I had been eyeing the AMD based VPS’es by ExtraVM for some time. I had also exchanged some messages with Mike from ExtraVm on Low End Talk about a VPS plan in Singapore. That somehow did not materialize.
On January 1st 2020, New Year’s Day, Mike Posted his offer for VPS on Low End Spirit for an AMD Ryzen based VPS, based in Dallas. The pricing after 30 percent discount (and an additional CPU core at no cost!) was tempting. I signed up for a 3 month period.
Specifications (base plan)
1GB RAM
1 Core (3.5-4.7GHz)
15GB NVMe
3TB Bandwidth
1 IPv4, 1 IPv6
At a little over 10 US Dollars for one quarter after applying the discount, my new virtual toy for the brand new year was up and running in no time. The provision of the VPS was very quick, and I had to raise a single ticket to request for the additional CPU core. Mike responded in less than an hour, saying that the core had been added to the plan and the server had been rebooted.
Up and running in no time! Of course because of our move – last two weeks we have been in the process of shifting houses and my home office- I did not have time to play around with this VPS till this morning.
Update: I did a clean install of Debian 10 (not using the standard template), enabling disk encryption. The disk performance showed some improvement!
bench.sh:
I/O speed(1st run) : 605 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 718 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 653 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 658.7 MB/snench.sh
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 30.5 us / 100.2 us / 64.5 ms / 1.15 ms
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 6.09 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.49 GiB, 1.22 k iops, 304.4 MiB/sdd: sequential write speed
1st run: 576.02 MiB/s
2nd run: 506.40 MiB/s
3rd run: 438.69 MiB/s
average: 507.04 MiB/sbench.monster- Speedtest
Disk Speed: 1st run : 226 MB/s 2nd run : 254 MB/s 3rd run : 277 MB/s ----------------------- Average : 252.3 MB/s‘dd’
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.81504 s, 381 MB/s
Running Benchmark Tests
The first order of business was to set up Debian10 and run benchmarks. Note that I have decided to change the modus operandi for running the benchmarks. Going forward, I will run the BM’s periodically say once a quarter to assess the medium to long term performance. But I wanted to see how the ryzen stacked up on Geekbench and other tests.
bench, nench, YABS, Speedtest and dd.
running nench.sh test on ExtrVM VPS
Yet Another Benchmark Script (YABS)
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2019-10-08 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #Thu Jan 2 17:06:57 CST 2020 Basic System Information: --------------------------------- Processor : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB) CPU cores : 2 @ 3493.438 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled RAM : 987Mi Swap : 0B Disk : 14G Disk Speed Tests: --------------------------------- | Test 1 | Test 2 | Test 3 | Avg | | | | Write | 255.00 MB/s | 246.00 MB/s | 288.00 MB/s | 263.00 MB/s Read | 511.57 MB/s | 481.37 MB/s | 498.59 MB/s | 497.17 MB/s iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): --------------------------------- Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | | | Bouygues Telecom | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.67 Gbits/sec | 1.13 Gbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.92 Gbits/sec | 1.70 Gbits/sec Severius | The Netherlands (10G) | 1.49 Gbits/sec | 674 Mbits/sec Worldstream | The Netherlands (10G) | 1.58 Gbits/sec | 1.34 Gbits/sec wilhelm.tel | Hamburg, DE (10G) | 1.21 Gbits/sec | 1.51 Gbits/sec Biznet | Bogor, Indonesia (1G) | busy | busy Hostkey | Moscow, RU (1G) | 790 Mbits/sec | 866 Mbits/sec Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 4.90 Gbits/sec | 2.89 Gbits/sec Airstream Communications | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G) | 5.07 Gbits/sec | 5.97 Gbits/sec Hurricane Electric | Fremont, CA, US (10G) | 3.68 Gbits/sec | busy iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6): --------------------------------- Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | | | Bouygues Telecom | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.81 Gbits/sec | 1.07 Gbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.86 Gbits/sec | 445 Mbits/sec Severius | The Netherlands (10G) | 1.50 Gbits/sec | 378 Mbits/sec Worldstream | The Netherlands (10G) | 1.59 Gbits/sec | 989 Mbits/sec wilhelm.tel | Hamburg, DE (10G) | 1.26 Gbits/sec | 1.53 Gbits/sec Airstream Communications | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G) | 5.48 Gbits/sec | 5.95 Gbits/sec Hurricane Electric | Fremont, CA, US (10G) | 4.73 Gbits/sec | busy
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Results of dd test
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync [sudo] password for amar: 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 4.12692 s, 260 MB/s
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bench.sh
---------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU model : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB) Number of cores : 2 CPU frequency : 3493.438 MHz Total size of Disk : 14.0 GB (2.5 GB Used) Total amount of Mem : 987 MB (67 MB Used) Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used) System uptime : 0 days, 21 hour 31 min Load average : 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 OS : Debian GNU/Linux 10 Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 4.19.0-5-amd64 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I/O speed(1st run) : 396 MB/s I/O speed(2nd run) : 391 MB/s I/O speed(3rd run) : 300 MB/s Average I/O speed : 362.3 MB/s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed CacheFly 205.234.175.175 85.6MB/s Linode, Tokyo2, JP 139.162.65.37 16.5MB/s Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 8.43MB/s Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 20.7MB/s Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 18.5MB/s Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 52.4MB/s Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 112MB/s Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 50.9MB/s Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 8.14MB/s Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 10.8MB/s Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 11.5MB/s ----------------------------------------------------------------------
