Introduction: I saw the post for Dade2 cloud who were offering a $ 100 credit, on Webhostingtalk . I had been thiking of giving a (non-AWS/non-Google/non-DO) cloud server a try. The offer was tempting, and decided to give it a try.

Benchmarks:
Running BM Tests : YABS, bench.sh, nench.sh...
curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; sudo bash speedtest.sh -Asia
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OS : Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : VMware / 4.15.0-66-generic
CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
CPU Cores : 2 @ 2297.339 MHz x86_64 25600 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
Load Average : 0.21, 0.13, 0.10
Total Space : 11G (3.6G ~35% used)
Total RAM : 2954 MB (195 MB + 2206 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 556 MB (0 MB in use)
Uptime : 0 days 0:25
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ASN & ISP : AS48685, Opin Kerfi ehf
Organization : Dade2 Limited
Location : Reykjavik, Iceland / IS
Region : Capital Region
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Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark

Single Core : 3145 (VERY GOOD)
Multi Core : 5741

IO Test

CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 93.0 MB/s
sha256 : 153 MB/s
md5sum : 426 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 2798.9 MB/s
Avg. read : 4676.3 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 268 MB/s
2nd run : 253 MB/s
3rd run : 247 MB/s
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Average : 256.0 MB/s


Asia Speedtest


Location Upload Download Ping
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Speedtest.net 745.89 Mbit/s 818.30 Mbit/s 10.511 ms
India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 25.26 Mbit/s 200.29 Mbit/s 188.175 ms
India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 92.61 Mbit/s 11.49 Mbit/s 160.910 ms
India, Bengaluru (DBroadband) 22.01 Mbit/s 21.92 Mbit/s 175.286 ms
Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 21.46 Mbit/s 299.77 Mbit/s 165.614 ms
Pakistan, Islamabad (Jazz) 55.29 Mbit/s 246.88 Mbit/s 172.131 ms
Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom) 21.55 Mbit/s 65.53 Mbit/s 216.558 ms
Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel) 33.08 Mbit/s 128.12 Mbit/s 256.994 ms
Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 40.13 Mbit/s 99.58 Mbit/s 207.054 ms
Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo) 10.77 Mbit/s 88.70 Mbit/s 262.669 ms
Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone) 20.12 Mbit/s 79.51 Mbit/s 270.142 ms
Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 16.20 Mbit/s 104.79 Mbit/s 247.825 ms
Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 18.30 Mbit/s 72.38 Mbit/s 237.735 ms
Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 3.05 Mbit/s 57.31 Mbit/s 291.536 ms
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 22.46 Mbit/s 168.99 Mbit/s 207.567 ms
Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 27.79 Mbit/s 63.87 Mbit/s 211.089 ms
Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 39.94 Mbit/s 131.14 Mbit/s 218.096 ms
Philippines, Manila (Sky Fiber) 6.76 Mbit/s 98.48 Mbit/s 243.933 ms
Hong Kong (GTT) 52.18 Mbit/s 134.44 Mbit/s 223.217 ms
Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 13.83 Mbit/s 12.74 Mbit/s 293.004 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 16.27 Mbit/s 59.41 Mbit/s 293.444 ms
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Finished in : 12 min 15 sec
Timestamp : 2020-01-10 00:24:17 GMT
Saved in : /home/amar/speedtest.log
Share results:https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15119400
- https://clbin.com/acsC5


dd Test


16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 4.39075 s, 245 MB/s

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nench.sh

curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash 2>&1 | tee nench.log
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2020-01-10 00:34:42 UTC
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Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores: 2
Frequency: 2297.339 MHz
RAM: 2.9G
Swap: 556M
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-66-generic x86_64
Disks:
loop0 89.1M HDD
loop2 89.1M HDD
sda 80G SSD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3.366 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
5.769 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.781 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 146.7 us / 171.9 us / 3.67 ms / 62.1 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 6.06 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.48 GiB, 1.21 k iops, 302.9 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 352.86 MiB/s
2nd run: 557.90 MiB/s
3rd run: 552.18 MiB/s
average: 487.65 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 94.250.245.xxxx

Cachefly CDN: 50.28 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 24.78 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 10.30 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 23.44 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 11.84 MiB/s

Yet Another Benchmarking Script or YABS

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script/master/yabs.sh | bash

Fri Jan 10 00:47:43 UTC 2020
Basic System Information:
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores : 2 @ 2297.339 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 2.9G
Swap : 556M
Disk : 11G

dd Sequential Disk Speed Tests:
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| Test 1 | Test 2 | Test 3 | Avg
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Write | 54.0 MB/s | 55.8 MB/s | 55.7 MB/s | 55.17 MB/s
Read | 407 MB/s | 417 MB/s | 416 MB/s | 413.33 MB/s

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Bouygues Telecom | Paris, FR (10G) | 225 Mbits/sec | 485 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 245 Mbits/sec | 670 Mbits/sec
Severius | The Netherlands (10G) | 189 Mbits/sec | 816 Mbits/sec
Worldstream | The Netherlands (10G) | 151 Mbits/sec | 843 Mbits/sec
wilhelm.tel | Hamburg, DE (10G) | 162 Mbits/sec | 663 Mbits/sec
Biznet | Bogor, Indonesia (1G) | 127 Mbits/sec | 357 Mbits/sec
Hostkey | Moscow, RU (1G) | 206 Mbits/sec | 570 Mbits/sec
Vultr | Piscataway, NJ, US (1G) | 61.0 Mbits/sec | 694 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 27.2 Mbits/sec | 318 Mbits/sec
Airstream Communications | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G) | 65.9 Mbits/sec | 401 Mbits/sec
Hurricane Electric | Fremont, CA, US (10G) | busy | busy


Geekbench 4 Benchmark Tes

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Test | Value
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Single Core | 3140
Multi Core | 5739
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15119478

Notes:
Dist storage
I had opted for 80 GB, but

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev
tmpfs 296M 1.1M 295M 1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 9.8G 4.5G 4.9G 48% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2 976M 145M 765M 16% /boot
/dev/loop0 90M 90M 0 100% /snap/core/7917
/dev/loop2 90M 90M 0 100% /snap/core/8268
tmpfs 296M 0 296M 0% /run/user/1002

Note: Cloud Control Panel is Slow on Firefox mobile network connected to laptop. but after installing WordPress on Webinoly, connectivity was quite speedy from Bengaluru.

Summary and conclusion


Your Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is supported until April 2023.
Last login: Sat Jan 11 20:32:52 2020 from 37.230.173.84
[email protected]:~$ uname -a
Linux lon3 5.0.0-37-generic #40~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 14

Notes:

1. Adding New Disk. I used the steps mentioned in the below article.

How to Add a New Disk to an Existing Linux Server

2. Adding more RAM and CPU Core
I went through the menu. A reboot did the trick