 ms
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 239 Mbits/sec   | 867 Mbits/sec   | 133 ms
    Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 330 Mbits/sec   | 936 Mbits/sec   | 71.7 ms
    Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 213 Mbits/sec   | 831 Mbits/sec   | 243 ms
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 956 Mbits/sec   | 799 Mbits/sec   | 7.31 ms
    Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 638 Mbits/sec   | 972 Mbits/sec   | 12.9 ms
    Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 251 Mbits/sec   | 924 Mbits/sec   | 98.3 ms
    Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 212 Mbits/sec   | 881 Mbits/sec   | 149 ms
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 212 Mbits/sec   | 871 Mbits/sec   | 133 ms
    Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 278 Mbits/sec   | 851 Mbits/sec   | 71.8 ms
    Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 224 Mbits/sec   | 797 Mbits/sec   | 209 ms
    
    Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 627
    Multi Core      | 614
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9962602
    
    YABS completed in 24 min 9 sec
    

    Config: Epyc Dedicated Cloud Server 2Core-8GB-80GB PAR1

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  • davidedavide Member
    edited January 16

    @itachikonoha: it is slow; reach out to labze, he may move some abusers to a special lazaretto node.

  • @davide said:
    @itachikonoha: it is slow; reach out to labze, he may move some abusers to a special lazaretto node.

    Labze is from Hostbrr, not Layer7. These are dedicated cores, abusers shouldn't be a problem.

  • 2x vCores EPYC 7352 / 8 GB / 80GB

    Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 1164
    Multi Core      | 2069
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9334246
    
  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad
    edited January 16

    @itachikonoha said:

    @davide said:

    @itachikonoha said:
    This one I did buy last week and tested.

    For the same criteria (same OS, same file, same ffmpeg preset and parameters), Berohost (2 core ryzen 9950x shared vps) gives avg 10 more fps than the above. I was slightly disappointed.

    Keeping other parameters same, PH24 (4 core genoa) does match with berohost but throttling to 50% does come in to play (as expected).

    The above VDS performs per with (in case of ffmpeg encoder) naranjatech genoa shared vps ($30/year) which is where disappointment does come in.

    Formatted multiple times, tried with different OS later but in my case, the performance remained below expectations which is a bit frustrating because it was a great value for money package otherwise.

    If the GeekBench score does not match the ffmpeg performance it might be due to different compilation flags for ffmpeg set by the different linux distributions. It would be interesting to compare the encoding speed using the same version and build number of ffmpeg from the same linux repository. But I guess you have tried this already?

    Current YABS seems way too low for a VDS or am I missing something?

        Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
        ---------------------------------
        Test            | Value
                        |
        Single Core     | 627
        Multi Core      | 614
        Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9962602
    

    Config: Epyc Dedicated Cloud Server 2Core-8GB-80GB PAR1

    IMHO both single and especially multi core score should be higher; maybe it's a similar problem to this (there the VDS was accidentally setup as VPS, and then was throttled).
    Have you opened a ticket with @layer7?

    Thanked by 1itachikonoha
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