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Skhron hosting provider: Review
Hello 
Disclaimer:
This VPS was loaned to me free of charge for 3 months.
However, I have nothing to gain from posting positive review.
No promotion, no gift, nothing.
Hosting provider: Skhron @tentor
Specs of the VPS tested:
XSIG-2
2 vCPU (full utilization allowed, continuous usage of 50% for FUP)
2GB DDR4 ECC RAM
72GB RAID10 SSD
1Gbit/s (8TB traffic)
location: Poland, Warsaw
At the time of writing, I've had the server for 75 days.
I used it mainly to test a tool I'm developing. I needed servers in several locations.
Yabs (when I got the server)
Sun Dec 17 05:44:04 PM CET 2023
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes
Processor : Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores : 2 @ 2199.992 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 71.9 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-9-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : HZ Hosting Ltd
ASN : AS59711 HZ Hosting Ltd
Host : Skhron
Location : Warsaw, Mazovia (14)
Country : Poland
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda3):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 169.59 MB/s (42.3k) | 1.71 GB/s (26.7k)
Write | 170.04 MB/s (42.5k) | 1.72 GB/s (26.9k)
Total | 339.64 MB/s (84.9k) | 3.43 GB/s (53.7k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 2.17 GB/s (4.2k) | 2.46 GB/s (2.4k)
Write | 2.29 GB/s (4.4k) | 2.62 GB/s (2.5k)
Total | 4.47 GB/s (****8.7k) | 5.08 GB/s (4.9k)
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 961
Multi Core | 1614
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4028695
YABS completed in 10 min 1 sec
Yabs (Now)
Fri Mar 1 07:04:46 PM CET 2024
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 75 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes
Processor : Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores : 2 @ 2199.992 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 3.0 GiB
Disk : 71.9 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-16-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : HZ Hosting Ltd
ASN : AS59711 HZ Hosting Ltd
Host : Skhron
Location : Warsaw, Mazovia (14)
Country : Poland
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda3):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 174.31 MB/s (43.5k) | 1.47 GB/s (23.0k)
Write | 174.77 MB/s (43.6k) | 1.48 GB/s (23.1k)
Total | 349.08 MB/s (87.2k) | 2.95 GB/s (46.2k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 1.74 GB/s (3.3k) | 1.83 GB/s (1.7k)
Write | 1.83 GB/s (3.5k) | 1.95 GB/s (1.9k)
Total | 3.57 GB/s (6.9k) | 3.78 GB/s (3.6k)
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 888
Multi Core | 1534
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5132906
Network speed
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A simple script to test network performance using speedtest-cli
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Version : v2024.02.29
Global Speedtest : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash
Region Speedtest : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash -s -- -r <region>
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Basic System Info
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CPU Model : Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU Cores : 2 @ 2199.992 MHz
CPU Cache : 16384 KB
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
Total Disk : 71.9 GB (7.0 GB Used)
Total RAM : 1.9 GB (281.6 MB Used)
Total Swap : 3.0 GB (5.0 MB Used)
System uptime : 75 days, 1 hour 35 min
Load average : 0.14, 0.37, 0.74
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 12
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 6.1.0-16-amd64
Virtualization : KVM
TCP Control :
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Basic Network Info
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Primary Network : IPv6
IPv6 Access : ✔ Online
IPv4 Access : ✔ Online
ISP : HZ Hosting Ltd
ASN : AS59711 HZ Hosting Ltd
Host : Skhron
Location : Warsaw, Mazovia-14, Poland
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Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
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Location Latency Loss DL Speed UP Speed Server
ISP: HZ Hosting
Nearest 0.75 ms 0.0% 908.82 Mbps 906.00 Mbps Skynet DC - Warsaw
Kochi, IN 270.12 ms 0.0% 543.98 Mbps 408.50 Mbps Asianet Broadband - Cochin
Bangalore, IN 172.01 ms 0.0% 512.21 Mbps 462.57 Mbps Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore
