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Venocix vServer Spring (2 x vCPU 3.0 GHz)
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Venocix vServer Spring (2 x vCPU 3.0 GHz)

cybertechcybertech Member
edited May 2019 in Reviews

As I was looking for combahton network for nice asia connectivity, came across Venocix somewhere. so far their review had been mostly good, and that they are having EUR 3,00 vServer Spring promo, decided to take a look.

So far i liked their arrangements:

  • Prepaid
  • 2 Xeon Cores 3ghz
  • RAID 10 SSD (samsung)
  • Up to 1gbit
  • DDOS protection
  • 3 backups (snapshots) that can be manually scheduled

FAQ info:
We rely exclusively on HP Server, Intel CPU and SAMSUNG SSD.
Currently our systems are built like this:
2x Intel Xeon E5 2690v2 (3.00 GHz)
128GB DDR3 RAM / 256GB DDR3 RAM
4x 1TB SAMSUNG EVO 860 SSD (Managed via an HP Hardware Controller )
The host systems are each connected with 2x1G.

Went on live chat and spoke to Tim, nice and polite (like real nice). Asked about ECC Ram, yes. Asked about CPU passthrough repeatedly, yes. Found a benchmark in April that showed otherwise, but Tim reassured that its been changed and asked me to try.

Still a little skeptical but for EUR 3,00 ok, took the plunge. Nice.

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CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz
Number of cores      : 2
CPU frequency        : 2992.786 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 25.0 GB (9.8 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 1993 MB (568 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 1023 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 0 days, 0 hour 27 min
Load average         : 0.06, 0.60, 0.58
OS                   : CentOS 7.6.1810
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 5.1.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 569 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 770 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 734 MB/s
Average I/O speed    : 691.0 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         93.3MB/s      
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          8.53MB/s      
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            14.3MB/s      
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           85.6MB/s      
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           91.4MB/s      
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             14.5MB/s      
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           9.64MB/s      
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          8.46MB/s      
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            90.8MB/s      
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           7.95MB/s      
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          6.49MB/s      
----------------------------------------------------------------------


CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    2.433 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    7.278 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    2.095 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 134.3 us / 283.2 us / 6.19 ms / 161.4 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 5.82 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.42 GiB, 1.16 k iops, 291.2 MiB/s


Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm cpuid_fault pti ssbd ibrs ibpb fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms xsaveopt arat

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13285771

For my use case a minimum of 3GB ram is required on Centos7. This fits in nicely with 1GB swap that could take on the load. Very pleasantly surprised.

P.S. After 6 months I've now run out of funds to play. If you like it do help by using the aff link.

Aff link

Thanked by 3uptime Falzo datanoise

Comments

  • Seems really nice. Have you been with them for several months? Do you know if they provide support in english?

  • cybertechcybertech Member
    edited May 2019

    @datanoise said:
    Seems really nice. Have you been with them for several months? Do you know if they provide support in english?

    Just 24hrs mate. Yes English. My command of German is just about guten tag and vielen dank

    Edit:
    my ticket was just answered in clear English.
    And it is possible to get IPv6 via their upgrade/downgrade option in the panel. It is free and automated.

    Thanked by 1datanoise
  • Awesome, seems to be a good alternative to netcup/hetzner and the like.

    Thanked by 1cybertech
  • chrispchrisp Member

    Do you have a test ip from the space of your server? I am looking for a bastion host in Frankfurt with good routing right now.

  • chrispchrisp Member
    edited May 2019

    @chrisp said:
    Do you have a test ip from the space of your server? I am looking for a bastion host in Frankfurt with good routing right now.

    Got one from their spring offer. IPs are assigned from this ip space: 45.11.16.X

    Thanked by 1cybertech
  • @chrisp said:

    @chrisp said:
    Do you have a test ip from the space of your server? I am looking for a bastion host in Frankfurt with good routing right now.

    Got one from their spring offer. IPs are assigned from this ip space: 45.11.16.X

    Mine is 152.xx.

    How's your bench?

  • chrispchrisp Member

    @cybertech said:

    @chrisp said:

    @chrisp said:
    Do you have a test ip from the space of your server? I am looking for a bastion host in Frankfurt with good routing right now.

