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

Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
edited May 28 in Reviews

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! <3

I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer 
    ubuntu@crunchy:~$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-04-22                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Tue May 28 02:39:03 AM UTC 2024

Basic System Information:
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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:
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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):
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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):
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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):
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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:~$
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  • terrorgenterrorgen OG

    Haven't you got affected by the fiber cut?

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    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! :)

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  • terrorgenterrorgen OG

    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!

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    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! :)

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  • AK_KWHAK_KWH Hosting ProviderOG

    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! :)

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    @AK_KWH said: Have you tested it windows

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

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

  • babywhalebabywhale

    @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

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  • terrorgenterrorgen OG

    @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

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