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Six months with the cheapest NVMe

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#1

I have been running a $15/year KVM at CloudCone since September 2025. Article 13 flashbacks made me document everything. GDPR-compliant monitoring, all data retained in EU.

Initial benchmarks (September) — I used https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script:
- sequential read: 1.2 GB/s
- random 4K: 78k IOPS
- network: 500 Mbit/s

Current benchmarks (March 2026):
- sequential read: 720 MB/s (-40%)
- random 4K: 51k IOPS (-35%)
- network: 490 Mbit/s (stable)

The I/O degradation coincides with summer 2025 overselling. I have graphs. I have logs. I am prepared to file complaints if data integrity is affected. Article 5(1)(f) principles of processing include integrity and confidentiality.

#2

Network okay.

Disk bad now. Summer heat? No. Noisy neighbor. Perkele.

Migrated to Leaseweb. Disk good again. €30/mo. Price bad but disk good.

#3
brusselsdzire1 said:
Random 4K: 51k IOPS

Please run fio with --randrepeat=0. Neighbor maybe running hashcat. CPU steal also? Check with top, server. No articles needed, just numbers.

8-char NTLM found in 4min 32sec
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Noisy neighbor on cheap NVMe is standard the only fix is migrate or pay more or accept 40% loss I moved from CloudCone to HostHatch same price better isolation but you need to test for weeks not days

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