    Got one from their spring offer. IPs are assigned from this ip space: 45.11.16.X

    Mine is 152.xx.

    How's your bench?

    According to the control panel I am on vhost02. This is my benchmark:

    -------------------------------------------------
     nench.sh v2019.03.01 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
     benchmark timestamp:    2019-05-28 16:00:34 UTC
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz
    CPU cores:    2
    Frequency:    2992.786 MHz
    RAM:          2.0G
    Swap:         1.0G
    Kernel:       Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 x86_64
    
    Disks:
    sda     25G  SSD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        3.788 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        6.854 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        2.097 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 66.2 us / 175.6 us / 12.9 ms / 190.9 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 16.5 k requests in 5.00 s, 4.02 GiB, 3.29 k iops, 823.0 MiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    505.45 MiB/s
        2nd run:    726.70 MiB/s
        3rd run:    747.68 MiB/s
        average:    659.94 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    45.11.16.xxxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         91.30 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        81.14 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   9.99 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      83.68 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         12.33 MiB/s
    
    IPv6 speedtests
        your IPv6:    2a0c:6a41:f203:xxxx
    
        Leaseweb (NL):        83.43 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   0.00 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      3.14 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         3.72 MiB/s
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Thanked by 2uptime cybertech
  • cybertechcybertech Member
    edited May 2019

    @chrisp said:

    @cybertech said:

    @chrisp said:

    @chrisp said:
    Do you have a test ip from the space of your server? I am looking for a bastion host in Frankfurt with good routing right now.

    Got one from their spring offer. IPs are assigned from this ip space: 45.11.16.X

    Mine is 152.xx.

    How's your bench?

    According to the control panel I am on vhost02. This is my benchmark:

    -------------------------------------------------
     nench.sh v2019.03.01 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
     benchmark timestamp:    2019-05-28 16:00:34 UTC
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz
    CPU cores:    2
    Frequency:    2992.786 MHz
    RAM:          2.0G
    Swap:         1.0G
    Kernel:       Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 x86_64
    
    Disks:
    sda     25G  SSD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        3.788 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        6.854 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        2.097 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 66.2 us / 175.6 us / 12.9 ms / 190.9 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 16.5 k requests in 5.00 s, 4.02 GiB, 3.29 k iops, 823.0 MiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    505.45 MiB/s
        2nd run:    726.70 MiB/s
        3rd run:    747.68 MiB/s
        average:    659.94 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    45.11.16.xxxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         91.30 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        81.14 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   9.99 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      83.68 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         12.33 MiB/s
    
    IPv6 speedtests
        your IPv6:    2a0c:6a41:f203:xxxx
    
        Leaseweb (NL):        83.43 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   0.00 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      3.14 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         3.72 MiB/s
    -------------------------------------------------
    

    im on vhost2 too. nice IOPS. looking fresh. many provider have lower IOPS on centos7.6, i do not know why. tried messing with tuned but does not improve if its already raid 10. but on live http performance this is the best 2GB ECC out there for me at lowest price.

  • chrispchrisp Member
    edited May 2019

    The real life performance is superb and so far it's a great experience. I get the feeling, that there is a lot of movement in their Discord and they want to actively improve the user experience, add new features et cetera.
    I do like their (combahton) routing. From everywhere I tested (3 different ISPs in Germany) I get <20ms, the lowest being 5ms. Let's see how they perform throughout the year.

    By the way for speed tests people can use https://lg.combahton.net

    Thanked by 1cybertech
  • niceboyniceboy Veteran

    no english version of there site?

  • v3ngv3ng Member, Patron Provider

    Looks like another summer host to me.

  • v3ng said: Looks like another summer host to me.

    Maybe, what makes you think that?

    If they are here to stay, the offer ain't bad, but storage is on the low side. A single core and 1GB of RAM for a cheap yearly price would make more sense imo.

  • digijdigij Member

    @datanoise said:
    Awesome, seems to be a good alternative to netcup/hetzner and the like.

    I wouldn’t go that far.

    Venocix is run by a sole proprietorship business while the other two are big and well established hosting companies.

