Two really nice Linveo Texas Intel VPSes -- free transfer to LES friends!

Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
in Service Transfers

Guys!

I have two really nice Intel VPSes from Linveo. I don't need them any more since I rented a dedicated server.

One expires on August 22, 2026 and the other expires on August 27, 2026.

Specs (if I remember right), 2 VPSes, each with:

  • Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4
  • 4 Cores
  • 8192 MB RAM
  • 50 GB NVMe SSD
  • 1 x IPv4
  • 1 x IPv6/64
  • 8 TB Bandwidth
  • Texas
  • $4.07/month

I was using one of these to compile FreeBSD every few days and the other to compile OpenBSD.

It would be REALLY hard to find a nicer provider than Linveo! Kind, fast, friendly, inexpensive! Highly recommended! <3

Transfer is free for ORL friends.

I'm hoping that anyone who takes one of these excellent VPSes will talk with Linveo about continuing as their customer. Meanwhile, I am happy to install an OS and give you access.

Linveo has approved my transferring these two VPSes.

Best wishes!

Tom

Comments

  • bugabugabugabuga

    I think the CPU is Gold 6140.. Both my VPS in 2 locations have this CPU. Its a great VPS for sure!

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Hi @bugabuga!

    Thanks for helping! <3

    I took the CPU off the Control Panel:

    LowEndSpirit - VPS Hosting and tech forum

    LowEndSpirit - VPS Hosting and tech forum

    Reinstalling both of the VPSes with the Linveo control panel's Debian 13 and running dmesg say, resopectively:

    root@vps3:~# dmesg | grep Xeon
[    0.623716] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x4f, stepping: 0x1)
root@vps3:~# 

    root@was-freebsd-now-debian:~# dmesg | grep Xeon
[    0.714375] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x4f, stepping: 0x1)
root@was-freebsd-now-debian:~#

    Running cat /proc/cpuinfo or lscpu also gives:

    root@vps3:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Xeon
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
root@vps3:~# 

    root@was-freebsd-now-debian:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Xeon
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
root@was-freebsd-now-debian:~#

    As a Clueless™ person, I can say that what is shown on the Control Panel and inside a running KVM VPS possibly might not correspond to the actual hardware on which the KVM hypervisor is running.

    Linveo has been nothing but nice to me, and I really enjoy their VPSes! These two VPSes are still available, free for ORL friends.

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer 
    root@vps3:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2026-07-24                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Tue Aug  4 06:40:21 PM BST 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 37 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2599.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 7.7 GiB
Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
Disk       : 49.2 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.38+deb13-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : LINVEO, LLC
ASN        : AS62564 LINVEO, LLC
Host       : Hosting Bot, LLC
Location   : Dallas, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 180.54 MB/s  (44.0k) | 398.63 MB/s   (6.0k)
Write      | 181.01 MB/s  (44.1k) | 400.72 MB/s   (6.1k)
Total      | 361.55 MB/s  (88.2k) | 799.36 MB/s  (12.1k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 388.10 MB/s    (740) | 403.00 MB/s    (384)
Write      | 408.73 MB/s    (779) | 429.84 MB/s    (409)
Total      | 796.83 MB/s   (1.5k) | 832.84 MB/s    (793)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | 988 Mbits/sec   | 102 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.95 Gbits/sec  | 2.05 Gbits/sec  | 109 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | busy            | 204 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 686 Mbits/sec   | 955 Mbits/sec   | 233 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 2.92 Gbits/sec  | 28.7 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 4.88 Gbits/sec  | 2.39 Gbits/sec  | 39.3 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 1.48 Gbits/sec  | 788 Mbits/sec   | 139 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | busy            | 108 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.98 Gbits/sec  | 1.88 Gbits/sec  | 108 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 789 Mbits/sec   | 1.20 Gbits/sec  | 201 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 711 Mbits/sec   | 909 Mbits/sec   | 230 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 3.25 Gbits/sec  | 2.43 Gbits/sec  | 28.6 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 3.64 Gbits/sec  | 3.04 Gbits/sec  | 39.1 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 1.51 Gbits/sec  | 994 Mbits/sec   | 143 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     |                               
Multi Core      |                               
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18912602

