MetalVPS EX101 News!

Not_Oles

MetalVPS now has an EX101 server. The EX101 has interesting, new hardware:

Motherboard

ASRock Rack W680D4U-1L

Processor

Intel® Core™ i9-13900 Processor

RAM

M324R4GA3BB0-CQK(DDR5 ECC) | DRAM | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Disk

SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07 PCIe Gen 4

MetalVPS is trying to figure out what to do with the new server. It seems to perform very well! However, the EX101 costs € 89.00 per month. It would be great if we could find a way for some guys to enjoy Low End fun on the server while recovering the monthly server rent. If you have a good idea, please post here in this thread. Thank you!

Friendly greetings from New York City and Sonora, Mexico!

Not_Oles

root@fsn ~ # curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-03-24                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Thu 06 Apr 2023 06:54:21 AM CEST

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 1 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes
Processor  : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900
CPU cores  : 32 @ 4217.156 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 62.6 GiB
Swap       : 32.0 GiB
Disk       : 1.7 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-21-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
Net Online : IPv4 & IPv6

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : Hetzner Online GmbH
ASN        : AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
Location   : Falkenstein, Saxony (SN)
Country    : Germany

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.10 GB/s   (276.1k) | 1.64 GB/s    (25.6k)
Write      | 1.10 GB/s   (276.8k) | 1.65 GB/s    (25.7k)
Total      | 2.21 GB/s   (553.0k) | 3.29 GB/s    (51.4k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.98 GB/s     (3.8k) | 2.03 GB/s     (1.9k)
Write      | 2.08 GB/s     (4.0k) | 2.16 GB/s     (2.1k)
Total      | 4.07 GB/s     (7.9k) | 4.19 GB/s     (4.0k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 932 Mbits/sec   | 930 Mbits/sec   | 19.9 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 933 Mbits/sec   | 930 Mbits/sec   | 21.1 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 938 Mbits/sec   | 937 Mbits/sec   | 11.9 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 885 Mbits/sec   | 512 Mbits/sec   | 95.5 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 805 Mbits/sec   | 187 Mbits/sec   | 84.8 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 845 Mbits/sec   | 242 Mbits/sec   | 123 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 823 Mbits/sec   | 189 Mbits/sec   | 150 ms   

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 921 Mbits/sec   | 918 Mbits/sec   | 19.8 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 920 Mbits/sec   | 916 Mbits/sec   | 21.2 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 924 Mbits/sec   | 923 Mbits/sec   | 11.9 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 874 Mbits/sec   | 654 Mbits/sec   | 95.7 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 865 Mbits/sec   | 361 Mbits/sec   | 84.8 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 848 Mbits/sec   | 330 Mbits/sec   | 125 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 829 Mbits/sec   | 181 Mbits/sec   | 150 ms 

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 3080                          
Multi Core      | 17870                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/814243

YABS completed in 8 min 52 sec
root@fsn ~ # 

ralf

@Not_Oles said: However, the EX101 costs € 89.00 per month.

How did you get it so cheap? :O

Not_Oles

@ralf said:

@Not_Oles said: However, the EX101 costs € 89.00 per month.

How did you get it so cheap? :O

Hi @ralf! I'm not getting a special deal. In addition to the monthly fee I also paid the setup fee. Nevertheless, I believe that everybody coming, like me, from an international location where Hetzner doesn't have to charge VAT gets the price which I am paying. I haven't checked recently, but one used to be able to see the non-VAT prices by setting a location flag at the top of Hetzner's web page. Note also that, at € 89.00 monthly, I am paying something like € 5 extra per month for FSN. When I got the server, Helsinki was less expensive than FSN, but the delivery time for an EX101 in Helsinki was longer than I wanted to wait.

bliss

Decorate the site with some Google ads maybe? And I'll whitelist them.

Not_Oles

Some answers about the Performance vs Efficient cores are here. More and better answers might be here. Friendly greetings!

jaapmarcus

@Not_Oles said:

@ralf said:

@Not_Oles said: However, the EX101 costs € 89.00 per month.

How did you get it so cheap? :O

Hi @ralf! I'm not getting a special deal. In addition to the monthly fee I also paid the setup fee. Nevertheless, I believe that everybody coming, like me, from an international location where Hetzner doesn't have to charge VAT gets the price which I am paying. I haven't checked recently, but one used to be able to see the non-VAT prices by setting a location flag at the top of Hetzner's web page. Note also that, at € 89.00 monthly, I am paying something like € 5 extra per month for FSN. When I got the server, Helsinki was less expensive than FSN, but the delivery time for an EX101 in Helsinki was longer than I wanted to wait.

https://docs.hetzner.com/accounts-panel/accounts/payment-faq/

Special note for the United States: Starting on 1 December 2021, we started to charge a 8.25% VAT rate for customers located Texas. We then also add VAT to customers located in Utah and Arizona. However, in Utah and Arizona, the VAT rate changes based on which city/county people are located in. We invoice customers for the VAT rate based on the address listed on customers' accounts. Beginning on 1 October 2022, we started to charge VAT for customers in Colorado and New Mexico; the VAT rate here also changes depending on which city/county customers are located it. If you as a customer have a valid tax exemption certificate, you can send it to the Accounting Team by writing a support request on Robot/konsoleH/Cloud Console.

ralf

Ah yeah, sorry, I keep forgetting that not everyone pays VAT on Hetzner! Probably the third or fourth time I've done so...