i5-10500T - 32GB DDR4 - 1TB NVMe - 1Gbps Unmetered - $38 Dedi // Quiet launch, read more inside...

crunchbits

@Cloudie on the phone placing an order for 20, circa 2023

Before you get too excited, let's start off with the cons of these dedicated servers (compared to our normal enterprise offerings):

• No KVM/console access
• PXE actions are still a little buggy, so all orders require a manual staff member approval initially to make sure you're being delivered a properly deployed OS
• You're welcome to reinstall via our control panel afterwards if you want to, but it sometimes requires an abort and retry (or two)
• No redundant power supplies
• No customization, what you see is what you get

Understanding the above will be crucial for expectation setting. While we actively have some upgrade work going on behind the scenes to help with making the PXE re-deployment smoother, the ETA on that is still 5-14 days out. That being said, I'm personally excited to get some feedback on these and figure LES members will be excited to get a recurring discount on something I don't think we'll ever discount again moving forward.

The good:
* $45 $38/mo w/code: IKNOWWHATIMBUYING
* i5-10500T (6c/12t) up to 3.8GHz
* 32GB DDR4
* 1TB NVMe
* 1Gbps Unmetered
* Direct Order Link

Yabs:

root@47-DP-U26-L:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-04-23                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Fri Aug  4 06:52:06 AM UTC 2023

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 3 hours, 38 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10500T CPU @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores  : 12 @ 2300.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 31.1 GiB
Swap       : 3.8 GiB
Disk       : 912.0 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-10-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Redoubt Networks
ASN        : AS400304 REDOUBT NETWORKS
Host       : Atomic Networks LLC
Location   : Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (ID)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 793.62 MB/s (198.4k) | 1.15 GB/s    (18.0k)
Write      | 795.72 MB/s (198.9k) | 1.15 GB/s    (18.1k)
Total      | 1.58 GB/s   (397.3k) | 2.31 GB/s    (36.1k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.26 GB/s     (2.4k) | 1.13 GB/s     (1.1k)
Write      | 1.32 GB/s     (2.5k) | 1.21 GB/s     (1.1k)
Total      | 2.59 GB/s     (5.0k) | 2.34 GB/s     (2.2k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 830 Mbits/sec   | 175 Mbits/sec   | 127 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 837 Mbits/sec   | busy            | 143 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | busy            | 586 Mbits/sec   | 133 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 187 Mbits/sec   | 227 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 888 Mbits/sec   | 69.5 Mbits/sec  | 62.2 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 892 Mbits/sec   | 348 Mbits/sec   | 61.4 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 910 Mbits/sec   | 801 Mbits/sec   | 38.1 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1508
Multi Core      | 6251
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2143471

YABS completed in 10 min 31 sec

network-speed.xyz:

---------------------------- network-speed.xyz ----------------------------
      A simple script to test network performance using speedtest-cli      
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version            : v2023.07.24
 Global Speedtest   : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash
 Region Speedtest   : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash -s -- -r <region>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic System Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Model          : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10500T CPU @ 2.30GHz
 CPU Cores          : 12 @ 2355.225 MHz
 CPU Cache          : 12288 KB
 AES-NI             : ✔ Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V         : ✔ Enabled
 Total Disk         : 912.1 GB (1.1 GB Used)
 Total RAM          : 31.1 GB (564.2 MB Used)
 Total Swap         : 3.8 GB (0 Used)
 System uptime      : 0 days, 0 hour 17 min
 Load average       : 0.08, 0.73, 0.47
 OS                 : Debian GNU/Linux 12
 Arch               : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel             : 6.1.0-10-amd64
 Virtualization     : NONE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic Network Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Primary Network    : IPv4
 ISP                : Redoubt Networks
 ASN                : AS400304 REDOUBT NETWORKS
 Host               : Atomic Networks LLC
 Location           : Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-ID, United States
 Location (IPv4)    : Spokane, Washington, US
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location         Latency     Loss    DL Speed       UP Speed       Server      

 ISP: Sakura Network LTD 

 Nearest          36.48 ms    0.0%    937.55 Mbps    932.53 Mbps    Xiber LLC - Kansas City, MO 

