AMD EPYC TURIN VPS Beta Testers Required

[Pho3nix]

Thanks for your interest @Pho3nix

Provisional pricing has been published on our site but this may change closer to launch date

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As always, beta testers who are able to provide us with benchmark data and feedback will be provided with coupon codes

I’m definitely keen to beta test. I see some of your VPS pricing has been cut as well?

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

I’m definitely keen to beta test. I see some of your VPS pricing has been cut as well?

Thanks for your interest and I’ll reach out to you as soon as we are ready!

Not too sure which pricing you are referring to as there haven’t been any price adjustments. The only changes are those to allow you to customize your vps and scale up and down as required - but this has been around for quite some time.

 

[Pho3nix]

Thanks for your interest and I’ll reach out to you as soon as we are ready!

Not too sure which pricing you are referring to as there haven’t been any price adjustments. The only changes are those to allow you to customize your vps and scale up and down as required - but this has been around for quite some time.

Haven’t looked in a while to be honest but I didn’t realize I could get a decent VPS for R55 lol.

 

[B-1]

How long is the test period?

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

How long is the test period?

1-2 weeks

 

[B-1]

1-2 weeks

Ah cool, that's too short to move anything significant.
But Im sure you will have lots of takers.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Ah cool, that's too short to move anything significant.
But Im sure you will have lots of takers.

Thanks for your interest and let me know if you change your mind

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Quick bump, two photos of one of our new Turin Servers added to the first post

Beta testing should go live tomorrow, and I'll be in contact with everyone who has shown interest

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

always keen to test @Jade @ Absolute Hosting

Hey @Retro1337

You've got PM for your AMD EPYC Turin Beta test - enjoy!

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

I'll help

Howdy @Chris_Auc

You've got PM for the beta test, enjoy!

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

I’m definitely keen to beta test. I see some of your VPS pricing has been cut as well?

Hey @Pho3nix

You've got PM for your beta, enjoy!

 

[acidrain]

Haven’t looked in a while to be honest but I didn’t realize I could get a decent VPS for R55 lol.

Yeah, last month I was looking for a "droplet" type provider and I only ever knew of international providers doing these very low cost VPS's.. until I stumbled upon Absolute Hosting. Took a month to test, will prob sub for a year now.

 

[Retro1337]

Just a quick YABS benchmark. Went for a bit of a higher spec option, impressive IOPS. Definitely Ideal for high-performance workloads/I/O-intensive applications like database/web applications

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Fri Feb 21 10:12:27 UTC 2025

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 2 hours, 28 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 9555 64-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 8 @ 3199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 11.7 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 96.8 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel     : 6.8.0-31-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
ASN        : AS329166 Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
Host       : Absolute Hosting (PTY) LTD
Location   : Johannesburg, Gauteng (GP)
Country    : South Africa

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 397.41 MB/s  (99.3k) | 2.16 GB/s    (33.8k)
Write      | 398.46 MB/s  (99.6k) | 2.17 GB/s    (34.0k)
Total      | 795.88 MB/s (198.9k) | 4.34 GB/s    (67.9k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 3.32 GB/s     (6.4k) | 3.35 GB/s     (3.2k)
Write      | 3.50 GB/s     (6.8k) | 3.57 GB/s     (3.4k)
Total      | 6.83 GB/s    (13.3k) | 6.93 GB/s     (6.7k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 281 Mbits/sec   | 436 Mbits/sec   | 162 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 166 Mbits/sec   | 380 Mbits/sec   | 173 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 215 Mbits/sec   | 367 Mbits/sec   | 258 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | busy            | 280 Mbits/sec   | 327 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 166 Mbits/sec   | 265 Mbits/sec   | 297 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 146 Mbits/sec   | 312 Mbits/sec   | 237 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | 185 Mbits/sec   | 355 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 2802
Multi Core      | 14146
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10661554

From an infrastructure perspective, super quick and efficient setup process, the server was solid, providing a stable 10-12 ms latency roundtrip from home. Completed random speed tests over the course of an hour or so and results remained consistent which is a positive.

Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Afrihost (Johannesburg) [506.22 km]: 1.762 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 497.07 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 396.33 Mbit/s
root@test:~# speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Absolute-Hosting-PTY-LTD (102.211.205.124)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Afrihost (Johannesburg) [506.22 km]: 0.977 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 497.13 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 397.58 Mbit/s
root@test:~# speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Absolute-Hosting-PTY-LTD (102.211.205.124)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Afrihost (Johannesburg) [506.22 km]: 0.964 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 497.01 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 385.94 Mbit/s
root@test:~# speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Absolute-Hosting-PTY-LTD (102.211.205.124)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Afrihost (Johannesburg) [506.22 km]: 1.015 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 497.13 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 410.53 Mbit/s
root@test:~# speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Absolute-Hosting-PTY-LTD (102.211.205.124)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Afrihost (Johannesburg) [506.22 km]: 1.013 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 497.16 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 374.64 Mbit/s

Test ISO upload from server with 1gig uplink.


It would be nice to see 1GB uplinks (even if its shared) to become a standard especially for a higher spec VPS. R3000 price bump from 500mbps to 1gig seems a bit excessive, also not a fan of the bandwidth limitations considering there are local providers out there that include the aforementioned in your mid-higher tier packages. However, I do understand that these affect the overall cost calculations to keep the monthly pricing ultra-low and competitive.

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[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

I need to tweak the config of the vps servers to allow for more vCPU’s so that you can increase those multi core scores.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

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Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 2802
Multi Core | 14146
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10661554
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From an infrastructure perspective, super quick and efficient setup process, the server was solid, providing a stable 10-12 ms latency roundtrip from home. Completed random speed tests over the course of an hour or so and results remained consistent which is a positive.

root@test:~# speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Absolute-Hosting-PTY-LTD (102.211.205.124)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Afrihost (Johannesburg) [506.22 km]: 1.013 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 497.16 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 374.64 Mbit/s

It would be nice to see 1GB uplinks (even if its shared) to become a standard especially for a higher spec VPS. R3000 price bump from 500mbps to 1gig seems a bit excessive, also not a fan of the bandwidth limitations considering there are local providers out there that include the aforementioned in your mid-higher tier packages. However, I do understand that these affect the overall cost calculations to keep the monthly pricing ultra-low and competitive.

I've made the config change to allow you upgrade the vCPU's to 64 per VPS instance and you can use the upgrade function from the client service area to upgrade your VPS vCPU's at no cost as per below.


I've bumped up the throughput for your VPS and you should get close to 1GBPS now, and I'll explain why we bill for the speed increases.
Our transit is currently sitting at 1GBPS and peers are up to 10GBPS, how ever our DDOS vendor charges us in slices of 250MBPS and the jump from 500MBPS to 1GBPS is an additional +- 350K per annum.

At these prices we have to try claw back some of the input cost how ever we could review that fee in the future based on feedback, ie what would an enterprise be willing to spend for 1GBPS connectivity?

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

@Retro1337 - see below

root@turintest1:~# curl -sL https://yabs.sh | bash
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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-01-01                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sat Feb 22 07:50:55 UTC 2025

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 9555 64-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 64 @ 3199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 11.7 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 68.7 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel     : 6.8.0-53-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
ASN        : AS329166 Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
Host       : Absolute Hosting (PTY) LTD
Location   : Johannesburg, Gauteng (GP)
Country    : South Africa

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 456.89 MB/s (114.2k) | 2.94 GB/s    (46.0k)
Write      | 458.09 MB/s (114.5k) | 2.96 GB/s    (46.2k)
Total      | 914.98 MB/s (228.7k) | 5.90 GB/s    (92.3k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 4.19 GB/s     (8.1k) | 4.29 GB/s     (4.1k)
Write      | 4.41 GB/s     (8.6k) | 4.58 GB/s     (4.4k)
Total      | 8.61 GB/s    (16.8k) | 8.88 GB/s     (8.6k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 597 Mbits/sec   | 829 Mbits/sec   | 163 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 553 Mbits/sec   | 818 Mbits/sec   | 170 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 348 Mbits/sec   | 651 Mbits/sec   | 263 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 187 Mbits/sec   | 458 Mbits/sec   | 332 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 265 Mbits/sec   | 477 Mbits/sec   | 297 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 331 Mbits/sec   | 724 Mbits/sec   | 241 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | 370 Mbits/sec   | 354 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 2669
Multi Core      | 28629
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10679423

