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My review of Skhron's EPYC 7002 VPS (Sweden) - Great experience after first 3 months
I bought a Skhron VPS around 3 months ago, it was right after skhron introduced EPYC CPUs to their offer. I never used EPYC server before and also I always wanted to try Skhron, so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to test them both.
My ER-SE-1 plan which includes:
- 1 shared EPYC 7002 core (FUP 13% but bursts to 100% allowed)
- 1GB RAM
- 15GB NVMe storage
- 1 TiB traffic (up+down)
- IPv4 and IPv6 /64
And costs 3.30 EUR/mo without or 1.81 EUR/mo with discount.
A bit of background
I first came across skhron some time in 2023 while browsing researching privacy focused VPS providers. Back then it was still a very new project. Privacy oriented vps provider with cheap servers in Poland (later also Sweden) taking payments in crypto was certainly unique, however ultimately I didn't have a use for it. Later I just forgot about it for a while.
When I registered on LET in January this year, it was nice to see @tentor being active on the forum.
A bit about Skhron
Skhron is a company registered in Estonia 🇪🇪, but the people behind it are Ukrainians 🇺🇦. As of today, they exist for 26 months. From the start their focus was on privacy and price - they have an onion domain so that everything can be managed over Tor.
They use 2 self-hosted cryptocurrency payment gateways:
Credit card payment is also possible via Paysera or Stripe.
Skhron uses WHMCS and VirtFusion - pretty standard for modern day providers.
Networking
Skhron owns AS215467, the networking is great overall. In Sweden they upstream to obe.net (AS3399) and HE (AS6939).
You can see the full nws.sh result here. Skhron advertises 5Gbps shared on EPYC plans and delievers just that - basically 5Gbps bidirectional to Warsaw 🇵🇱 and Amsterdam 🇳🇱 with pings around 20 ms.
The speeds are obviously lower in the more distant regions, but getting over 1 Gbps to New York 🇺🇸 (91 ms) and over 500 mbps to Singapore 🇸🇬 (163 ms) isn't bad either.
Performance
The overall performance is great, system feels snappy and as I mentioned earlier, there's basically no CPU limiting/oversell in place. You get a full EPYC core and that shows in benchmarks.
All benchmarks were performed on Debian 13.1, I manually upgraded from Debian 12.
I had 1 GB of zstd-compressed zram swap enabled while doing the benchmarks, however most of the time it was barely used.
Obligatory YABS
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
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Tue Sep 23 02:26:04 AM CEST 2025
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 13 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC-Rome Processor
CPU cores : 1 @ 1999.997 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 929.1 MiB
Swap : 1024.0 MiB
Disk : 14.9 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel : 6.12.43+deb13-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : Skhron OU
ASN : AS215467 Skhron OU
Host : Skhron OU
Location : Stockholm, Stockholm County (AB)
Country : Sweden
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 148.01 MB/s (37.0k) | 1.92 GB/s (30.1k)
Write | 148.40 MB/s (37.1k) | 1.93 GB/s (30.3k)
Total | 296.41 MB/s (74.1k) | 3.86 GB/s (60.4k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 2.45 GB/s (4.7k) | 1.71 GB/s (1.6k)
Write | 2.58 GB/s (5.0k) | 1.83 GB/s (1.7k)
