Introduction:
I was not planning to get any new services from Virmach after discontinuing the two KVM servers from Black Friday 2019. I even resisted form purchasing one of the many awesome deals for Black Friday 2020 offers. I followed both the trackers : virmach.fat32.top and virmach.app, as well as the Virmach deal discussion on LowEndTalk.
Virmach Black Friday Deals 2020
This year’s Black Friday deals by Virmach started as a dud. There were multiple issues accessing the Virmach site, WHCMS errors, and also hiccups for the sale to start. But once it did, Boy! Was it a blast. Below is a screenshot from the amazing tracker created by user Fat32 from LowEndSpirit, as well as a sample offer from Virmach.app.
I finally gave in when the below offer came up :
1 GB RAM, 1 vCore VPU, 20 GB SSD Drive in New Jersey for US $ 7 per year. Below you can find the results of benchmarks: YABS and bench.monster (for speedtest)
Results from YABS
OS : **Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS (64 Bit)** Virt/Kernel : KVM / 4.4.0-109-generic CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz CPU Cores : 1 @ 2499.998 MHz x86_64 4096 KB Cache CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled Load Average : 0.24, 0.20, 0.10 Total Space : 20G (2.0G ~11% used) Total RAM : 992 MB (41 MB + 750 MB Buff in use) Total SWAP : 255 MB (1 MB in use) Uptime : 0 days 0:15 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ASN & ISP : AS36352, ColoCrossing Organization : Virtual Machine Solutions LLC Location : Township of Piscataway, United States / US Region : New Jersey ----------------------------------------------------------------
Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark
Single Core : 1570 (POOR)
Multi Core : 1526
## IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 45.4 MB/s
sha256 : 99.1 MB/s
md5sum : 283 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 1672.5 MB/s
Avg. read : 3242.7 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 382 MB/s
2nd run : 390 MB/s
3rd run : 403 MB/s
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Average : 391.7 MB/s
India Speedtest.net
Location Upload Download Ping ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nearby 110.04 Mbit/s 69.13 Mbit/s * 78.804 ms ---------------------------------------------------------------- India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 18.46 Mbit/s 39.42 Mbit/s 254.560 ms India, New Delhi (Weebo) 18.42 Mbit/s 21.22 Mbit/s 261.388 ms India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 51.29 Mbit/s 32.57 Mbit/s 193.660 ms India, Mumbai (OneBroadband) 23.81 Mbit/s 37.45 Mbit/s 280.136 ms India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 31.93 Mbit/s 42.59 Mbit/s 241.391 ms India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 13.99 Mbit/s 11.31 Mbit/s 235.585 ms India, Bengaluru (Activline) 6.28 Mbit/s 13.27 Mbit/s 214.899 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finished in : 8 min 51 sec Timestamp : 2020-12-21 14:17:18 GMT Saved in : /root/speedtest.log Share results: -- https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15950599 - https://clbin.com/KWCrL
YABS or Yet Another Benchmarking Script
Mon Dec 21 14:20:52 GMT 2020
Basic System Information:
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2499.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 992.3 MiB
Swap : 256.0 MiB
Disk : 19.4 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 38.31 MB/s (9.5k) | 609.98 MB/s (9.5k)
Write | 38.38 MB/s (9.5k) | 613.19 MB/s (9.5k)
Total | 76.69 MB/s (19.1k) | 1.22 GB/s (19.1k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 926.89 MB/s (1.8k) | 964.62 MB/s (942)
Write | 976.14 MB/s (1.9k) | 1.02 GB/s (1.0k)
Total | 1.90 GB/s (3.7k) | 1.99 GB/s (1.9k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed |
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 748 Mbits/sec | 302 Mbits/sec |
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 832 Mbits/sec | 279 Mbits/sec |
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 746 Mbits/sec | 768 Mbits/sec |
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 321
Multi Core | 331
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5452944
Summing it all up
I have run the benchmarks on this Black Friday 2020 KVM offer from Virmach on Ubuntu 18.04. When I put this to production, my plan is to use alpine linux, with Caddy server. Or I might use it for image optimization using jpegoptim. More on that in a separate post.
This review is a part of the Black Friday 2020 vps offers. You can find similar posts from Index page where my other reviews are catalogued.