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Quick VPS check scripts: hardware + network + Geekbench
Hey guys 👋
I built a tiny open-source toolkit for quick VPS / server checks. No install, no daemon, run it and you’re done.
- Website: https://catbash.net/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Yuri-NagaSaki/SICK
What’s inside
- SICK — hardware overview (CPU, RAM, disks, NICs, etc.)
- NETS — public iperf3 send/recv samples
- CPUX — Geekbench 5 / 6 / 7 CPU scores in the terminal
- menu — pick one of the above interactively
Previews (terminal output)
SICK
NETS
CPUX
Try it
Menu:
curl -sL https://ba.sh/menu | bash
Or run each tool directly:
curl -sL https://ba.sh/sick | bash
curl -sL https://ba.sh/nets | bash
curl -sL https://ba.sh/cpux | bash
Same stuff on the site if you prefer: https://catbash.net/
A note on NETS
For network tests I reuse a bunch of public iperf3 endpoints from various providers (shared nodes — sometimes busy, sometimes fail, that’s normal).
If anyone has more / better / more stable public iperf3 targets to share, I’d love to add them. PRs and tips welcome.
What’s next
Planning a disk I/O test script next, same “one curl and go” style.
Repo again: https://github.com/Yuri-NagaSaki/SICK
Feedback is very welcome — thanks for reading.
Comments
First
ur cpux script
Is it vibe-coded slop?
What makes it better than YABS beyond displaying a little bit more information about hardware?
Can you make better version @forest ? I'm itching to put my IO test... But nobody want to wait half a day for YABS like test
Depends on what you want. It's a pretty simple script.
Btw, YABS just uses existing, 3rd party utilities. If you want to test I/O, check out
fio.looks fine
The age of TUI :-/ ehhh...
yeah skip the ba.sh domain and directly use
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yuri-NagaSaki/SICK/main/cpux.shfor exampleSICK
I use s.ee to shorten url.
They do have some limits.
Not really. YABS hasn't seen much maintenance for a long time, and the Geekbench result display has been broken since Geekbench put the result pages behind Cloudflare.
I actually like YABS a lot and have used it for years.
This isn't meant to replace or beat YABS. I just wanted something that fits my own needs, like more detailed hardware detection and more iperf3 locations.
I understand the
fio. But, I don't know much about CPU flagsLike you're curious to have YABS that gives more information than just "nested virtualization" and "AES-NI"?
It would be easy enough for it to display some other useful info that comes from CPUID, like highest level of SIMD (SSE4, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, etc.), current microarchitectural vulnerabilities and whether they're mitigated or not, and the presence of security features like SMAP.