Total | 5.03 GB/s (9.8k) | 3.54 GB/s (3.4k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 5.28 Gbits/sec | 3.03 Gbits/sec | 23.8 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 5.37 Gbits/sec | 4.16 Gbits/sec | 17.9 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 2.83 Gbits/sec | 2.26 Gbits/sec | 73.4 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 871 Mbits/sec | 1.25 Gbits/sec | 170 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.20 Gbits/sec | 475 Mbits/sec | 146 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.89 Gbits/sec | 2.55 Gbits/sec | 96.7 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 447 Mbits/sec | 739 Mbits/sec | 193 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 5.12 Gbits/sec | 4.23 Gbits/sec | 23.7 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 5.36 Gbits/sec | 4.19 Gbits/sec | 17.9 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 2.76 Gbits/sec | 2.48 Gbits/sec | 73.3 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 1.12 Gbits/sec | 1.30 Gbits/sec | 170 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.19 Gbits/sec | 892 Mbits/sec | 146 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 2.07 Gbits/sec | 2.43 Gbits/sec | 96.4 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 1.03 Gbits/sec | 328 Mbits/sec | 193 ms
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 4156
Multi Core | 3964
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/19036018
YABS completed in 11 min 54 sec
Other notable benchmarks include:
OpenSSL chacha20-poly1305 (the one wireguard uses)
It reaches around 1.6 GB/s on a single core, so here the bottleneck for wireguard should be the network 
$ openssl speed -evp chacha20-poly1305
version: 3.5.1
built on: Sat Jul 12 16:49:06 2025 UTC
options: bn(64,64)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -pthread -m64 -Wa,--noexecstack -Wall -fzero-call-used-regs=used-gpr -Wa,--noexecstack -g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -ffile-prefix-map=/build/reproducible-path/openssl-3.5.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -DOPENSSL_USE_NODELETE -DL_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_BUILDING_OPENSSL -DZLIB -DZSTD -DNDEBUG -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
CPUINFO: OPENSSL_ia32cap=0xfff83203078bffff:0x00400004219c01ab:0x00000000ac000000:0x0000000000000000:0x0000000000000000
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes
ChaCha20-Poly1305 229213.46k 411289.69k 836603.03k 1514127.50k 1604582.66k 1628251.78k
OpenSSL
Full, including PQC crypto stuff
cryptsetup
AES-XTS 512b key reaches 1.7 GB/s due to AES-NI acceleration.
$ cryptsetup benchmark
# Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO).
PBKDF2-sha1 1934642 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-sha256 3609555 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-sha512 1403716 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-ripemd160 669588 iterations per second for 256-bit key
PBKDF2-whirlpool 517049 iterations per second for 256-bit key
argon2i 4 iterations, 475708 memory, 4 parallel threads (CPUs) for 256-bit key (requested 2000 ms time)
argon2id 4 iterations, 475708 memory, 4 parallel threads (CPUs) for 256-bit key (requested 2000 ms time)
# Algorithm | Key | Encryption | Decryption
aes-cbc 128b 628.5 MiB/s 1527.8 MiB/s
serpent-cbc 128b 74.1 MiB/s 459.2 MiB/s
twofish-cbc 128b 148.4 MiB/s 274.5 MiB/s
aes-cbc 256b 615.0 MiB/s 1466.2 MiB/s
serpent-cbc 256b 81.0 MiB/s 462.7 MiB/s
twofish-cbc 256b 159.8 MiB/s 275.4 MiB/s
aes-xts 256b 1837.1 MiB/s 1860.4 MiB/s
serpent-xts 256b 403.1 MiB/s 407.2 MiB/s
twofish-xts 256b 253.9 MiB/s 254.9 MiB/s
aes-xts 512b 1701.5 MiB/s 1674.7 MiB/s
serpent-xts 512b 412.4 MiB/s 407.7 MiB/s
twofish-xts 512b 256.9 MiB/s 253.5 MiB/s
cryptopp
A bit old-school benchmark, but I really wanted to do it as it includes various interesting cryptographic algorithms.
