Skynode Review?

kennsann

Anyone has a review of the host? I just saw someone post it and their i7 dedi is indeed damned cheap. Might even be cheaper than hetzner.

kennsann

If anybody is interested. I got their $3 trial server. Here's some benchmarks
Bench.Monster

 OS           : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (64 Bit)
 Virt/Kernel  : Dedicated / 4.19.0-5-amd64
 CPU Model    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
 CPU Cores    : 12 @ 800.058 MHz x86_64 12288 KB Cache
 CPU Flags    : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled
 Load Average : 2.26, 1.18, 0.48
 Total Space  : 424G (1.3G ~1% used)
 Total RAM    : 15901 MB (191 MB + 307 MB Buff in use)
 Total SWAP   : 15592 MB (0 MB in use)
 Uptime       : 0 days 0:3
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 ASN & ISP    : AS201814, Cogent Communications
 Organization : Skytechnology Sp. Z o.o.
 Location     : Warsaw, Poland / PL
 Region       : Mazovia
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 ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

  Single Core : 5815  (EXCELLENT)
   Multi Core : 23993

 ## IO Test

 CPU Speed:
    bzip2     : 180 MB/s
   sha256     : 273 MB/s
   md5sum     : 765 MB/s

 RAM Speed:
   Avg. write : 4881.1 MB/s
   Avg. read  : 9420.8 MB/s

 Disk Speed:
   1st run    : 448 MB/s
   2nd run    : 447 MB/s
   3rd run    : 445 MB/s
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   Average    : 446.7 MB/s

 ## Global Speedtest

 Location                       Upload           Download         Ping
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 Speedtest.net                  126.12 Mbit/s    212.40 Mbit/s   * 147.875 ms
 USA, New York (AT&T)           99.52 Mbit/s     190.38 Mbit/s    93.635 ms
 USA, Chicago (Windstream)      32.47 Mbit/s     107.37 Mbit/s   116.791 ms
 USA, Dallas (Frontier)         69.77 Mbit/s     138.63 Mbit/s   132.125 ms
 USA, Miami (Frontier)          19.90 Mbit/s     116.60 Mbit/s   125.467 ms
 USA, Los Angeles (Spectrum)    113.51 Mbit/s    90.13 Mbit/s    161.898 ms
 UK, London (toob Ltd)          131.42 Mbit/s    415.24 Mbit/s    25.298 ms
 France, Lyon (SFR)             417.21 Mbit/s    485.40 Mbit/s    30.816 ms
 Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET)      246.63 Mbit/s    239.74 Mbit/s    28.933 ms
 Spain, Madrid (MasMovil)       341.67 Mbit/s    382.62 Mbit/s    40.726 ms
 Italy, Rome (Unidata)          256.71 Mbit/s    166.64 Mbit/s    36.599 ms
 Russia, Moscow (MTS)           186.75 Mbit/s    479.63 Mbit/s    63.594 ms
 Israel, Haifa (013Netvision)   109.31 Mbit/s    278.89 Mbit/s    84.142 ms
 India, New Delhi (GIGATEL)     88.75 Mbit/s     313.72 Mbit/s   166.512 ms
 Singapore (FirstMedia)         42.67 Mbit/s     51.16 Mbit/s    166.605 ms
 Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther)     72.55 Mbit/s     123.64 Mbit/s   157.775 ms
 Australia, Sydney (Yes Optus)  19.83 Mbit/s     21.75 Mbit/s    299.370 ms
 RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas)     27.68 Mbit/s     308.28 Mbit/s   187.941 ms
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YABS

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Fri Apr  3 09:20:35 UTC 2020

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
CPU cores  : 12 @ 1372.544 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 15Gi
Swap       : 15Gi
Disk       : 424G

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4kb           (IOPS) | 64kb          (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 341.49 MB/s  (85.3k) | 411.74 MB/s   (6.4k)
Write      | 342.39 MB/s  (85.5k) | 413.90 MB/s   (6.4k)
Total      | 683.89 MB/s (170.9k) | 825.64 MB/s  (12.9k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512kb         (IOPS) | 1mb           (IOPS)
  ------   | -----          ----  | ---            ----
Read       | 436.32 MB/s    (852) | 451.21 MB/s    (440)
Write      | 459.50 MB/s    (897) | 481.26 MB/s    (469)
Total      | 895.83 MB/s   (1.7k) | 932.48 MB/s    (909)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider                  | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                          |                           |                 |
Bouygues Telecom          | Paris, FR (10G)           | 384 Mbits/sec   | 932 Mbits/sec
Online.net                | Paris, FR (10G)           | 374 Mbits/sec   | 898 Mbits/sec
WorldStream               | The Netherlands (10G)     | busy            | busy
wilhelm.tel               | Hamburg, DE (10G)         | 252 Mbits/sec   | 290 Mbits/sec
Biznet                    | Bogor, Indonesia (1G)     | 529 Mbits/sec   | 161 Mbits/sec
Hostkey                   | Moscow, RU (1G)           | 702 Mbits/sec   | 934 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online           | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 111 Mbits/sec   | 442 Mbits/sec
Airstream Communications  | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G)  | busy            | 454 Mbits/sec
Hurricane Electric        | Fremont, CA, US (10G)     | 86.7 Mbits/sec  | busy

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider                  | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                          |                           |                 |
Bouygues Telecom          | Paris, FR (10G)           | 909 Mbits/sec   | 918 Mbits/sec
Online.net                | Paris, FR (10G)           | 913 Mbits/sec   | 917 Mbits/sec
WorldStream               | The Netherlands (10G)     | 913 Mbits/sec   | 922 Mbits/sec
wilhelm.tel               | Hamburg, DE (10G)         | 911 Mbits/sec   | 921 Mbits/sec
Airstream Communications  | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G)  | 779 Mbits/sec   | 524 Mbits/sec
Hurricane Electric        | Fremont, CA, US (10G)     | 816 Mbits/sec   | 255 Mbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1316
Multi Core      | 5727
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1668731