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OVH VPS vs Hetzner Cloud - disk performance difference
DrCornFlakes
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As an Online.net server price increase refugee, I bought two VPS's, one from OVH:
- VPS1 SSD (1CPU, 2GB, 20GB) 2,99€
And one from Hetzner:
- Cloud CX11 (1CPU, 2GB, 20GB) 2,49€
My question here is only one: disk performance.
I know Hetzner uses NVMe but...
Using bench.sh, OVH result:
I/O speed(1st run) : 66.9 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 77.3 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 77.8 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 74.0 MB/s
Hetzner result:
I/O speed(1st run) : 282 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 401 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 414 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 365.7 MB/s
Is this OVH result normal?! It seems too low, even for lowend SSD, no?
Comments
The SSD is shared with many users. Hetzner uses NVMe SSD's. So the performance difference is not a shock
EDIT_____
Also, is that test for sequential writes? reads? 4k writes? reads? Because those values are quite normal for 4k writes
From what I see, this is the command used:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test_$$ bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
You should test google cloud
I dunno what your OVH VPS is smoking. Here is one of mine:
Public Cloud S1-2 "10 GB SSD Local RAID 10"
agreed.
aged VPS-SSD-2 in GRA1:
Yeah that's what mine usually are but I did buy 1 the other week which had piss poor writes like OP posted.
surprise - iops and speeds differ from hypervisor to hypervisor.
If a node is busy disk wise, it will perform worse than a node that is not busy disk wise.
You pay pennies - if you're unhappy go for another solution.
It's very simple.
OP is just curious, same as me. ~70MB/s is indeed questionable for SSD