Benchmarking Servers Galore VPS- Melbourne Australia
My first impressions review for ryzen VPs by. Servers Galore a provider from Australia. They posted an exclusive offer on LowEndSpirit for their Melbourne, Australia location. Nathan from Servers Galore reached out to me and asked if I would like to test out a unit. Replying in the affirmative was a no brainer, because a Ryzen VPS with NVme disks is always a pleasure to test out.
Yesterday I had posted about limiting the number of benchmark tests I would be running starting next month. As luck would have it, I ended up adding one more to the list of servers to run the tests. This is a test unit for 24 hours, therefore I will limit my comments to the first impressions based on the VPS performance.
Account Setup
Setting up the account was easy- though the recapcha did not show up on my browser (Firefox) which prevented me from setting up the account. Using Safari solved the problem. Once the confirmation mail was received, I messaged Nathan, who set up this test unit for me.
Running the Benchmarking Tests on VPS

The test machine I was provided had the following specifications
[email protected]:/tmp# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3936 78 3373 2 484 3638
Swap: 511 0 511;
[email protected]:/tmp# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 394M 564K 394M 1% /run
/dev/vda1 49G 2.0G 45G 5% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 394M 0 394M 0% /run/user/1000
[email protected]:/tmp# lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 23
Model: 113
Model name: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Stepping: 0
CPU MHz: 3792.870
BogoMIPS: 7585.74
Hypervisor vendor: KVM
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 128 KiB
L1i cache: 128 KiB
L2 cache: 1 MiB
L3 cache: 32 MiB
The operating system was Ubuntu 20.04 (not my first choice, my personal preference is Debian 10). Note this is not a criticism of the choice of OS, I was merely stating my preference. An apt-get update and a dist-upgrade later, I was ready to run the tests.
YABS or Yet Another Benchmarking Script
Sat 19 Dec 2020 01:32:01 AM GMT Basic System Information: --------------------------------- Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor CPU cores : 2 @ 3792.870 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled RAM : 3.8 GiB Swap : 512.0 MiB Disk : 48.7 GiB fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50): --------------------------------- Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- Read | 258.15 MB/s (64.5k) | 3.79 GB/s (59.3k) Write | 258.83 MB/s (64.7k) | 3.81 GB/s (59.6k) Total | 516.98 MB/s (129.2k) | 7.61 GB/s (118.9k) | | Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- Read | 7.40 GB/s (14.4k) | 4.70 GB/s (4.5k) Write | 7.79 GB/s (15.2k) | 5.02 GB/s (4.9k) Total | 15.19 GB/s (29.6k) | 9.73 GB/s (9.5k) iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): --------------------------------- Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | | | Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 383 Mbits/sec | 268 Mbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 332 Mbits/sec | 257 Mbits/sec WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 438 Mbits/sec | 599 Mbits/sec Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 587 Mbits/sec | 267 Mbits/sec Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 304 Mbits/sec | 334 Mbits/sec Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 164 Mbits/sec | 200 Mbits/sec Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 275 Mbits/sec | 306 Mbits/sec Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | busy | busy iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6): --------------------------------- Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | | | Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 504 Mbits/sec | 623 Mbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 528 Mbits/sec | 670 Mbits/sec WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 533 Mbits/sec | 573 Mbits/sec Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 549 Mbits/sec | 391 Mbits/sec Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 642 Mbits/sec | 300 Mbits/sec Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test: --------------------------------- Test | Value | Single Core | 5777 Multi Core | 10265 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15946310 Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test: --------------------------------- Test | Value | Single Core | 1301 Multi Core | 2459 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5407839
nench.sh