 Kochi, IN        255.44 ms   0.0%    396.20 Mbps    348.98 Mbps    Asianet Broadband - Cochin 
 Bangalore, IN    238.61 ms   0.0%    564.51 Mbps    358.53 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore 
 Chennai, IN      235.25 ms   0.0%    451.83 Mbps    376.46 Mbps    Tata Play Fiber - Chennai 
 Mumbai, IN       263.39 ms   0.0%    449.91 Mbps    317.40 Mbps    i3D.net - Mumbai 
 Delhi, IN        277.73 ms   0.0%    411.29 Mbps    314.31 Mbps    Tata Teleservices Ltd - New Delhi 

 Seattle, US      13.26 ms    0.0%    815.04 Mbps    934.19 Mbps    DediPath - Seattle, WA 
 Los Angeles, US  36.07 ms    0.0%    936.48 Mbps    916.66 Mbps    ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA 
 Dallas, US       44.79 ms    0.0%    816.31 Mbps    915.63 Mbps    Hivelocity - Dallas, TX 
 Miami, US        86.55 ms    0.0%    894.51 Mbps    891.69 Mbps    AT&T - Miami, FL 
 New York, US     63.81 ms    0.0%    872.82 Mbps    929.21 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - New York, NY 
 Toronto, CA      68.89 ms    0.0%    886.10 Mbps    931.79 Mbps    Rogers - Toronto, ON 

 London, UK       127.63 ms   0.0%    960.70 Mbps    686.19 Mbps    VeloxServ Communications - London 
 Amsterdam, NL    54.85 ms    0.0%    642.80 Mbps    549.06 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - Amsterdam 
 Paris, FR        132.89 ms   N/A     954.16 Mbps    669.07 Mbps    Axione - Paris 
 Frankfurt, DE    139.32 ms   0.0%    909.81 Mbps    628.34 Mbps    23M GmbH - Frankfurt Am Main 
 Warsaw, PL       161.72 ms   0.0%    559.68 Mbps    562.48 Mbps    UPC Polska - Warszawa 
 Bucharest, RO    186.02 ms   0.0%    654.89 Mbps    485.27 Mbps    Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest 

 Jeddah, KSA      197.89 ms   0.0%    521.44 Mbps    455.86 Mbps    Saudi Telecom Company 
 Dubai, AE        240.73 ms   0.0%    672.72 Mbps    313.99 Mbps    du - Dubai  
 Fujairah, AE     267.35 ms   0.0%    875.39 Mbps    313.67 Mbps    ETISALAT-UAE - Fujairah 

 Tokyo, JP        92.62 ms    N/A     732.51 Mbps    650.11 Mbps    fdcservers.net - Tokyo 
 Shanghai, CU-CN  189.60 ms   0.0%    746.94 Mbps    475.84 Mbps    China Unicom 5G - ShangHai 
 Nanjing, CT-CN   162.29 ms   0.0%    588.43 Mbps    408.98 Mbps    China Telecom JiangSu 5G - Nanjing 
 Hong Kong, HKG   147.21 ms   N/A     590.57 Mbps    620.28 Mbps    STC - Hong Kong 
 Singapore, SG    160.08 ms   0.0%    687.62 Mbps    571.82 Mbps    i3D.net - Singapore 
 Jakarta, ID      211.12 ms   0.0%    407.50 Mbps    178.53 Mbps    PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia - Jakarta 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Avg DL Speed       : 701.39 Mbps
 Avg UL Speed       : 582.85 Mbps

 Total DL Data      : 28.21 GB
 Total UL Data      : 21.47 GB
 Total Data         : 49.67 GB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Duration           : 14 min 6 sec
 System Time        : 04/08/2023 - 03:45:26 UTC
 Total Script Runs  : 20226
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sh97

Very nice offer, any VPS offers coming soon?

crunchbits

@sh97 said:
Very nice offer, any VPS offers coming soon?

Will make a final decision on that with the team tomorrow--but any requests? Had something unique prepared for another LES exclusive, but I haven't decided if it is for sure yet.

tiesto

no IPv6?
Is iGPU available?

crunchbits

@tiesto said:
no IPv6?
Is iGPU available?

