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Some of you might have taken my post above as fanboy shilling - if so you were dead wrong. And here's the data to prove it.
Why did I wait a bit? Because I wanted (a) a reasonable amount of results sets, and (b) at the beginning I was (almost) alone on the node but by now I guess the node is (at least almost) full and I wanted those real world numbers.
The model I benchmarked is the '4G'.
First a remark re vpsbench itself or more precisely the versions. Since quite a while v. 2.1.0 or 2.1.0.a are used for all my benchmarks and maybe you'll see a v.2.2.0a occasionally. Don't worry, the tests run (and the code) is always the same. v. 2.1.0.a just has a minor change over v. 2.1.0 but not related to the benchmarking core. And 2.2.0[a] is 2.1.0a but with changes for a Windows version (tested with 8.1 and higher) I created for a LET user who had asked me politely and friendly (I didn't have a Windows version in my eyes originally because hell, wo would run VMs on Windows?)
Now to the beast - and I think you'll agree to calling it 'beast'. 460 single core! four-hundred-sixty! nd of course you'll have AES and other nice flags (like e.g. 'popcnt' or 'hypervisor').
The single-core spread is really nice and tight and the multi-core spread is decent too. Nice! The only point I like less is that the multi-core gain is relatively low (about 2.5-ish) but that's just Ryzen.
Look at that! Those NVMes are unearthly fast. In fact I'm angry with @seriesn because Bob somehow got his hands on alien technology and @seriesn shamelessly uses that technology to take the "fair" out of of "fair competition".
Also note the low spread. What is common with many providers products (min. ca 70%) is what one could call the single exception. All other disk tests are within +-20% and in fact the minima tend more towards 90%.
Also absolutely noteworthy: The one test that usually is the bad guy (and the one that tells loudest whether any given drive is poor, so so, or great) is Sync/Direct seq. write. And what do we see here? 180. One-hundred-and-eigthy MB/s, and even the 200 MB/s barrier is broken occasionally.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is what I call a fassst drive!
Funny and interesting (well, for nerds anyway) side note: Random read in Sync/Direct mode is faster than in buffered mode. What you see there is due to how the stack works. Beneath the VM there always is the node OS/hypervisor (typ. some linux + KVM) and usually that is cached too, plus potentially yet another cache on the hardware Raid card. That is also the reason why you sometimes (like in this case) see inverted (read) seq/rnd ratios that is, in buffered mode one is faster but in sync/direct mode the other one is faster.
Whatever, all in all this is one of the fastest drives I ever saw, incl. in rather expensive VMs. If you run a database or a dynamic web site this is the VPS you want to get.
Finally the network results. Here you go
Front up, I live in Europe and for me there isn't much of a difference between Australia and Mars. Both are damn far away and I have a hard time telling 'good' and 'bad' apart, especially when considering that the whole network market seems to tick quite differently from EU and NA. When I see e.g. NL, AMS 43 Mb/s my alarms go off, but that's just because of my experience. So forgive me if I keep this short; the numbers are there, look at them yourself.
One thing I can say though is that connectivity within South and East Asia (and of course Oceania) seem to be really decent. Example: ca. 135 Mb/s to Singapore - and stable at that - looks really decent to me. And about 60 Mb/s across the Pacific to California isn't bad either.
Inventory has been super tight lately not going to lie
Oneday or another, one trip or another
You know me fam. If you didn't read the basics, chances of your reading the TOS is ultra slim
Welcome to the family boss! Do I do the typical bandwidth has been doubled 👊 post? IDK. Should I do? I think i just did. It has been upgraded and bumped 50%
HEYYYY! Don't judge me! Being upside down can impact my blood flow.
Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Sadly with the global IPv4 shortage and payment processor cost going up, it is a very tough decision to make without hurting ourselves financially
Was it a hard decision to check your speed, while playing that in the background? Asking for science.
Ohw... discount, I like that!
Order number: 9388700362
Paid, waiting for verification.
Let's give it a go. Order Number: 9441874487
Sorry bout the hiccup
Boom boom done! Welcome to the family
Glad to be part of it. Math is interesting though:
Not seeing myself using 450Gb/month, merely curious about the formula used to calculate it.
50% of 300 = 150.
300 + 150 = 450
More the merrier I guess haha
Many thanks for the extra bandwidth:)
Order Number: 4858747329
Hi
order number is 9908083789. Very excited to have another idler 
Does anyone know what the typical ticket response time is with Nexus Bytes? I was hoping to setup email on my personal domain yesterday but my order was flagged. I replied to the automatically generated email and haven’t heard back yet - it’s been about 22 hours so far.
My plan today was to migrate a few clients to a Melbourne VPS and if all went well, move the rest to a New York VPS by Friday. I got cold feet with the ticket response time and have gone with another provider today (already ordered and setup). I’d still like to try out the email service having read such glowing reviews in this and other threads and hate leaving things on a sour note.
@seriesn
Jay, looks like you need to keep the whip cracking on weekends also. No rest for the weary. double up your support team for a sub $10 a year service man,
What’s up boss. Sales and billing tickets are pushed back during weekends unless it’s an urgent one (account suspended/up for term etc).
Technical issues related are responded and solved usually within in an hour or two unless it takes extra troubleshooting.
Got around 31 tickets I need to get back to. I hope to get back to you shortly
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Sorry about that.
Tech support is super fast. Most of the times I got a response/resolution within 30 minutes.
No problem and thanks for the update, totally understandable. I’m happy to hold my hands up if my expectations were unrealistic. Sunday is my quietest day for receiving email so I was hoping to get the DNS changes propagated then. I’m using Cloudflare for the websites so they weren’t an issue.
Well NexusBytes rocks and uncle Bob is the best but to be fair, I have to say that their ticket reply time (appropiate reply not the typical "we will look into this") is way longer than other providers of same price like BuyVM and RamNode.
They can certainly improve in that aspect.
Thanks boss. Fair enough. We are going through growth pain and sometimes, when tickets are demanding/requires either manual approval or admin intervention, it can take a ted bit longer. With that said, we have 1 more team member joining in the next 3 weeks to help with the overall process
Should be all done boss
Welcome to the family.
From my experience thus far, everything works great and configuration was a breeze. On Wednesday, I plan to move the DNS to Cloudflare and I'll add the DKIM record at the same time.
Thanks!