Summary: In this post, you will find my first impressions of a 2 core, 4 GB RAM VPS by NarjaTech. Read about their offers for Black Friday through New Years, and my buying experience.with Naranjatech.
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Update December 2021
I have discontinued this service as a part of consolidating services. You can read my other reviews for VPS on this page. Introduction:
Table of contents
- Background
- Black Friday/ Christmas Flash Offers
- Jan 2021 Offer by NaranjaTech
- Account Creation and Ordering
- Benchmarks
- YABS
- bench.monster
- VPS providers in Netherlands
- Parting Thoughts
Background
I was not planning to get any more VPS subscriptions in 2021, but the offer from Naranjatech was rather tempting, given the specifications and the price. Find my first impressions from running benchmarks, on their AMD epyc based VPS. They have been around in the low end market for a while, which they call as their hobby project.
Review of VPS by Naranjatech
Black Friday/Christmas Flash Offers
Naranja Teach had several offers on LowEndTalk, LowEndSpirit, and other places; for Black Friday Cyber Monday, 2020, so also Christmas and New Year. These KVM based VPS plans had NVMe disks and AMD Epyc Processors, starting from 9 Euros a year VPS all the way to a 4 vcpu/8 GB RAM system at 48 Euros a year. I thought of getting one of their plans several times, but resisted. The smaller plans I did not need, the bigger ones were an over spend.
Jan 2021 New Year Offer
Naranja Tech repeated their 48 Euro offer in January 2021. At 48 Euros, still a tempting buy, but again for my needs, an over spend. I was glad to keep pushing back (to my temptation). But a user on LowEndSpirit worked out a custom deal with user ‘gleert’ from Naranjatech, and the specifications were
2vcpu, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe for 22 Euros or a little over 2 US Dollars a month.
This combination was very good, and pricing, network and processor was better than what I am paying for the hosting for this website. Even for this offer, many times I had even gone ahead and put those items in shopping cart, but decided not to get them. Simply because of a problem of plenty. And I did not want one more VPS which would lie idle, and not really deliver any return for the financial and time investment I would making them.
Account Creation and Ordering
The purchase purchasing process was a little different. Since this was a custom order, I had to create an account and raise a ticket requesting this particular configuration. I received a response to that ticket and an invoice. Upon making the payment, I was able to get the VPS provisioned. So far so good. The VPS came with CentOS. The first order of business after logging in was to change the operating system, which I promptly did. Next, I ran the standard benchmark tests, which include Yet Another Benchmarking Script, and then speed test, (bench.monster). The results of the benchmark test or as below.
Benchmarks
The system look solid, with good disk speed. Latency has been one of the lowest that I have seen to Netherlands at about 130 ms, which is what I would typically get fora UK location. In contrast, I get about 150 ms for Hostslick, which is also in the same country, though, a different data centre. With that, let me talk about the virtual private servers in Netherlands location. At this time, I have one more service providers with servers in that country which is a NAT VPS from Inception Hosting.
$curl -sL yabs.sh | bash -s -- -r9
Mon 11 Jan 2021 10:22:46 AM EST
Basic System Information:
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Processor : AMD EPYC 7302 16-Core Processor
CPU cores : 2 @ 2999.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 3.9 GiB
Swap : 1023.0 MiB
Disk : 77.7 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 209.25 MB/s (52.3k) | 818.96 MB/s (12.7k)
Write | 209.80 MB/s (52.4k) | 823.27 MB/s (12.8k)
Total | 419.05 MB/s (104.7k) | 1.64 GB/s (25.6k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 1.13 GB/s (2.2k) | 1.17 GB/s (1.1k)
Write | 1.19 GB/s (2.3k) | 1.25 GB/s (1.2k)
Total | 2.32 GB/s (4.5k) | 2.43 GB/s (2.3k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | busy | busy |
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 927 Mbits/sec | 807 Mbits/sec |
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 463 Mbits/sec | 229 Mbits/sec |
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | busy | busy
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 912 Mbits/sec | 890 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 817 Mbits/sec | 358 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 4111
Multi Core | 7152
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15986831
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 918
Multi Core | 1723
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5829826
Speedtest
Asia Speedtest.net
Location Upload Download Ping ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nearby 380.53 Mbit/s 301.53 Mbit/s 33.54 ms ---------------------------------------------------------------- India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 117.94 Mbit/s 246.05 Mbit/s 158.775 ms India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 166.46 Mbit/s 88.38 Mbit/s 125.907 ms India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 112.85 Mbit/s 72.03 Mbit/s 135.179 ms Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 125.54 Mbit/s 89.44 Mbit/s 165.254 ms Pakistan, Islamabad (Telenor) 20.15 Mbit/s 31.50 Mbit/s 199.810 ms Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom) 110.76 Mbit/s 63.00 Mbit/s 109.013 ms Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel) 57.07 Mbit/s 133.11 Mbit/s 233.746 ms Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 9.98 Mbit/s 32.16 Mbit/s 236.576 ms Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo) 70.72 Mbit/s 167.09 Mbit/s 208.106 ms Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone) 66.15 Mbit/s 59.00 Mbit/s 225.241 ms Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 106.26 Mbit/s 13.30 Mbit/s 178.370 ms Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 74.00 Mbit/s 97.35 Mbit/s 189.502 ms Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 97.84 Mbit/s 22.58 Mbit/s 195.035 ms Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 123.00 Mbit/s 224.26 Mbit/s 166.820 ms Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 68.31 Mbit/s 59.39 Mbit/s 168.858 ms Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 32.21 Mbit/s 21.01 Mbit/s 179.598 ms Philippines, Manila (Globe Tel) 37.29 Mbit/s 44.13 Mbit/s 200.806 ms Hong Kong (fdcservers) 25.00 Mbit/s 109.40 Mbit/s 254.308 ms Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 22.30 Mbit/s 37.39 Mbit/s 248.690 ms Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 97.76 Mbit/s 50.37 Mbit/s 179.341 ms ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finished in : 11 min 46 sec Timestamp : 2021-01-11 15:57:18 GMT Saved in : /root/speedtest.log Share results: - Geekbench 4 results - https://clbin.com/d96V7
VPS providers in Netherlands
While writing this post, I thought of doing something different, that is, I compiled a short list of providers who have VPS services in the Netherlands. This is not a definitive, authoritative or a comprehensive list, but it gives you a fair idea.