YABS completed in 20 min 8 sec
root@vps3:~# 

    root@was-freebsd-now-debian:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2026-07-24                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Tue Aug  4 06:41:30 PM BST 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 18 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2599.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 7.7 GiB
Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
Disk       : 49.2 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.38+deb13-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : LINVEO, LLC
ASN        : AS62564 LINVEO, LLC
Host       : Hosting Bot, LLC
Location   : Dallas, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 199.02 MB/s  (48.5k) | 421.29 MB/s   (6.4k)
Write      | 199.54 MB/s  (48.7k) | 423.50 MB/s   (6.4k)
Total      | 398.56 MB/s  (97.3k) | 844.80 MB/s  (12.8k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 410.74 MB/s    (783) | 416.48 MB/s    (397)
Write      | 432.56 MB/s    (825) | 444.22 MB/s    (423)
Total      | 843.30 MB/s   (1.6k) | 860.71 MB/s    (820)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | busy            | 102 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.98 Gbits/sec  | 1.97 Gbits/sec  | 110 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 290 Mbits/sec   | 891 Mbits/sec   | 200 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 724 Mbits/sec   | 609 Mbits/sec   | --             
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 4.83 Gbits/sec  | 3.55 Gbits/sec  | 28.5 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 5.06 Gbits/sec  | 2.92 Gbits/sec  | 39.3 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 1.49 Gbits/sec  | busy            | 144 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.67 Gbits/sec  | 1.26 Gbits/sec  | 108 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.99 Gbits/sec  | 2.05 Gbits/sec  | 108 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 810 Mbits/sec   | 1.07 Gbits/sec  | 207 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 762 Mbits/sec   | 945 Mbits/sec   | 230 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 1.95 Gbits/sec  | 28.5 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 5.57 Gbits/sec  | 2.77 Gbits/sec  | 39.5 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | 1.06 Gbits/sec  | 139 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     |                               
Multi Core      |                               
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18912605

YABS completed in 19 min 55 sec
root@was-freebsd-now-debian:~#
  • imokimok OG Not Administrator

    Oh Texas, I like Texas.

    Home of 90% of my servers and Walker Texas Ranger.

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Hi @imok! Friendly greetings from Sonora and New York City!

  • bugabugabugabuga

    Ah, different node different HW I guess. The Xeon is still a very capable CPU with a passmark of 19163..

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
    edited August 4

    Hi @bugabuga! They worked great for me, compiling entire operating systems in a few hours every few days! Thanks again for helping! <3

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    I went to look up the Geekbench scores:

    LowEndSpirit - VPS Hosting and tech forum

    LowEndSpirit - VPS Hosting and tech forum

    Seems that Geekbench thinks these VPSes are running Qemu standard processor i440FX architecture.

    They're nice VPSes! Best wishes!

  • imokimok OG Not Administrator

    @Not_Oles may I take one to check if it's suitable for my pigsty cluster?

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    @imok

    Do you want expiry August 22 or Aug 27?
    Is Linveo Control Panel default Debian 13 okay?
    Can you please give me your ssh public key?
    Thanks!

  • imokimok OG Not Administrator

    DMing

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    August 27 transferred to @imok.

    August 22 still available.

    Thanks!

  • imokimok OG Not Administrator

    It's fast!

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Yeah, I think they're okay! Do you also want the other one? If you ask Linveo, I think they can give you more. I think you said you needed four. . . .

  • imokimok OG Not Administrator

    I'm going to install the cluster this weekend, I think I'm covered!

  • imokimok OG Not Administrator

    Unless I install a Kafka cluster too...
    I should get up from this chair and go to eat some delicious turkey

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Okay, still one nice VPS available! :)

  • bugabugabugabuga

    @Not_Oles, May I ask which dedicated server did you end up getting to replace these VPS?

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    @bugabuga https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/11037/it-039-s-getting-hot-in-here-but-quickpacket-039-s-cracs-will-cool-you-down-dedicated-servers-in-ashburn

  • bugabugabugabuga

    @Not_Oles said:
    @bugabuga https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/11037/it-039-s-getting-hot-in-here-but-quickpacket-039-s-cracs-will-cool-you-down-dedicated-servers-in-ashburn

    Nice!

  • DrNutellaDrNutella

    Nice

    I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
    Save the earth, don't idle.

  • GeekWandererGeekWanderer

    @Not_Oles Is the second VPS still available and Linveo will honor the price following exchange?

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    @GeekWanderer

    Hi!

    The VPS expiring on the 22nd is still available.

    Linveo approved my transferring this VPS, but I'm not authorized to speak for Linveo. Nevertheless, I would be surprised if they did not continue to honor the price. As of yesterday or the last time I checked recently, the deal seems still available on the other green forum. I guess the advantage of taking this one might be that at the least you get a free trial from now to the 22nd.

