In this post, you will find my first impressions and Benchmarks for Storage Servers from Inception Hosting. These storage VPS’es are located in Phoenix, USA at IOFlood datacenter. These are hard disk based storage servers.
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Update January 2022 The 512 MB Server remains in operation, you can check its real time performance by clicking here.
Below you will find the Benchmarks for Storage Servers from Inception Hosting.
Background
I had signed up for two storage server plans by Inception Hosting during Black Friday 2020 event. One plan was a 512 GB storage server, the other was a 1 TB plan. Both these servers were in Phoenix, USA. I did not realize at the time of signing up that these VPS’es were in the IOFlood datacenter in Phoenix, USA.
In other words, there was little redundancy – same provider, same upstream, network, and so on. By Nov-2021, I had discontinued the 1 TB plan. The smaller plan was discontinued in April 2022.
The servers were fine- as the benchmarks below will show, and the service was excellent. But the location and the network caused huge latency issues for me from Bengaluru.
Benchmark of 512 GB storage server
Results from YABS
Source https://yabs.sh $ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
Mon Jan 4 20:04:59 MST 2021
Basic System Information:
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2199.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 483.2 MiB
Swap : 508.0 MiB
Disk : 490.5 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 3.51 MB/s (879) | 53.76 MB/s (840)
Write | 3.55 MB/s (888) | 54.22 MB/s (847)
Total | 7.07 MB/s (1.7k) | 107.98 MB/s (1.6k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 80.08 MB/s (156) | 99.88 MB/s (97)
Write | 84.34 MB/s (164) | 106.53 MB/s (104)
Total | 164.43 MB/s (320) | 206.42 MB/s (201)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | busy | busy
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 758 Mbits/sec | 179 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 892 Mbits/sec | 406 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 430
Multi Core | 447
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5709230
Now, we take a look at the 1 TB storage server. This was a purchasing mistake on my part- two services in the same Datacenter with the same provider do not offer much in terms of redundancy. That too, when the network speeds I get are not the greatest.
$ ping -c 3 148.163.xx.xxx
PING 148.163.xx.xxx (148.163.xx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 148.163.xx.xxx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=243 ms
64 bytes from 1148.163.xx.xxx: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=244 ms
--- 148.163.xx.xxx ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 2 received, 33.3333% packet loss, time 2007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 243.459/243.520/243.581/0.061 ms
1 TB Storage in Phoenix, USA
bench.monster for Speedtest
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : KVM / 4.19.0-12-amd64
CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
CPU Cores : 1 @ 2199.998 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled
Load Average : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Total Space : 985G (1.4G ~1% used)
Total RAM : 987 MB (65 MB + 265 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 0 MB (0 MB in use)
Uptime : 0 days 0:24
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ASN & ISP : AS53755, Input Output Flood LLC
Organization : X-RayHost
Location : Phoenix, United States / US
Region : Arizona
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<h5>Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark</h5>
<pre> Single Core : 2338 (GOOD)
Multi Core : 2218</pre>
<h5>IO Test</h5>
<pre> CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 73.0 MB/s
sha256 : 110 MB/s
md5sum : 352 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 1224.1 MB/s
Avg. read : 5563.7 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 221 MB/s
2nd run : 326 MB/s
3rd run : 762 MB/s
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Average : 436.3 MB/s</pre>
<h5>Asia Speedtest</h5>
<pre> Location Upload Download Ping
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Nearby 199.79 Mbit/s 647.64 Mbit/s 27.979 ms
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India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 15.32 Mbit/s 74.30 Mbit/s 284.922 ms
India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 9.63 Mbit/s 64.98 Mbit/s 251.173 ms
India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 14.28 Mbit/s 14.66 Mbit/s 258.165 ms
Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 22.70 Mbit/s 77.59 Mbit/s 264.289 ms
Pakistan, Islamabad (Telenor) 11.01 Mbit/s 57.31 Mbit/s 277.571 ms
Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom) 18.77 Mbit/s 21.02 Mbit/s 227.007 ms
Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel) 17.67 Mbit/s 98.99 Mbit/s 257.932 ms
Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 19.60 Mbit/s 60.58 Mbit/s 280.465 ms
Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo) 19.78 Mbit/s 113.44 Mbit/s 245.595 ms
Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone) 21.47 Mbit/s 124.58 Mbit/s 220.932 ms
Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 49.16 Mbit/s 86.09 Mbit/s 213.176 ms
Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 17.47 Mbit/s 88.81 Mbit/s 204.797 ms
Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 19.29 Mbit/s 103.72 Mbit/s 193.944 ms
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 26.43 Mbit/s 105.60 Mbit/s 199.040 ms
Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 14.03 Mbit/s 30.49 Mbit/s 194.997 ms
Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 39.19 Mbit/s 69.34 Mbit/s 188.682 ms
Philippines, Manila (Globe Tel) 7.19 Mbit/s 101.82 Mbit/s 177.484 ms
Hong Kong (fdcservers) 59.62 Mbit/s 222.93 Mbit/s 167.884 ms
Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 4.41 Mbit/s 53.79 Mbit/s 145.571 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 66.52 Mbit/s 156.77 Mbit/s 141.623 ms
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Finished in : 13 min 47 s</pre>
<p><strong>January 5, 2021</strong>: Speeds seem slower than the tests run in November.</p>
<pre> ## IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 67.1 MB/s
sha256 : 107 MB/s
md5sum : 334 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 1507.7 MB/s
Avg. read : 4027.7 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 235 MB/s
2nd run : 209 MB/s
3rd run : 317 MB/s
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Average : 253.7 MB/s
## Asia <a href="https://Speedtest.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speedtest.net</a>
Location Upload Download Ping
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Nearby 109.52 Mbit/s 580.29 Mbit/s 32.395 ms
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India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 6.45 Mbit/s 53.17 Mbit/s 270.542 ms
India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 5.25 Mbit/s 60.36 Mbit/s 264.324 ms
India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 15.65 Mbit/s 13.85 Mbit/s 259.499 ms
YABS
$curl -sL yabs.sh | bash -s -- -r
Mon Jan 4 16:47:06 MST 2021
Basic System Information:
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2199.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 987.2 MiB
Swap : 1024.0 MiB
Disk : 982.3 GiB
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 3.46 MB/s (865) | 40.99 MB/s (640)
Write | 3.49 MB/s (874) | 41.30 MB/s (645)
Total | 6.96 MB/s (1.7k) | 82.29 MB/s (1.2k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 60.69 MB/s (118) | 86.36 MB/s (84)
Write | 63.81 MB/s (124) | 92.11 MB/s (89)
Total | 124.51 MB/s (242) | 178.48 MB/s (173)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | busy | busy
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 854 Mbits/sec | 169 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 915 Mbits/sec | 431 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 444
Multi Core | 445
Full Test | <a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5707280" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5707280</a>
This post is a part of the series of Benchmarks and reviews I have done for multiple providers and Virtual Private Servers.You can review the entire list by clicking here.
This post was updated and archived on 12 Feb ’23