Review - Hostcram LXC-1G i9-11900K
*Disclaimer: This review is based on my personal opinion and experience. Also I may be getting an additional month service extension for this 
And first time posting from Linux Desktop woohooo
So Shakib from Hostcram LLC, a US based Wyoming registered company (Filling ID: 2016-000736577) posted some juicy deals here:
Being the YABS addict I am with fetish for the highest scoring CPUs and briefly intrigued by LXC, got the $1 for first month LXC deal with below specs:
Shakib was active at that time so everything was provisioned in less than 30mins I recall. Support is equally fast in dealing with my request to change OS.
So then I beamed in; let's take a look what this little container can do:
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## # # Yet-Another-Bench-Script # # v2021-06-05 # # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script # # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## # Sun Sep 19 01:30:01 UTC 2021 Basic System Information: --------------------------------- Processor : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz CPU cores : 1 @ 5056.953 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled RAM : 1.0 GiB Swap : 1.9 GiB Disk : 19.6 GiB fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50): --------------------------------- Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- Read | 1.05 GB/s (262.8k) | 3.39 GB/s (53.0k) Write | 1.05 GB/s (263.5k) | 3.41 GB/s (53.3k) Total | 2.10 GB/s (526.3k) | 6.80 GB/s (106.3k) | | Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- Read | 3.38 GB/s (6.6k) | 1.22 GB/s (1.1k) Write | 3.56 GB/s (6.9k) | 1.30 GB/s (1.2k) Total | 6.95 GB/s (13.5k) | 2.53 GB/s (2.4k) iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): --------------------------------- Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | | | Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 829 Mbits/sec | 187 Mbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 810 Mbits/sec | 145 Mbits/sec WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | busy | 188 Mbits/sec Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 515 Mbits/sec | 43.5 Mbits/sec Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 843 Mbits/sec | 489 Mbits/sec Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 824 Mbits/sec | 687 Mbits/sec Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 841 Mbits/sec | 479 Mbits/sec Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 319 Mbits/sec | 145 Mbits/sec Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test: --------------------------------- Test | Value | Single Core | 7242 Multi Core | 6965 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16348096 Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test: --------------------------------- Test | Value | Single Core | 1640 Multi Core | 1636 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/9920152
GB4 score above SEVEN THOUSANNNNNN what is this, alien technology? Anyway it was mentioned that there are lots of empty nodes so time will tell if this holds up. But understanding how LXC works, this node should be able to pack quite a number of containers without breaking a sweat.
4K IOPS over 500,000 is also off the charts! What are they using RAM as disks now? So i had to take a second look at their node specs to be sure:
All new Dell Branded Hardware
Intel® Core™ i9-11900K Processor
Samsung 4.0 NVMe SSD Storage
3200 MHz DDR4 RAM
1 Gbps Bandwidth (AS39618 via Juniper router)
Free /48 IPv6 Prefix on request
Linux & Windows OS
Full Root Access
It seems they have focused on getting the latest and greatest parts of 2021 on these nodes. Hostscram has KVM VPSes with the same specs too so, use cases with need for speed should give this fair consideration.
Network is stable and reasonably fast but since its not in my preferred location not much tests were done in detail (apart from the obvious benches). No choppy experience in general.
The only problem I have with this LXC service is that there is no self managed panel for reinstalling OS. No WHMCS plugin, no ProxCP or anything. This is a bummer for me since I'm using small 1GBs for testing only. Consolation was that support was fast and reloaded OS in less than 10mins. Can they do that at 3am? Won't be trying that for sure.
Conclusion? Have been AMD supporter since Zen 2 came out, but this 11th Generation Rocket Lake has outperformed the Ryzen 3900X for sure on singlecore benchmarks. With the combination of NVMe 4.0 and fast DDR4 RAMs I think it will stay at at top 5 speeds for quite a while....
Signing out with more benches.
