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That notorious outfit, CharityHost, is back with another promotion on the NodeSeek forums.
Donald2018
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I decided to take another gamble on their latest "promo" VPS to see if anything has truly improved under the so-called "new management." Spoilers: the numbers don't lie.
Here I go again, trying to buy their "promo" VPS.
"Josh" (allegedly the new owner) mentioned in the promotional thread:
Wed Jan 7 06:12:54 AM UTC 2026
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 140.87 MB/s (35.2k) | 1.29 GB/s (20.1k)
Write | 141.24 MB/s (35.3k) | 1.29 GB/s (20.2k)
Total | 282.12 MB/s (70.5k) | 2.59 GB/s (40.4k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 3.73 GB/s (7.2k) | 4.45 GB/s (4.3k)
Write | 3.93 GB/s (7.6k) | 4.74 GB/s (4.6k)
Total | 7.66 GB/s (14.9k) | 9.19 GB/s (8.9k)
YABS completed in 26 sec
Yet, here are the results from my own test:
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 98.74 MB/s (24.6k) | 102.34 MB/s (1.5k)
Write | 99.01 MB/s (24.7k) | 102.87 MB/s (1.6k)
Total | 197.75 MB/s (49.4k) | 205.22 MB/s (3.2k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 86.50 MB/s (168) | 95.92 MB/s (93)
Write | 91.10 MB/s (177) | 102.31 MB/s (99)
Total | 177.61 MB/s (345) | 198.23 MB/s (192)
Surprisingly, this run looks much better than my last one.
Since some of the original images were lost, I’ve retrieved the content of the post from https://host.charity/.
Let's take a look at the full YABS test results.
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2025-04-20 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Thu Feb 26 10:52:46 AM UTC 2026
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 33 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2195.098 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 960.7 MiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 9.7 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-31-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : NeoTechAdmin LLC
ASN : AS49791 Newserverlife LLC
Location : San Francisco, California (CA)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 98.74 MB/s (24.6k) | 102.34 MB/s (1.5k)
Write | 99.01 MB/s (24.7k) | 102.87 MB/s (1.6k)
Total | 197.75 MB/s (49.4k) | 205.22 MB/s (3.2k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 86.50 MB/s (168) | 95.92 MB/s (93)
Write | 91.10 MB/s (177) | 102.31 MB/s (99)
Total | 177.61 MB/s (345) | 198.23 MB/s (192)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 309 Mbits/sec | 108 Mbits/sec | 128 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 243 Mbits/sec | 356 Mbits/sec | 133 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | busy | 2.10 Mbits/sec | 280 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | busy | 300 Mbits/sec | 231 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 450 Mbits/sec | 433 Mbits/sec | 12.5 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 352 Mbits/sec | 414 Mbits/sec | 62.1 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 143 Mbits/sec | 141 Mbits/sec | 170 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 260 Mbits/sec | 162 Mbits/sec | 128 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 196 Mbits/sec | 380 Mbits/sec | 133 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 86.3 Mbits/sec | 13.8 Mbits/sec | 306 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 181 Mbits/sec | 324 Mbits/sec | 231 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 432 Mbits/sec | 413 Mbits/sec | 32.9 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 409 Mbits/sec | 406 Mbits/sec | 61.7 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | busy | 84.5 Mbits/sec | 171 ms
Geekbench test failed and low memory was detected. Add at least 1GB of SWAP or use GB4 instead (higher compatibility with low memory systems).
YABS completed in 13 min 44 sec
Do you think CharityHost has actually changed? Or is this just the same wine in a new bottle?
Comments
How did nodeseek users react?
Any charity donors left?
Here is the original promotional thread posted by CharityHost on NodeSeek: https://www.nodeseek.com/post-629178-1
Someone asked about the provider's "selling points," and the community replied: "Too much dirty history."
persistent sob.
Anyway @Donald2018, considering the previous history. It's possible your instance is deployed on node with better storage. But, it looks like the network aren't good either.
not bad,if u just use VPN
I am currently using an OVH KS-5 in the Singapore region.
I see
i agree with this.
...
You and the other hundred users all running tests at the same time.
Whatever complaints you have about him as a business or person is one thing, but you're on a shared resource, so you should expect lower benchmarks than his test on a probably idle system.