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Please note that initially, I wrote this blog post in German. This translation is for your convenience. Although every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, there may be translation errors. I apologize for any discrepancies or misunderstandings resulting from the translation. I am grateful for any corrections in the comments or via mail.
It’s been a while since my last benchmark test. I ran another one at the end of 2021 and would like to share my results (I somehow forgot to do it earlier). As I wrote last time, the performance of such a test is not the only criterion for evaluating a server or provider. It is also a snapshot in time.
I tested the following servers.
| Provider | Name | CPU | RAM | Disk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1blu | VPS R8 | 4x EPYC 7502 | 8 GiB | |
| Contabo | VPS S SSD | 4x Xeon E5-2630 | 7.8 GiB | |
| Hetzner* | CX11 | 1x Xeon | 1.89 GB | |
| Netcup* | VPS 200 G8 | 1x QEMU Virtual CPU | 1.94 GB | 20 GB SSD |
| Netcup* | RS Black | 2x AMD EPYC 7702P | 11.7 GB | 160 GB SSD |
| RackNerd* | LEB Special 3.5 KVM | 3x Xeon E5-2690 | 3.35 GB | 45 GB SSD |
* These are affiliate links. I receive a commission if a purchase is made via my link. There is no disadvantage for the visitor. At Hetzner, new customers even get 20€ cloud credit via the link. For Netcup, I have new customer vouchers here. The providers did not pay me to make this comparison.
The servers are mainly located in Germany. I rented the CX11 from Hetzner three times, once in Nuremberg, once in Falkenstein and once in Helsinki (Finland).
Of course, this does not compare completely similar servers, but the result may still be enjoyable. All servers in this list cost no more than €10 per month.
Test execution
I use Ubuntu 20.04 on the servers. As a test, I use Yet-Another-Bench-Script. This tests the write and read speed of the disks, the Internet speed, and CPU performance with the help of Geekbench.
Test result
FIO
The first test that is carried out is FIO. The write and read speed is tested with different block sizes.
4k
Results in MB/s (more is better).
The Hetzner VPS in Helsinki was the fastest here. Strangely, the Netcup VPS was faster than the root server.
64k
Results in GB/s (more is better).
This time the Hetzner VPS in Falkenstein achieved the highest speed.
512k
Results in GB/s (more is better).
The Netcup servers perform best from a block size of 512k. The VPS R8 from 1blu and the VPS S SSD from Contabo are unfortunately far behind here.
1m
Results in GB/s (more is better).
The results are similar here.
Result FIO
iperf
The next test is iperf, a TCP, UDP and SCTP speed test tool.
The servers were connected to the following providers during the test:
| Provider | Location |
|---|---|
| Clouvider | London, UK |
| Online.net | Paris, FR |
| Clouvider | NYC, NY, US |
| Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US |
| Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US |
| Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR |
Both download and upload speeds were measured with IPv4. Figures are in Gbit/s:
London, UK
Paris, FR
NYC, NY, US
Tallahassee, FL, US
Los Angeles, CA, US
Sao Paulo, BR
Result iperf
The Hetzner VPSs are far ahead in this area. The disadvantage of the Hetzner cloud servers is that additional costs are incurred as soon as the monthly outgoing data exceeds 20TB. However, 20TB should be more than enough for many purposes.
The other servers are slower, but according to Speedtest, the average internet speed in Germany in January 2022 was 69.52 Mbit/s for downloads and 23.16 Mbit/s for uploads. Almost all results are higher than these values.
Geekbench
The latest test is Geekbench.
Geekbench 4
Geekbench 5
Geekbench result
Percentage comparison
Netcup’s root server is ahead in this test. In the single-core values, the Netcup VPS follows, followed by the Hetzner VPS and the VPS from 1blu. In the multi-core test, the VPSs with only one CPU core naturally perform worse. Here, the Contabo and 1blu servers with four virtual cores have the most significant advantage. However, it cannot quite match the dedicated CPU performance of the root server with 2 cores.