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GreenCloudVPS initial review
I have been in need of a few additional VMs in Frankfurt, so decided to contact @NDTN from GreenCloudVPS with some presales question :-)
their latest offer thread seemed promising to get stuff cheap - KVM, 1core, 1 GB, 15GB SD, 1.5TB bw. that's going to be used as VPN, so I don't need much space or fancy things like DDOS protection ;-)
however good network speed/choice of peerings is more important and GreenCloudVPS is located with media23 - which I had very good experiences before.
My questions have been answered quickly, so I ordered 3 VMs and even though it was kind of customised the order has been dealt with very fast and supportive.
went for yearly, even got the 50% recurring applied - big KUDOS to @NDTN !
without further ado... benchmarks:
Geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14264308
despite all VMs probably being on the same hostnode (which is fine for my use case), even running geekbench in parallel on all three at the time shows the same numbers. so either the node is still empty or the balancing is simply done in the right way. will check in the long run, however, CPU power isn't my main concern.
@NDTN depending on the CPUs you use in the hostnode I suggest to passthrough at least AES-NI to the guests, as being able to use this (speeds up encryption) might help with the overall load once the node is more filled ;-)
download speeds:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU model : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.5.3 Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 2499.998 MHz Total amount of ram : 996 MB Total amount of swap : 1023 MB System uptime : 0days, 1:34:34 Load average : 0.00, 0.01, 0.07 OS : Debian GNU/Linux 9 Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 4.9.0-4-amd64 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed CacheFly 205.234.175.175 73.1MB/s Vultr, Tokyo, JP 108.61.201.151 9.48MB/s DO, Bangalore, IN 139.59.80.215 15.8MB/s Softlayer, Chennai, IN 169.38.65.84 10.3MB/s Vultr, Singapore, SG 45.32.100.168 15.1MB/s DO, Singapore, SG 159.89.192.182 9.94MB/s Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 8.84MB/s Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 6.28MB/s Leaseweb, Singapore, SG 103.254.153.18 13.9MB/s Leaseweb, HongKong, CN 43.249.36.49 9.36MB/s Vultr, Sydney, AUS 108.61.212.117 7.81MB/s Softlayer, Sydney, AUS 168.1.1.212 4.24MB/s Softlayer, Melbourne, AUS 168.1.65.244 4.23MB/s Tele2, Gothenberg, SE 90.130.74.151 62.2MB/s Tele2, Kista, SE 90.130.74.149 83.9MB/s Softlayer, Milan, IT 159.122.128.84 54.4MB/s Prometeus, Milan, IT 37.247.53.10 59.2MB/s Tele2, Riga, LV 90.130.74.113 43.2MB/s Tele2, Vilnius, LT 90.130.74.117 39.1MB/s Server.LU, Luxembourg, LU 94.242.192.2 41.1MB/s Tele2, Frankfurt, DE 90.130.74.155 103MB/s Vultr, Frankfurt, DE 108.61.210.117 56.8MB/s Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 89.3MB/s Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 101MB/s Leaseweb, Frankfurt, DE 37.58.58.140 24.5MB/s DO, Frankfurt, DE 46.101.218.147 95.0MB/s Vultr, Paris, FR 108.61.209.127 55.5MB/s OVH, Gravelines, FR 5.196.90.200 25.0MB/s OVH, Strasbourg, FR 5.135.128.81 18.1MB/s OVH, Roubaix, FR 188.165.12.106 64.4MB/s Online.Net, Paris, FR 62.210.18.40 86.0MB/s Tele2, Amsterdam, NL 90.130.74.153 92.4MB/s Vultr, Amsterdam, NL 108.61.198.102 54.7MB/s DO 2, Amsterdam, NL 188.226.175.227 97.9MB/s DO 3, Amsterdam, NL 178.62.216.76 99.9MB/s Leaseweb, Amsterdam, NL 5.79.108.33 76.4MB/s i3d, Amsterdam, NL 213.163.76.135 99.0MB/s Vultr, London, UK 108.61.196.101 53.2MB/s DO, London, UK 46.101.44.214 95.4MB/s Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 63.4MB/s Softlayer, London, UK 5.10.97.132 59.6MB/s Softlayer, Mexico, MX 169.57.4.116 9.41MB/s Softlayer, Brazil, BR 169.57.128.148 7.14MB/s DO 1, NYC, USA 165.227.194.167 23.9MB/s DO 2, NYC, USA 192.241.184.88 15.2MB/s DO 3, NYC, USA 174.138.51.137 15.9MB/s Vultr, New Jersey, USA 108.61.149.182 28.9MB/s Linode, Newark, USA 50.116.57.237 24.8MB/s Vultr, Illinois, USA 107.191.51.12 21.8MB/s Vultr, Atlanta, USA 108.61.193.166 22.5MB/s Linode, Atlanta, USA 50.116.39.117 12.9MB/s Vultr, Miami, USA 104.156.244.232 21.8MB/s Vultr, Washington, USA 108.61.194.105 