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Benchmark results between contabo and hetzner and some questions for future purchasees
Ok so I did a test I looked up online using openssl on both the servers. I had already used hetzner for many months and contabo I just bought today.
The hetzner package is the 2 core 4.90 euro one and the contabo is the 4 core pure ssd offer for 4.99 euro.
The command
openssl speed des des-ede3 dsa2048 hmac idea-cbc md5
Results...
HETZNER
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes
md5 93228.61k 199009.48k 360655.57k 443382.63k 474822.20k 486511.02k
hmac(md5) 38521.38k 113018.04k 281359.76k 423960.38k 511178.06k 523466.02k
des cbc 53739.98k 55034.23k 59615.72k 58957.06k 61409.86k 59363.04k
des ede3 21282.92k 21329.10k 19955.03k 21551.24k 20380.03k 20997.82k
idea cbc 72881.44k 78206.63k 74194.90k 74627.78k 75545.69k 77350.31k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 2048 bits 0.000424s 0.000308s 2359.6 3245.8
CONTABO
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes
md5 82391.63k 180280.25k 321132.24k 398101.06k 464116.53k 444220.10k
hmac(md5) 34503.41k 107159.46k 259284.16k 395273.65k 470774.24k 464486.40k
des cbc 49203.52k 50862.86k 51527.42k 54651.40k 52398.25k 50060.36k
des ede3 18621.20k 19999.63k 20464.61k 19212.19k 20046.80k 20446.79k
idea cbc 65532.16k 67078.64k 68161.26k 69449.76k 67557.62k 71162.10k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 2048 bits 0.000475s 0.000357s 2106.8 2800.3
Disappointing to see the results of contabo actually coming out worse with 4 cores which goes to show the core numbers mean shit then and just a sales ploy I guess. I knew people said the same but I didn't expect the results to be that bad in terms of being even worse than my last server.
I will test again a few times on contabo of course in case I caught a busy load time. I do still get an increase in hardware though since hetzner only gives 40gb whereas contabo gives 200gb (and ssd thought not really bothered about the latter). But cpu was a big factor for me wanting to change server (since encoding is the main task I want to do on it); HD being the other so I am going to have to have a think if I want to look again now.
With this info, is there any way to know what your speed would be like before having to purchase when using vps? With dedicated I imagine this isn't an issue since better hardware would mean better performance since you know it isn't being drained by others right?
How can I prevent wasting time buying and setting up only to find out the performance is worse in future when buying servers?
Is it more of a clear playing field when looking for dedis? and would that be better for my use case of encoding being my main task on the server? Encoding won't be 100% of the time it is probably 50/50 since I download videos, encode, then upload and do next batch etc. Well on second thought downloading/uploading only takes a small amount of time compared to encoding so yeah I guess encoding would be the majority.
EDITED RESULTS
HETZ
openssl speed -multi 4 des des-ede3 dsa2048 hmac idea-cbc md5
md5 158783.07k 396589.32k 683482.11k 833170.96k 889339.90k 892807.85k
hmac(md5) 71498.40k 211002.30k 497262.59k 765638.11k 937366.87k 989708.98k
des cbc 102615.39k 103834.43k 107148.63k 106851.33k 112970.41k 106318.61k
des ede3 40055.68k 40394.44k 41710.49k 42205.18k 41399.91k 41194.84k
idea cbc 141328.23k 142297.66k 147675.90k 153802.45k 146333.82k 134911.32k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 2048 bits 0.000257s 0.000184s 3896.2 5435.2
CONTABO
openssl speed -multi 4 des des-ede3 dsa2048 hmac idea-cbc md5
md5 318320.59k 684247.57k 1287913.81k 1606255.27k 1748724.39k 1780438.36k
hmac(md5) 145102.30k 406587.54k 927453.35k 1522987.01k 1841329.49k 1886999.89k
des cbc 206431.53k 207200.38k 206354.86k 201171.29k 201534.12k 210965.85k
des ede3 75670.68k 70532.35k 73114.03k 76198.23k 76038.14k 74716.50k
idea cbc 249697.41k 265957.82k 261571.75k 269843.11k 264407.72k 266480.30k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 2048 bits 0.000121s 0.000103s 8265.2 9721.7
That looks better!
