Benchmark Servers

Cross-Platform Benchmark

A compilation of Linux server benchmarking scripts: haydenjames/bench-scripts

They have some strange way of publishing and sending reports: VPS Benchmarks Rankings for Linux based web servers

Instantly know more about your Linux servers

1. Just info: vHWinfo to get fast info

   wget -qO- vhwinfo.com/vhwinfo.sh | bash
   

2. Best is nench to get CPU compute power & HD speed

   wget -qO- wget.racing/nench.sh | bash
   

Alternatives

wget -qO- http://linux-bench.com/linux-bench.sh | bash

1. Bench.sh

   wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
   

2. FreeVPS bench.sh measuring mostly network speed and some basic info

   wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
   

3. The most complete CPU test is using Geekbench 4

   wget https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-4.4.1-Linux.tar.gz -O ./geekbench.tar.gz
   tar xzf geekbench.tar.gz && rm geekbench.tar.gz
   ./Geekbench-*-Linux/geekbench4 && rm -rf Geekbench-*-Linux
   
   # or with docker
   apt -y install docker.io && docker run --rm davidsarkany/geekbench && docker rmi davidsarkany/geekbench
   

   You’ll get an URL with comperhensive results; great!

4. vpsbench

   wget https://raw.github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/master/vpsbench -O - -o /dev/null|bash
   

In Geekbench, Hetzner Cloud : https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14407190 (CX11: 1 vCPU (2.1GHz), 2GB) Exoscale Cloud: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14408029 (Tiny: 2.1GHz, 1GB) Hetzner Root (Turing): https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14408101 (i7-2600 3800 MHz (4 cores), 16GB)

The current version, Geekbench 4, uses scores that are calculated against a baseline score of 4000, which represents the performance of an dual-core Intel Core i7-6600U @ 2.60 GHz.

My results: Geekbench Profile

nench speed

Infomaniak = scale to 32 cloudlets = max 100€/mo Infomaniak Max = scale to 240 cloudlets = max 300€/mo

Digital Ocean = 20$ Droplet (2 CPU & 4GB) Scaleway has limited bandwidth based on instance, but offers 2 x vCPU for similar price.

You also get Flexible IP for free as explained in their Pricing Policy Scaling is done completely manualy explained here

Exo Tiny = 10€/mo (1 CPU & 1 GB) Exo Small = 19€/mo (2 CPU & 2 GB). Use Zurich (CH-DK-2) datacenter as Geneva (CH-GVA-2) is little less performant. Vienna (AT-VIE-1) is exactly the same as Geneva. Exo Large = 77€/mo (4 CPU & 8 GB).

Scaleway has Flexible IP included in price; essentially, for free.

MassiveGRID (Far)

PHP (request concurrency) scales well on adding cores, but single request is processed by one core.

Exoscale is like Hetzner Cloud

Compared to Hetzner Cloud, Exoscale CPU is CPU core, not thread so essentially Exo CPU = 2 x Hetzner vCPU. Exoscale results are also really consistent, like they are dedicated.

Exoscale. To scale instance, server must be stopped, but it is immediate and no change in IP address. Powered-off machines are not billed: powered down machines will only be charged for resources still in use, for example the SSD volume. You can specify which instances should run on separate hosts.

• Single-node k8s on Exoscale. Hosted single-node Kubernetes clusters made easy The “exo lab kube” command lets you to bootstrap a standalone Kubernetes cluster node very much like Minikube does – but running securely on Exoscale virtual machines.

