Three Months, Ten Users, Zero Problems: @crunchbits and bashvm Deliver 100%!

Not_Oles

As I guess many of you know, @crunchbits gave me a dedicated server in Washington State. @crunchbits made the server free until November 8. I named the server Crunchy.

I decided to give away 4, which later was increased to 8, Crunchy VPSes made with bashvm. Bashvm is an open source set of bash shell scripts from @babywhale that simplifies KVM VPS creation via libvirt, along with IPv6 and firewall management for IPv4 NAT.

The 8 Crunchy VPSes were sold quickly for a one time payment of $1.01 per VPS covering the entire period from March 11 until November 8. That's practically free!

You can still see the offer thread here: MetalVPS at Crunchbits: E3-1245, 2 vCores, 4 GB DDR4 ECC, 1000GB SSD RAID 10, 1 Gbps, $1.01 once!

All 8 Crunchy VPSes have been running continuously, in addition to a couple of small VPSes that @subenhon created manually via the command line. I have two test VPSes (currently shut down) and have occasionally run tinyproxy. Recently I started keeping some backup files on Crunchy as well.

Ubuntu and bashvm have handled the few Node updates seamlessly. The bashvm VPSes are set to restart automatically upon reboot.

I have logged in to Crunchy multiple times daily, checking load averages, running vnstat, and sometimes using tools like top or htop.

A couple of days ago, it struck me that Crunchy has been 100% available! There hasn't been even a single issue of which I am aware, nor have any of our Crunchy neighbors reported any problems. I've been particularly pleased with the lack of network issues. A new yabs is posted below.

Based on three months use by ten of us (8 VPS users, @subenhon, and myself), having zero problems is quite impressive! Congratulations to @crunchbits and @babywhale! Thanks again to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!

Not_Oles

ubuntu@crunchy:~$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-04-22                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Tue May 28 02:39:03 AM UTC 2024

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 36 days, 9 hours, 25 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz
CPU cores  : 8 @ 3500.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 62.6 GiB
Swap       : 4.0 GiB
Disk       : 3.7 TiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Kernel     : 5.15.0-105-generic
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Redoubt Networks
ASN        : AS400304 Redoubt Networks
Host       : Redoubt Networks
Location   : Liberty Lake, Washington (WA)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/mapper/vg0-root):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 232.60 MB/s  (58.1k) | 184.56 MB/s   (2.8k)
Write      | 233.22 MB/s  (58.3k) | 185.53 MB/s   (2.8k)
Total      | 465.82 MB/s (116.4k) | 370.09 MB/s   (5.7k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 291.05 MB/s    (568) | 361.13 MB/s    (352)
Write      | 306.51 MB/s    (598) | 385.18 MB/s    (376)
Total      | 597.56 MB/s   (1.1k) | 746.31 MB/s    (728)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 830 Mbits/sec   | 324 Mbits/sec   | 138 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 834 Mbits/sec   | 567 Mbits/sec   | --             
Telia           | Helsinki, FI (10G)        | busy            | busy            | 161 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 708 Mbits/sec   | 173 Mbits/sec   | 217 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | busy            | 447 Mbits/sec   | 188 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 915 Mbits/sec   | 670 Mbits/sec   | 37.4 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 887 Mbits/sec   | 638 Mbits/sec   | 72.4 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 781 Mbits/sec   | 99.0 Mbits/sec  | 181 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 818 Mbits/sec   | 182 Mbits/sec   | 138 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | busy            | busy            | --             
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 733 Mbits/sec   | 160 Mbits/sec   | 217 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 754 Mbits/sec   | 525 Mbits/sec   | 188 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 904 Mbits/sec   | 832 Mbits/sec   | 37.5 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 875 Mbits/sec   | 611 Mbits/sec   | 72.4 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 766 Mbits/sec   | 141 Mbits/sec   | 181 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1357                          
Multi Core      | 4477                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/6291723

YABS completed in 15 min 51 sec
ubuntu@crunchy:~$ 

terrorgen

Haven't you got affected by the fiber cut?

Not_Oles

Yes, but everything seems fixed for several hours now. Are you still affected?

It's humorous that something happens right after I said all had been great for a long time!

terrorgen

Seems to be ok now.
Just seemed odd to me that you posted a praising article in the middle of a major event for them, and did not mention a thing about it!

Not_Oles

I posted before the event happened. I didn't know the event was going to happen. Crunchbits didn't know that I was going to post.

Stuff happens to everybody!

AK_KWH

Have you tested it windows > @Not_Oles said:

I posted before the event happened. I didn't know the event was going to happen. Crunchbits didn't know that I was going to post.

Stuff happens to everybody!

Not_Oles

@AK_KWH said: Have you tested it windows

Sorry, haven't tested with Windows. Best wishes!

babywhale

@AK_KWH said:
Have you tested it windows > @Not_Oles said:

I posted before the event happened. I didn't know the event was going to happen. Crunchbits didn't know that I was going to post.

Stuff happens to everybody!

it does work with windows buuuuuuuut there is some things you have to change in the xml file for the sata and network driver

terrorgen

@Not_Oles said:
I posted before the event happened. I didn't know the event was going to happen. Crunchbits didn't know that I was going to post.

Stuff happens to everybody!

I know.... The timing is just.... Unfortunate