Z Plus - Hearts and Hooves day Performance VPS release!
ZizzyDizzyMC
Hosting Provider
After a bunch of internal testing, and configuring I'm ready to pilot the next gen Z Plus VPS system.
- 1 vCore Ryzen 9900x (50% fair use)
- 3GB Ram
- 60GB NVMe Boot (No Raid / mirror during testing) (An upgrade to ZFS Mirror will be performed soon.)
- 200mbps network (Shared network)
- 1 IPv4 address
- /64 IPv6 addresses
- Ability to add storage at $2.5/TB/month under upgrades.
- This is a testing plan limited to 10 slots.
- $5 / month
- https://billing.zd.do/index.php?/cart/performance-vps/
YABS:
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2025-01-01
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Sat Feb 15 01:54:29 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes
Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor
CPU cores : 1 @ 4391.724 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 2.9 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 58.0 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-53-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
ISP : Z Plus LLC
ASN : AS399266 Z Plus LLC
Host : Z Plus LLC
Location : Sturgis, Michigan (MI)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
| Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS) |
|---|---|---|
| Read | 790.33 MB/s (197.5k) | 2.24 GB/s (35.1k) |
| Write | 792.42 MB/s (198.1k) | 2.26 GB/s (35.3k) |
| Total | 1.58 GB/s (395.6k) | 4.51 GB/s (70.4k) |
| Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS) |
| ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- |
| Read | 2.98 GB/s (5.8k) | 3.10 GB/s (3.0k) |
| Write | 3.14 GB/s (6.1k) | 3.31 GB/s (3.2k) |
| Total | 6.13 GB/s (11.9k) | 6.42 GB/s (6.2k) |
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
| Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 203 Mbits/sec | 216 Mbits/sec | 91.5 ms |
| Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 212 Mbits/sec | 211 Mbits/sec | 98.1 ms |
| Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 101 Mbits/sec | 157 Mbits/sec | 187 ms |
| Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 121 Mbits/sec | 165 Mbits/sec | 259 ms |
| Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 214 Mbits/sec | 217 Mbits/sec | 88.6 ms |
| Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 224 Mbits/sec | 223 Mbits/sec | 26.1 ms |
| Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 135 Mbits/sec | 202 Mbits/sec | 135 ms |
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
| Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 209 Mbits/sec | 212 Mbits/sec | 90.5 ms |
| Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 208 Mbits/sec | 205 Mbits/sec | 97.8 ms |
| Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 158 Mbits/sec | 184 Mbits/sec | 188 ms |
| Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 130 Mbits/sec | 158 Mbits/sec | 258 ms |
| Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 208 Mbits/sec | 213 Mbits/sec | 90.2 ms |
| Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 220 Mbits/sec | 219 Mbits/sec | 26.8 ms |
| Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 101 Mbits/sec | 208 Mbits/sec | 135 ms |
Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
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Single Core | 10325
Multi Core | 9976
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/18527506
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
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Single Core | 2576
Multi Core | 2550
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23344604
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
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Single Core | 3347
Multi Core | 3341
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10545393
YABS completed in 16 min 16 sec
This is a limited plan, and as the plan is a test there is a very clear disclaimer on the product page. I've been personally testing on and off for a week with minimal bug fixes. Personally the performance is crazy, hopefully it carries through as I sell through.
Currently additional storage is limited to 5TB per VPS, this will be increased in the future - but if you need more right now feel free to ticket. We also offer a mail-a-drive service where you can mail a disk in to load up the system with your backups.
Normally I'd offer a coupon code, but the pro-rata billing makes purchasing the first month right now less than a dollar. So if you're curious, it's pretty cheap to check it out.
NOTE: If purchasing additional storage / upgrading, there's a bug I haven't had Hostbill fix yet, that requires you to press a button twice. If you find it, you'll know. Also, the storage isn't auto provisioned, Hostbill will allow you to provision your storage allotment as a single disk, or multiple disks under the VPS's "Storage" tab. This is useful for those who want to use software suites that require multiple physical disks.
Comments
What is the bw FUP? or is it unlimited?
It's unmetered, but I really don't want someone port-blasting for things like seedboxes, streaming (to the public). My services are cheap because I'm cheap / light on bandwidth. It's how I can offer dozens of TB of storage at low prices - knowing that no one is going to be ripping 100MB/s on their favorite tracker. It also saves me the potential headache of folks getting nastygrams that I have to waste my time on.
