Storage Space: 100GB
Monthly Bandwidth: 2000GB
DDR4 RAM: 8 GB
CPU Cores: 4
Seen on LowEndTalk Black Friday sales. Cheapest I've seen an Australian Melbourne (some are cheaper in Sydney) VPS with high RAM, next best was FlowVPS 4GB for $85/year.
Sorry yeah - was referring to the one from years ago.
Yeah corrected OP to specify cheapest I've seen in Melbourne, various in Sydney have been cheaper. Also the only host I've seen in Perth. They apparently have 20Gbit peering, unsure on port speed.
Purchased the Hosthatch 10TB one, it's a steal for a Plex server if you have a couple of friends chip in.
Have you ever looked at Oracle Cloud? They give you a very generous 'always free' offer and their kit is hosted in Melbourne.
It may or may not suit your needs obviously being an ARM processor, but I run 2 Ubuntu VM's with 2 OCPUs and 12GB of RAM each and boy do they fly.
The AMD CPU offering is much more limited.
Available Shapes
*Micro instances (AMD processor): All tenancies get up to two Always Free VM instances using the VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro shape, which has an AMD processor.
*Ampere A1 Compute instances (Arm processor): All tenancies get the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the >VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory.
Just got my server setup - it's actually the same peering as FlowVPS; Host Universal Pty Ltd. It's a higher speed port though. FlowVPS is 1Gbps, this got 1433.88 Mbit/s Up / 2559.46 Mbit/s Down. Judging by ping, it used a Sydney server as 'nearby'.
Geekbench v6 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : 840 (GOOD)
Multi Core : 2709IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 124 MB/s
sha256 : 245 MB/s
md5sum : 570 MB/sRAM Speed:
Avg. write : 3925.3 MB/s
Avg. read : 9045.3 MB/sDisk Speed:
1st run : 1.5 GB/s
2nd run : 1.5 GB/s
3rd run : 1.4 GB/s
Average : 1501.9 MB/s
Global Speedtest.net
Location Upload Download Ping
Nearby 1433.88 Mbit/s 2559.46 Mbit/s 12.242 ms
USA, New York (Hivelocity) 63.06 Mbit/s 150.76 Mbit/s ping error!
USA, Chicago (Windstream) 68.71 Mbit/s 146.08 Mbit/s 212.937 ms
USA, Miami (Comcast) 61.13 Mbit/s 149.26 Mbit/s 226.415 ms
USA, Los Angeles (Windstream) 107.46 Mbit/s 269.65 Mbit/s 174.738 ms
UK, London (toob Ltd) 17.12 Mbit/s 74.12 Mbit/s 286.592 ms
France, Paris (Orange) 20.05 Mbit/s 73.73 Mbit/s 261.907 ms
Spain, Madrid (MasMovil) 1.92 Mbit/s 65.99 Mbit/s 257.085 ms
Italy, Rome (Unidata) 2.36 Mbit/s 51.76 Mbit/s 298.487 ms
India, Mumbai (Tatasky) 138.77 Mbit/s 380.94 Mbit/s 137.945 ms
Singapore (StarHub) 221.09 Mbit/s 495.34 Mbit/s 83.066 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 65.81 Mbit/s 238.33 Mbit/s 196.490 ms
Australia, Sydney (Optus) 1256.72 Mbit/s 2393.72 Mbit/s 13.872 ms
RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas) 12.94 Mbit/s 15.05 Mbit/s 456.028 ms
Brazil, Sao Paulo (Criare) 1.69 Mbit/s 15.15 Mbit/s 397.847 ms
International peering is a little sluggish…. Storage and RAM speed great, CPU speed good.
FlowVPS was similar for international, but maxed out at 875/915 for nearby (ie 1Gbps).
Yeah my experience with Host Universal is similar. I have a colocation in NextDC Perth with Ransom IT (Host Universal is owned by the same guys) and local speeds are great but international leaves a little to be desired. I can't complain though, it's so damn cheap and I haven't even experienced so much as a blip since the server was racked.
I remember Ransom IT, the unfortunate naming….. How are they these days?
You're possibly better off price wise with https://liftuphosting.com.au/au/vps btw
Hey everyone.
I was pleasantly surprised to see our deal posted here!
We've sold out of these VPS packages. However, I've added another 10 servers to this deal until the 30th of November.
This promotion also includes a free BitNinja Security license (worth $40 USD per month) AND a free DirectAdmin license (10 Accounts, 50 Domains (RRP $15 USD per month), just mention this in the order notes.
The cloud configuration for BitNinja is a killer feature if you want top-notch security for multiple servers in a single portal. Native integration with cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin.
Storage and RAM speed great, CPU speed good.
They apparently have 20Gbit peering, unsure on port speed.
Glad to hear. These VPSs are provisioned on our new SuperMicro EPYC servers with 512GB of RAM with dual 10Gbit ports (theoretical speed of 20Gbit across two ports).
We've seen the great performance on our shared hosting services as well (which use the same hardware).
This means our Premier Hosting is quite overpowered for the price we offer it :)
international leaves a little to be desired
Host Universal have recently bought on new links between Singapore and Perth; unfortunately, due to the Indigo West subsea cable cut, there are at least 6 other submarine cable cuts in the APAC region currently impacting upstream.
Please let me know if you have any questions; always happy to help.
Jamie
Also, here are a couple of speed tests from the Melbourne VM node :)
[root@vm70 ~]# ./speedtest -s 46114
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: GSL Networks - Melbourne (id: 46114)
ISP: Host Universal
Idle Latency: 0.20 ms (jitter: 0.01ms, low: 0.19ms, high: 0.21ms)
Download: 7720.88 Mbps (data used: 3.9 GB)
1.70 ms (jitter: 0.39ms, low: 0.21ms, high: 3.14ms)
Upload: 7611.79 Mbps (data used: 3.4 GB)
3.58 ms (jitter: 0.48ms, low: 0.23ms, high: 5.35ms)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/d2e09632-a161-419b-882a-a…
[root@vm70 ~]# ./speedtest -s 55297
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: Superloop Australia Pty Ltd - Melbourne (id: 55297)
ISP: Host Universal
Idle Latency: 0.28 ms (jitter: 0.01ms, low: 0.25ms, high: 0.31ms)
Download: 7734.57 Mbps (data used: 3.5 GB)
0.63 ms (jitter: 0.17ms, low: 0.28ms, high: 0.96ms)
Upload: 7650.77 Mbps (data used: 3.5 GB)
3.38 ms (jitter: 0.36ms, low: 0.38ms, high: 4.65ms)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/985c2b89-98ae-4616-8971-d…
[root@vm70 ~]#
As long as it maxes out my 1Gbps home internet I'm happy haha
Where is the FlowVPS Black Friday $85/year deal? I thought that deal was from years ago?
The Hosthatch deals at https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/190331/black-friday-2023-n… are better I would say (they are in SYD)