Looking for storage VPS. SpeedyKVM prices went nuts.

imok · March 2023

Hi!
I've been notified that my server is going to get a price increase from $2.8/m (paid 3-year) to $23/m.

So I need a new server.

1 vCPU
1TB HDD
2TB BW at least
Dallas or something near.

MikeA · March 2023

Damn man, $2.80 for 1TB? Wasn't cociu even higher (price wise and physically) than that.

Calin · March 2023

Hello @MikeA not really ) I have lot of customer for more than 1 year who I rented space even at 1.5 euro / TB, if you rent more than 8-10 TB +

Before the energy price increase we rented even at 1 euro, we quickly filled about 300 TB of raw space

imok · March 2023

@MikeA said: $2.80 for 1TB?

Yeah, old Incero was nice

6 years with this server and not a single issue.

MikeA · March 2023

@Calin said:
Hello @MikeA not really ) I have lot of customer for more than 1 year who I rented space even at 1.5 euro / TB, if you rent more than 8-10 TB +

Before the energy price increase we rented even at 1 euro, we quickly filled about 300 TB of raw space

I'm confused, are you cociu?

ehab · March 2023

contact @servarica_hani

@interservermike from LET ,
https://www.interserver.net/vps/storage.html
use : happybirthdaylala
you get $3 / 1T disk /m

kiss my hand later.

Calin · March 2023

@MikeA said: I'm confused, are you cociu?

>

No lol ) , I just want to say that not only he sells cheap and there are many more who sell much cheaper than he

ehab · March 2023

hey @Calin, offer us something crazy.... no dedi's beacuse i can't afford.... i have yet to buy something from you!!!

servarica_hani · March 2023

check our Opossum 1 Storage VPS BF Special if Montreal location is not acceptable
it fit your description for 29$/y
https://clients.servarica.com/store/black-friday-2022/opossum-1-storage-vps

TanXS · March 2023

Oops, someone already mentioned the InterServer's offer, nvm.

ehab · March 2023

@TanXS said:
Oops, someone already mentioned the InterServer's offer, nvm.

hosthatch · March 2023

We can do $3/mo per 1TB in LA.
$2.5 per TB when more than 10TB.
$2 per TB when more than 20TB.

Can't do that anywhere other than LA.

FrankZ · March 2023

The most consistently available storage server I have used is with LevelOneServers in Dallas.
Maybe @Ian_Dot_Tech will cut you a deal.

Fritz · March 2023

Server Factory is best if you don't need dedicated IPv4 and willing to pay 2 year upfront.

imok · March 2023

@FrankZ said:
The most consistently available storage server I have used is with LevelOneServers in Dallas.
Maybe @Ian_Dot_Tech will cut you a deal.

One of the servers I want to backup is colocated with Ian currently, so I want another location.

SMARTHOST · March 2023

We can do it for $29.50/year for 1TB at any of our Storage VPS locations.
https://www.smarthost.net/cart.php?a=add&pid=183
Use promo code: BF2022-1

~ SMARTHOST

selalumenang · March 2023

@hosthatch said:
We can do $3/mo per 1TB in LA.
$2.5 per TB when more than 10TB.
$2 per TB when more than 20TB.

Can't do that anywhere other than LA.

link?

Falzo · March 2023

@SMARTHOST said:
We can do it for $29.50/year for 1TB at any of our Storage VPS locations.
https://www.smarthost.net/cart.php?a=add&pid=183
Use promo code: BF2022-1

~ SMARTHOST

Has this been available since BF?
Storage in UK?
How could I miss this?

Just ordered and first time in LE* triggered a fraud check. Guess that's to be expected if you're ordering stuff wirh a german address while vacationing in greece and being logged in to hotel wifi LOL.

@SMARTHOST sorry for the trouble, I just opened a ticket, maybe you want me to give your services a try...

ehab · March 2023

@Falzo said:
vacationing in greece and being logged in to hotel wifi LOL.

tell us more
wish you fun times.

Ian_Dot_Tech · March 2023

@FrankZ said:
The most consistently available storage server I have used is with LevelOneServers in Dallas.
Maybe @Ian_Dot_Tech will cut you a deal.

Thanks for the recommendation!

@imok said:

@FrankZ said:
The most consistently available storage server I have used is with LevelOneServers in Dallas.
Maybe @Ian_Dot_Tech will cut you a deal.

One of the servers I want to backup is colocated with Ian currently, so I want another location.

we appreciate your business.

Hopefully you can find a provider within the range that can work with you.