My other plans put a 10TB cap (or 15 for some LES offers). I haven't settled on a company-wide policy yet but I've had a few suggestions of capping bandwidth at 5TB + 2TB for every 1TB of additional storage.
Pros: Works great for backup, personal or small family media storage, websites that don't stream but store a ton of data (archives are a good example).
Cons: Can't really stream to the public, not great for seedboxes.
Where is order link and which location?
order link please
So is it like a VPS and you can then attach hdd storage to it [It doesn't come pre-configured with any except for the 60gb nvme right? ]
Correct as the post states you get 60GB and can attach more.
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You can tell I was tired because I forgot the most important thing.
https://billing.zd.do/index.php?/cart/performance-vps/
Correct.
Can you do a yabs with extra disk attached so we can see how performance is affected?
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Compute and network shouldn't be affected at all, so I've performed a yabs with -ign to disable network output, iperf testing, and geekbench.
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Sat Feb 15 19:01:27 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes
Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor
CPU cores : 1 @ 4391.724 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 2.9 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 3.0 TiB
Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-53-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
YABS completed in 48 sec
That is some serious HDD through put. Really nice offer !!
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really good offer.
any plans on 1c(15% is fine)/1gb ram/10gb nvme/100 Mbps plan for example?
want to host moar i2pd routers, and its extremely unlikely to even saturate 100Mbps link, it takes like 10TB(in+out) per month. i have like 8? on vps providers right now, and a cheap dedi with 1G flat and /29 for 5 more relays - but it works like shit, i2pd wasn't meant to be run in docker or lxc containers, so i want to replace that dedi with moar vps.
Concur. Very nice speed for network storage. Better than some local speeds I won't mention lol.
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Likely won't offer smaller plans with ipv4, addresses are our 2nd most limited resource behind overall network capacity. I do plan on offering Xeon V4 ipv6 only plans, likely around the $4 / quarter range for pricing.
Understandable, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately IPv6-only isn't working well for my usecase, i have one i2pd router that only averages 10KB/s on ipv6-only, hopefully other's will be able to enjoy it.
Yeah sorry for the bad news. I'm always willing to let you try it out for free when they release, if you wanted to test but I fear your issues will probably be about the same. IPv6 peering is kind of bad to a lot of things.
I was considering turning a partial /24 block into NAT4 hosting - but getting Hostbill to work as a NAT4 provider seems to be very hard, there's also the complication of IP rep being so bad that most things you'd want an ipv4 for just wouldn't work anyway.
No worries, placed an order either way
Sadly was marked as fraud, but I have already raised a ticket for it. (#654833)
NAT4 would be cool, but its not popular with providers due to difficulty of it. I have seen Virtfusion handle it properly though, it has full integration in the GUI for port binding etc.
For my usecase IP-rep doesn't matter at all, and I'm sure it wouldn't matter for people hosting small private vpn's etc. There is still plenty of usecases that in my opinion would work fine with it.
I myself regularly shop with Spamhaus ASN-DROP providers, cause I couldn't care less about IP rep.
Regarding subnets, you can always rent more for ~$100/mo per /24, I see that you own all the subnets you already have, but if more is needed that shouldn't be a big issue.
personally i would rather NAT4 than IPv6 only.
and so far Virtfusion does it best among others.
i dont know much about IP reputation, NAT should assume that IP isnt clean
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
It looks like hostbill has a virtfusion plugin, kind of affordable I guess if I actually made money on it.
The biggest drawback is that Virtfusion has a monthly fee - something I really can't tolerate. I like to own my hardware and software, 0 monthly fees.
In most cases its simply not possible to not have a monthly fee, software requires constant development, just like VPS requires the hypervisor to have power and connectivity.
They aren't at the scale of HostBill where they can balance it out with professional services, addons etc.
HostBill sells lifetime licenses but its not where their primary income comes from, that is addons and professional services.
Virtfusion is the best "provider" hypervisor I have used to date, extremely simple to get everything going, and comes with handy stuff like rules to prevent ip spoofing etc. Integration with WHMCS, HostBill, etc. is also extremely nice.
Bought a 3 months plan, its stupid fast. If you can tolerate 200 Mbps port, its a killer.
Only drawback(that I was aware of before purchasing), is the latency, as its tunneled to Frantech NY from some remote location. Latency to the "real" gateway is around 23 ms.
Obligatory yabs, IPv6 shows as down, will need to debug it later.
Will update the yabs in a few months as nodes get more users on it.