16.0MB/s Softlayer, Seattle, USA 67.228.112.250 10.5MB/s Leaseweb, Washington, USA 207.244.94.80 19.3MB/s Vultr, Dallas, USA 108.61.224.175 20.4MB/s Linode, Dallas, USA 50.116.25.154 17.6MB/s Softlayer, Dallas, USA 173.192.68.18 12.5MB/s Leaseweb, Dallas, USA 209.58.153.1 11.1MB/s Vultr, Los Angeles, USA 108.61.219.200 16.6MB/s DO, San Francisco, USA 165.227.29.84 9.89MB/s DO, San Francisco, USA 107.170.223.15 15.3MB/s Linode, Fremont, USA 50.116.14.9 9.58MB/s Leaseweb, San Francisco, USA 209.58.135.187 9.45MB/s DO, Toronto, CA 159.203.57.38 14.3MB/s OVH, Beauharnois, CA 192.99.19.165 3.74MB/s EastLink, Canada, CA 24.222.0.194 6.73MB/s Softlayer, Montreal, CA 169.54.124.180 11.8MB/s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I/O speed(1st run) : 406 MB/s I/O speed(2nd run) : 761 MB/s I/O speed(3rd run) : 765 MB/s Average I/O speed : 644 MB/s
very decent as well, I mainly need europe but looks promising for everywhere and like what I was looking for.
fio 64k bs, 50% rand readwrite: [8230/8336/0 iops]
fio 4k bs, 50% rand readwrite: [20.8K/20.8K/0 iops]
very good SSDs speeds, not much to comment on (not really my concern)
iperf to a 10Gbps in germany (thx @fLoo ;-))
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.02 GBytes 879 Mbits/sec 876 sender
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1010 MBytes 847 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf reverse:
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.00 GBytes 862 Mbits/sec 1248 sender
[SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1015 MBytes 851 Mbits/sec receiver
TL;DR; very impressive, afaik the cheapest 1GB KVM you can get in a decent DC in FRA. hope it stays that way for a long time ;-)
PS: link to their last offer thread - https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/159313/greencloudvps-50-off-nvme-storage-kvm-in-us-eu-apac-7-mo-1tb-hdd-10gbps-port-in-nl
Comments
I knew you were a bandwidth addict but that's just server porn right there
Thanks for the benchmark!
@Falzo host-passthrough is available on request. I just enabled it on your VPS, just reboot them for the change to take effect.
23media network has been solid for us for the past 3 years with no issue so far
Thanks!
oh, didn't know, thanks... here another geekbench with AES enabled: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14273496
👍😁
Their server itself is indeed very good but their support is... a bit wired.
I once had their $20/y VPS located in Japan, and here are the tickets brief.
C: Request for reverse DNS
S: "Please contact us 1-2 weeks later"
C: Report IPv6 connectivity problem, packet dropped by gateway
S: "Please check again in a few days"
C: 2 days, still problem
S: "We have no problem, your VPS configuration problem."
C: I checked, reset network, still problem. (submitted traceroute proof from and to US datacenter)
S: "That is a problem related to China ISP"
(??? I got really confused as it is not at all related to network in China)
C: It is nothing about China. I tested from US.
S: "Your VPS configuration's problem."
C: Checked, reset network, reinstalled OS, still exists
S: "We have no problem"
...
Maybe it is because I am not a native English speaker and cannot express my problem clearly.... Or their stuff is not good at investigating network problem at all...
Just wanted to share that I'm quite happy with my SG storage at Greencloudvps.
Found out from this thread that we are able to request for CPU passthrough. Shot a ticket and it got answered in under 30 minutes and it's done. Nench as follows:
Quite happy recent customer here too, only trouble lays with IPv6 network(s).
Anyone would explain the in & out of that "CPU passthrough" ?
I bought one, nothing but trouble.
As mentioned before they are *ssholes when giving 'support'. The rdns will not be setup but after a few weeks. And so on.
I canceled mine, will not be missing these people at all.
Answered you on the other thread. Please PM me your ticket number.
@Falzo
Do you fully update to latest before running benchmarks? I've seen a couple of times on other servers a big difference after updates and a reboot from OOB template.
Do you enable BBR?
@TimboJones that's on debian stretch after proper update &&& dist-upgrade.
No changes to OOB kernel settings though.