SMARTHOST · March 2023

@Falzo said:

@SMARTHOST said:
We can do it for $29.50/year for 1TB at any of our Storage VPS locations.
https://www.smarthost.net/cart.php?a=add&pid=183
Use promo code: BF2022-1

~ SMARTHOST

Has this been available since BF?
Storage in UK?
How could I miss this?

Just ordered and first time in LE* triggered a fraud check. Guess that's to be expected if you're ordering stuff wirh a german address while vacationing in greece and being logged in to hotel wifi LOL.

@SMARTHOST sorry for the trouble, I just opened a ticket, maybe you want me to give your services a try...

No, we just re-enable the code from time to time for a few days to keep filling up some storage nodes.
Your order was released. ;-)

~ SMARTHOST

Falzo · March 2023

Awesome, thx! I'll report back once I get time to play around with it ;-)

imok · March 2023

Thank you all. Nice offers you got there.

Grabbed the Smart Host deal.

Ganonk · March 2023

@ehab said:

kiss my hand later.

imok · March 2023

@SMARTHOST By the way, you should check that "let's chat" banner on mobile.

Falzo · March 2023

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-02-27                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Mon 20 Mar 17:56:11 GMT 2023

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2599.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 2.8 GiB
Disk       : 2.9 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Kernel     : 4.19.0-23-amd64
VM Type    : KVM

Basic Network Information:
---------------------------------
Protocol   : IPv4
ISP        : ENOCTUSLTD
ASN        : AS3170 VeloxServ Communications Ltd
Host       : LTD Net1
Location   : Wolverhampton, England (ENG)
Country    : United Kingdom

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 2.39 MB/s      (598) | 33.57 MB/s     (524)
Write      | 2.40 MB/s      (602) | 33.94 MB/s     (530)
Total      | 4.80 MB/s     (1.2k) | 67.52 MB/s    (1.0k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 57.94 MB/s     (113) | 86.48 MB/s      (84)
Write      | 61.01 MB/s     (119) | 92.24 MB/s      (90)
Total      | 118.96 MB/s    (232) | 178.73 MB/s    (174)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 597 Mbits/sec   | 825 Mbits/sec   | 4.50 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 455 Mbits/sec   | 795 Mbits/sec   | 12.4 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 303 Mbits/sec   | 827 Mbits/sec   | 11.9 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 299 Mbits/sec   | 651 Mbits/sec   | 104 ms         
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 291 Mbits/sec   | 769 Mbits/sec   | 75.7 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 320 Mbits/sec   | 741 Mbits/sec   | 111 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 297 Mbits/sec   | 752 Mbits/sec   | 131 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 459                           
Multi Core      | 835                           
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/620434

not too shabby I'd say. didn't put any load/data on it, maybe will find the time later this week to rsync something in and get a feeling for IO waits and stuff ;-)

imok · March 2023

Mine:

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#                     v2023-02-27                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Mon 20 Mar 2023 05:16:17 PM EDT

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2599.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 976.4 MiB
Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
Disk       : 1022.9 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-8-amd64
VM Type    : KVM

Basic Network Information:
---------------------------------
Protocol   : IPv6
ISP        : Psychz Networks
ASN        : AS40676 Psychz Networks
Host       : SmartHost LLC
Location   : Dallas, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 6.35 MB/s     (1.5k) | 106.32 MB/s   (1.6k)
Write      | 6.36 MB/s     (1.5k) | 106.88 MB/s   (1.6k)
Total      | 12.72 MB/s    (3.1k) | 213.20 MB/s   (3.3k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 320.50 MB/s    (625) | 330.17 MB/s    (322)
Write      | 337.53 MB/s    (659) | 352.16 MB/s    (343)
Total      | 658.03 MB/s   (1.2k) | 682.33 MB/s    (665)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 352 Mbits/sec   | 497 Mbits/sec   | 107 ms         
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 356 Mbits/sec   | 440 Mbits/sec   | 110 ms         
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 364 Mbits/sec   | 656 Mbits/sec   |                
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 413 Mbits/sec   | 171 Mbits/sec   |                
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 384 Mbits/sec   | 697 Mbits/sec   |                
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 439 Mbits/sec   | 829 Mbits/sec   | 0.621 ms       
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 398 Mbits/sec   | 737 Mbits/sec   | 39.1 ms        

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 295 Mbits/sec   | 287 Mbits/sec   | 107 ms         
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 349 Mbits/sec   | 434 Mbits/sec   | 111 ms         
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 322 Mbits/sec   | 608 Mbits/sec   | 118 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 347 Mbits/sec   | 168 Mbits/sec   | 206 ms         
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | busy            |                
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 342 Mbits/sec   | 825 Mbits/sec   | 0.574 ms       
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 392 Mbits/sec   | 700 Mbits/sec   | 29.2 ms        

Running GB6 benchmark test... *cue elevator music*
^C
** Aborting YABS. Cleaning up files...

