Review - Hostcram LXC-1G i9-11900K

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*Disclaimer: This review is based on my personal opinion and experience. Also I may be getting an additional month service extension for this :smiley:

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:

https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/3341/the-fastest-i9-11900k-samsung-4-0-nvme-vps-from-35-year-1-first-month-for-testers-hostcram-llc

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:

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Sun Sep 19 01:30:01 UTC 2021

Basic System Information:
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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):
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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):
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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:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 7242                          
Multi Core      | 6965                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16348096

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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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
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 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
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 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
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 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   
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I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.

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