    Sole proprietorship isn’t bad per se but the probability that they go out of business or have a security breach (cough, KTS24) is usually higher.

  • Wanna update:

    Venocix.de crappy oversold shit

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     OS           : CentOS 7.7.1908 (64 Bit)
     Virt/Kernel  : KVM / 5.4.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
     CPU Model    : Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge)
     CPU Cores    : 4 @ 2899.998 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
     CPU Flags    : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
     Load Average : 0.01, 0.05, 0.01
     Total Space  : 50G (15G ~30% used)
     Total RAM    : 3938 MB (500 MB + 643 MB Buff in use)
     Total SWAP   : 1023 MB (0 MB in use)
     Uptime       : 12 days 9:56
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     ASN & ISP    : AS30823, combahton GmbH
     Organization : Thwmd
     Location     : Frankfurt am Main, Germany / DE
     Region       : Hesse
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
     ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:
    
      Single Core : 1622  (POOR)
       Multi Core : 2609
    
     ## IO Test
    
     CPU Speed:
        bzip2     :  35.8 MB/s
       sha256     : 103 MB/s
       md5sum     : 196 MB/s
    
     RAM Speed:
       Avg. write : 544.3 MB/s
       Avg. read  : 1877.3 MB/s
    
     Disk Speed:
       1st run    : 208 MB/s
       2nd run    : 195 MB/s
       3rd run    : 253 MB/s
       -----------------------
       Average    : 218.7 MB/s
    
     ## Global Speedtest
    
     Location                       Upload           Download         Ping
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Speedtest.net                  260.86 Mbit/s    81.40 Mbit/s     15.563 ms
     USA, New York (AT&T)           85.95 Mbit/s     85.36 Mbit/s     83.767 ms
     USA, Chicago (Windstream)      128.18 Mbit/s    150.03 Mbit/s    99.990 ms
     USA, Dallas (Frontier)         123.04 Mbit/s    124.38 Mbit/s   119.422 ms
     USA, Miami (Frontier)          79.84 Mbit/s     340.29 Mbit/s   108.163 ms
     USA, Los Angeles (Spectrum)    99.52 Mbit/s     133.18 Mbit/s   151.554 ms
     UK, London (toob Ltd)          113.08 Mbit/s    542.35 Mbit/s    11.352 ms
     France, Lyon (SFR)             278.51 Mbit/s    399.65 Mbit/s    17.279 ms
     Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET)      200.04 Mbit/s    372.83 Mbit/s    15.712 ms
     Spain, Madrid (MasMovil)       327.51 Mbit/s    290.04 Mbit/s    28.893 ms
     Italy, Rome (Unidata)          303.83 Mbit/s    318.86 Mbit/s    25.554 ms
     Russia, Moscow (MTS)           163.35 Mbit/s    509.36 Mbit/s    36.866 ms
     Israel, Haifa (013Netvision)   117.46 Mbit/s    204.73 Mbit/s    66.106 ms
     India, New Delhi (GIGATEL)     87.85 Mbit/s     99.32 Mbit/s    146.705 ms
     Singapore (FirstMedia)         60.64 Mbit/s     37.68 Mbit/s    165.921 ms
     Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther)     55.00 Mbit/s     45.66 Mbit/s    199.347 ms
     Australia, Sydney (Yes Optus)  14.17 Mbit/s     15.95 Mbit/s    283.827 ms
     RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas)     27.20 Mbit/s     47.19 Mbit/s    238.306 ms
     Brazil, Sao Paulo (Criare)     50.74 Mbit/s     28.86 Mbit/s    187.115 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
     Finished in : 14 min 13 sec
     Timestamp   : 2020-02-07 14:33:48 GMT
    
    Thanked by 1uptime
  • I just quitted their services after 1 day of using. Poor performance, i don't recommend for now.

  • Agree. It was already bad last year , and it continues to this year. Avoid at all (low) cost.

  • DPDP Administrator, The Domain Guy

    The price for those specs seemed too good to be true :joy:

  • @thedp said:
    The price for those specs seemed too good to be true :joy:

    For monthly prepaid yes, but for bi/annually there are some providers who can compete within +/-10% price but consistently good

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