- Liteserver - IntoVPS - Hostslick - Alwayzon - Vultr - Webhorizon - Inception Hosting (NAT) - Ramnode - Hostsailor - MaxKVM - Virtono - GreencloudVPS - Nexusbytes (Economy packages) - Virmach
Serverhunter site has a wider list of providers from the Netherlands.
From the above providers, I have tried Hostslick quite a bit, and heard great reviews about Liteserver. IntoVPS I had tested in Romania, cannot speak for their Netherlands network. Update February 2022: I have services from Nexusbytes,Naranjatech, Hostslick, , and NAT from Inception Hosting.. all in the Netherlands. It has become quite a collection in the little country.
Parting Thoughts
The Naranjatech VPS looks like a good purchase so far, and I am looking forward to using it. At a future time, I might post a longer review. For now, my plan is to connect it to Server Avatar VPS management panel and host a couple of sites. Update February 2022: This VPS service was discontinued in December 2022 as a part of consolidation of web hosting services. I did however retain a smaller spec’d VPS from this provider. Before the send-off, I ran the benchmarks one more time. You can find the results below. 
Benchmarks for NaranjaTech VPS, Netherlands- November 2021
Sat Nov 27 04:34:50 PST 2021
Basic System Information:
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Processor : AMD EPYC 7302 16-Core Processor
CPU cores : 2 @ 2999.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 3.9 GiB
Swap : 1023.0 MiB
Disk : 77.8 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 76.75 MB/s (19.1k) | 380.09 MB/s (5.9k)
Write | 76.95 MB/s (19.2k) | 382.09 MB/s (5.9k)
Total | 153.71 MB/s (38.4k) | 762.18 MB/s (11.9k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 560.46 MB/s (1.0k) | 557.72 MB/s (544)
Write | 590.23 MB/s (1.1k) | 594.87 MB/s (580)
Total | 1.15 GB/s (2.2k) | 1.15 GB/s (1.1k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 912 Mbits/sec | 836 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 920 Mbits/sec | 511 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 852 Mbits/sec | 162 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 4103
Multi Core | 7195
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16423977
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 883
Multi Core | 1768
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/11262696
====== Bench.monster
curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Region: India https://bench.monster v.1.5.7 2021-10-06 Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS : Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (64 Bit) Virt/Kernel : KVM / 4.15.0-22-generic CPU Model : AMD EPYC 7302 16-Core Processor CPU Cores : 2 @ 2999.998 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled Load Average : 0.14, 0.12, 0.18 Total Space : 78G (2.1G ~3% used) Total RAM : 3944 MB (74 MB + 1686 MB Buff in use) Total SWAP : 1022 MB (0 MB in use) Uptime : 0 days 0:51 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASN & ISP : AS41608, NextGenWebs Organization : Location : Dronten, Netherlands / NL Region : Flevoland --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark: Single Core : 4067 (VERY GOOD) Multi Core : 6878 ## IO Test CPU Speed: bzip2 : 98.2 MB/s sha256 : 98.7 MB/s md5sum : 531 MB/s RAM Speed: Avg. write : 2764.8 MB/s Avg. read : 6280.5 MB/s Disk Speed: 1st run : 513 MB/s 2nd run : 519 MB/s 3rd run : 552 MB/s ----------------------- Average : 528.0 MB/s ## India Speedtest.net Location Upload Download Ping --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearby 798.06 Mbit/s 902.79 Mbit/s * 252.294 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- India, New Delhi (Weebo) 130.48 Mbit/s 42.54 Mbit/s 134.644 ms India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 109.84 Mbit/s 102.44 Mbit/s 118.735 ms India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 111.03 Mbit/s 71.72 Mbit/s 137.343 ms India, Nagpur (optbb) 29.42 Mbit/s 201.63 Mbit/s 131.782 ms India, Patna (Airtel) 29.22 Mbit/s 163.23 Mbit/s 160.181 ms India, Kolkata (Vodafone) 46.60 Mbit/s 77.37 Mbit/s ping error! India, Visakhapatnam (Alliance) 72.41 Mbit/s 122.23 Mbit/s 158.990 ms India, Hyderabad (I-ON) 73.02 Mbit/s 63.50 Mbit/s 133.026 ms India, Madurai (Niss Broadband) 77.26 Mbit/s 24.49 Mbit/s 151.965 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finished in : 8 min 18 sec Timestamp : 2021-11-27 12:59:34 GMT Saved in : /root/speedtest.log Share results: - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16423993 - https://clbin.com/mvoSA