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• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 21

  @helloitsmeagain said:
  good luck everybody

  Thanks for the support!
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 21

  @yhct1lg said:
  hoping for something

  Best of luck to you!
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 21

  @disk_744 said:
  Here is my invoice number - 437554

  The ram is boosted. Thanks for your support!
• itsme113 Member

  July 21

  hoping for something
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 22

  @itsme113 said:
  hoping for something

  Who knows you might be the lucky one
• DrNutella Member

  July 23

  Nice giveaway @MarkSH
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 23

  @DrNutella said:
  Nice giveaway @MarkSH

  Thanks. Have you got any entries yet?
• DrNutella Member

  July 24 edited July 24

  @MarkSH said:

  @DrNutella said:
  Nice giveaway @MarkSH

  Thanks. Have you got any entries yet?

  Sadly no.
  I found the instructions too cryptic. After regular 14 hour days I am just too tired to try. My brian is fried sirs
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 24

  @DrNutella said:

  @MarkSH said:

  @DrNutella said:
  Nice giveaway @MarkSH

  Thanks. Have you got any entries yet?

  Sadly no.
  I found the instructions too cryptic. After regular 14 hour days I am just too tired to try. My brian is fried sirs

  
• AdamWilliam Member

  July 25

  so amazing
• chiandes Member

  July 26

  Invoice #439437

  Please add the free 0.25GB RAM upgrade. Thanks you!
• TylerPYTHON Member

  July 27

  Invoice #439488
  Appreciate the free upgrade. Thanks.
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 28

  @AdamWilliam said:
  so amazing

  Thanks for the Support!
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  July 28

  @chiandes said:
  Invoice #439437

  Please add the free 0.25GB RAM upgrade. Thanks you!

  Done. Please enjoy the boosted ram
• chiandes Member

  11:30AM

  @MarkSH said:

  @chiandes said:
  Invoice #439437

  Please add the free 0.25GB RAM upgrade. Thanks you!

  Done. Please enjoy the boosted ram

  root@coffee:~# free -h
  total used free shared buff/cache available
  Mem: 7.8Gi 1.8Gi 4.8Gi 11Mi 1.5Gi 6.0Gi
  Swap: 0B 0B 0B

  I don't see the changes in the plan; I even signed up for 8GB and it's not even delivering that.
• forest Member

  11:52AM edited 12:19PM

  @chiandes said:

  @MarkSH said:

  @chiandes said:
  Invoice #439437

  Please add the free 0.25GB RAM upgrade. Thanks you!

  Done. Please enjoy the boosted ram

  root@coffee:~# free -h
  total used free shared buff/cache available
  Mem: 7.8Gi 1.8Gi 4.8Gi 11Mi 1.5Gi 6.0Gi
  Swap: 0B 0B 0B

  I don't see the changes in the plan; I even signed up for 8GB and it's not even delivering that.

  7.8 GiB ≈ 8.38 GB, so maybe they're measuring in GB when free is measuring in GiB. That's common.

  1 GB = 1000000000 (10^9) bytes. 1 GiB = 1073741824 (1024^3) bytes.

  Thanked by 1MarkSH
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  2:43PM

  @chiandes said:

  @MarkSH said:

  @chiandes said:
  Invoice #439437

  Please add the free 0.25GB RAM upgrade. Thanks you!

  Done. Please enjoy the boosted ram

  root@coffee:~# free -h
  total used free shared buff/cache available
  Mem: 7.8Gi 1.8Gi 4.8Gi 11Mi 1.5Gi 6.0Gi
  Swap: 0B 0B 0B

  I don't see the changes in the plan; I even signed up for 8GB and it's not even delivering that.

  I have personally made the change in adding the 0.25 GB ram.
• MarkSH Member, Host Rep

  8:05PM

  @forest said:

  @chiandes said:

  @MarkSH said:

  @chiandes said:
  Invoice #439437

  Please add the free 0.25GB RAM upgrade. Thanks you!

  Done. Please enjoy the boosted ram

  root@coffee:~# free -h
  total used free shared buff/cache available
  Mem: 7.8Gi 1.8Gi 4.8Gi 11Mi 1.5Gi 6.0Gi
  Swap: 0B 0B 0B

  I don't see the changes in the plan; I even signed up for 8GB and it's not even delivering that.

