Abdullah from WebHorizon posted a call for testers on LowEndSpirit for a new Intel Xeon based VPS line in Singapore. Testing a server in Singapore is always a pleasure- I typically get 40-45 ms in results when I run ping test, which are one of the lowest among all the servers I have tested. Only ReadyDedis in Mumbai or Digital Ocean in Bengaluru are faster, for obvious reasons.The testing involved the VPS setup process, accessing the features through Virtualizor, and finding quirks or bugs if any. But first, here are the specifications of the VPS I tested:
KVM VPS-6G Singapore 3 x Xeon E-2276G CPU @ 3.80GHz 6144 MB DDR4 ECC Ram 50 GB NVMe SSD Disk 750GB Bandwidth @ 1 Gbps DDOS protection included 1 x IPv4 address It is £7.5/month billed quarterly after the trial
Setting up the Test VPS
I messaged Abdullah on LowEndSpirit and he set up the system for me, I simply had to log on the Virtualizor control panel and check things out.
Teething Troubles
The setup was not without its troubles. Initially, there was no option to upload custom iso’s. This still remains, but is partly alleviated by ability to boot from netboot.
ipv6 is not available for this service yet, with no specific timeline indicated for its availability. Finally, while using netboot option, the configuration for networking had ot be done manually, In other words, if you did not know what you were doing, you would end up with a screen like below:
Benchmarking the Intel based Singapore VPS
I will post the results from nench (dd speed test) and Bench.monster (network speeds) only. Because this post also covers the overall user experience and not just the VPS.
dd Disk Speed Test
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 759.12 MiB/s
2nd run: 828.74 MiB/s
3rd run: 773.43 MiB/s
average: 787.10 MiB/s
Results from Bench.monster for speeds to select Asian Cities
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OS : Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : KVM / 5.9.0-4-amd64
CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2276G CPU @ 3.80GHz
CPU Cores : 3 @ 3791.998 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled
Load Average : 0.04, 0.02, 0.00
Total Space : 48G (1.3G ~3% used)
Total RAM : 5948 MB (73 MB + 322 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 979 MB (0 MB in use)
Uptime : 0 days 0:2
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ASN & ISP : AS59210, PhoenixNAP
Organization :
Location : Singapore, Singapore / SG
Region :
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## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : 5816 (EXCELLENT)
Multi Core : 13959
## IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 157 MB/s
sha256 : 253 MB/s
md5sum : 700 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 4949.3 MB/s
Avg. read : 9147.7 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 835 MB/s
2nd run : 821 MB/s
3rd run : 857 MB/s
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Average : 837.7 MB/s
## Asia Speedtest.net
Location Upload Download Ping
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Nearby 876.35 Mbit/s 908.05 Mbit/s 2.059 ms
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India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 156.87 Mbit/s 125.75 Mbit/s 74.755 ms
India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 277.89 Mbit/s 281.88 Mbit/s 62.256 ms
India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 308.46 Mbit/s 464.83 Mbit/s 40.120 ms
Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 160.44 Mbit/s 315.03 Mbit/s 68.723 ms
Pakistan, Islamabad (Telenor) 111.22 Mbit/s 442.76 Mbit/s 103.363 ms
Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom) 112.54 Mbit/s 108.03 Mbit/s 91.896 ms
Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel) 109.23 Mbit/s 127.64 Mbit/s 84.761 ms
Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 14.70 Mbit/s 74.49 Mbit/s 276.757 ms
Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo) 62.66 Mbit/s 136.81 Mbit/s 229.186 ms
Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone) 156.13 Mbit/s 212.45 Mbit/s 68.379 ms
Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 148.09 Mbit/s 316.14 Mbit/s 56.466 ms
Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 183.97 Mbit/s 542.10 Mbit/s 34.685 ms
Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 214.95 Mbit/s 451.03 Mbit/s 59.095 ms
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 278.28 Mbit/s 752.39 Mbit/s 9.822 ms
Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 890.92 Mbit/s 935.69 Mbit/s 0.873 ms
Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 285.32 Mbit/s 402.19 Mbit/s 12.694 ms
Philippines, Manila (Globe Tel) 18.16 Mbit/s 16.43 Mbit/s 52.159 ms
Hong Kong (fdcservers) 216.52 Mbit/s 346.72 Mbit/s 37.010 ms
Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 216.53 Mbit/s 327.30 Mbit/s 55.832 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 190.11 Mbit/s 171.03 Mbit/s 77.922 ms
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Finished in : 9 min 49 sec
Timestamp : 2020-12-20 09:53:32 GMT
Saved in : /root/speedtest.log
Share results:
- https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15948653
- https://clbin.com/p0IkU
Final Thoughts on Singapore VPS by WebHorizon
Testing a new product or service is always fun. There is a lot to learn, much to test out, and always nice to report back errors and omissions to the developers or creators- so that other may benefit. This experience did just that. From the network configuration for netboot, to booting via iso…. there have been some quirks. But others have been addressed at the time of writing. The VPS looks solid, with some good benchmark numbers.
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.