I am going to make a review for a 2GB VPS on Hetzner.

Last week, I tried to sign up on Hetzner. But it declined my request with the reason of security. Today, I tried it again and upload my driver’s license to validate my ID. This time, it approved my new account.

So I get a chance to take a trial on this famous VPS service provider.

I ordered the VPS, type CPX11. Located at Hillsboro, OR data center.

  • 2vCPU
  • 2GB RAM
  • 40GB SSD
  • 20TB Traffic

The dashboard of it as below:

CPX11 VPS

First, check the hardware specs:

dmidecode 3.3
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.8 present.
 
Handle 0x0400, DMI type 4, 42 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: CPU 0
Type: Central Processor
Family: Other
Manufacturer: QEMU
ID: 10 0F 83 00 FF FB 8B 07
Version: NotSpecified
Voltage: Unknown
External Clock: Unknown
Max Speed: 2000 MHz
Current Speed: 2000 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: Other
L1 Cache Handle: Not Provided
L2 Cache Handle: Not Provided
L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided
Serial Number: Not Specified
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: Not Specified
Core Count: 2
Core Enabled: 2
Thread Count: 1
Characteristics: None

It doesn’t tell the actual module of the CPU but did say it is a 2Ghz, 2 core. I know it is an AMD EPYC processor.

Sysbench Test

root@redwood:~# sysbench --test=cpu run
WARNING: the --test option is deprecated. You can pass a script name or path on the command line without any options.
sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)
 
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time
 
Prime numbers limit: 10000
 
Initializing worker threads...
 
Threads started!
 
CPU speed:
events per second: 3674.65
 
General statistics:
total time: 10.0004s
total number of events: 36752
 
Latency (ms):
min: 0.26
avg: 0.27
max: 1.15
95th percentile: 0.28
sum: 9991.71
 
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 36752.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 9.9917/0.00

Wow, 3674.65 events per second. It is so fast.

Check the two Core performances.

root@redwood:~# sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=2 run
WARNING: the --test option is deprecated. You can pass a script name or path on the command line without any options.
WARNING: --num-threads is deprecated, use --threads instead
sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)
 
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 2
Initializing random number generator from current time
 
Prime numbers limit: 10000
 
Initializing worker threads...
 
Threads started!
 
CPU speed:
events per second: 7336.72
 
General statistics:
total time: 10.0003s
total number of events: 73376
 
Latency (ms):
min: 0.26
avg: 0.27
max: 2.00
95th percentile: 0.28
sum: 19980.14
 
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 36688.0000/45.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 9.9901/0.00

About 7336 events per second.

Yet-Another-Bench-Script

 

root@redwood:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-04-23                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
 
Tue Jun 13 07:43:05 AM UTC 2023
 
Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 35 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC Processor
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2445.404 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 37.5 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Kernel     : 5.15.0-73-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
 
IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Hetzner Online GmbH
ASN        : AS212317 Hetzner Online GmbH
Host       : Hetzner
Location   : Ashburn, Virginia (VA)
Country    : United States
 
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 176.19 MB/s  (44.0k) | 1.50 GB/s    (23.5k)
Write      | 176.65 MB/s  (44.1k) | 1.51 GB/s    (23.7k)
Total      | 352.84 MB/s  (88.2k) | 3.02 GB/s    (47.2k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 2.30 GB/s     (4.5k) | 2.68 GB/s     (2.6k)
Write      | 2.42 GB/s     (4.7k) | 2.85 GB/s     (2.7k)
Total      | 4.73 GB/s     (9.2k) | 5.54 GB/s     (5.4k)
 
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.04 Gbits/sec  | 1.16 Gbits/sec  | 158 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 1.37 Gbits/sec  | 1.12 Gbits/sec  | 163 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 1.06 Gbits/sec  | 1.08 Gbits/sec  | 158 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 769 Mbits/sec   | 689 Mbits/sec   | 235 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.73 Gbits/sec  | 2.18 Gbits/sec  | 86.3 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 3.25 Gbits/sec  | 3.12 Gbits/sec  | 56.8 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 5.14 Gbits/sec  | 7.48 Gbits/sec  | 29.3 ms
 
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 930 Mbits/sec   | 1.14 Gbits/sec  | 158 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | 1.09 Gbits/sec  | 163 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 1.08 Gbits/sec  | 159 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 820 Mbits/sec   | 714 Mbits/sec   | 235 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | busy            | 86.0 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 2.76 Gbits/sec  | 2.94 Gbits/sec  | 57.1 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 4.30 Gbits/sec  | 7.09 Gbits/sec  | 28.7 ms
 
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1241
Multi Core      | 2210
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1580149

If you saw my previous review of GCP VM or Contabo VPS, Hetznet’s VPS is much better.

I also check the Ping value and tracert number from my desktop.

Ping VPS IP, Minimum 15ms, Maximum 61ms, Average 29ms.

The tracert result is 13 hops.

When I run the tracert command to the Contabo VPS, it is 19 hops. the ping average is 163ms because my Contabo VPS is located in Germany.

I like to have the server close to my location. I like to have a powerful CPU and faster Storage.  Hetzner CPX11 cost me Euro 3.85/month and Euro 0.5 for IP. The total is Euro 4.35 per month, convert to US dollars is US$4.70.

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