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OS : CentOS 7.9.2009 (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : Lxc / 5.4.128-1-pve
CPU Model : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz
CPU Cores : 1 @ 4177.899 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled
Load Average : 0.14, 0.16, 0.12
Total Space : 20G (6.5G ~35% used)
Total RAM : 1024 MB (120 MB + 67 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 1999 MB (520 MB in use)
Uptime : 3 days 21:16
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ASN & ISP : AS39618, HostCram LLC
Organization : HostCram LLC
Location : Dallas, United States / US
Region : Texas
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## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : 7234 (EXCELLENT)
Multi Core : 6968
## IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 153 MB/s
sha256 : 1.4 GB/s
md5sum : 782 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 5632.0 MB/s
Avg. read : 9932.8 MB/s
Disk Speed:
1st run : 1.1 GB/s
2nd run : 1.2 GB/s
3rd run : 1.2 GB/s
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Average : 1194.7 MB/s
## Global Speedtest.net
Location Upload Download Ping
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Nearby 799.04 Mbit/s 827.41 Mbit/s 13.513 ms
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USA, New York (Optimum) 273.71 Mbit/s 66.84 Mbit/s 41.161 ms
USA, Chicago (Windstream) 503.58 Mbit/s 298.55 Mbit/s 26.195 ms
USA, Dallas (Frontier) 514.57 Mbit/s 363.72 Mbit/s 24.558 ms
USA, Miami (Sprint) 261.16 Mbit/s 324.75 Mbit/s 36.845 ms
USA, Los Angeles (Windstream) 389.40 Mbit/s 236.86 Mbit/s 42.257 ms
UK, London (toob Ltd) 140.69 Mbit/s 151.90 Mbit/s ping error!
France, Lyon (SFR) 124.26 Mbit/s 116.44 Mbit/s 118.998 ms
Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 163.67 Mbit/s 90.79 Mbit/s 122.588 ms
Spain, Madrid (MasMovil) 169.73 Mbit/s 84.40 Mbit/s 117.705 ms
Italy, Rome (Unidata) 144.23 Mbit/s 78.19 Mbit/s 138.739 ms
Russia, Moscow (Rostelecom) 123.02 Mbit/s 80.22 Mbit/s 153.348 ms
Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 111.76 Mbit/s 91.49 Mbit/s 180.534 ms
India, New Delhi (Weebo) 47.03 Mbit/s 91.75 Mbit/s 245.625 ms
Singapore (FirstMedia) 28.12 Mbit/s 14.02 Mbit/s 217.557 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 140.13 Mbit/s 90.75 Mbit/s 149.428 ms
Australia, Sydney (Optus) 86.60 Mbit/s 80.18 Mbit/s 185.875 ms
RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas) 11.78 Mbit/s 128.42 Mbit/s 271.458 ms
Brazil, Sao Paulo (Criare) 50.86 Mbit/s 152.39 Mbit/s 151.864 ms
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Finished in : 11 min 14 sec
Timestamp : 2021-09-19 03:06:54 GMT
Saved in : /root/speedtest.log
Share results:
- https://www.speedtest.net/result/12056862133.png
- https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16348152
- https://clbin.com/UuWAT
---------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU Model : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz CPU Cores : 1 CPU Frequency : 4488.179 MHz CPU Cache : 16384 KB Total Disk : 20.0 GB (6.5 GB Used) Total Mem : 1024 MB (117 MB Used) Total Swap : 1999 MB (520 MB Used) System uptime : 3 days, 20 hour 21 min Load average : 0.02, 0.07, 0.15 OS : CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit) Kernel : 5.4.128-1-pve TCP CC : cubic Virtualization : LXC Organization : AS39618 HostCram LLC Location : Dallas / US Region : Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I/O Speed(1st run) : 982 MB/s I/O Speed(2nd run) : 981 MB/s I/O Speed(3rd run) : 981 MB/s Average I/O speed : 981.3 MB/s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency Speedtest.net 857.47 Mbps 909.44 Mbps 24.47 ms Shanghai CT 359.97 Mbps 426.35 Mbps 179.24 ms Shanghai CU 448.42 Mbps 684.84 Mbps 192.95 ms Guangzhou CT 242.61 Mbps 105.57 Mbps 199.45 ms Guangzhou CU 450.12 Mbps 366.14 Mbps 192.02 ms Hongkong CN 421.24 Mbps 969.84 Mbps 202.61 ms Singapore SG 401.58 Mbps 429.96 Mbps 212.15 ms Tokyo JP 207.30 Mbps 344.27 Mbps 133.65 ms ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Comments
Thanks for your detailed review.
Additional month has been added to your VPS.
HostCram LLC - Web Hosting Built For Speed, Reliability, Security & Uptime! [We operate AS39618]
Wow, quite powerful!
hi! The "Build Custom VPS" link takes me to https://my.hostcram.com/dashboard/plugin/support_managerpro/client_tickets/departments/ - I was expecting some kind of configurator. I wanted to see if it's possible to customize the amount of storage?
Lead Platform Architect at the day job, Ethical Hacker/Bug Bounty Hunter on the side
Yes. As long as you don't need way too much storage allocation, we can do it.
HostCram LLC - Web Hosting Built For Speed, Reliability, Security & Uptime! [We operate AS39618]
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