Powered by the wind, powering algae: Windcloud

bjo — Sun, 07 May 2023 22:34:32 +0000

Some time ago I stumbled upon windcloud.de - located in north frisia near the danish border, they sit in several bunkers on old military facilities which became a campus for green technology. They run their own AS 210226, their servers are powered by wind energy and the heat generated by the servers power algae which are planted on the roof of the DC.
One year ago I asked them for IPv6, they told me they will announce IPv6 soon.

Now I tried the VPS S for a short time.

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 31 minutes
Processor  : Common KVM processor
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2593.938 MHz
AES-NI     : ❌ Disabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 3.8 GiB
Swap       : 4.0 GiB
Disk       : 206.1 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Kernel     : 5.15.0-58-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : Windcloud 4.0 GmbH
ASN        : AS210226 Windcloud 4.0 GmbH
Host       : Windcloud GmbH
Location   : Enge-Sande, Schleswig-Holstein (SH)
Country    : Germany

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 70.24 MB/s   (17.5k) | 402.00 MB/s   (6.2k)
Write      | 70.42 MB/s   (17.6k) | 404.12 MB/s   (6.3k)
Total      | 140.66 MB/s  (35.1k) | 806.13 MB/s  (12.5k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.20 GB/s     (2.3k) | 1.36 GB/s     (1.3k)
Write      | 1.26 GB/s     (2.4k) | 1.45 GB/s     (1.4k)
Total      | 2.46 GB/s     (4.8k) | 2.81 GB/s     (2.7k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 2.77 Gbits/sec  | 5.05 Gbits/sec  | 34.3 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | 3.63 Gbits/sec  | 31.4 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | busy            | busy            | 12.0 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 2.04 Gbits/sec  | 2.31 Gbits/sec  | 84.5 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | busy            | 104 ms         
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | busy            | 1.44 Gbits/sec  | 125 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.12 Gbits/sec  | 568 Mbits/sec   | 156 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 676                           
Multi Core      | 1218                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/118109

Though they seem to be single-homed by GlobalConnect / AS31027 at the moment, the connectivity seems fine, according to RIPE DB they also peer at DECIX Fra und HH, but their sessions seem down.
And the customer panel is very minimalist: No rescue, no console, no reinstall. But is also at version 0.1b, so maybe there is more to come.

noIPv6 — LowEndSpirit

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