Hello,
In this post, I'm going to review GreenCloudVPS (one of the top worldwide hosting providers that sell servers and VPS solutions) based on my 200days+ storage VPS usage experiences.
Here are the specifications:
2048MB RAM
500GB RAID-10 SSD
1 cores CPU (Intel Xeon Silver 4216)
1TB Bandwidth
10Gbps Port
Singapore Location
annually $30
My storage VPS is used for saving some youtube videos and some webinar recordings and streaming them with Plex.
Yet-Another-Bench-Script (YABS Benchmark)
root@konggun:~# curl -sL yabs.sh
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2022-08-20 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Tue Nov 1 09:49:14 UTC 2022
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 238 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4216 CPU @ 2.10GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2099.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 2.0 GiB
Disk : 490.1 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Kernel : 4.15.0-169-generic
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 9.31 MB/s (2.3k) | 74.82 MB/s (1.1k)
Write | 9.34 MB/s (2.3k) | 75.21 MB/s (1.1k)
Total | 18.65 MB/s (4.6k) | 150.03 MB/s (2.3k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 371.63 MB/s (725) | 429.81 MB/s (419)
Write | 391.38 MB/s (764) | 458.43 MB/s (447)
Total | 763.01 MB/s (1.4k) | 888.24 MB/s (866)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.10 Gbits/sec | 760 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.32 Gbits/sec | 1.00 Gbits/sec
Hybula | The Netherlands (40G) | 1.04 Gbits/sec | 1.02 Gbits/sec
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 1.16 Gbits/sec | 864 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 769 Mbits/sec | 717 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 868 Mbits/sec | 357 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.05 Gbits/sec | 584 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 582
Multi Core | 572
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/18362106
As we can see my storage VPS was online for 238 days, 2 hours, and 34 minutes.
And have good network speed tests score to US and Europe regions.
Youtube Download Speed
To download youtube videos on a terminal (ssh) session, I am using yt-dlp software https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.
For example, I am downloading Kuruluş Osman 32. Bölüm, here is my VPS download speeds:
GreenCloudVPS VPS Panel Review
Yes, I will review the GreenCloudVPS VPS Panel review too. Basically, they are using solusvm software right now (November 2022) to provision VPS but some features were limited.
| VPS Panel Feature | Have it or not? |
|---|---|
| Boot, Reboot, Shutdown | ✅ |
| noVNC Console | ✅ |
| PAE | ✅ |
| Reconfigure Network | ✅ |
| Change hostname | ✅ |
| Change Root Password | ✅ |
| ISO, Boot Order | ✅ |
| Rescue Mode | ✅ |
| Rebuild / Reinstall | ✅ |
| Graph / Stats | ✅ |
| Private Networking* | ❌ |
| Block Storage* | ❌ |
| PTR Record** | ❌ |
/* this feature will be available when GreenCloudVPS uses Openstack @NDTN on LET
/** Must open a ticket to their support
Ping to All-Region
I used ping.pe to check their network based on all world regions (US, UK, Asia, China, APAC)
Here is the ping result:
That's it.
If you are interested in the VPS plan on GreenCloudVPS, they are offering storage servers for 48$/year ($2/month)! check on their website here.
Thank you for reading!