Chennai, IN 179.58 ms N/A 616.73 Mbps 11.43 Mbps Jio - Chennai
Mumbai, IN 132.95 ms 0.0% 878.80 Mbps 578.72 Mbps i3D.net - Mumbai
Delhi, IN 285.90 ms 0.0% 135.89 Mbps 293.60 Mbps Tata Play Fiber - New Delhi
Seattle, US 171.43 ms N/A 670.65 Mbps 537.82 Mbps Comcast - Seattle, WA
Los Angeles, US 150.53 ms 0.0% 824.26 Mbps 599.18 Mbps ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA
Dallas, US 128.38 ms 0.0% 671.16 Mbps 542.34 Mbps Hivelocity - Dallas, TX
Miami, US FAILED
New York, US 92.11 ms 0.0% 972.05 Mbps 876.08 Mbps GSL Networks - New York, NY
Toronto, CA 103.89 ms 0.0% 889.00 Mbps 818.09 Mbps Rogers - Toronto, ON
Mexico City, MX 203.54 ms N/A 877.84 Mbps 365.75 Mbps INFINITUM - Mexico City
London, UK 29.09 ms 0.0% 925.90 Mbps 911.08 Mbps VeloxServ Communications - London
Amsterdam, NL FAILED
Paris, FR FAILED
Frankfurt, DE 20.91 ms 0.0% 914.04 Mbps 912.15 Mbps Clouvider Ltd - Frankfurt am Main
Warsaw, PL 0.96 ms 0.0% 914.97 Mbps 911.02 Mbps Play - Warszawa
Bucharest, RO 36.59 ms 0.0% 908.29 Mbps 915.87 Mbps Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest
Moscow, RU 69.57 ms 0.0% 905.97 Mbps 665.76 Mbps MegaFon - Moscow
Jeddah, SA 81.75 ms 0.0% 939.43 Mbps 870.90 Mbps Saudi Telecom Company
Dubai, AE FAILED
Fujairah, AE FAILED
Istanbul, TR 71.46 ms 0.0% 922.02 Mbps 850.56 Mbps Turkcell - Istanbul
Tehran, IR 101.22 ms 0.0% 667.13 Mbps 212.91 Mbps Asiatech - Tehran
Tokyo, JP FAILED
Shanghai, CU-CN FAILED
Nanjing, CT-CN FAILED
Hong Kong, CN 241.57 ms N/A 32.67 Mbps 356.20 Mbps STC - Hong Kong
Singapore, SG 179.23 ms 0.0% 657.61 Mbps 491.58 Mbps i3D.net - Singapore
Jakarta, ID 211.71 ms 0.0% 815.82 Mbps 376.80 Mbps PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia - Jakarta
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Avg DL Speed : 743.70 Mbps
Avg UL Speed : 603.26 Mbps
Total DL Data : 23.30 GB
Total UL Data : 17.43 GB
Total Data : 40.73 GB
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Duration : 11 min 53 sec
System Time : 01/03/2024 - 19:45:06 CET
Total Script Runs : 36911
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Result : https://result.network-speed.xyz/r/1709317221_FBJO0P_GLOBAL.txt
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As I said, I didn't have a constant and heavy workload on this server over the period.
But I've had spikes in usage that don't show any CPU steals. (Hetrix monitoring)
Server stability was very good throughout the period. The server has never restarted since I got it.
However, network uptime has not been perfect, but very good too.
The server has been monitored with hextrixtools, which currently indicates an uptime of 99.9886% (including maintenance window).
This could have been much better, as maintenance was carried out recently. It was scheduled and I was notified by email.
This had an impact on the current month's SLA and an extra day was automatically added.
No need to complain, it's fair play.
99.988%, almost 99.99%. Let's face it, that's pretty good for a service at this price.
What I like:
- Premium facility: Equinix WA3.
- Virtfusion panel - Best SaaS panel from my point of view
- Good support of custom ISOs
- CPU / RAM disk space ratio. BIG plus point.
The founder is quite active in the community. You only have to read a few of his posts to see that he knows what he's doing.
And above all, he doesn't post just for the sake of his company. That's cool.Stability
What I think could be improved:
Offer a wider range of products
More powerful VPS, the largest plan having only 4Gb of ram. Storage VPS / storage space?
VM-x/AMD-V CPU flags
Not really a problem with cheap offer like this one
But I like to have it on VPS with 8Gb of RAM.
The website could be improved.
Even if this has nothing to do with product quality. It could give more confidence. In my opinion, it's an investment worth making.
I'd love to see Poland moved further west, it would be closer to my audience.
All kidding aside... I mean having more locations.But all that will come in time, I guess.
Definitely recommend if you're looking for a server in this part of Europe.
It's rare to find such recent companies offering such high-quality services.
Comments
Reviewing a free VPS is a job requiring self-denial.
I think it's pretty obvious.
That said, I've tried to be as transparent as possible.
Deleted @jenkki crap and tidied up the thread.
Can vouch for Skhron's reliability for the past few months I've been using them (Since September).