They have IPv6 available, we just have to assign them on request for the moment.

iGPU is included, this is bare metal.

crunchbits

These went way too quickly. We'll restock them tomorrow.

gemini86

@crunchbits said:

Will make a final decision on that with the team tomorrow--but any requests? Had something unique prepared for another LES exclusive, but I haven't decided if it is for sure yet.

Any offers for the NVMe or SSD VPS?

localhost

@crunchbits said:

Is it possible to request kvm temporarily?

sh97

@crunchbits said:

@sh97 said:
Very nice offer, any VPS offers coming soon?

Will make a final decision on that with the team tomorrow--but any requests? Had something unique prepared for another LES exclusive, but I haven't decided if it is for sure yet.

If it's not too much - some limited stock annual deals under $20?

Cloudie

Haha I didn't even get the tag notification for this one. :-)

I'll buy 20, if you give me all the other goods :-D

terrorgen

I just have to ask... what is the relationship between @crunchbits and @Cloudie?

Seems to be a lot of PDA.

crunchbits

@localhost said:

@crunchbits said:

Is it possible to request kvm temporarily?

At the moment, no. We do have some portable KVMs that were likely going to be dedicated to these--but sort of weighing out the options on them.

@sh97 said:

If it's not too much - some limited stock annual deals under $20?

Precisely what was discussed and prepared. Probably closer to ~$17/yr limited deals that won't go up on the website.

@terrorgen said:
I just have to ask... what is the relationship between @crunchbits and @Cloudie?

Seems to be a lot of PDA.

Strictly PDA.

tiesto

@crunchbits said:
These went way too quickly. We'll restock them tomorrow.

Were all of them bought up by Cloudie? :'(

crunchbits

@tiesto said:

@crunchbits said:
These went way too quickly. We'll restock them tomorrow.

Were all of them bought up by Cloudie? :'(

Yeah, existing customers I believe. There will be a few more this evening, as well as a LES-only treat.

GeekWanderer

Yeah, existing customers I believe. There will be a few more this evening, as well as a LES-only treat.

Did I miss the LES treats?

crunchbits

@GeekWanderer said:

Yeah, existing customers I believe. There will be a few more this evening, as well as a LES-only treat.

Did I miss the LES treats?

You did not. It's on pause for a day or three--forgot we had something staged already with OGF. It'll be slightly better when it goes up here anyways.

FAT32

Patience is virtue... let me wait here

adanforest

if again possible to restock?

crunchbits

@adanforest said:
if again possible to restock?

Coming today.

@FAT32 said:
Patience is virtue... let me wait here

Don't think LES will get left out. Not only will you not get left out, but I'll be able to subtract $200 right off the top and pass it along (regarding the ogf yearly bonanza). You might even be blessed in missing out on all the shenanigans after the deal was invaded by hostloc & co

rpollestad

I'm 100% in for one if/when they restock.

CamoYoshi

Curious... based on the hardware specs and the caveats, are these 1L business desktops? I've always wanted to toy with the idea of deploying them in a datacenter at some point.

crunchbits

@CamoYoshi said:
Curious... based on the hardware specs and the caveats, are these 1L business desktops? I've always wanted to toy with the idea of deploying them in a datacenter at some point.

Yes, these are rack mounted HP Elite Mini's with a few small customizations and a specialized software stack to allow some basic 'ipmi' functionality for the end user. I'll share some pics of how they're racked, and depending on a few things we might publicly release our 'ipmi bridge' down the road too.

terrorgen

That'll be nice. We need an alternative to PiKVM.

CamoYoshi

@crunchbits said:

@CamoYoshi said:
Curious... based on the hardware specs and the caveats, are these 1L business desktops? I've always wanted to toy with the idea of deploying them in a datacenter at some point.

Yes, these are rack mounted HP Elite Mini's with a few small customizations and a specialized software stack to allow some basic 'ipmi' functionality for the end user. I'll share some pics of how they're racked, and depending on a few things we might publicly release our 'ipmi bridge' down the road too.