------------------------------------------------- nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh benchmark timestamp: 2020-12-19 02:44:48 UTC ------------------------------------------------- Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor CPU cores: 2 Frequency: 3792.870 MHz RAM: 3.8Gi Swap: 511Mi Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-28-generic x86_64 Disks: vda 50G HDD CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB 1.928 seconds CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB 3.888 seconds CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB 0.738 seconds ioping: seek rate min/avg/max/mdev = 25.2 us / 39.6 us / 481.2 us / 6.55 us ioping: sequential read speed generated 52.9 k requests in 5.00 s, 12.9 GiB, 10.6 k iops, 2.58 GiB/s dd: sequential write speed 1st run: 680.92 MiB/s 2nd run: 763.89 MiB/s 3rd run: 779.15 MiB/s average: 741.32 MiB/s IPv4 speedtests your IPv4: 103.75.8.xxxx Cachefly CDN: 80.39 MiB/s Leaseweb (NL): 9.33 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 3.01 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 5.65 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 5.99 MiB/s IPv6 speedtests your IPv6: 2406:d501:f:xxxx Leaseweb (NL): 8.42 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 1.36 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 9.00 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 6.94 MiB/s
Speedtest using bench.monster
Command:
curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -asia
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS : Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 Bit) Virt/Kernel : KVM / 5.4.0-28-generic CPU Model : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor CPU Cores : 2 @ 3792.870 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled Load Average : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Total Space : 49G (1.9G ~5% used) Total RAM : 3936 MB (79 MB + 376 MB Buff in use) Total SWAP : 511 MB (0 MB in use) Uptime : 0 days 1:35 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASN & ISP : AS136557, HostRoyale AU Network Organization : Location : Melbourne, Australia / AU Region : Victoria --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark: Single Core : 5885 (EXCELLENT) Multi Core : 10180 ## IO Test CPU Speed: bzip2 : 142 MB/s sha256 : 279 MB/s md5sum : 612 MB/s RAM Speed: Avg. write : 3106.1 MB/s Avg. read : 11093.3 MB/s Disk Speed: 1st run : 725 MB/s 2nd run : 755 MB/s 3rd run : 752 MB/s ----------------------- Average : 744.0 MB/s ## Asia Speedtest.net Location Upload Download Ping --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearby 928.88 Mbit/s 939.95 Mbit/s 0.976 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 20.49 Mbit/s 61.86 Mbit/s 300.888 ms India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 25.69 Mbit/s 88.21 Mbit/s 274.926 ms India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 117.45 Mbit/s 89.25 Mbit/s 120.460 ms ^[[B Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 167.58 Mbit/s 329.76 Mbit/s 125.473 ms Pakistan, Islamabad (Telenor) 86.35 Mbit/s 262.67 Mbit/s 184.576 ms Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom) 45.28 Mbit/s 38.99 Mbit/s 194.532 ms Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel) 113.24 Mbit/s 159.58 Mbit/s 130.661 ms Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 111.39 Mbit/s 278.41 Mbit/s 160.839 ms Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo) 160.51 Mbit/s 293.76 Mbit/s 128.378 ms Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone) 171.64 Mbit/s 112.54 Mbit/s 118.285 ms Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 149.94 Mbit/s 200.77 Mbit/s 107.956 ms Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 52.92 Mbit/s 230.79 Mbit/s 115.155 ms Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 30.94 Mbit/s 354.27 Mbit/s 129.768 ms Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 155.73 Mbit/s 320.39 Mbit/s 89.679 ms Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 183.96 Mbit/s 187.52 Mbit/s 83.260 ms Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 26.35 Mbit/s 69.19 Mbit/s 95.247 ms Philippines, Manila (Globe Tel) 66.18 Mbit/s 76.66 Mbit/s 126.680 ms Hong Kong (fdcservers) 56.13 Mbit/s 153.08 Mbit/s 213.248 ms Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 113.25 Mbit/s 156.22 Mbit/s 134.591 ms Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 66.52 Mbit/s 154.45 Mbit/s 210.862 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finished in : 12 min 22 sec Timestamp : 2020-12-19 02:27:09 GMT Saved in : /root/speedtest.log Share results: - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15946340
I also ran the speedstest with the ‘-a’ flag, meaning for “All or worldwide.
The results are as follows:
Location Upload Download Ping --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearby 937.70 Mbit/s 940.32 Mbit/s 0.972 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- USA, New York (Optimum) 42.30 Mbit/s 109.38 Mbit/s 211.469 ms USA, Chicago (Windstream) 88.66 Mbit/s 49.06 Mbit/s 197.727 ms USA, Dallas (Frontier) 49.16 Mbit/s 12.35 Mbit/s 200.989 ms USA, Miami (Frontier) 40.27 Mbit/s 81.22 Mbit/s 227.903 ms USA, Los Angeles (Windstream) 105.37 Mbit/s 58.20 Mbit/s 150.150 ms UK, London (toob Ltd) 10.37 Mbit/s 35.21 Mbit/s 262.465 ms France, Lyon (SFR) 23.26 Mbit/s 60.60 Mbit/s 274.272 ms Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 33.52 Mbit/s 102.45 Mbit/s 252.334 ms Spain, Madrid (MasMovil) 54.09 Mbit/s 119.59 Mbit/s 248.204 ms Italy, Rome (Unidata) 54.00 Mbit/s 115.62 Mbit/s 260.420 ms Russia, Moscow (Rostelecom) 20.19 Mbit/s 65.05 Mbit/s 300.812 ms
Wrapping it all up
First impressions: The VPS looks top notch. The location and the pricing makes it very attractive. Wishing Nathan and his team at Servers Galore all the best for this LES Exclusive offer and beyond.
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