Only 1 outage which was notified and everyone affected got their service extended (I think it was automatic? didn't bother tbh, shit happens).
No issues since then. Have only monitored network, as the server is just a proxy and has low CPU and RAM. 20s TCP checks, rock solid.
@remy, we are grateful you for serious and responsible attitude to the evaluation of our service. Thank you for taking the time to help us become better.
Custom design for our website is currently under development.
Growing the services list is indeed an important goal, however in our opinion it is much more important to consummate (or get as close as possible to it) for the existing one. Each new product or service has its own aspects that must be accounted as early as at a planning stage.
Initially, it was planned to add the support for the nested virtualization with an introduction of VDS tariff plan line. This is due to the most common usage scenarios imply constantly high or frequently high load, which could easily violate current Fair use Policy and cause severe performance degradation leading to poor service quality.
Launching new sites will grant our customers tons of new possibilities, including new services requiring anycast.
Given that our key priority is reliability, we can't accept risks related to dedicated servers lease, which would enable us to grow Points of Presence amount rapidly. Our guiding principle is quality, not quantity.
We are glad that in your advice we saw exactly the goals and objectives we have already set for ourselves. This means that we understand our customers correctly and are moving in the right direction.
This review helped me to find this service when I was searching for a new VPS in PL. Premium network location (great peerings in PL, stable ping), support responsive and helpful, good performance and stability. Been with them only one month, but so far very happy, especially for the price.
Glad it was helpful
One thing to add, maybe will be useful for someone who wants to use their vpses as vpn servers.
I've tried that for PL based family. While all geoip databases locate Skhron's IP as PL based, Google does not. As far as I know Google locates IPs based on where the entity owning them is registered.
Skhron's IP is located by Google as Estonia, which makes browsing from PL a bit difficult (for some reason I've also seen the same IP being located by Google as Croatia for few days).
The IPs are registered to a legal entity in UK, our ASN is Estonian one. Thanks for this information, will look further into this problem.
good👍
Please post an update here if you would be able to get this resolved, it's the only issue that's blocking my usage of your service for this specific purpose.
I've tried filling in the "Report IP problem" page on Google several times, it helped and the IP started to be located as PL, but after two days it reverted back.
Does YouTube also identify you as from Estonia?
(the logo top left should have EE)
also @tentor not sure if this could be the issue in this scenario?
I will do. However I would like to ask you to report similar issues using our ticketing system in the first place.
Too bad if Google prefers RIR country and not one specified in geofeed. However thank you for this guess, I will consider it as well.
Yep:
I usually would, but I've seen similar problem with many foreign providers having the same issue with Google, so I figured it's rather something you can't really do anything. about...
I've just tested with another provider that has RIPE IPv4 block as "Country EU" and can confirm it also geolocates me to the ASN country (in this case Ukraine) (whilst the server being in Slovakia)
however if I test with a server in Ukraine (ASN is United States) but has RIPE as Country UA then it geolocates me to Ukraine properly.
Just my 2 cents, can be wrong.
Thanks you guys, I will try to resolve it ASAP. Will post here once the fix is confirmed.
Not sure if it's that simple.
Here's a test with IP pool with RIPE as Country: PL, but the owner is registered in Bulgaria:
I don't care btw, as long as Maxmind is good
, just posting my 2 cents.
your services have been rock solid for me, thanks a lot
can you check that IP against Maxmind? does it report PL or BG?
Maxmind reports PL
You can change this, you know? If we're talking scraping etc?
@yoyek https://valentin.app
We're talking human traffic. There are settings in Google to show results in a specific country, but youtube still opens at geolocated location, a lot of other stuff also opens with Estonian language...
Google marks IP locations by their own strategy.
It's not related to any obejct details of IP addresses in RIPE database, it's just Google's thought.
It's a pain for ASN operators to deal with this. Even you report to them, things rarely get fixed.
As I know, most of the case, for v6 prefix, they will by default mark it the same as your ASN location (RIPE force a "Country" item into your ORG object, Google should identify your ASN location following by this I think.).
For v4 prefix, sometimes you get fixed after several monthes when you change your announcing location, but that need a lot of luck to happen.
And obviously, Google manages its own IP geolocation database. I heard they sometimes use android devices' GPS telemetry report (for example like Google map) to update their database.
Also if you're peering with Google, by using their Peering Partner Portal you can provide a geofeed url getting things fixed elegantly, but recently they do not easily accept new peers as I know.