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The Real NVMe Deal 80GB NVMe and 6GB ram for 7$/month - servaRICA
Hello Everyone,
Today we have our first NVMe based offer.
And since it is the first offer we decided to make it as beefy as possible .
with 6GB RAM , 4 cores and 80GB NVMe disk you will enough resources to run your application with no issues.
This is Xen based VPS (similar to KVM if you are unfamiliar with Xen)
The Offers:
NVME Cheetah
NVME Cheetah
4x CPU cores
6GB RAM
80GB NVMe disk
unlimited transfer
100mbps vps port
1x IPv4
IPv6 available by request
$7$/month
Order here https://servarica.com/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=408
Offer Features
This offer comes with
- CPU is E5-2650
- Xenserver based
- 7 days refund policy with no question asked
- 99.9% SLA
- We offer true 24/7 livechat support
- We are a stable host that has been in business since 2010 with good reviews
- We own all our hardware and we manage our own network with our own AS number. All these offers are based on our greater Montreal Datacenter
SLA
99.9%: normal operation
99.0% or more: 15% refund
97.0% or more: 30% refund
95.0% or more: 50% refund
Less than 95%: 100% refund
Network information
Montreal, Canada
Test IPv4: 162.250.190.17
Test file: http://162.250.190.17/file_100MB.bin
search about us if you are not familiar with us we have been around for a long time.
Thanks
Hani
servaRICA.com
Comments
Windows ( lisenced/trial )possible on this offer?
any benchmark for this?
Nice offer
Do you have free internal directadmin licenses?
A few benchmarks would be helpful. vCPU and RAM specs alone don't tell much about the host computing power and network bandwidth.
cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain64 -s 256 benchmark
nench.sh
sysbench cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --threads=4 --time=60 run
here you go
Notes:
1- I did run the tests on the most crowded node so far intentionally so you can get real feeling of the performance
2- the network is limited to 100mbps on the vm thats why the max download is always around 10MB/s
You sure that’s NVMe?
yes and it is very fast as well
here are the specs if you are interested
https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/global.semi.static/PM1725_NVMe_PCIe_SSD_Samsung_2016-1.pdf
the issue is in xenserver in general, their io path is not optimized for single vm performance .
I mean running 50 vms on the node we can saturate the disk easily but a single vm is always limited .
So you can think of the numbers you see here as guaranteed numbers (it will never go less than that)
by end of this year citrix will release new storage drivers based on their new code base SMAPIv3 that is supposed to fix this issue among others and will allow single vm to perform much better than this in terms of disk io
on the other hand the reliability and the mature of the xen echo system is worth it for us to have io performance hit
Is it Xen HVM or Xen PV?
It is long since I heard this terms mentioned
That's a decent performance for 4-core offering at this price point. I've seen a lot worse. Anyone using dmcrypt on their VPS is going to be further limited by aes encryption performance. Any disk operation will quickly become CPU-bound at a much lower rate (dmcrypt is a bit faster than nench.sh 500MB/3s+ but not much). NVMe or regular SSD would not make much of a difference.
Any plan to go for limited bw at higher port speed? How about traffic to your other storage VM?
Nvme vps should get a 2x portspeed bump at least .
it is XEN PVHVM or what they call it PV over HVM
basically you get the good from both worlds
it is an HVM VM with PV drivers to increase network speed specifically
soon citrix will finally release PVH on xenserver at that point we will be the kings of virtualization world
Can you upload your own ISOs?
yes just open a ticket with your iso url and we will mount it for you then you can install it yourself
Limiting iops?
Any chance of you adding windows original license to it also in future
no as i explained it is xenserver thing we didnt limit anything
also dd test is not giving you real life performance the vm is performing really well
I dont think so because we get windows license per physical server and due to high ram on these plans the number of vps per server is low which make the license cost high on the end user
I'd be willing to do a benchmark and review if @Hani is interested in it.
go ahead make an order and dont pay
then update me by message of your order and i will accept it
you will have 1 day to do benchmarks
That's great @jsg let us know the review
OK, thanks. I'll contact you.
I propose you should provide a test server to @Falzo ... If his evaluations find it good, you will have your name and offer taken more seriously.
