Inceptionhosting.com Black Friday 2022 50% off KVM VPS

Inceptionhosting.com (affiliate link) are doing a 50% off their annually billed plans for their 2GB, 3GB, 4GB, 6GB, 8GB and 16GB KVM VPS Plans.

I got one of their VPS from 2020 Black Friday deal for Centmin Mod testing and just renewed it for the 2nd year They have 10Gbit/s network connectivity and fast Intel processors. Phoenix has Intel Xeon E-2276G, E-2278G or E-2286G while European locations have those cpus along with older Intel Xeon E3-1270v6.

An example offer:

KVM - Pure NVMe

• 2 vCPU
• 2 GB Ram
• 50 GB Disk space
• 18000 GB Bandwidth
• Free Direct Admin available
• Complimentary DDOS protection
• €25 /year.
• Available in London. Amsterdam, Frankfurt & Phoenix.

Offer link at Inception Hosting Special Offers (visit affiliate referral link first will be much appreciated )

I bought 2 more 2CPU/2GB KVM VPS plans from this Black Friday deal for more planned Centmin Mod testing on AlmaLinux 8. The 10Gbit/s network connectivity seems to fluctuate between 60-533MB/s for cachefly but for Vultr LAX it's consistently ~260MB/s as it's shared and seems a lot of new users are benchmarking/testing right now

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Code (Text):

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2022-11-24 16:03:14--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                100%[=================================>] 100.00M   533MB/s    in 0.2s

2022-11-24 16:03:14 (533 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [104857600/104857600]

Code (Text):

wget -O /dev/null http://lax-ca-us-ping.vultr.com/vultr.com.100MB.bin
--2022-11-24 16:08:34--  http://lax-ca-us-ping.vultr.com/vultr.com.100MB.bin
Resolving lax-ca-us-ping.vultr.com (lax-ca-us-ping.vultr.com)... 108.61.219.200
Connecting to lax-ca-us-ping.vultr.com (lax-ca-us-ping.vultr.com)|108.61.219.200|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                100%[=================================>] 100.00M   266MB/s    in 0.4s

2022-11-24 16:08:34 (266 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [104857600/104857600]

Virgin KVM VPS AlmaLinux 8 setup for 2CPU/2GB plan

Code (Text):

cat /etc/os-release
NAME="AlmaLinux"
VERSION="8.7 (Stone Smilodon)"
ID="almalinux"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.7"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="AlmaLinux 8.7 (Stone Smilodon)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
LOGO="fedora-logo-icon"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:almalinux:almalinux:8::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://almalinux.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.almalinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.almalinux.org/"

ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT="AlmaLinux-8"
ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8.7"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="AlmaLinux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.7"

Memory

Code (Text):

free -mlt
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           1818         128         462          13        1227        1495
Low:           1818        1356         462
High:             0           0           0
Swap:          2047          10        2037
Total:         3866         139        2499

Disk

Code (Text):

df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  895M     0  895M   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     910M     0  910M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     910M   20M  890M   3% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     910M     0  910M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1      ext4       48G  2.3G   43G   6% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     182M     0  182M   0% /run/user/0

CPUs for Phoenix KVM VPS

Code (Text):

lscpu
Architecture:        x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core:  1
Core(s) per socket:  1
Socket(s):           2
NUMA node(s):        1
Vendor ID:           GenuineIntel
BIOS Vendor ID:      Red Hat
CPU family:          6
Model:               158
Model name:          Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2286G CPU @ 4.00GHz
BIOS Model name:     RHEL 7.6.0 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Stepping:            10
CPU MHz:             4008.000
BogoMIPS:            8016.00
Hypervisor vendor:   KVM
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache:           32K
L1i cache:           32K
L2 cache:            4096K
L3 cache:            16384K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0,1
Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 arat md_clear

AlmaLinux 8 Linux kernel

Code (Text):

uname -r
4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64

If I need more disk space, I can just use Cloudflare R2 S3 buckets and mount storage to filesystem via JuiceFS too GitHub - centminmod/centminmod-juicefs: JuiceFS file system for S3 mount storage

These discounted annually billed KVM VPS are just perfect for folks to cheaply test Centmin Mod on

 

Inceptionhosting has speedtests at https://as62240.net/speedtest seems for my new Phoenix KVM VPS to same Phoenix Clouvider hosted speedtest 1GB file the speed is ~302MB/s. AFAIK, Inceptionhosting uses servers from Clouvider which have great 10Gbit/s network based server offerings

default AlmaLinux 8.7 without Centmin Mod LEMP stack installed

Code (Text):

wget -O /dev/null https://phx.speedtest.clouvider.net/1g.bin
--2022-11-24 17:59:30--  https://phx.speedtest.clouvider.net/1g.bin
Resolving phx.speedtest.clouvider.net (phx.speedtest.clouvider.net)... 45.86.208.131
Connecting to phx.speedtest.clouvider.net (phx.speedtest.clouvider.net)|45.86.208.131|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1048576000 (1000M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                100%[=================================>]   1000M   302MB/s    in 3.3s 

2022-11-24 17:59:34 (302 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [1048576000/1048576000]

with Centmin Mod 130.00beta01 installed and default better tuned TCP = 572MB/s

Code (Text):

wget -O /dev/null https://phx.speedtest.clouvider.net/1g.bin
--2022-11-24 19:29:32--  https://phx.speedtest.clouvider.net/1g.bin
Resolving phx.speedtest.clouvider.net (phx.speedtest.clouvider.net)... 45.86.208.131
Connecting to phx.speedtest.clouvider.net (phx.speedtest.clouvider.net)|45.86.208.131|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1048576000 (1000M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null                100%[=================================>]   1000M   572MB/s    in 1.7s   

2022-11-24 19:29:34 (572 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [1048576000/1048576000]