MaxKVM posted their offer on LowEndSpirit for the new and shiny Singapore location (hosted at Hivelocity). In this post, you will find my first impressions about this service.
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These Epyc based systems’ from MaxKVM have configurations start from 512 MB RAM and go up to 4 GB RAM. Except for the 4 GB Plan, all VPS’es come with 1 (shared) CPU core. Below you will find the specifications and pricing for the lowest and the top tier plans.
| SKVM-512M Plan | SKVM-4G |
1x CPU 512MB ECC RAM 15GB NVMe SSD RAID 10 0.5TB Transfer @ 1Gbps 1x IPv4 & IPv6 /64 Price: US $ 3/month |
2x CPU 4GB ECC RAM 75GB NVMe SSD RAID 10 3TB Transfer @ 1Gbps 1x IPv4 & IPv6 /64 Price: $ 6/month |
First Impressions: Benchmarks
Bench.monster
Bench.monster A note on this test: I ran bench.monstertwice. Results for CPU in the first test seem to be off. Results from first test: https://clbin.com/Nwbwt
Results from second test:.
Results from first test: https://clbin.com/Nwbwt
Results from second test:
https://clbin.com/i46bcUsage : curl -LsO
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/3234275
I re-ran bench.monster and got the following result.
New figures are in line with scores from YABS.
Geekbench v5 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : 1002 (EXCELLENT)
Multi Core : 1009
Original test results are posted below
$bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -Asia
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OS : Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : KVM / 5.4.0-42-generic
CPU Model : AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 1 @ 2999.998 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled
Load Average : 0.38, 0.10, 0.03
Total Space : 24G (1.7G ~8% used)
Total RAM : 981 MB (56 MB + 260 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 1023 MB (0 MB in use)
Uptime : 0 days 0:12
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ASN & ISP : AS29802, HIVELOCITY, Inc.
Organization : Hivelocity Singapore
Location : Queenstown Estate, Singapore / SG
Region :
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## Geekbench v5 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : (POOR)
Multi Core :
## IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 119 MB/s
sha256 : 216 MB/s
md5sum : 493 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 2730.7 MB/s
Avg. read : 8977.1 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 1.4 GB/s
2nd run : 1.4 GB/s
3rd run : 1.4 GB/s
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Average : 1433.6 MB/s
Configuring with Gridpane
This is the first time I am writing a section on Gridpane in my reviews. I thought of adding it, because I am looking to host my author site and other sites in gaathstory network in Singapore or Mumbai. ReadyDedis, Mumbai is a close contender, but for the specs to price ratio, the current plan is a good option.
Note: You can also find the results from bench.monster over here
YABS
Mon Aug 10 00:52:34 UTC 2020 #### Basic System Information: Processor : AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core Processor CPU cores : 1 @ 2999.998 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled RAM : 981Mi Swap : 1.0Gi Disk : 24G #### fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50): | Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) | | ---------- | -------------------- | ----------------- | | Read | 224.98 MB/s (56.2k) | 1.65 GB/s (25.8k) | | Write | 225.57 MB/s (56.3k) | 1.66 GB/s (25.9k) | | Total | 450.56 MB/s (112.6k) | 3.31 GB/s (51.8k) | | | | | | Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) | | ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- | | Read | 2.69 GB/s (5.2k) | 2.62 GB/s (2.5k) | | Write | 2.83 GB/s (5.5k) | 2.80 GB/s (2.7k) | | Total | 5.53 GB/s (10.8k) | 5.43 GB/s (5.3k) | Disk read/write speeds for 1 GB KVM Plan #### iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed Bouygues Telecom | Paris, FR (10G) | 825 Mbits/sec | 421 Mbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 839 Mbits/sec | 501 Mbits/sec WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 792 Mbits/sec | 373 Mbits/sec wilhelm.tel | Hamburg, DE (10G) | 791 Mbits/sec | 276 Mbits/sec Biznet | Bogor, Indonesia (1G) | 806 Mbits/sec | 925 Mbits/sec Hostkey | Moscow, RU (1G) | 720 Mbits/sec | 633 Mbits/sec Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 504 Mbits/sec | 303 Mbits/sec Airstream Comms | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G) | 655 Mbits/sec | 285 Mbits/sec Hurricane Electric | Fremont, CA, US (10G) | busy | 439 Mbits/sec #### Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test: Test | Value Single Core | 1037 Multi Core | 1038 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/3234060
This review is a part of the series of Benchmark and reviews for Virtual Private Servers. You can find similar posts from Index page where my other reviews are catalogued. This post was updated in March 2022.