Storage VPS: 2 TB Black Friday 2020 offer from Hosthatch
In this post, I will share my experience and early thoughts on a 2 TB Storage server by Hosthatch. Learn about this Black Friday 2020 offer and soms benchmarks.
Hosthatch had posted their offer for storage and VPS’es during Black Friday 2020. I had just cancelled their VPS in London (which at 15 US dollars was a steal, but I was in for a positively pleasant surprise!). Read on for benchmark results.
Yet Another Benchmarking script
Sat Dec 5 17:44:47 EST 2020 Basic System Information: --------------------------------- Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz CPU cores : 1 @ 2999.998 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled RAM : 3.9 GiB Swap : 4.0 GiB Disk : 1.9 TiB fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50): --------------------------------- Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- Read | 9.31 MB/s (2.3k) | 130.12 MB/s (2.0k) Write | 9.33 MB/s (2.3k) | 130.81 MB/s (2.0k) Total | 18.64 MB/s (4.6k) | 260.93 MB/s (4.0k) | | Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- Read | 298.53 MB/s (583) | 288.94 MB/s (282) Write | 314.39 MB/s (614) | 308.19 MB/s (300) Total | 612.93 MB/s (1.1k) | 597.13 MB/s (582) iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): --------------------------------- Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | | | Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 3.35 Gbits/sec | 5.32 Gbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.90 Gbits/sec | 943 Mbits/sec Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 2.51 Gbits/sec | 645 Mbits/sec Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test: --------------------------------- Test | Value | Single Core | 2730 Multi Core | 2705 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15923673
bench.monster (for speedtest results)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS : Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid (64 Bit) Virt/Kernel : KVM / 4.19.0-12-amd64 CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz CPU Cores : 1 @ 2999.998 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled Load Average : 0.15, 0.34, 0.28 Total Space : 1.9T (2.3G ~1% used) Total RAM : 3946 MB (115 MB + 1255 MB Buff in use) Total SWAP : 4091 MB (1 MB in use) Uptime : 0 days 0:48 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ASN & ISP : , HostHatch Organization : HostHatch LLC Location : Amsterdam, Netherlands / NL Region : North Holland ---------------------------------------------------------------- Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark Single Core : 2769 (GOOD) Multi Core : 2674 ## IO Test CPU Speed: bzip2 : 98.9 MB/s sha256 : 161 MB/s md5sum : 450 MB/s RAM Speed: Avg. write : 1612.1 MB/s Avg. read : 4403.2 MB/s Disk Speed: 1st run : 349 MB/s 2nd run : 386 MB/s 3rd run : 371 MB/s ----------------------- Average : 368.7 MB/s Asia Speedtest Location Upload Download Ping ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nearby 946.06 Mbit/s 676.81 Mbit/s 20.56 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 111.88 Mbit/s 248.71 Mbit/s 149.296 ms India, Mumbai (SevenStar) 130.01 Mbit/s 230.89 Mbit/s 117.347 ms India, Bengaluru (I-ON) 94.08 Mbit/s 98.50 Mbit/s 142.943 ms Sri Lanka, Colombo (Telecom PLC) 112.85 Mbit/s 198.28 Mbit/s 175.944 ms Pakistan, Islamabad (Telenor) 23.81 Mbit/s 76.19 Mbit/s 270.298 ms Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mobicom) 79.22 Mbit/s 106.79 Mbit/s 116.958 ms Bangladesh, Dhaka (Skytel) 66.53 Mbit/s 129.24 Mbit/s 185.072 ms Bhutan, Thimphu (Bhutan Telecom) 8.16 Mbit/s 107.68 Mbit/s 225.130 ms Myanmar, Mandalay (Ooredoo) 49.47 Mbit/s 100.01 Mbit/s 243.871 ms Laos, Vientaine (Mangkone) 70.25 Mbit/s 153.57 Mbit/s 210.646 ms Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 66.37 Mbit/s 121.30 Mbit/s 202.420 ms Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 78.76 Mbit/s 53.67 Mbit/s 197.370 ms Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 30.71 Mbit/s 61.34 Mbit/s 268.192 ms Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 90.54 Mbit/s 59.80 Mbit/s 178.243 ms Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 67.57 Mbit/s 34.05 Mbit/s 163.754 ms Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 15.44 Mbit/s 94.00 Mbit/s 166.373 ms Philippines, Manila (Globe Tel) 66.75 Mbit/s 138.94 Mbit/s 259.436 ms Hong Kong (fdcservers) 64.61 Mbit/s 144.15 Mbit/s 225.822 ms Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 13.71 Mbit/s 9.21 Mbit/s 264.945 ms Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 11.32 Mbit/s 54.11 Mbit/s 255.864 ms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finished in : 13 min 15 sec Timestamp : 2020-12-05 23:05:52 GMT Saved in : /root/speedtest.log Share results: - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15923682 - https://clbin.com/zUx60
Early Impressions
on LowEndTalk, there were several discussions about the provisioning time (and delay) for the Black Friday 2020 offers from Hosthatch. But I had a positive experiecne with them overall, and am looking forward to using this VPS. Following the benchmarks, I tried to install NextCloud, and then using netboot.iso to install disk encryption.I ran into problems each time- a topic for a different post. For now, this VPS has alpine linux running
Upon ssh’ing into the server the following message greets me now:

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.
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