HETZ
openssl speed -multi 2 des des-ede3 dsa2048 hmac idea-cbc md5
md5 160086.18k 376901.08k 658161.66k 844717.40k 973144.06k 915581.61k
hmac(md5) 66983.39k 216536.30k 507931.14k 759950.68k 932063.91k 966639.62k
des cbc 97949.62k 104717.91k 114193.41k 110012.42k 107959.64k 110291.63k
des ede3 40904.10k 40507.07k 43666.77k 43367.42k 43362.99k 43013.46k
idea cbc 143822.70k 152119.47k 149100.03k 151850.33k 150538.92k 150880.26k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 2048 bits 0.000253s 0.000215s 3955.4 4643.9
CONTABO
openssl speed -multi 2 des des-ede3 dsa2048 hmac idea-cbc md5
md5 148392.33k 348738.47k 653198.25k 849411.07k 858633.56k 858303.15k
hmac(md5) 69290.61k 220553.73k 515411.97k 776717.65k 914472.96k 934652.59k
des cbc 99582.55k 105304.06k 106903.89k 103675.90k 105816.06k 103230.12k
des ede3 39506.28k 38645.78k 37635.07k 38683.31k 39600.13k 39818.58k
idea cbc 131182.07k 135432.62k 136422.31k 139212.80k 140208.81k 140896.94k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 2048 bits 0.000276s 0.000189s 3620.6 5282.1
Why does hetzner outperform contabo on 2 thread?
This testing ended up being way more circuitous than just installing some other software.
Comments
No one challenges hetzner. Hetzner is the definition of vps.
I hope u didn't have to pay setup fee for contabo. I eventually cancelled due to network and performance issues.
yes I had to pay 4.99 for setup fee. Not going to break the bank though . Regardless it is good to get concrete info on the general talk around here of providers overselling etc. but I want to know how to avoid wasting my time in future.
This makes me feel like vps is a smoke and mirrors advertising game. I would prefer to know from the outset what I am too expect in terms of performance, not to be lowballed once I already paid.
So is it time to get into the dedicated field again?
You are not going PMS for losing 4.99? Then you are not a lowendguy.
There was a dude who wrote 2,000 words essay (complaint) over losing 24 cents during refund process with his former host.
I yet to try Contabo, I see them cheaper on the higher ram/cpus than netcup RS plans. But there is an issue with 400 mbits limit even for local network, I yet to clarify with them. Your test is good, thanks.
It's not the size that matters, it's what you do with it.
Lies.
Don't traumatize me if you please.
Don't post lies if you please.
You always get what you pay for. Contabo is great for personal projects or even business if you know about their flaws. Hetzner on the other hand requires you to pay more but is premium too. Plus we have @Hetzner_OL Katie and her lovely co-worker (someone surely remembers the name?).
I think you've only tested a single core/thread version of the benchmark (and that is of course also CPU frequency dependent). Did you try with the
-multi 2
or-multi 4
option and see if the numbers change on Hetzner vs Contabo?really???
beat me to it...
on a sidenote: if there is no understanding of multithreading options at all, the encoding tasks won't work very well regardless the server OP is going to use...
I am not familiar with the test. Is it designed to be a multi-threaded test?
It is a (useful, but take it with a pinch of salt) benchmark - that's all. Without the
multi
option it's single threaded. Usually very useful to check on the HW accelerated ciphers like AES (and having the right flags in/proc/cpuinfo
, i.e. cpu pass thru' for KVMs, is very useful to significantly improve performance for many crypto ops).Hear hear. And just to add it's not uncommon (for me at least) to come across folks who expect magic to happen just because you have more cores when they've barely tuned anything to take advantage of those cores correctly. Many DB setups have other bottlenecks including IO and RAM before they start hitting serious CPU limits and yet I've found many clueless people jumping the gun onto more cores to make things faster.
Sigh... I wish the right people had access to the right hardware.
Thanks for the explanation. I ask because I thought the OP might have made an erroneous conclusion about the number of cores. In a multi threaded setting, it is inconceivable that the contabo would underperform so shockingly. It looked like a single thread to single thread comparison and dissing the number of cores as "sales ploy" just felt like an unfair statement.
Exactly.
I am a bit sensitive to the multithread issue because I use R for data processing and the newest and fanciest processors mostly are a waste of money because the vast majority of the libraries are single-threaded. The perfect data science server as of now just require a super highly clocked single core with 256gb RAM lol.
Lol! I certainly look after the pennies but not beyond reason where it would increase my blood pressure over such a small thing.
Anyhow I can still increase my productivity quite a bit with the same kind of cpu as I had before but now with an extra 160gb to play with so I might stay the month although there is a 14 day money back I will need to check if it has setup fee included in that.
There is no need to be condescending. I said I never used that command before and I took the command from the article I read in good faith and it didn't mention anything about multi-core arguments.
That was the appropriate response. If you never used the command before, you would have posted your results and asked for plausible explanations before condescendingly claiming that the extra cores are a ploy.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
ok i am worthless piece of shit. Happy?
Here's a distraction
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11481869
That's not the point. I am just saying that you are getting a comensuratble response. Also, it would be nice to put an edit that you changed the offensive tone in your last reply.
The single core is kind of disappointing tbh.
Yes it was although I was more disappointed in multi core score and real time usage
I think for the price on an overall basis, it's pretty neat. It will work well as a RDP and you cannot get that core/RAM/SSD combo anywhere else. I was tempted to get one to out a gucamole on it.
dude...
openssl speed -multi 2 des des-ede3 dsa2048 hmac idea-cbc md5