7-zip 24.09
LZMA compression 4.6 MB/s on preset 5 while decompression around 65 MB/s
ZIP compression 5.4 MB/s on preset 7 while decompression around 160 MB/s
lz4
fastest compression 325 MB/s while decompression around 2.4 GB/s
$ lz4 -V
*** lz4 v1.10.0 64-bit multithread, by Yann Collet ***
$ lz4 -b1 -e12
Benchmarking levels from 1 to 12
1#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 4690337 (2.132), 325.0 MB/s, 2404.4 MB/s
2#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 4227637 (2.365), 242.0 MB/s, 2241.5 MB/s
3#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3908374 (2.559), 65.9 MB/s, 2550.3 MB/s
4#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3751248 (2.666), 45.7 MB/s, 2644.3 MB/s
5#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3634435 (2.751), 32.4 MB/s, 2712.7 MB/s
6#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3552927 (2.815), 22.8 MB/s, 2729.2 MB/s
7#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3517813 (2.843), 17.8 MB/s, 2749.5 MB/s
8#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3508692 (2.850), 15.9 MB/s, 2760.2 MB/s
9#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3507509 (2.851), 15.5 MB/s, 2770.2 MB/s
10#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3448053 (2.900), 11.3 MB/s, 2788.7 MB/s
11#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3443852 (2.904), 10.8 MB/s, 2787.2 MB/s
12#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3443857 (2.904), 9.1 MB/s, 2802.6 MB/s
zstd
fastest compression 185 MB/s while decompression around 730 MB/s
$ zstd -V
*** Zstandard CLI (64-bit) v1.5.7, by Yann Collet ***
$ zstd -b1 -e19
1#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3239077 (x3.087), 184.1 MB/s, 732.5 MB/s
2#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 3130527 (x3.194), 187.9 MB/s, 597.5 MB/s
3#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2981954 (x3.354), 140.4 MB/s, 617.6 MB/s
4#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2945477 (x3.395), 138.3 MB/s, 607.6 MB/s
5#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2949165 (x3.391), 61.1 MB/s, 609.0 MB/s
6#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2881919 (x3.470), 42.1 MB/s, 641.6 MB/s
7#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2854060 (x3.504), 34.0 MB/s, 665.2 MB/s
8#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2835302 (x3.527), 25.9 MB/s, 682.2 MB/s
9#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2832147 (x3.531), 22.1 MB/s, 684.0 MB/s
10#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2789510 (x3.585), 16.1 MB/s, 693.1 MB/s
11#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2740078 (x3.650), 10.3 MB/s, 688.3 MB/s
12#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2737495 (x3.653), 9.84 MB/s, 664.7 MB/s
13#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2602918 (x3.842), 3.38 MB/s, 672.9 MB/s
14#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2506070 (x3.990), 2.32 MB/s, 716.1 MB/s
15#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2480545 (x4.031), 1.84 MB/s, 709.3 MB/s
16#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2356665 (x4.243), 1.83 MB/s, 698.0 MB/s
17#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2348756 (x4.258), 1.55 MB/s, 687.1 MB/s
18#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2312001 (x4.325), 1.18 MB/s, 661.4 MB/s
19#Lorem ipsum : 10000000 -> 2305368 (x4.338), 1.13 MB/s, 559.8 MB/s
I also ran some tests from Phoronix Test Suite, most notably Nginx, Redis and SQLite benchmarks that may be indicative of typical VPS use. This way you can compare your current setup to my VPS using the custom suite I made.
Result: openbenchmarking / terminal output
Nginx did really well here (top 1% of benchmarks) which is probably the most important for a server 
Stability
During past 3 months, I have never experienced any performance issues or even a single outage. The CPU steal was also basically non-existent. You can see for yourself on my ltstats
Streaming Services ("MJJ benchmark")
While I see this more often on nodeseek, I also decided to run the Region Restriction Check script which results you can see here.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Meta are all available, however some streaming services (Netflix, Disney+ and Dazn) and Reddit block my IPv4 address (Netflix seems to be available on IPv6 with Polish region).
The Positives
IPv6 first
I like how Skhron tries to push IPv6 only plans by not including IPv4 by default. Some services do not require IPv4 and thus we all benefit by not wasting IP space. You can also get routed /56 (or even /48) subnet for free on request if you need it.
Authenticity
Skhron still being somewhat small provider remains authentic and genuine - they don't oversell, don't overpromise and always try to help their client. I deeply appreciate how helpful and honest person @tentor was from the start.
Price
While this is also mentioned below, if you look around a bit, you can get skhron VPS for rather cheap. The 50% discounts @tentor did for their EPYC launch is still active to this day. I could've easily get my ER-SE-1 plan for 1.81 EUR/mo which is a really good price.
The locations
I think Skhron has quite nice locations. It makes them stand out in the field since it's not another NL/DE/US host.
Also, I have really good (7ms) ping to skhron Poland from me ISP
The Negatives
Traffic Limit
Skhron has rather tight traffic limits. This makes it unsuitable for running stuff like relays, streaming services or mirrors.
