This blog has moved to another host since the previous provider has been suffering unstable network connectivity for quite some time with an unresponsive technical support.

Here is a yabs result of the new host:

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#                     v2025-04-20                    #
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Wed Dec 10 04:49:19 PM HKT 2025

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 1 days, 1 hours, 24 minutes
Processor  : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
CPU cores  : 1 @ 3399.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ❌ Disabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 2.0 GiB
Disk       : 14.7 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.57+deb13-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : HostPapa
ASN        : AS36352 HostPapa
Host       : sally wang
Location   : Buffalo, New York (NY)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 28.70 MB/s    (7.1k) | 378.92 MB/s   (5.9k)
Write      | 28.71 MB/s    (7.1k) | 380.91 MB/s   (5.9k)
Total      | 57.42 MB/s   (14.3k) | 759.83 MB/s  (11.8k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.29 GB/s     (2.5k) | 1.50 GB/s     (1.4k)
Write      | 1.36 GB/s     (2.6k) | 1.60 GB/s     (1.5k)
Total      | 2.65 GB/s     (5.1k) | 3.10 GB/s     (3.0k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 874 Mbits/sec   | 153 Mbits/sec   | 80.5 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 885 Mbits/sec   | 753 Mbits/sec   | 86.0 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 815 Mbits/sec   | 118 Mbits/sec   | 197 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 163 Mbits/sec   | 92.1 Mbits/sec  | 274 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 883 Mbits/sec   | 177 Mbits/sec   | 74.3 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 936 Mbits/sec   | 413 Mbits/sec   | 10.6 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 835 Mbits/sec   | 77.7 Mbits/sec  | 181 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
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Single Core     | 349
Multi Core      | 363
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/15489464

YABS completed in 34 min 3 sec

During previous Black Fridays I have bought a few stuff including notebooks, Chromebook, RAM, micro sd cards and VPSs… This year tried to order the Eco series dedicated server on OVH https://www.ovhcloud.com/. In the end got a KS-LE-2:

No luck in getting a free upgrade as per the OVH lottery just others get. Although IPMI is included in the server, setting up an environment to run a Java applet has proven to be quite challenging. Oracle has changed its licensing, making Oracle Java unavailable for free in commercial environments, while OpenJDK does not support applets. Additionally, I have found that the applet always crashes when attempting to mount an ISO, which forces me to install the server using the templates provided by OVH.

The installation process was almost seamless, requiring just a few clicks. However, my first attempt hung midway, prompting a technician to intervene and update the BIOS settings. For my second attempt, I tried installing Hyper-V Server 2019, which went smoothly, but I faced issues managing it via Hyper-V Manager over the Internet. Additionally, I encountered dynamic disk limitations, restricting to only two disks for mirroring the system volume. As a result, I decided to reinstall the server using the Proxmox Virtual Environment 8 template:

I must admit that Proxmox has a pretty neat GUI and creating VM is just easy using the wizard! Here is the YABS result:

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Mon Dec  2 09:00:52 HKT 2024

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 5 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
CPU cores  : 8 @ 3425.075 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 31.1 GiB
Swap       : 4.0 GiB
Disk       :
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.8.12-4-pve
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : OVH SAS
ASN        : AS16276 OVH SAS
Host       : OVH Hosting, Inc
Location   : Beauharnois, Quebec (QC)
Country    : Canada

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition data/zd2):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 36.91 MB/s    (9.2k) | 431.89 MB/s   (6.7k)
Write      | 37.01 MB/s    (9.2k) | 434.16 MB/s   (6.7k)
Total      | 73.92 MB/s   (18.4k) | 866.05 MB/s  (13.5k)
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Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.06 GB/s     (2.0k) | 1.25 GB/s     (1.2k)
Write      | 1.11 GB/s     (2.1k) | 1.33 GB/s     (1.3k)
Total      | 2.17 GB/s     (4.2k) | 2.59 GB/s     (2.5k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 377 Mbits/sec   | 862 Mbits/sec   | 76.9 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 884 Mbits/sec   | 847 Mbits/sec   | 91.1 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 823 Mbits/sec   | 481 Mbits/sec   | 183 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 590 Mbits/sec   | 508 Mbits/sec   | 243 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 891 Mbits/sec   | 547 Mbits/sec   | 68.1 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | busy            | 12.1 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 846 Mbits/sec   | 713 Mbits/sec   | 119 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 872 Mbits/sec   | 739 Mbits/sec   | 75.1 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 873 Mbits/sec   | 852 Mbits/sec   | 91.1 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 778 Mbits/sec   | 464 Mbits/sec   | 183 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 562 Mbits/sec   | 603 Mbits/sec   | 243 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 880 Mbits/sec   | 872 Mbits/sec   | 68.2 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 924 Mbits/sec   | 925 Mbits/sec   | 12.2 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 833 Mbits/sec   | 606 Mbits/sec   | 119 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
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Single Core     | 1257
Multi Core      | 4178
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9191014

YABS completed in 14 min 1 sec