Happy FAT32 day, 2026 - Day of the Green Dino!

ralf · March 3

@default said:

@lovelyserver said:
Guys, don't forget about DediRock recurring coupon code - FAT32GREENDINO2026 from this thread.

It works on absolutely everything: KVM, storage, dedicated. 10% recurring !!!.

Example:

Storage Promo Plus
– 2 GB RAM
– 1x vCore CPU
– 2 TB Space
– 4 TB Bandwidth
– 1 Gbps Network Port
– 1 IPv4
– Promotional Price: $27.68/Year

- NEW price with this coupon is $24.91 USD

Or go to his storage thread and choose another package.

Coupon is not working. And after 2 months since the offer was released, there is no full YABS in that thread.

I didn't bother doing a YABS as I'm just using it for borg backups. But here you go:

(as an aside, I've no idea why their template chose such a wacky timezone for a server in NY, I didn't notice until seeing this!)

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Tue Mar  3 04:49:47 PM IST 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 5 days, 20 hours, 23 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 2.0 GiB
Disk       : 2.0 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.41+deb13-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : HostPapa
ASN        : AS36352 HostPapa
Host       : Saswata Mukherjee
Location   : Buffalo, New York (NY)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 839.00 KB/s    (209) | 11.42 MB/s     (178)
Write      | 876.00 KB/s    (219) | 11.94 MB/s     (186)
Total      | 1.71 MB/s      (428) | 23.37 MB/s     (364)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 52.81 MB/s     (103) | 67.38 MB/s      (65)
Write      | 55.84 MB/s     (109) | 71.87 MB/s      (70)
Total      | 108.66 MB/s    (212) | 139.25 MB/s    (135)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 714 Mbits/sec   | 261 Mbits/sec   | 80.0 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 851 Mbits/sec   | 804 Mbits/sec   | 86.1 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 786 Mbits/sec   | 276 Mbits/sec   | 173 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 479 Mbits/sec   | 433 Mbits/sec   | 236 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 842 Mbits/sec   | 464 Mbits/sec   | 73.5 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 925 Mbits/sec   | 812 Mbits/sec   | 10.6 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 788 Mbits/sec   | 269 Mbits/sec   | 119 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 400
Multi Core      | 397
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16841942

YABS completed in 33 min 1 sec

VPSSLIM · March 3

Congratulations! I think we'll throw in 3x 25 euro service credit for @FAT32 to decide who gets it! Sharing is caring

lovelyserver · March 3

@default @ralf

DediRock - Storage Wars Power - from LEB post

(1 cpu, 1.5TB disk, 2.5gb ram)

Tue Mar  3 04:20:20 PM IST 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2399.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 2.4 GiB
Swap       : 2.0 GiB
Disk       : 1.5 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.41+deb13-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : HostPapa
ASN        : AS36352 HostPapa
Location   : Buffalo, New York (NY)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.84 MB/s      (461) | 36.35 MB/s     (567)
Write      | 1.87 MB/s      (468) | 36.60 MB/s     (571)
Total      | 3.71 MB/s      (929) | 72.95 MB/s    (1.1k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 133.82 MB/s    (261) | 176.51 MB/s    (172)
Write      | 140.93 MB/s    (275) | 188.27 MB/s    (183)
Total      | 274.76 MB/s    (536) | 364.78 MB/s    (355)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 843 Mbits/sec   | 111 Mbits/sec   | 79.9 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 813 Mbits/sec   | 786 Mbits/sec   | 86.0 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 644 Mbits/sec   | 108 Mbits/sec   | 172 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 455 Mbits/sec   | 392 Mbits/sec   | --             
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 699 Mbits/sec   | 189 Mbits/sec   | 72.9 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 937 Mbits/sec   | 853 Mbits/sec   | 10.7 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 696 Mbits/sec   | 137 Mbits/sec   | 133 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1083                          
Multi Core      | 1119                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16841481

YABS completed in 15 min 54 sec

ralf · March 3

One of these YABS is not like the other...