  7.8 GiB ≈ 8.38 GB, so maybe they're measuring in GB when free is measuring in GiB. That's common.

  1 GB = 1000000000 (10^9) bytes. 1 GiB = 1073741824 (1024^3) bytes.

  Ah yes, the eternal battle of GiB vs GB — where 0.25GB upgrades vanish faster than coupons on LET 😂
• TylerPYTHON Member

  10:39PM

  Grabbed the $100/year VPS deal and honestly it has been pretty solid for what I need. I am using it for AI and web utilities, and for that kind of workload it has been doing the job just fine.

  The performance is not crazy, but for the price I really do not have much to complain about. CPU is decent, disk performance is actually surprisingly good (shows they have good infrastructure), and overall the box feels perfectly usable for a cheap utility server.

  The biggest weak points are probably the network performance and web dashboard. The network is usable, but not impressive. For a shared connection, it isn't surprising, butt I was hoping for more considering the best it squelched out was ~440 Mb/s to USA coast to coast. For a 1Gb/s connection, I was hoping for getting closer to that mark. Overall usable though.The web dashboard... It is slow, glitchy, and not very useful, but once Prometheus and Grafana are set up that stops mattering much anyway for monitoring, and support was quick so dashboard utility is needed less (more below).

  One thing I will give them credit for is support. The wrong OS got installed on the original purchase, and after reaching out they had it fixed and redeployed within a couple hours. I would still love to see automated reinstall options or custom ISO support, but with Alma and Ubuntu available it is not a huge deal.

  If there is one thing I really wish they offered, it would be Chicago as a location. That would fit my needs a lot better than Buffalo, and I think a Chicago-area deployment would make this deal a lot more attractive.

  Overall, for $100/year, this has felt like a good buy. It is cheap, performance is good enough, support was responsive when I needed them, and for an AI and web utility box that is really what matters.

  Here is the YABS:

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  Yet-Another-Bench-Script

  v2026-07-24

  https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

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  Wed Jul 29 09:48:35 PM UTC 2026

  Basic System Information:

  Uptime : 1 days, 15 hours, 39 minutes
  Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
  CPU cores : 4 @ 2199.998 MHz
  AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
  VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
  RAM : 15.6 GiB
  Swap : 0.0 KiB
  Disk : 236.1 GiB
  Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
  Kernel : 6.8.0-136-generic
  VM Type : KVM
  IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

  IPv4 Network Information:

  ISP : HostPapa
  ASN : AS36352 HostPapa
  Location : Buffalo, New York (NY)
  Country : United States

  fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):

  Block Size	4k (IOPS)	64k (IOPS)
  Read	131.19 MB/s (32.0k)	1.80 GB/s (27.5k)
  Write	131.54 MB/s (32.1k)	1.81 GB/s (27.6k)
  Total	262.73 MB/s (64.1k)	3.61 GB/s (55.1k)
  Block Size	512k (IOPS)	1m (IOPS)
  ------	--- ----	---- ----
  Read	2.65 GB/s (5.0k)	1.57 GB/s (1.5k)
  Write	2.79 GB/s (5.3k)	1.68 GB/s (1.6k)
  Total	5.44 GB/s (10.3k)	3.26 GB/s (3.1k)

  iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

  Provider	Location (Link)	Send Speed	Recv Speed	Ping
  Clouvider	London, UK (10G)	242 Mbits/sec	404 Mbits/sec	85.7 ms
  Eranium	Amsterdam, NL (100G)	321 Mbits/sec	453 Mbits/sec	87.2 ms
  Uztelecom	Tashkent, UZ (10G)	241 Mbits/sec	217 Mbits/sec	177 ms
  Leaseweb	Singapore, SG (10G)	159 Mbits/sec	331 Mbits/sec	245 ms
  Clouvider	Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)	432 Mbits/sec	448 Mbits/sec	79.8 ms
  Leaseweb	NYC, NY, US (10G)	484 Mbits/sec	475 Mbits/sec	14.1 ms
  Edgoo	Sao Paulo, BR (1G)	164 Mbits/sec	99.3 Mbits/sec	122 ms

  Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:

  Test | Value
  |
  Single Core |
  Multi Core |
  Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18863882

  YABS completed in 12 min 49 sec