All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Some storage services (VPS + SHARED) initial reviews: HostBrr, interserver, novacloud-hosting
Hostbrr is used by me for some months, the other two are brand new to me.
** 1-Hostbrr. **
I have two services with them, shared storage in different servers in Germany. One wit 500GB, other with 1TB. Lower specs than normal shared, but really good (excellent) for the price. DA panel with everything a normal shared hosting would have and, on the top of that, a jailed ssh access that makes your life easy when dealing with backups. Rsync enabled, but crons runs only via web panel.
Overall, it is a far better from decent service, when you consider that you get 0,5TB for $7 per year and 1TB for 15& per year. Kudos!
** 2-interserver.net **
Plenty of space for a really low price yearly (only). 1TB for 17$. Downside is the low traffic allocation, just 2TB: having a bandwidth just the double of the disk, is extremely low. IMHO, it should be at least x4, because you will face exhaustion of the bandwidth even before a month gets to it end...
A plus with them: they give you a free DA personal license, if you want to install there a panel for convenience.
ipv6 enabled, ipv4 included (not NAT) and even nested virtualization is enabled. They gave me a single vcore of 8173M on 2GHz speed.
The YABS:
Far than impressive. Acceptable for a dirty cheap backup service with plenty of space, but not something that will give you really nice speed for your big data... CPU is very low specs. OK, it is a backup service, but a single score of ~600 is low. Usable, but low. Although, this single-threaded performance will not hold back network and/or storage related tasks.
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2025-04-20 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
Sun Aug 10 08:01:09 AM EDT 2025
Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime : 0 days, 13 hours, 0 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8173M CPU @ 2.00GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 1995.272 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 488.0 MiB
Disk : 983.7 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-37-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP : Interserver, Inc
ASN : AS19318 Interserver, Inc
Host : Interserver, Inc
Location : Secaucus, New Jersey (NJ)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda3):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 388.00 KB/s (97) | 6.22 MB/s (97)
Write | 411.00 KB/s (102) | 6.58 MB/s (102)
Total | 799.00 KB/s (199) | 12.81 MB/s (199)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 49.81 MB/s (97) | 99.41 MB/s (97)
Write | 52.65 MB/s (102) | 106.03 MB/s (103)
Total | 102.47 MB/s (199) | 205.45 MB/s (200)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 2.58 Gbits/sec | 420 Mbits/sec | 70.9 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 2.99 Gbits/sec | 2.38 Gbits/sec | 72.1 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 740 Mbits/sec | 283 Mbits/sec | 167 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 50.4 Mbits/sec | 633 Mbits/sec | 225 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.96 Gbits/sec | 396 Mbits/sec | 57.3 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 8.37 Gbits/sec | 6.12 Gbits/sec | 2.27 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 2.01 Gbits/sec | 255 Mbits/sec | 111 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 2.67 Gbits/sec | 271 Mbits/sec | 70.5 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 3.12 Gbits/sec | 2.56 Gbits/sec | 71.8 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 841 Mbits/sec | 250 Mbits/sec | 167 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 617 Mbits/sec | 677 Mbits/sec | 225 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 2.80 Gbits/sec | 1.00 Gbits/sec | 58.6 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 9.00 Gbits/sec | 5.99 Gbits/sec | 2.01 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 1.78 Gbits/sec | 332 Mbits/sec | 111 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 635
Multi Core | 662
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/13254962
YABS completed in 25 min 22 sec
Overall, it is working, it has space, but certainly is not fast. Disk performance is exactly what should I expect from a low priced storage VPS. Speeds like that are adequate for large files or even serving media to a low/medium traffic site. And the network speed... More than excellent.
** 3-novacloud-hosting.com**
For 3.5€ per month, decent specs and OS disk speed. They give you SSD for the OS and the backup space on a different HDD that is really fast for the specs and price.
This is YABS for the main server:
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2025-04-20 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
Sun Aug 10 12:01:12 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 19 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2297.338 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 1.9 TiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-37-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 132.62 MB/s (33.1k) | 1.23 GB/s (19.2k)
Write | 132.97 MB/s (33.2k) | 1.24 GB/s (19.3k)
Total | 265.59 MB/s (66.3k) | 2.47 GB/s (38.6k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 1.35 GB/s (2.6k) | 1.23 GB/s (1.2k)
Write | 1.42 GB/s (2.7k) | 1.31 GB/s (1.2k)
Total | 2.78 GB/s (5.4k) | 2.54 GB/s (2.4k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.91 Gbits/sec | 2.01 Gbits/sec | 9.36 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 2.44 Gbits/sec | 2.32 Gbits/sec | 3.52 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 727 Mbits/sec | 546 Mbits/sec | 96.5 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 576 Mbits/sec | 879 Mbits/sec | 160 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 581 Mbits/sec | 333 Mbits/sec | 152 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 765 Mbits/sec | 1.73 Gbits/sec | 82.6 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 308 Mbits/sec | 257 Mbits/sec | 184 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.45 Gbits/sec | 2.24 Gbits/sec | 9.41 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 2.46 Gbits/sec | 2.34 Gbits/sec | 3.51 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 653 Mbits/sec | 855 Mbits/sec | 96.5 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 514 Mbits/sec | 942 Mbits/sec | --
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 543 Mbits/sec | 373 Mbits/sec | 152 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 621 Mbits/sec | 1.85 Gbits/sec | 82.6 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 465 Mbits/sec | 557 Mbits/sec | 184 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 615
Multi Core | 612
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/13254953
YABS completed in 24 min 30 sec
CPU has low speed. network speeds are more than decent. And this is the speed of the HDD:
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2025-04-20 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
Sun Aug 10 12:26:54 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 44 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2297.338 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 1.9 TiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-37-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vdb):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 114.54 MB/s (28.6k) | 1.45 GB/s (22.8k)
Write | 114.84 MB/s (28.7k) | 1.46 GB/s (22.9k)
Total | 229.38 MB/s (57.3k) | 2.92 GB/s (45.7k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 1.66 GB/s (3.2k) | 1.57 GB/s (1.5k)
Write | 1.75 GB/s (3.4k) | 1.67 GB/s (1.6k)
Total | 3.41 GB/s (6.6k) | 3.24 GB/s (3.1k)
YABS completed in 33 sec
Not bad at all...
Comments
You should mention how long you have been with them.
-
Sorry if this is a silly question but how is the HDD is faster than the SSD?
Edit: referring to novacloud's YABS.
Its the same model, diff yabs. No SSD?
Correct me if I am wrong- I thought the first YABS is for the SSD which holds the OS and the second one is for the attached HDD.
It is advertised as hdd, but those speeda are for sure ssd's! My guess, didn;t search it further...
Correct. First is yabs with the first main disk, that is ssd, the second is testing vdb (it is formatted as ext4 and mounted as folder "/backup".