@ralf said:
Single Core | 400
Multi Core | 397

@lovelyserver said:
Single Core | 1083
Multi Core | 1119

lovelyserver · March 3

@ralf said:
One of these YABS is not like the other...

@ralf said:
Single Core | 400
Multi Core | 397

@lovelyserver said:
Single Core | 1083
Multi Core | 1119

Intel 2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz mine.
Intel 2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz yours.

(edited - i've copied wrong the cpu models and speeds)

I've got some 2660 model for some of those 7/y offers. Same yabs score as your. 2660 is a lot lower, at least for a visual please as yabs score

skygm · March 3

@zbe said:

@skygm said:

@HostDZire said:

@suut said:
@HostDZire Next time you offer a $7 VPS, remember to include a promo code so that MJJ doesn't find out beforehand.

I didnt offer any $7 vps yet, offer was not live yet, so yes no promo code was made, MJJ who scanned link and ordered got his order cancelled and refunded. maybe they will learn the lesson, and yes i will take lesson too, next time i will keep them in mind

When will the $7 VPS promotion go live?

Mine was cancelled

Is it after the transaction is completed that the server is deleted and the refund processed?

ralf · March 3

@lovelyserver said:

@ralf said:
One of these YABS is not like the other...

@ralf said:
Single Core | 400
Multi Core | 397

@lovelyserver said:
Single Core | 1083
Multi Core | 1119

Intel 2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz mine.
Intel 2660 v4 @ 2.40GHz yours.

I've got some 2660 model for some of those 7/y offers. Same yabs score as your. 2660 is a lot lower, at least for a visual please as yabs score

Mine is actually Intel 2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz.

But still 2.5x performance for what is probably in their eyes the same spec machine, sold at very similar price (mine was $27/y).

Actually, I just noticed that I previously had run a YABS as the result was in my spreadsheet. Xeon E5-2680 v4, 1041. I guess they migrated me to a crappy node after the recent RAID failure where all my data got wiped.

anakara · March 3

MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR32

lovelyserver · March 3

@anakara said:
MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR32

zbe · March 3

@skygm said:

@zbe said:

@skygm said:

@HostDZire said:

@suut said:
@HostDZire Next time you offer a $7 VPS, remember to include a promo code so that MJJ doesn't find out beforehand.

I didnt offer any $7 vps yet, offer was not live yet, so yes no promo code was made, MJJ who scanned link and ordered got his order cancelled and refunded. maybe they will learn the lesson, and yes i will take lesson too, next time i will keep them in mind

When will the $7 VPS promotion go live?

Mine was cancelled

Is it after the transaction is completed that the server is deleted and the refund processed?

Yes, I have turned on the machine and deployed the application. I received an order cancellation this afternoon.

nullnothere · March 3

@ralf said: I'm just using it for borg backups

I'm curious on how "performant" the (borg) backups are and if in your view it works well enough with a resonable 1-3% delta day-on-day (roughly).

I'm always a bit skeptical of backups with poor disk IO as it becomes painful to watch over and babysit (let alone check/compact/prune and restore). I'm OK to pay a little more for reasonable and consistent speeds that at least give you some surety on completion (and my perception of "value").

Just wondering if it's worth one's time to test out some of the lower IO (based on YABS) hosts even for low priority backups.

admax · March 3

cainyxues · March 3

Hello everyone ><

lovelyserver · March 3

@cainyxues said:
Hello everyone ><

ralf · March 3

@nullnothere said:

@ralf said: I'm just using it for borg backups

I'm curious on how "performant" the (borg) backups are and if in your view it works well enough with a resonable 1-3% delta day-on-day (roughly).

Honestly, I've no idea as I've never restored in anger from some of these slow storage. All of my backups have at least 2 copies (for massive things I don't care so much about) up to 8 copies (for things like git, mail, web). The just back up via cronjobs overnight, so the only time I look into anything is if cron mails me because of an error, or if my zabbix shows that disk space is getting low on any of them.