For regular hosting, 1 TB included in my plan should be enough. It resets each month and the VPS doesn't get suspended if you exceed the limit (does get throttled to 10mbps tho).
That being said, I heard somewhere that you can get unmetered IPv6-only VPS if you have a use for it
Big plus of smaller providers like Skhron is that you're often able to get something custom for cheap just by asking politely.
Price (wait, again?)
While @tentor does discounts or special under 10 eur/year deals for LET, their regular pricing is not really "low-end". I can't guarantee the promo will still be available when you're reading this. Paying 5.7 EUR/mo for 1c 2g 30g 2T VPS is not the worst value in the privacy hosters field, but with higher-end plans it becomes somewhat expensive.
No SEV
Despite having SEV-Capable EPYC CPUs, Skhron does not have AMD SEV support for their clients. Having encrypted memory helps with very sophisticated attack scenarios. Assuming you're running a VM with LUKS2 encrypted drive, someone who has live access to the Hypervisor can just extract LUKS2 key by dumping the memory.
While this is very uncommon scenario, I think memory encryption should be more widespread to protect the confidentiality of clients data. That is overall a very minor/niche thing and I talked about it with @tentor many times. There are roughly 3 VPS providers which support SEV.
TLDR
My overall experience with Skhron has been positive. I see them as trusted and honest provider.
They seem to have the best balance between privacy, price and reliability I have seen.
If I ever needed to host anything serious I would definitely do that with Skhron. 
Disclaimer: I paid the full price for all 3 months of service, I have no incentive writing a positive review, it was not preapproved.
Thanks and credits:
Comments
♥️
Thanks you a lot for this extensively detailed review!
AMD SEV is definitely something Skhron lacks as a pro-privacy hosting provider, but first I have to figure out proper balance between not being able to (theoretically) process LEA request and still offering excellent and cheap service.
My im luv @oloke
Are you keeping the VM?
If so @tentor feel free to invoice me 3 months renewal for it
MY IT S LOVE SKHRON
Hi emgh,
Yes, i'm keeping the VM.
But we don't really do that here.
Skhron is worth the money imo.
Wow rejecting a gift bitch oloke
I'm deeply thankful for your offer, kindly reject.
you can pay me in a different way
I think it’s your turn to gift
removes towel while keeping eye contact
sorry, best i can do is:
thumbs down
small correction here:
The phoronix benchmark gives percentiles in which case 1% actually means a poor result.
It compares a single core VPS to bare metal platforms which doesn't really make sense.
The 1 connection nginx benchmark could be more representative since it only utilizes one core.
The phoronix benchmark was done so that you (the reader) can easily (i hope) reproduce some desired benchmarks and compare them to your current machines in at least some metrics.
Bad choice of benchmark, my fault. I'll be wiser in future reviews.
However that doesn't change the fact skhron is still awesome
epyc
i dont like op
but do you like Skhron?
I like @tentor the person and even though I havent tried Shkron yet I do still like the stuff they are doing.
Any deals to celebrate
Yessir there are recurring 50% discounts https://skhron.eu/news/10-new-amd-epyc-vps-in-sweden
DM @allthemtings for a special coupon to get KS-A in Singapore for €3.95 a year
Wow this is fantastic but a bit out of my price range of $0 - €0 per month/year
We are out of stock on these, might be restocked in 1648295627482948164728492846274858583826382 years, if someone cancels I might be able to restock slightly earlier
I just set a reminder on my iPhone 4 thanks
@tentor please consider that, could've been much worse.
At least you don't have to pay beanman for using your VPS.
Skhron premium crude oil in Poland & Sweden ddr confirm!!
More stock in PL would be appreciated, but tbh quite an expensive loc to operate at. Thankful that they haven't discontinued it after these many months with Sweden (apparently) being a success (idk but x3 /24s is like a lot nowadays).
Got this bad boy a few days ago so I'll start tinkering around it soon
Considered and dutily noted
he he (not this he)
I'd draw you a beautiful picture on paint but I think I'm still a bit traumatized from my last attempt
its free speech arts are allow haters ignor
@tentor would you be interested in affordable ad space at beanman.net?
Affordable is good sir my budget is $0-€0
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