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What is the average data transfer rate of your VPS using scp or sftp?

p50p50 Member
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Have been transferring files and directories (about 250GB at a time) as uploads from a storage VPS at time4vps to a hetzner storage box.

The transfers seem to start out at about 45 - 60MB/s for the first minute or so, then quickly slow to a consistent 1MB/s. Ultimately, the "rest of the transfer" (no matter how long it takes) seems to level out at an average 900kb/s to 1mb/s, with precision, almost like it's being rate limited to exactly that speed.

Have tried both ipv4 and forcing ipv6. Transfer rates and performance stay about the same -- fast for the first minute, then quickly slows for the rest of the transfer.

This happens when uploading directories with multiple files, or one large (100GB) file. Same trend.

What am I doing wrong? Interested to hear what transfer rates others are seeing.

I expected the transfer rates to be faster as my storage VPS at time4vps was upgraded to a 1Gbit port and hetzner is supposed to be fast also.

Anyone familiar with these routes? 1mb/s seems ridiculously slow, all things considered.

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  • teamaccteamacc Member
    edited February 2019

    Bookmarking as I have the exact same issue from time to time (sometimes its just fast as heck). CPU speed seems to help, getting 1.5mbyte on a fast cpu, and down to like 1.2mbyte on a slow one.

    Protocol seems to matter little, although I've run into it more often with ssh, but samba also drops down to similar levels sometimes.

  • eoleol Member

    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    Thanked by 2dedimark Hetzner_OL
  • p50p50 Member

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

  • smilesmile Member

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

  • mfsmfs Banned, Member
    edited February 2019

    p50 said: storage VPS at time4vps

    IIRC those have limited IOPS, which may or may not matter. I'd try to falsify your observation with a multithreaded iperf3, from memory and from file, in reverse mode as well, over TCP and UDP

    EDIT2
    EDIT3

    Thanked by 1uptime
  • p50p50 Member

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

    Thank you for calling me a noob. Hope it makes you feel better.

  • smilesmile Member

    @p50 said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

    Thank you for calling me a noob. Hope it makes you feel better.

    you concentrated on a word instead of the advice. Guess you can't teach anyone anything these days. What a shame.

  • p50p50 Member

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

    Thank you for calling me a noob. Hope it makes you feel better.

    you concentrated on a word instead of the advice. Guess you can't teach anyone anything these days. What a shame.

    why so damn negative? Who pissed in your cornflakes. Jeeze.

  • smilesmile Member
    edited February 2019

    @p50 said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

    Thank you for calling me a noob. Hope it makes you feel better.

    you concentrated on a word instead of the advice. Guess you can't teach anyone anything these days. What a shame.

    why so damn negative? Who pissed in your cornflakes. Jeeze.

    my apologies. didn't know there is a snowflake here.
    The End is Nigh.

  • eoleol Member
    edited February 2019

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    root@sv39 ~/slackware/slackware64-current-iso # sftp -P 23 [email protected]
    [email protected]'s password:
    Connected to u289414.your-storagebox.de.
    sftp> put slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso
    Uploading slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso to /home/slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso
    slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso 100% 2862MB 110.1MB/s 00:26
    sftp>

    EDIT2:
    Too lazy for SCP now...

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @p50 , is your question answered?

  • p50p50 Member
    edited February 2019

    I was hoping for more responses...ideally, anyone who has experience transferring files in/out of Hetzner from non-Hetzner VPS's...

  • eoleol Member

    I doubt Hetzner is the problem...

    Thanked by 1mfs
  • uptimeuptime Member

    I've seen typically 30-50 MB/s copying via sftp from Hetzner storage box (not dedi or vps) to first-root (Düsseldorf), CrownCloud (Frankfurt), HostHatch (Amsterdam), and Inception (London).

    Thanked by 2eol SpeedBus
  • p50p50 Member

    Well, shucks. Maybe time4vps is rate-limiting my VPS there. Hope not. Going to open up a support ticket to ask about it. Thanks for all replies.

    Thanked by 1uptime
  • moni099878moni099878 Member

    @p50 said:
    Well, shucks. Maybe time4vps is rate-limiting my VPS there. Hope not. Going to open up a support ticket to ask about it. Thanks for all replies.

    At the moment, we have some network-related issue, our network administrators are working on it. As a temporary solution in order to keep the stability of the service, we have been forced to limit servers port's speed to 100 Mbps. Hopefully, the issue will be solved in the upcoming 24-48 hours.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

If you have any further question, do not hesitate to contact us again. Have a nice day!


---
Yours sincerely,
Support Specialist Laura B.

    hostens(time4vps)

    Thanked by 4eol uptime mfs coreflux
  • muffinmuffin Member

    Pretty fast.

  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    Omg hostens have the cutest website..

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

    Thank you for calling me a noob. Hope it makes you feel better.

    you concentrated on a word instead of the advice. Guess you can't teach anyone anything these days. What a shame.

    Just to be clear, your response doesn't do anything to solve the problem. Using a different program doesn't solve this problem. So when you are not helpful, don't be a dick when your "advice" is useless and not appreciated.

  • Kiwi83Kiwi83 Member

    @dahartigan said:
    Omg hostens have the cutest website..

    Even a little ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ hamster can host a website!

  • smilesmile Member
    edited February 2019

    @TimboJones said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

    Thank you for calling me a noob. Hope it makes you feel better.

    you concentrated on a word instead of the advice. Guess you can't teach anyone anything these days. What a shame.

    Just to be clear, your response doesn't do anything to solve the problem. Using a different program doesn't solve this problem. So when you are not helpful, don't be a dick when your "advice" is useless and not appreciated.

    Just to be clear to you. Your post is useless and not appreciated so same same. You seem to forget people find you barely helpful as well.

  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @smile said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @smile said:

    @p50 said:

    @eol said:
    Getting 1Gbit from Hetzner server to storage box.

    How is it possible you're getting 1Gbit while I'm only getting 1mbit/s? Are you transferring files with scp or sftp? That's a huge difference in speed...

    noob. use rsync

    Thank you for calling me a noob. Hope it makes you feel better.

    you concentrated on a word instead of the advice. Guess you can't teach anyone anything these days. What a shame.

    Just to be clear, your response doesn't do anything to solve the problem. Using a different program doesn't solve this problem. So when you are not helpful, don't be a dick when your "advice" is useless and not appreciated.

    Just to be clear to you. Your post is useless and not appreciated so same same. You seem to forget people find you barely helpful as well.

  • smilesmile Member

    @default said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @imok find me a gif

  • uptimeuptime Member

  • smilesmile Member

    @uptime said:

    Alexander Skarsgård had massive plastic surgery...

    Thanked by 2uptime eol
  • LetzienLetzien Member

    @smile said:

    @uptime said:

    Alexander Skarsgård had massive plastic surgery...

    He's Swedish. They're all made of plastic.

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