I have been into VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) for quite some time. A VDS is perfect for CPU-intensive tasks, such as video encoding and file conversion because you get fully dedicated resources to use however you like whereas only the disk and network are still shared. You don't have to worry about getting suspended for high-CPU usage either.
As you know, there are a few providers in the low-end market who offer such a service at an affordable price. This year I came across a new provider in this niche named "server-factory.com". I gave them a try, and I'm satisfied with their services so far. So I think I should share my experience with them on LET.
Anyway, I'm not affiliated with them. Just a normal customer like many of you. So this is not a paid review and no aff links. Here is my honest review which has both pros and cons.
It started from their deals below in March that were hard to resist. I have never seen any provider who offers an EPYC VDS starting with 4 GB RAM 50 GB NVMe SSD for around 2.5 euros a month anywhere before.
One thing to note is that their 1 CPU core means 2 threads. You get 1 dedicated thread (0.5 EPYC core) per 4 GB RAM. So you get 2 dedicated threads (1 full EPYC core but displayed as 2 CPUs) in the 8 GB RAM plan and so on. This was confusing at first for me.
Pros:
- Very affordable prices, especially for a VDS at around 2.5 euros per month. It's really hard to beat even on BFD.
- You get fully-dedicated resources for high-CPU intensive tasks. And it's 2nd gen EPYC which is powerful enough to do most tasks. New orders will likely be placed on an EPYC 7452 node like mine.
- RAID-10 storage for EPYC and RAID-1 for Ryzen. Both are fast NVMe SSD.
- Unmetered incoming traffic. Only outgoing traffic is counted. Both are at 1Gbps.
- Custom ISOs are supported. You can install any OS.
- Their servers are at Serverius which is an excellent data center in the Netherlands from my experience.
- Great uptime. I'm not using a monitoring tool, but I have never experienced any downtime when I use my VDS on a daily basis.
- Free one snapshot for backing up your VDS. It can be scheduled too. I just noticed this feature and it's worth mentioning.
- They're innovative and keep adding new services, such as IPv6 only VPS, NAT VPS, and storage VPS.
- @mxmla is a very nice and friendly person.
Cons:
- Only 1 location in the Netherlands, for now.
- They're a one-man provider and are still new in the market and need more time to prove to be an established one.
- Email-related ports are blocked. This limits a number of projects relying on sending out emails that can be deployed on the VDS. However, they have an email relay service via support. You have to let them know the domain names. This may not be as flexible as using an external email service, but it gets the issue fixed.
- Their website still needs a professional-looking landing page.
This is my AMD EPYC S yabs. I yabs this VDS occasionally and the results stay similar to day one. I bought this VDS annually in May and got a 3-month extension from the promo back then. I restart my VDS from time to time, especially after a kernel update. So the recent uptime is 15 days. It has been working great so far.
I hope you enjoy my review. Thanks for reading and have a great day.
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
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# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Wed 07 Sep 2022 02:43:08 AM UTC
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 15 days, 20 hours, 42 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core Processor
CPU cores : 2 @ 2345.592 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 7.8 GiB
Swap : 2.0 GiB
Disk : 97.9 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel : 5.10.0-17-amd64
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 24.22 MB/s (6.0k) | 820.89 MB/s (12.8k)
Write | 24.23 MB/s (6.0k) | 825.21 MB/s (12.8k)
Total | 48.45 MB/s (12.1k) | 1.64 GB/s (25.7k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 2.32 GB/s (4.5k) | 3.07 GB/s (3.0k)
Write | 2.45 GB/s (4.7k) | 3.27 GB/s (3.2k)
Total | 4.77 GB/s (9.3k) | 6.35 GB/s (6.2k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.04 Gbits/sec | 992 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.03 Gbits/sec | 988 Mbits/sec
Hybula | The Netherlands (40G) | 1.04 Gbits/sec | 995 Mbits/sec
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 388 Mbits/sec | 869 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 429 Mbits/sec | 930 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 301 Mbits/sec | 871 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 305 Mbits/sec | 824 Mbits/sec
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.02 Gbits/sec | 980 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.02 Gbits/sec | 971 Mbits/sec
Hybula | The Netherlands (40G) | 1.04 Gbits/sec | 982 Mbits/sec
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 470 Mbits/sec | 836 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 434 Mbits/sec | 923 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 261 Mbits/sec | 880 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 292 Mbits/sec | 840 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 947
Multi Core | 929
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/17102794