Hi LET'er,
Looking for backup solutions and try Hetzner. Snap one box a month ago and surprised on how this box perform only for 26 Euro/month.
So they offer this kind of specs:
Intel Core i7-3770
2 x HDD 3,0 TB SATA
16GB DDR3
Price: 26.5 Euro/month. With VAT 31 Euro.CPU PassMark:
All Thread Rating: 9391
Single Thread Rating: 2069
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-3770+@+3.40GHz
Setting up the HDD as SoftRAID 1 using their VNC installations. First disk is around 12K power on hours, and the other one is 7k power on hours.
Their network is pretty good:
# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency : 1600.000 MHz
Total amount of ram : 15638 MB
Total amount of swap : 4091 MB
System uptime : 32 days, 12:27,
Download speed from CacheFly: 78.2MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 8.64MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 10.0MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.20MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 35.6MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 76.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 4.23MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 9.91MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 8.83MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 15.0MB/s
I/O speed : 134 MB/s
ioping:
# ioping -c 10 /var
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=1 time=360 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=2 time=427 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=3 time=420 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=4 time=399 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=5 time=299 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=6 time=405 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=7 time=431 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=8 time=284 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=9 time=225 us
4.0 KiB from /var (ext4 /dev/md3): request=10 time=510 us
--- /var (ext4 /dev/md3) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9.0 s, 2.7 k iops, 10.4 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 225 us / 376 us / 510 us / 80 us
# ioping -RL /var
--- /var (ext4 /dev/md3) ioping statistics ---
2.3 k requests completed in 3.0 s, 780 iops, 195.2 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 755 us / 1.3 ms / 24.1 ms / 993 us
# ioping -RD /var
--- /var (ext4 /dev/md3) ioping statistics ---
1.0 k requests completed in 3.0 s, 345 iops, 1.4 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 119 us / 2.9 ms / 25.8 ms / 3.4 ms
ioping -RC /var
--- /var (ext4 /dev/md3) ioping statistics ---
5.2 M requests completed in 3.0 s, 1.9 M iops, 7.2 GiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0 us / 0 us / 46 us / 0 us
DD test:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync; rm -f test
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.8753 s, 136 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; rm -f test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.9959 s, 134 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=1k oflag=dsync; rm -f test
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 59.3715 s, 18.1 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k oflag=dsync; rm -f test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 831.388 s, 1.3 MB/s
hdparm:
# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 28970 MB in 2.00 seconds = 14509.24 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 542 MB in 3.00 seconds = 180.58 MB/sec
# hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 28264 MB in 2.00 seconds = 14154.31 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 436 MB in 3.01 seconds = 145.06 MB/sec
If you need cheap backup solutions, Hetzner is worth to try.