# yabs.sh via Contabo "NVMe VPS - 2CPU/4GB/50GB"
CPU : AMD EPYC 7B13 @ 2.45GHz
Disk: 1.2 GB/s read, 890 MB/s write
Net : 450 Mbit to London, 180 Mbit to Singapore
Price: $8/mo advertised "up to 10Gbps"Decent disk IO, meh network
Want to coordinate 10+ users, same providers, same tests, publish aggregate. Hosts love "up to" and "best effort." numbers dont.
Who's in?
WARNINGS first.
What could go wrong:
Run fail2ban during tests. Firewall everything except test ports!
Also: who holds the data? One person with 10 people's server info is target
The parenthetical issue here is coordination (which breeds trust, or its opposite). I've seen community benchmarks before. They tend toward either revelation or flameout.
Semicolons. He knows how to use them. Maybe too well.
Seriously though: publish methodology before results. Let hosts respond. That way you're doing journalism (loosely defined) rather than ambush. The twist nobody plans for is hosts improving because they know the test is coming. This is not failure, this is the market working (if you're patient enough to run the test twice).
SingaporeRep this is genius.
Contabo "up to 10Gbps" and you got 450 Mbit, thats robbery. I am paying them too, cant wait to test mine.
I am in, lets destroy them with facts. $8 for 450 Mbit is joke.
I have OVHcloud and Hetzner too, will run tonight.
@olespete dont be so scared, is just numbers!
I got Contabo, InterServer, RackNerd, GreenCloudVPS. Four hosts, all "premium network" "low latency" blah blah
$4/MO ARE YOU KIDDING RackNerd was, so expectations LOW but lets see if they even hit that
Tracking price history too, maybe we correlate "too cheap to be true" with actual numbers
When we publishing? I want my screenshots ready
Complication is the enemy
Publish methodology first
Run tests blind
Hosts will improve or they wont
Either way we learn something
Hej, I am in
On server I have InterServer, into config I put test script. Malý server, only 1 CPU, but will run
No results yet, will post when have
@SingaporeRep you are organizing? Or we just post here, no central? I like no central, but messy. No problem either way, no
InterServer on 1 CPU? Gonna bottleneck the script before the disk does
Hosts gaming the test is the best outcome honestly, I'd call that a win
@PetraSuper no central, just post here with same [code] format. Easier to scrape later if someone wants to aggregate. I'll keep a running list in post #1 if mods allow edit window.
@olespete fair warnings but we're running yabs, not nmap. 443 and 22 closed by default on my template anyway.
Who's got Hetzner Falkenstein vs Singapore? Curious if the "same price everywhere" actually means same pipe everywhere.