YABS completed in 9 min 14 sec

root@turintest1:~# curl -sL https://yabs.sh | bash
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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-01-01                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Sat Feb 22 08:08:11 UTC 2025

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 9555 64-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 64 @ 3199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 11.7 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 68.7 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel     : 6.8.0-53-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
ASN        : AS329166 Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
Host       : Absolute Hosting (PTY) LTD
Location   : Johannesburg, Gauteng (GP)
Country    : South Africa

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 370.49 MB/s  (92.6k) | 2.20 GB/s    (34.5k)
Write      | 371.46 MB/s  (92.8k) | 2.22 GB/s    (34.6k)
Total      | 741.96 MB/s (185.4k) | 4.42 GB/s    (69.2k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 3.01 GB/s     (5.8k) | 3.00 GB/s     (2.9k)
Write      | 3.17 GB/s     (6.1k) | 3.20 GB/s     (3.1k)
Total      | 6.18 GB/s    (12.0k) | 6.21 GB/s     (6.0k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 497 Mbits/sec   | 820 Mbits/sec   | 166 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 435 Mbits/sec   | 738 Mbits/sec   | 170 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 348 Mbits/sec   | 678 Mbits/sec   | 257 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | busy            | 437 Mbits/sec   | 332 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 262 Mbits/sec   | 489 Mbits/sec   | 297 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 191 Mbits/sec   | 734 Mbits/sec   | 241 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | 407 Mbits/sec   | 354 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 2779
Multi Core      | 26991
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10679775

YABS completed in 9 min 35 sec

This benchmark is our best yet

root@turintest1:~# curl -sL https://yabs.sh | bash
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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-01-01                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sat Feb 22 17:44:41 UTC 2025

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 9555 64-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 128 @ 3199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 62.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 68.7 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel     : 6.8.0-53-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
ASN        : AS329166 Absolute Hosting (Pty) Ltd
Host       : Absolute Hosting (PTY) LTD
Location   : Johannesburg, Gauteng (GP)
Country    : South Africa

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 371.14 MB/s  (92.7k) | 2.14 GB/s    (33.5k)
Write      | 372.12 MB/s  (93.0k) | 2.15 GB/s    (33.6k)
Total      | 743.27 MB/s (185.8k) | 4.30 GB/s    (67.2k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 3.16 GB/s     (6.1k) | 3.14 GB/s     (3.0k)
Write      | 3.33 GB/s     (6.5k) | 3.35 GB/s     (3.2k)
Total      | 6.49 GB/s    (12.6k) | 6.50 GB/s     (6.3k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 498 Mbits/sec   | 820 Mbits/sec   | 166 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 494 Mbits/sec   | 819 Mbits/sec   | 170 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 320 Mbits/sec   | 671 Mbits/sec   | 260 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | busy            | 436 Mbits/sec   | 332 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 258 Mbits/sec   | 481 Mbits/sec   | 298 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 313 Mbits/sec   | 734 Mbits/sec   | 241 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | 262 Mbits/sec   | 353 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 2753
Multi Core      | 28323
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10689421

YABS completed in 9 min 47 sec

 

[HeroNextDoor]

Hello,

Keen to test, if there are still spots available.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Hello,

Keen to test, if there are still spots available.

Yeah plenty of spaces available, will send you details via PM in a few

 

[boraktus]

Hi @Jade @ Absolute Hosting

I'm keen to test.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Hi @Jade @ Absolute Hosting

I'm keen to test.

Thanks for your interest! PM incoming in a few moments