Very interested in this! Looking forward to seeing it. Thanks!

localhost

I'd love to get my hands on these... with there was an option to sweeten the pot with annual payment or something @crunchbits

willie

I haven't been paying much attention to LES lately, so may have missed elsewhere: what is the DC location? I don't see it here or on the order form.

terrorgen

@willie said:
I haven't been paying much attention to LES lately, so may have missed elsewhere: what is the DC location? I don't see it here or on the order form.

Spokane, WA

crunchbits

@terrorgen said:
That'll be nice. We need an alternative to PiKVM.

At the moment it's not full 1:1 functionality, mainly because intel vpro/amt just generally sucks. At least some of the important things work but I don't think an actual console will ever be possible. Even with MeshCommander locally it usually doesn't work, or only runs a legitimate serial console that doesn't display 50% of the characters.

@localhost said:
I'd love to get my hands on these... with there was an option to sweeten the pot with annual payment or something @crunchbits

How sweet do you want it?

@willie said:
I haven't been paying much attention to LES lately, so may have missed elsewhere: what is the DC location? I don't see it here or on the order form.

These will only be available in our Spokane, WA facility

Only a few went up today which were already locked down. We'll have another ~10-12 up tomorrow and I'll bump this thread.

localhost

@crunchbits said:

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@localhost said:
I'd love to get my hands on these... with there was an option to sweeten the pot with annual payment or something @crunchbits

How sweet do you want it?

As sweet as dropping pants can be 😎

Only a few went up today which were already locked down. We'll have another ~10-12 up tomorrow and I'll bump this thread.

O dang. Missed the drops.. hopefully I can get one on the next bump

RyanGelinas

It's been a hot minute since I got the console part to work on Intel AMT, but I do remember that with that you need to have either a monitor or an HDMI dummy plug installed, otherwise the kvm part always shows a black screen. It seemed to work ok after that

Jab

@crunchbits said:
I'll share some pics of how they're racked

I have no idea when this was posted and I don't care - I still don't see any photos!
ping -t @crunchbits we demand photos!

nullnothere

@crunchbits said: You did not. It's on pause for a day or three--forgot we had something staged already with OGF. It'll be slightly better when it goes up here anyways.

Now that things are a little quiet (nice work on the profile verification step - I guess that reduces things to a considerably manageable and clean level?), any hope of an LES exclusive as promised?

@FAT32 said: Patience is virtue... let me wait here

Seconded! Happy to wait esp. when the quality is worth the wait.

Thanks in advance...

crunchbits

@RyanGelinas said:
It's been a hot minute since I got the console part to work on Intel AMT, but I do remember that with that you need to have either a monitor or an HDMI dummy plug installed, otherwise the kvm part always shows a black screen. It seemed to work ok after that

Yeah, about mirrors what we discovered too. Still a little worried about using it for production. Mostly it's been waiting on us porting a custom ipmi-->amt bridge into C to run all the multithreaded requests nicely, make sure it does what it is supposed to do. AMT still has some funky hiccups with 'boot to pxe' and status reports that aren't overall a huge issue but if we don't document them ahead of time in big bold letters will create a support nightmare.

@Jab said:
I have no idea when this was posted and I don't care - I still don't see any photos!
ping -t @crunchbits we demand photos!

Still haven't grabbed the final rack, but here is what the testing units looked like:

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@nullnothere said:

@FAT32 said: Patience is virtue... let me wait here

Seconded! Happy to wait esp. when the quality is worth the wait.

Thanks in advance...

Yep. In full transparency: we had our asses kicked on demand for that deal. It really wasn't what I was expecting. Not even related to OGF, it's because the deal was shared to hostloc & nodeseek and beyond within 30 minutes. It didn't help that we ran into a completely unexpected/undocumented bug with deployment which created a race condition and basically atrocious QoS until we found and fixed the issue, racked 2x the hardware, migrated everyone over to the new stuff, made sure it was good, and then filled the backlog of verified requests. Couple that with about a hundred or two tickets of "my friend gets this speed but i dont, wtf!!!" and I basically blew past all our expected racking timelines this week.

I'll put the LES exclusive version up this evening. Today was mostly spending some much-needed off-screen family time.

Islantay

Is it possible to enroll a wait-list for this server.... I really want this tho..