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New Contabo St. Louis Datacenter, Test IP, and Benchmark
As some may know, Contabo just launched the new St. Louis Datacenter in the US today. Since I have been looking for VPS in STL region for more than three years (check my very first thread https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/98481/need-vps-in-st-louis-area#latest), I immediately ordered a VPS without any hesitation. Here is the benchmark and test IP.
Test IP: 209.126.0.1
Nench results:
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2020-04-07 01:06:52 UTC
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Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores: 4
Frequency: 2199.998 MHz
RAM: 7.8G
Swap: 2.0G
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-96-generic x86_64
Disks:
sda 200G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
4.049 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
6.798 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
2.082 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 39.0 us / 67.5 us / 14.4 ms / 70.9 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 26.6 k requests in 5.00 s, 6.49 GiB, 5.32 k iops, 1.30 GiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 142.10 MiB/s
2nd run: 102.04 MiB/s
3rd run: 102.04 MiB/s
average: 115.39 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 209.126.0.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 23.29 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 10.75 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 13.82 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 0.12 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 8.22 MiB/s
No IPv6 connectivity detected
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Disk I/O was not great considering it's an SSD plan, but acceptable.
Thanked by 1Ympker
Comments
Based on other threads on here the I/O is restricted as standard, but it seems you can contact them to have it lifted? Worth a shot.
Thanks man, I'll definitely give it a shot.
Besides the dd and the network speeds, performance is a lot better than the PHP-Friends 10GB box I ordered a few weeks ago (same price, same CPU). Now I am really thinking about switching..
Definitely a good deal, wonder what's up with network speeds, might want to run more tests.
Are these dedicated cores?
Great location to see! Does anyone know of any providers using or who will be using them?
^ This. Just open a ticket or msg @contabo_m to get this sorted. SSD speeds then should look like the ones in my signature
According to Contabo it's full KVM.
@dedipromo awesome, thanks for the info, I was already on the brink to buy something myself, just for testing.
could you pretty please run @MasonR s yabs? ( curl -sL yabs.sh | bash )
Yes sir.
Not bad. what about uptime?
They released it yesterday. Im guessing uptime is currently at 24hrs.
Looking good. Thanks
thanks a lot. looking good I'd say - assume you already got the IO limitation lifted before you ran that? tempted, but sadly no VMX, so no nested virt, might be able to resist for now...
Yes, sent them an e-mail and they removed the IO cap in no time.
Can you do another bench now?
Yes, sir.
@Falzo bench with the new SSD speeds :P Still not interested?
Well, if you'd only want it for KVM virtualization it's probably still not gonna work (only LXC I guess) but other than that it's a great deal imho.
Read speed seem to be very good. Write speeds not as good though. This is tested through Windows Server 2019.
Anyone done any bench tests on the write performance on Linux?
WOW, now the I/O beats my PHP-Friends box too! Impressive...
Contabo isn't actually isn't bad imho. Just many ppl saying it is. Of course there is different use cases and I can't speak for everyone but I was quite happy
I think you’ve got very noisy neighbors on that @PHP_Friends VM of yours. CPU-scores, ioping and dd are a little bit better than this on my Schnupperspecial box.
Maybe. I am testing on my Frühlingsspecial box. I'm benching my Schnupperspecial box right now.
I tested my PHP-Friends Schnupperspecial and Avoro box. Avoro box (understandably, it has better hardware) performs significantly better than the Contabo box.
The Schnupperspecial box's I/O is a lot better but the CPU is still substantially worse. I noticed the CPU steal percentage is hovering at around 5-10% as well.
have you remove the contanbo I/O restriction?
how do you go about doing that?
open a support ticket? would love to see the new bench
I sent a support ticket email; see if they do anything.
Better but not the best i've seen. For the price point though it's great. I have OpenVPN client connecting to my Untangle router's OpenVPN server. Then block out all incoming with firewall to keep the Windows box safe (:
Yea not the best one, 4 core, 8gb ram for that monthly price is a good deal