nench.sh
(Only one result posted below)
>curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash 2>&1 | tee nench.log
------------------------------------------------- nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh benchmark timestamp: 2020-01-02 23:49:59 UTC ------------------------------------------------- Processor: AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB) CPU cores: 2 Frequency: 3493.438 MHz RAM: 987Mi Swap: - Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 Disks: vda 15G HDD CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB 1.746 seconds CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB 3.738 seconds CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB 0.759 seconds ioping: seek rate min/avg/max/mdev = 27.7 us / 113.1 us / 1.24 ms / 50.3 us ioping: sequential read speed generated 9.71 k requests in 5.00 s, 2.37 GiB, 1.94 k iops, 485.2 MiB/s dd: sequential write speed 1st run: 322.34 MiB/s 2nd run: 516.89 MiB/s 3rd run: 547.41 MiB/s average: 462.21 MiB/s IPv4 speedtests your IPv4: 107.155.xx.xxxx Cachefly CDN: 186.22 MiB/s Leaseweb (NL): 19.65 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 111.75 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 21.02 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 33.11 MiB/s IPv6 speedtests your IPv6: 2604:4500:a:xxxx Leaseweb (NL): 16.61 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 81.12 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 15.68 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 42.55 MiB/s
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Speedtest- Asia
> curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -Asia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (64 Bit) Virt/Kernel : KVM / 4.19.0-5-amd64 CPU Model : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB) CPU Cores : 2 @ 3493.438 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled Load Average : 0.17, 0.12, 0.04 Total Space : 14G (2.5G ~18% used) Total RAM : 987 MB (71 MB + 71 MB Buff in use) Total SWAP : 0 MB (0 MB in use) Uptime : 0 days 21:42 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASN & ISP : AS29802, HIVELOCITY Organization : OwnedNetworks Location : Panama City, Panama / PA Region : Provincia de Panama ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark
Single Core : 5841 (EXCELLENT) Multi Core : 10277 ## IO Test CPU Speed: bzip2 : 144 MB/s sha256 : 304 MB/s md5sum : 674 MB/s RAM Speed: Avg. write : 3242.7 MB/s Avg. read : 9932.8 MB/s Disk Speed: 1st run : 191 MB/s 2nd run : 406 MB/s 3rd run : 429 MB/s ----------------------- Average : 342.0 MB/s
Asia Speedtest
Location Upload Download Ping --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speedtest.net 530.83 Mbit/s 1521.37 Mbit/s 32.511 ms India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 20.10 Mbit/s 63.07 Mbit/s 281.967 ms India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 22.29 Mbit/s 76.72 Mbit/s 255.740 ms India, Bengaluru (DBroadband) 19.79 Mbit/s 65.50 Mbit/s 240.717 ms Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 46.38 Mbit/s 112.51 Mbit/s 236.072 ms Pakistan, Islamabad (Jazz) 20.97 Mbit/s 62.29 Mbit/s 293.438 ms Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom) 19.62 Mbit/s 28.69 Mbit/s 232.921 ms Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel) 20.33 Mbit/s 62.27 Mbit/s 294.449 ms Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 15.43 Mbit/s 45.31 Mbit/s 343.360 ms Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo) 14.62 Mbit/s 45.36 Mbit/s 314.037 ms Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone) 31.20 Mbit/s 74.20 Mbit/s 270.578 ms Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 51.64 Mbit/s 138.34 Mbit/s 224.718 ms Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 37.91 Mbit/s 106.45 Mbit/s 215.910 ms Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 57.32 Mbit/s 124.50 Mbit/s 229.478 ms Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 18.47 Mbit/s 57.36 Mbit/s 265.064 ms Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 17.96 Mbit/s 18.58 Mbit/s 262.817 ms Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 18.90 Mbit/s 181.49 Mbit/s 218.850 ms Philippines, Manila (Sky Fiber) 88.06 Mbit/s 192.47 Mbit/s 204.906 ms Hong Kong (GTT) 72.66 Mbit/s 290.33 Mbit/s 177.499 ms Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 34.93 Mbit/s 52.08 Mbit/s 159.651 ms Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 109.50 Mbit/s 287.43 Mbit/s 137.111 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finished in : 11 min 27 sec Timestamp : 2020-01-03 00:02:51 GMThttps://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15097101
This setup looks like a solid performer for a medium traffic website or a web server for personal use. Will keep an eye on this one as time passes, especially when it is time to renew.
Added later: the disk speeds are rather sluggish for NVMe. Mike has acknowledged this is an issue (for the setup running under Linux). Maybe a clean install from an iso instead of a template might give different results?
Update December 2020: In April 2020, I decided not to renew this VPS subscription.
This post is a part of the series of Benchmarks and reviews I have done for multiple providers and Virtual Private Servers.You can review the entire list by clicking here.
This post was updated in March 2022.