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Three Months, Ten Users, Zero Problems: @crunchbits and bashvm Deliver 100%!

Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider
edited May 2024 in Reviews

As I guess many of you know, @crunchbits gave me a dedicated server in Washington State. @crunchbits made the server free until November 8. I named the server Crunchy.

I decided to give away 4, which later was increased to 8, Crunchy VPSes made with bashvm. Bashvm is an open source set of bash shell scripts from @babywhale that simplifies KVM VPS creation via libvirt, along with IPv6 and firewall management for IPv4 NAT.

The 8 Crunchy VPSes were sold quickly for a one time payment of $1.01 per VPS covering the entire period from March 11 until November 8. That's practically free!

You can still see the offer thread here: MetalVPS at Crunchbits: E3-1245, 2 vCores, 4GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 1000GB SSD RAID 10, 1 Gbps, $1.01 once!

All 8 Crunchy VPSes have been running continuously, in addition to a couple of small VPSes that @subenhon created manually via the command line. I have two test VPSes (currently shut down) and have occasionally run tinyproxy. Recently I started keeping some backup files on Crunchy as well.

Ubuntu and bashvm have handled the few Node updates seamlessly. The bashvm VPSes are set to restart automatically upon reboot.

I have logged in to Crunchy multiple times daily, checking load averages, running vnstat, and sometimes using tools like top or htop.

A couple of days ago, it struck me that Crunchy has been 100% available! There hasn't been even a single issue of which I am aware, nor have any of our Crunchy neighbors reported any problems. I've been particularly pleased with the lack of network issues. A new yabs is posted below.

Based on three months use by ten of us (8 VPS users, @subenhon, and myself), having zero problems is quite impressive! Congratulations to @crunchbits and @babywhale! Thanks again to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy! <3

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider
    ubuntu@crunchy:~$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2024-04-22                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Tue May 28 02:39:03 AM UTC 2024
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Uptime     : 36 days, 9 hours, 25 minutes
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz
    CPU cores  : 8 @ 3500.000 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM        : 62.6 GiB
    Swap       : 4.0 GiB
    Disk       : 3.7 TiB
    Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
    Kernel     : 5.15.0-105-generic
    VM Type    : NONE
    IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
    
    IPv6 Network Information:
    ---------------------------------
    ISP        : Redoubt Networks
    ASN        : AS400304 Redoubt Networks
    Host       : Redoubt Networks
    Location   : Liberty Lake, Washington (WA)
    Country    : United States
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/mapper/vg0-root):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 232.60 MB/s  (58.1k) | 184.56 MB/s   (2.8k)
    Write      | 233.22 MB/s  (58.3k) | 185.53 MB/s   (2.8k)
    Total      | 465.82 MB/s (116.4k) | 370.09 MB/s   (5.7k)
               |                      |                     
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 291.05 MB/s    (568) | 361.13 MB/s    (352)
    Write      | 306.51 MB/s    (598) | 385.18 MB/s    (376)
    Total      | 597.56 MB/s   (1.1k) | 746.31 MB/s    (728)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 830 Mbits/sec   | 324 Mbits/sec   | 138 ms         
    Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 834 Mbits/sec   | 567 Mbits/sec   | --             
    Telia           | Helsinki, FI (10G)        | busy            | busy            | 161 ms         
    Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 708 Mbits/sec   | 173 Mbits/sec   | 217 ms         
    Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | busy            | 447 Mbits/sec   | 188 ms         
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 915 Mbits/sec   | 670 Mbits/sec   | 37.4 ms        
    Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 887 Mbits/sec   | 638 Mbits/sec   | 72.4 ms        
    Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 781 Mbits/sec   | 99.0 Mbits/sec  | 181 ms         
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 818 Mbits/sec   | 182 Mbits/sec   | 138 ms         
    Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | busy            | busy            | --             
    Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 733 Mbits/sec   | 160 Mbits/sec   | 217 ms         
    Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 754 Mbits/sec   | 525 Mbits/sec   | 188 ms         
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 904 Mbits/sec   | 832 Mbits/sec   | 37.5 ms        
    Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 875 Mbits/sec   | 611 Mbits/sec   | 72.4 ms        
    Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 766 Mbits/sec   | 141 Mbits/sec   | 181 ms         
    
    Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value                         
                    |                               
    Single Core     | 1357                          
    Multi Core      | 4477                          
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/6291723
    
    YABS completed in 15 min 51 sec
    ubuntu@crunchy:~$ 
    
  • CrabCrab Veteran
    edited May 2024

    Crunchbits takes a good care of his chicken. Zero downtime here in the last seven months and the network has been very solid.

    Thanked by 2Not_Oles crunchbits
  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    @Crab said:
    Crunchbits takes a good care of his chicken. Zero downtime here in the last seven months and the network has been very solid.

    Are you running FreeBSD? Do you have a dedi or a VPS?

  • CrabCrab Veteran

    @Not_Oles said: Are you running FreeBSD? Do you have a dedi or a VPS?

    FreeBSD on one yearly, one storage box and one VDS.

    Thanked by 2Not_Oles crunchbits
  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    Now that's super cool! Congrats!

  • JerryHouJerryHou Veteran

    solid service from crunchbits :D

    Thanked by 1Not_Oles
  • this is great news! im glad nobody is having any issues :)

    Thanked by 1Not_Oles
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