Hello,
this is my first post in 2023 and I get my first free VPS of life*. a NAT KVM by NanoKVM ๐ป
You can also get it free by requesting it by going to: https://nanokvm.net placing a request and posting the token on lowendtalk.
The requirements to get one
- Existing account since 3 months, on Lowendtalk
- Active account (you need to have a decent amount of recent posts)
- You need to have 50 posts before you apply
So, in order to get this NAT VPS you need to be active on lowendtalk, lowendspirit, or hostedtalk forums.
NanoKVM is a community driven Project founded in 2018 which provides NAT KVM's to projects. If you are a Member of Lowendtalk, Lowendspirit or Hostedtalk you can apply if you meet the Requirements.
What specifications?
- 1x Virtual Core (Shared)
- 1024MB RAM
- 10GB HDD/SSD/NVMe
- 20x forwarded Ports v4
- 80/443 port with haproxy
- 150Mbit Uplink (Fair Use)
There are three dedicated servers with different location options right now, Sandefjord, Fremont, Eygelshoven, and CDA Idaho. I choose the Fremont one, seems great for regular daily use.
Fremont (IntoVPS)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz
32GB DDR3
4x 500GB HDD (SW Raid 10)
Fremont, California
Question and Answer
Answer: NAT stands for Network Address Translation. It's a way to map multiple local private addresses to a public one before transferring the information (source). NAT VM or NAT VPS is the same virtual machine or virtual private server that you guys already know, but the difference is they are using 1 shared IP public address. If a dedicated server has only 1 IP Public address, the only way to connect virtual machines inside it to the Internet is through NAT.
Answer: NAT VPS and regular VPS basically the same virtual machine, in this case NanoKVM provides KVM (Qemu), the difference is NAT VPS only has a limited port number available. NanoKVM only provides 20 ports.
Meaning, for example, you can access ssh on the port given by the instruction, like port 6090. NAT VPS price is usually cheaper than regular VPS because we don't have to pay the IPv4 price per month.
Answer: Sure, in this case, NanoKVM provides HAProxy, so you can access your domain with standard HTTP and HTTPS ports (read: Install the LEMP, Install Securely Wordpress in NAT VPS).
YABS Benchmark
As usual, the first step after receiving the VPS is to check the benchmark with YABS
root@NanoKVM:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2022-12-29 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
Sun Feb 5 14:03:42 UTC 2023
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 18 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes
Processor : Common KVM processor
CPU cores : 1 @ 3292.356 MHz
AES-NI : โ Disabled
VM-x/AMD-V : โ Disabled
RAM : 969.4 MiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 9.8 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Kernel : 5.15.0-58-generic
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 660.00 KB/s (165) | 10.23 MB/s (159)
Write | 690.00 KB/s (172) | 10.69 MB/s (167)
Total | 1.35 MB/s (337) | 20.93 MB/s (326)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 41.34 MB/s (80) | 38.31 MB/s (37)
Write | 43.36 MB/s (84) | 41.63 MB/s (40)
Total | 84.70 MB/s (164) | 79.95 MB/s (77)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 139 Mbits/sec | 146 Mbits/sec | 127 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | 145 Mbits/sec | 131 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 130 Mbits/sec | 140 Mbits/sec | 133 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 97.4 Mbits/sec | 139 Mbits/sec | 213 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 149 Mbits/sec | 150 Mbits/sec | 69.8 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 155 Mbits/sec | 151 Mbits/sec | 41.5 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 157 Mbits/sec | 152 Mbits/sec | 12.6 ms
Geekbench 5 test failed. Run manually to determine cause.
YABS completed in 6 min 40 sec
For now, I don't have time to install anything, maybe next I will try to install anything with this.
/* update 12/02/2023
I've made several posts about NanoKVM's NAT KVM
- NAT KVM - NanoKVM's first impression
- Install the LEMP (Linux, NGINX, MariaDB, and PHP) on Ubuntu 22.04
- Install Securely Wordpress in NAT VPS
Also, don't forget to say thanks to Neoon and his sponsors!
See ya!