GB6 was taking a lot of time so I decided to abort.

For comparison, this is YABS from my current server with SpeedyKVM:

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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-02-27                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Mon Mar 20 16:38:46 -05 2023

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 436 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes
Processor  : QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2099.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ❌ Disabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 2.4 GiB
Swap       : 256.0 MiB
Disk       : 984.4 GiB
Distro     : CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Kernel     : 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64
VM Type    : KVM

Basic Network Information:
---------------------------------
Protocol   : IPv4
ISP        : Rack 2
ASN        : AS29802 HIVELOCITY, Inc.
Location   : Dallas, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 4.07 MB/s     (1.0k) | 60.56 MB/s     (946)
Write      | 4.10 MB/s     (1.0k) | 60.98 MB/s     (952)
Total      | 8.18 MB/s     (2.0k) | 121.54 MB/s   (1.8k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 190.69 MB/s    (372) | 203.15 MB/s    (198)
Write      | 200.82 MB/s    (392) | 216.69 MB/s    (211)
Total      | 391.51 MB/s    (764) | 419.84 MB/s    (409)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 871 Mbits/sec   | 361 Mbits/sec   | 104 ms         
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 876 Mbits/sec   | 264 Mbits/sec   | 111 ms         
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 870 Mbits/sec   | 642 Mbits/sec   | 114 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 544 Mbits/sec   | 189 Mbits/sec   | 270 ms         
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 917 Mbits/sec   | 620 Mbits/sec   | 36.3 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 948 Mbits/sec   | 938 Mbits/sec   | 1.17 ms        
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 926 Mbits/sec   | 758 Mbits/sec   | 31.6 ms        

Geekbench 6 test failed. Run manually to determine cause.

YABS completed in 4 min 49 sec

Fritz · March 2023

If you dont mind old YABS, here is from my @mxmla Server-Factory

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#                     v2022-08-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Sun 25 Sep 2022 03:04:30 AM CEST

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 8 hours, 59 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6152 CPU @ 2.10GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2095.076 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 1007.8 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-16-amd64

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 210.17 MB/s  (52.5k) | 2.64 GB/s    (41.3k)
Write      | 210.72 MB/s  (52.6k) | 2.65 GB/s    (41.5k)
Total      | 420.90 MB/s (105.2k) | 5.30 GB/s    (82.8k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 5.43 GB/s    (10.6k) | 6.63 GB/s     (6.4k)
Write      | 5.72 GB/s    (11.1k) | 7.07 GB/s     (6.9k)
Total      | 11.15 GB/s   (21.7k) | 13.70 GB/s   (13.3k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.00 Gbits/sec  | 945 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 995 Mbits/sec   | 954 Mbits/sec
Hybula          | The Netherlands (40G)     | 1.04 Gbits/sec  | 940 Mbits/sec
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 422 Mbits/sec   | 625 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 354 Mbits/sec   | 555 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 271 Mbits/sec   | 453 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 332 Mbits/sec   | 346 Mbits/sec

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 983 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 1.02 Gbits/sec  | 983 Mbits/sec
Hybula          | The Netherlands (40G)     | 1.04 Gbits/sec  | 983 Mbits/sec
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 876 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 423 Mbits/sec   | 896 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 187 Mbits/sec   | 895 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 262 Mbits/sec   | 848 Mbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 780
Multi Core      | 768
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/17526946

Falzo · March 2023

while compared to yours IOps seem a bit on the low side in UK only in fio. I just started moving data in via rsync and don't see much iowait, regardless if it's many small files or bigger sequential stuff. feels snappy, nothing to complain.

I guess most of it (in those yabses) comes down to caching the underlying array of spinning rust anyway, maybe @SMARTHOST wants to share some insights, what's used here - zfs? hw/sw raid? just lvm? how big are those arrays, what level of redundancy?

happy I booked the second core though, as rsync/ssh wants a fair share of cpu while running. overall looks very good so far, performance is perfect enough for my use case and those 3TB in europe (yet not eu) come out at roughly 2.4€ per TB now.

good deal, decent box, more diversification in backup storage. will keep an eye on this one over time.

Looking for storage VPS. SpeedyKVM prices went nuts.

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