Infomaniak: Doesn’t charge for stopped instances but even then charges for storage above 20G and 2.99€/mo for IPv4 address (IPv6 is free)

Hetzner Cloud:

• Backups (7 revisions) are 20% of instance price and are not automatic. It is also suggested to shutdown instance.
• Snapshots are charged per GB and also need instance stopped.
• Floating IP’s are 1€/mo

CX11 = 1 CPU + 2G = 2.5€/mo CCX11 = 2 CPU dedi + 8G = 20€/mo CX51 = 8 CPU + 32G = 30€/mo CCX31 = 8 CPU + 32G = 70€/mo

Vertial Scaling: Only Jelastic does it for free (you don’t pay for reservation of resources) but their single core speed is not amazing and their HDD speed is slow. At Hetzner Cloud you request “Resize” but even that is not momentary (20-30 seconds)

Hetzner Dedicated Servers

Abstract: Fastest single-core, payment by month

If you want single-core performace, there is no alternative to dedicated hosting and even i7-8700 (54€/mo) is comparable to i9-9900K (64€/mo). Geek’s are ~ 5700 / 27000 vs i9-9900K 7000 / 44000. Also some Xeon’s are comparable like: E-2176G 6200 / 26000. In multi-core, AMD’s are little bit faster than Intel’s, but not worth it.

So, what is wrong with dedicated server? Scaling, as you can’t turn it off in days; you have to wait for month increment. This is why you have “Dedicated Cloud” instances that are essentially the same as dedicated, but are billed on pay-per-usage.

Hetzner Cloud

Abstract: free IPv4, standard multi-core & single-core, manual vertical scalability

Hetzner Cloud dedicated vCPU instance are dedicated threads and not cores, so 1 vCPU = 1 hyper-thread. Hetzner Cloud is running KVM as a hypervisor.

They have the limit of 8 vCPU for all accounts, but on request they raise it. The reason is probably in line with this comment: for the 32 vCPU, they can’t use the same Skylake CPU (E3v5 CPUs) as they ain’t available in a 16C/32T config, so they’d either have to do E5 or Xeon scalable for the bigger instances. Those are not E3 though. Judging by the frequency of 2100MHz those are E5s. They could be using Xeon Silver 4110 chips, or something similar.

I’ve found a result for 32 vCPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/9344676 (4700 / 47000)

• Single-node k8s on Hetzner Cloud. hetznercloud/hcloud-cloud-controller-manager and their CLI: hetznercloud/cli

Scaleway has really competitive Cloud pricing and locations in Paris and Amsterdam. It is even better than Hetzner Cloud. Their dedicated offering is Online by Scaleway

OneProvider bring together the services of over 100 upstream providers, all in one place, with a single bill and a single control panel to monitor your entire fleet of services. They have dedicated & cloud offering.

• One-click K8s Cluster: Digital Ocean,

• One-click MySQL Database Cluster: Digital Ocean,

• Vultr has datacenter in Frankfurt and has Geekbench scores on their pricing page.

• Single node testing k8s: Exoscale works,

Try single node k8s. Deploy PHP & MySQL on k8s: Deploy your first scaleable PHP/MySQL Web application in Kubernetes

What is Terraform?

Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist - I’m running a three node cluster on Hetzner Cloud for less than $10 a month. - I’m running a three node cluster on Hetzner Cloud for less than $10 a month. Com… | Hacker News Guide to setup and operate a fully functional, secure Kubernetes cluster on a cloud provider such as Hetzner Cloud, DigitalOcean or Scaleway using Terraform hobby-kube/guide

Why we use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation

Terraform has Hetzner Cloud and Exoscale provider

Storage on k8s is called Container Attached Storage (CAS) and most famous are OpenEBS Cloud-integrated Storage (CIS)

Tutorial: Deploy Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud + Ingress + OpenEBS Storage

Jelastic in Germany & USA: MassiveGRID

The Only PaaS with Automatic Vertical Scaling for Containers

Changing the amount of allocated resources typically takes only 1 or 2 seconds and does not have any negative impact on your app.

Infomaniak (CH): Pricing 0.00253€/hr * 30 * 24 = 1.8€/mo + IPv4 €2.99 = 4.79€/mo MassiveGRID (DE & US): Pricing 0.001822$/hr * 30 * 24 = 1.33€/mo + IPv4 €1.83 = 3.16€/mo (1.48$/mo + 2.03$/mo )

gtrafimenkov/cloud-servers-performance: Practical performance tests of various cloud virtual machines and servers

Google Cloud Platform: CPU Benchmark results for every instance type | Zoran’s Blog