    My suggestion is that you talk with Linveo directly. @linveo

    I think Linveo is super nice and super friendly, super responsive and super helpful, so I would be shocked if it turns out that you take this VPS and are anything less than completely happy with it. The only reason I sadly am leaving this nice VPS is that I got a dedicated server.

    The VPS has been turned off for a few days. Because you asked, I just turned it on, updated and upgraded, and ran a Yabs.

    If you want it, post or send me your ssh public key, and it's yours, at least until the 22nd, and then whatever you work out with Linveo.

    Of course, if you decide that you don't want it, please post here again so that others can know that it's still available.

    Thanks!

    Best!

    Tom

    root@vps3:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2026-07-24                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sun Aug 16 09:18:19 PM BST 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2599.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 7.7 GiB
Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
Disk       : 49.2 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.100+deb13-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : LINVEO, LLC
ASN        : AS62564 LINVEO, LLC
Host       : Hosting Bot, LLC
Location   : Dallas, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 180.35 MB/s  (44.0k) | 408.35 MB/s   (6.2k)
Write      | 180.83 MB/s  (44.1k) | 410.50 MB/s   (6.2k)
Total      | 361.19 MB/s  (88.1k) | 818.86 MB/s  (12.4k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 320.30 MB/s    (610) | 401.21 MB/s    (382)
Write      | 337.32 MB/s    (643) | 427.93 MB/s    (408)
Total      | 657.62 MB/s   (1.2k) | 829.14 MB/s    (790)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.58 Gbits/sec  | 1.52 Gbits/sec  | 114 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.92 Gbits/sec  | 1.85 Gbits/sec  | 110 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 527 Mbits/sec   | 740 Mbits/sec   | 208 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 134 Mbits/sec   | 954 Mbits/sec   | --             
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 6.34 Gbits/sec  | 2.85 Gbits/sec  | 28.7 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 4.98 Gbits/sec  | 2.85 Gbits/sec  | 40.4 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 272 Mbits/sec   | 1.37 Gbits/sec  | 138 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.54 Gbits/sec  | 1.08 Gbits/sec  | 114 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | busy            | 1.98 Gbits/sec  | 108 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 936 Mbits/sec   | 1.07 Gbits/sec  | 200 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 233 Mbits/sec   | 920 Mbits/sec   | 230 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 2.92 Gbits/sec  | 3.00 Gbits/sec  | 28.7 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 4.25 Gbits/sec  | 2.39 Gbits/sec  | 38.7 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 307 Mbits/sec   | 1.01 Gbits/sec  | 143 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     |                               
Multi Core      |                               
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/19010713

YABS completed in 18 min 29 sec
root@vps3:~#
  • GeekWandererGeekWanderer

    @Not_Oles Thanks for the explanation and great offer. Looks like Linveo is sticking with monthly billing so I’ll pass.

    Keep up the good work promoting BSD!!

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Thanks @GeekWanderer!

    To me, Linveo sticking with monthly billing seems like a positive sign! They can't be trying to grab annual billing payments and then deadpool!

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    @Everyone Nice VPS still available for free until August 22! :)

  • quirkyquarkquirkyquark

    @Not_Oles Tom, I'm very interested, and would continue with Linveo. Please see my intro post for long-term ORL bona fides; happy to provide more over DM if necessary.

  • OuurEmilOuurEmil

    That is a solid deal for anyone who needs a cheap box for BSD builds or testing. Four cores, 8 GB RAM, IPv4 and IPv6 for around $4 is hard to complain about. The YABS results look decent too. Curious to see how the cluster performs once imok gets everything running.

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
    edited August 21

    @quirkyquark said:
    @Not_Oles Tom, I'm very interested, and would continue with Linveo. Please see my intro post for long-term ORL bona fides; happy to provide more over DM if necessary.

    Hi!

    Thanks for your message! Welcome to LES!

    The remaining VPS is set to expire tomorrow, and it's almost lunch time here. So, maybe there might not be much gained in my passing the VPS to you for just the few remaining hours?

    You can open an account with Linveo and and get the same deal yourself by posting in Linveo's thread on the Other Green Forum ("OGF"), which you would have to do anyway to continue with the VPS. . . .

    But, if there is some special reason to go ahead with the transfer, please let me know. I also would need your ED25519 ssh public key.

    Best!

    Tom

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