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C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by lossolo »

lazyjones wrote: post #11

Avotons are very slow, an 8C SoC will typically be slower than an 8 year old 2C desktop CPU (I ran Go builds as a benchmark on my own 2.4 GHz C2750 vs. a 2008 iMac with 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo). As for Scaleway, some people seem to like it very much, but I found their policy about spamming their users problematic. They (online.net) mock you at registration with a sleazy checked and disabled box for receiving spam ("produc…

I can confirm that, i've also tested 8 core one, it's avoton, very slow cpu, which i've tested some time ago also on their normal offer. But for 8.3 addditional euro you get 24 GB of ram and 120 GB more SSD if you compare it with their normal dedicated offer with avoton.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by nonuby »

A real x86/64 bare metal server for ~ us$3.30/mo inclusive, wow, it seems like only yesterday people were drooling at $99/mo 300mhz Cobalt RAQs at ev1servers (it was more like 15yrs ago). I was able to spin one up in <1min however I was previously registered at scaleway due to their last offering.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by dan1234 »

voltagex_ wrote: post #32
lazyjones wrote: post #11

Avotons are very slow, an 8C SoC will typically be slower than an 8 year old 2C desktop CPU (I ran Go builds as a benchmark on my own 2.4 GHz C2750 vs. a 2008 iMac with 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo). As for Scaleway, some people seem to like it very much, but I found their policy about spamming their users problematic. They (online.net) mock you at registration with a sleazy checked and disabled box for receiving spam ("produc…

I'm happy to run any benchmarks people like (within reason). I can also compare to most AWS instances if you like.

I’d be especially interested in any disk & network speed benchmarks.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by darkr »

voltagex_ wrote: post #32
lazyjones wrote: post #11

Avotons are very slow, an 8C SoC will typically be slower than an 8 year old 2C desktop CPU (I ran Go builds as a benchmark on my own 2.4 GHz C2750 vs. a 2008 iMac with 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo). As for Scaleway, some people seem to like it very much, but I found their policy about spamming their users problematic. They (online.net) mock you at registration with a sleazy checked and disabled box for receiving spam ("produc…

I'm happy to run any benchmarks people like (within reason). I can also compare to most AWS instances if you like.

I was actually looking at getting a C2750 (the 8 core avoton) a while back for a small low-power home server, and came across someone who'd already done some decent benchmarking: http://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c2750-8-core-avoton-r...

TLDR; For the blowfish test suite (multi-threaded), it's almost on par with an m3.2xlarge, for the majority of other multi-threaded tests, it's a little quicker than an m3.xlarge, but for anything that is single-threaded, it's pretty slow.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by networked »

voltagex_ wrote: post #32
lazyjones wrote: post #11

Avotons are very slow, an 8C SoC will typically be slower than an 8 year old 2C desktop CPU (I ran Go builds as a benchmark on my own 2.4 GHz C2750 vs. a 2008 iMac with 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo). As for Scaleway, some people seem to like it very much, but I found their policy about spamming their users problematic. They (online.net) mock you at registration with a sleazy checked and disabled box for receiving spam ("produc…

I'm happy to run any benchmarks people like (within reason). I can also compare to most AWS instances if you like.

Please run nbench [1]. I ran it on the C1 in April 2015 and got the following results:

  CPU                 : 4 CPU
  L2 Cache            :
  OS                  : Linux 3.2.34-29
  C compiler          : gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
  libc                : libc-2.19.so
  MEMORY INDEX        : 5.859
  INTEGER INDEX       : 8.164
  FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 5.770
For comparison, here are an Intel Atom N450, a Core 2 Duo L7500 and a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B:

  CPU                 : Dual GenuineIntel Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450   @ 1.66GHz 1667MHz
  L2 Cache            : 512 KB
  OS                  : Linux 3.2.0-23-generic
  C compiler          : gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 
  libc                : libc-2.15.so
  MEMORY INDEX        : 10.845
  INTEGER INDEX       : 9.315
  FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 8.748

  CPU                 : Dual GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     L7500  @ 1.60GHz 1601MHz
  L2 Cache            : 4096 KB
  OS                  : Linux 3.5.0-26-generic
  C compiler          : gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 
  libc                : libc-2.13.so
  MEMORY INDEX        : 18.734
  INTEGER INDEX       : 14.318
  FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 23.178

  CPU                 :
  L2 Cache            :
  OS                  : Linux 3.6.11+
  C compiler          : gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14+rpi1)
  libc                : libc-2.13.so
  MEMORY INDEX        : 2.536
  INTEGER INDEX       : 3.159
  FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 2.157
[1] http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by vidarh »

codecamper wrote: post #29

unlimited bandwidth. Is that for real? 300 Mbits. Let's assume you can pump out 100 Mbit sustained. That is about 10 MB/s. or 26,000,000 Megabytes/month. 26,000 GB / month. AWS & google cloud are about $.10/GB. That'd cost 2600 USD to serve. Scaleway claims that'd cost just 12 euro. For realz?

Amazon bandwidth prices are utterly insane. Pretty much every reasonably hosting provider out there will be below 20% of Amazon on bandwidth prices even with metered bandwidth, and going down to around 2% of AWS bandwidth prices (still for metered).

Basically, if you're shifting lots of data out of AWS, it very often pays to rent some cheap boxes elsewhere to use as caching proxies. Every TB of AWS bandwidth you can cut trivially finances an extra server and still leaves you with savings.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by tux3 »

networked wrote: post #57
voltagex_ wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm happy to run any benchmarks people like (within reason). I can also compare to most AWS instances if you like.

Please run nbench [1]. I ran it on the C1 in April 2015 and got the following results: CPU : 4 CPU L2 Cache : OS : Linux 3.2.34-29 C compiler : gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) libc : libc-2.19.so MEMORY INDEX : 5.859 INTEGER INDEX : 8.164 FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 5.770 For comparison, here are an Intel Atom N450, a Core 2 Duo L7500 and a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B: CPU : Dual GenuineIntel Intel(R) Atom(TM)…

Here are the results on a C2S:

  CPU                 : 4 CPU GenuineIntel Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2550  @ 2.40GHz 2394MHz
  L2 Cache            : 1024 KB
  OS                  : Linux 4.4.4-std-3
  C compiler          : gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) 
  libc                : libc-2.19.so
  MEMORY INDEX        : 22.134
  INTEGER INDEX       : 17.899
  FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 21.522

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by msh »

codecamper wrote: post #29

unlimited bandwidth. Is that for real? 300 Mbits. Let's assume you can pump out 100 Mbit sustained. That is about 10 MB/s. or 26,000,000 Megabytes/month. 26,000 GB / month. AWS & google cloud are about $.10/GB. That'd cost 2600 USD to serve. Scaleway claims that'd cost just 12 euro. For realz?

Downloading from my c1 will regularly max out my 100 megabit fiber at home.
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