The majority of these take about 30 seconds per repo to do a (small) incremental backup. The ones with higher latency take about a minute to do the same incremental backup, so I'd expect restore times to be similarly impacted.

The few occasions I've actually had to restore anything, I've used one of the faster local repositories (most of my important stuff is on OVH and Hetzner, and both have backup repos on the other).

The others are deliberately geographically diverse (and to a lesser extent provider diverse) just for redundancy. I only plan to use them if all else fails really, so I'm not too bothered about latency.

I'm always a bit skeptical of backups with poor disk IO as it becomes painful to watch over and babysit (let alone check/compact/prune and restore). I'm OK to pay a little more for reasonable and consistent speeds that at least give you some surety on completion (and my perception of "value").

I run append only on most of my repos, but for the smaller ones I do also do a borg prune even though it doesn't clean up space (mostly I do this on the client so the indices are updated there). When disk space is an issue on any repo host, I have a script that runs borg compact on every repo on that host. I do that manually via a script, and I'm happy to just leave that running in the background.

Just wondering if it's worth one's time to test out some of the lower IO (based on YABS) hosts even for low priority backups.

Yeah, I guess I might be niche as I know I'll barely (if ever) need to use them to restore from.

It also helps that almost all of the VMs on my dedis are co-operating and sharing databases between them, and so they're all kind of redundant anyway. They are also set up using a script, so most likely if one fails I won't be restoring from backup, I'll just be recreating from scratch anyway. The only single points of failure in my setup really are my primary e-mail and primary DNS and they are backed up many, many times, mostly to machines with better disk and networking than the host anyway.

Ironically, due to history, the master copy of almost all my data is on HDD on a 100mbps server at OVH, it's just the replicas (including what actually gets served to the world) are on much faster machines!

FAT32 · March 3

I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32

ralf · March 3

@ralf said:
I run append only on most of my repos, but for the smaller ones I do also do a borg prune even though it doesn't clean up space (mostly I do this on the client so the indices are updated there). When disk space is an issue on any repo host, I have a script that runs borg compact on every repo on that host. I do that manually via a script, and I'm happy to just leave that running in the background.

Just to spell that out more clearly, on each client to be backed up, they do borg create ... then borg prune ... for every host they backup to. These are append-only, so the indices are all updated, but the original files are still in the borg repo. Then periodically, on the borg server itself, I have a script that runs borg compact on each repo in turn. This only gets run when that server is short on space (maybe once a month) and after verifying that the data on the other servers is still fine. Because this doesn't change any data in the indices, there's no expensive resync when the client next connects as its caches already reflect the repo with the data removed.

If there was a bad actor who deliberately tried to sabotage your repo by pruning all your old data after corrupting your server, you could delete the most recent files on the borg server and it would undo the prune.

ralf · March 3

@FAT32 said:
I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32

Not if we have more deals!

sebastiaandev · March 3

@FAT32 said:
I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32

My contribution, deals plz.

ShadowLurker · March 3

LLM's scanning threads, I think providers should provide a prompt along with the offer link so that LLM's skip

barbarza · March 3

@ShadowLurker said:
LLM's scanning threads, I think providers should provide a prompt along with the offer link so that LLM's skip

Or a prompt to purchase a much more expensive service.

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@FAT32 said:
I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32

Let's have a last try

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Any love for EU plebs? Maybe NL?

FAT32 · March 3

@HuiW said:

@FAT32 said:
I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32

Let's have a last try

I am having Tangyuan as we speak - today is Lantern Festival

DejavuMoe · March 3

@FAT32 said:

@HuiW said:

@FAT32 said:
I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32

Let's have a last try

I am having Tangyuan as we speak - today is Lantern Festival

I haven’t even eaten Yuanxiao yet⚪…

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HuiW · March 3

@FAT32 said:

@HuiW said:

@FAT32 said:
I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32

Let's have a last try

I am having Tangyuan as we speak - today is Lantern Festival

Aha right! Happy Lantern Festival!

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where is 22 or 24USD per year

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