1&1 / IONOS XL bencmark

VPS XL $30/m

4 vCores CPU
8 GB RAM
160 GB SSD

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 Speedtest Monster v.1.4.6 2019-10-29 
 Region: Europe  https://bench.monster/speedtest.html
 Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -Europe
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 OS           : CentOS 7.7.1908 (64 Bit)
 Virt/Kernel  : VMware / 3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64
 CPU Model    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz
 CPU Cores    : 4 @ 2194.844 MHz x86_64 19712 KB Cache
 CPU Flags    : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
 Load Average : 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
 Total Space  : 158G (11G ~7% used)
 Total RAM    : 1326 MB / 7802 MB (5665 MB Buff)
 Total SWAP   : 0 MB / 2047 MB
 Uptime       : 51 days 10:44
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 ASN & ISP    : AS8560, 1&1 Internet SE
 Organization : Fasthosts Internet Limited
 Location     : Gloucester, United Kingdom / GB
 Region       : England
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 ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

  Single Core : 3138  (VERY GOOD)
   Multi Core : 11033

 ## IO Test

 CPU Speed:
    bzip2     :  91 MB/s
   sha256     : 270 MB/s
   md5sum     : 419 MB/s

 RAM Speed:
   Avg. write : 2764.8 MB/s
   Avg. read  : 4881.1 MB/s

 Disk Speed:
   1st run    : 532 MB/s
   2nd run    : 601 MB/s
   3rd run    : 665 MB/s
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   Average    : 599.3 MB/s

 ## Europe Speedtest

 Location                         Upload           Download         Ping   
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 Speedtest.net                    406.94 Mbit/s    399.19 Mbit/s     8.962 ms
 Ireland, Dublin (Digiweb)        375.80 Mbit/s    392.22 Mbit/s    15.612 ms
 UK, London (Community Fibre)     397.57 Mbit/s    399.51 Mbit/s     4.902 ms
 Netherlands, Amsterdam (MaxiTEL) 388.61 Mbit/s    366.54 Mbit/s    21.901 ms
 Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET)        322.69 Mbit/s    382.16 Mbit/s    30.060 ms
 Germany, Munich (InterNetX)      349.01 Mbit/s    386.73 Mbit/s    21.700 ms
 Denmark, Copenhagen (Fiberby)    275.78 Mbit/s    346.73 Mbit/s    22.004 ms
 Sweden, Stockholm (SUNET)        307.94 Mbit/s    369.88 Mbit/s    34.441 ms
 Norway, Oslo (NextGenTel)        287.49 Mbit/s    371.96 Mbit/s    38.971 ms
 France, Lyon (SFR)               359.26 Mbit/s    391.95 Mbit/s    18.526 ms
 Spain, Madrid (Adamo)            215.90 Mbit/s    380.28 Mbit/s    26.969 ms
 Portugal, Lisbon (Evolute)       210.67 Mbit/s    282.41 Mbit/s    47.939 ms
 Italy, Rome (Unidata)            267.23 Mbit/s    362.39 Mbit/s    50.679 ms
 Czechia, Prague (365internet)    307.97 Mbit/s    381.83 Mbit/s    30.961 ms
 Austria, Vienna (Magenta)        271.57 Mbit/s    376.42 Mbit/s    31.228 ms
 Poland, Warsaw (Orange)          261.10 Mbit/s    364.43 Mbit/s    42.345 ms
 Slovakia, Kosice (ANTIK)         261.11 Mbit/s    369.10 Mbit/s    38.229 ms
 Ukraine, Kyiv (KyivStar)         283.66 Mbit/s    358.39 Mbit/s    41.592 ms
 Latvia, Riga (Bite)              250.61 Mbit/s    363.02 Mbit/s    43.965 ms
 Russia, St.Petersburg (Prometey) 244.36 Mbit/s    352.22 Mbit/s    47.475 ms
 Russia, Moscow (MTS)             246.86 Mbit/s    124.31 Mbit/s    51.045 ms
 Romania, Bucharest (Orange)      255.29 Mbit/s    190.08 Mbit/s    42.178 ms
 Greece, Athens (GRNET)           249.73 Mbit/s    270.21 Mbit/s    57.172 ms
 Turkey, Istanbul (Radore)        244.33 Mbit/s    347.48 Mbit/s    56.658 ms
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 Finished in : 9 min 48 sec
 Timestamp   : 2019-11-08 23:36:25 UTC

 Share results:
 - https://www.speedtest.net/result/8746072871.png
 - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14906722

Disk IOping: curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -disk

 Disk Write Speed:

   1st run    : 118 MB/s
   2nd run    : 128 MB/s
   3rd run    : 139 MB/s
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   Average    : 128.333 MB/s


 Disk Read Speed:

   1st run    : 361.241 MB/s
   2nd run    : 489.426 MB/s
   3rd run    : 482.385 MB/s
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   Average    : 444.35 MB/s
1 Like

I have my reasons for despising 1&1 but that’s a decent server and a relatively competitive price.

Still got one of these 1EUR per month VPS’s, decent uptime, but traffic for all of these products is fairuse.
So after a unknown amount of data they may get pissed and flag it as abuse.

Any VPS provider that doesn’t specialize in VDSes and hybrids that comes with dedicated port speeds is going to pull the trigger.

For instance if a VPS node have a 1Gbps line any sane host isn’t going to let their customers blast that full speed since that would throw every other VPSes offline. Unmetered or even “metered”.

Obviously, but my point was, it was not defined by them, it can be any number.
Its not like they say 2TB.