I dont mind
if @Falzo want to test the vps i can give him free vps for 3 days to do his testing
Nice offer! any limitations on core usage ?
you can use up to 25% of the 4 cores (= 1 full core 100%) all the time
you can use all the cores 100% for 2 hours burst with no issues
if there is need of the cpus after 2 hours you will be limited to 25% for 2 hours and then the limiting will be lifted (automated)
Do you offer DirectAdmin license? Price?
yes it cost 6$/month
we have added it as an option while ordering few hours ago since other users asked for it as well
Is it possible to move my ssd vps(same price) to nvme offer + extra directadmin license?
OK, here's the test/benchmarks results:
First let me note that I would normally not publish results and a review so quickly after just half a day of testing. And I will continue my testing until tomorrow evening (european time) if the provider allows it.
However, this VPS is so stable that I'm not expecting any slips worth mentioning. Kudos, well done @Hani !
Let me note something else: I made those tests under FreeBSD. Why? Because when someone noted that they achieved much better results under Linux I of course investigated. After all, I'm looking for solid results. In fact, I even extended my benchmark software to allow for more tunable parameters to allow for digging deeper into a system. What I found was that the reason for Linux' better disk results is simply aggressive caching, or in other words: Linux shows you impressive results but those results aren't stable; they break down under heavy load or when memory gets tight. As my priority is to find the real performance of a system, I'm not interested in nice numbers but in reliable and true real world numbers. Worded differently it seems that Linux answers the question "What's the best you can expect from your disks?" which I'm not interested in, so I stuck with FreeBSD because what some consider a disadvantage actually is an advantage for my testing/benchmarking (but likely not for a newbie with a LAMP stack and light load).
CPU and memory
A Xeon 26xx is a decent processor for a server, even older versions (in this case v.2), 2.6 GHz (3.4 GHz turbo) isn't screaming fast but really decent and damn good enough for most users and anyway cache is more important than clock rate for real world performance and the 26xx are quite well equipped. 20 MB L3 cache are good enough to keep the L1 and L2 cache lines well filled.
As for the memory it's what they say it is (6 GB) and it's DDR3 which is slower than current DDR4 but one must see the whole line from memory to the L1 caches and the 26xx performs nicely. I've seen quite some more current processors who don't do much better overall. Also very positive: Stability. Look at the "span" value! Even in single core mode it's around just 10. Very nice.
Disks
I'll keep that one short and dry. The performance isn't great (for an NVMe). One would expect considerably better results from NVMe disks. In the tested system the performance is more like what one would expect from a nice SSD. So, if you want a VPS with real NVMe performance this one is not for you.
Network
What I like most is the stability. I've rarely seen such a stable network in the low end segment. Yes, there are some outliers, e.g. Brazil, but a network that offers about the same connectivity and performance to San Jose at the west coast as to Milano, Italy is remarkable - and most of that with sturdy consistence. Very nice!
I don't know whether ServaRica do have more serious offers for businesses but if I happened to need my (presumably business) web site very well reachable and quite fast at that for customers in both the USA and Europe then ServaRica would be one place to look for that. I'm impressed.
The downside is that locations outside of the "big business" grid like Sao Paolo, BR or Chennai, IN show really poor results.
Other/General
The IP of the VPS I tested is actually in the same /24 as the test IP provided above by ServaRica. I noted that positively; no tricking, just an IP from the really used IP range. Nice.
As for Xen, I don't care. Xen is OK and the performance is about the same as KVM. Each one has its (mostly minor) advantages and disadvantages but I never had problems with Xen.
Finally, the price. 7$ for 4 (decent!) vCores, 6 GB memory, and an 80 GB "fast SSD like" disk, along with very nice connectivity is a very attractive deal. One caveat that I want to mention is that the VPS seems to be limited at 100 Mb/s. For most users that shouldn't be a problem at all but if you really need massive bandwidth, then this VPS might not be for you. I personally like it very much though as I know that about 98% of VPSs hardly ever come even close to 100 Mb/s; in fact, I had dedis that were limited at 100 Mb/s and I had no problems with that.
TL;DR A really sweet deal, especially when you need to be very well - and fast - reachable from both the whole USA and Europe (even Moscow and Bucarest show nice results) and with, let's say, a very nice SSD. Another big plus: That VPS is stable and not the oversold crap one often encounters. Recommended.