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We built an alternative to AWS, apparently it's 96% cheaper

by Anthony Brunello

I finally did the math on our Storage VPS product and apparently it's 96% less expensive than AWS.

We sell a 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 2 TB Disk virtual private server with 6TB of monthly transfer for $20/month.

I fired up the AWS Pricing Calculator and this is what I came up with:

2 vCPU Instance (t4g.small) - $12.26/month
2 TB Storage - $92.16/month
6 TB Transfer - $552.96/month

AWS Total: $657.38/month
ADTAQ Total: $20/month

Maybe we're on to something here!

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What’s the storage performance? I would assume these are spinning disks and not NVMe SSDs?

I am looking for an affordable 4TB NVMe SSD VPS for a database server, but haven‘t found one yet.

neathack

a year ago

They are spinning disk, but we've added a bit of secret sauce. Here's a benchmark from an instance on a hypervisor with actual user load:

root[@benchwarmer](/benchwarmer):~# ./yabs.sh -5
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-04-23                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Thu 01 Jun 2023 01:46:55 PM PDT

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes
Processor  : Intel Core Processor (Broadwell)
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2194.916 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 2.0 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-23-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 130.16 MB/s  (32.5k) | 1.85 GB/s    (28.9k)
Write      | 130.51 MB/s  (32.6k) | 1.86 GB/s    (29.0k)
Total      | 260.67 MB/s  (65.1k) | 3.71 GB/s    (57.9k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 7.85 GB/s    (15.3k) | 690.09 MB/s    (673)
Write      | 8.27 GB/s    (16.1k) | 736.05 MB/s    (718)
Total      | 16.13 GB/s   (31.5k) | 1.42 GB/s     (1.3k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.25 Gbits/sec  | 688 Mbits/sec   | 138 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 989 Mbits/sec   | 809 Mbits/sec   | 149 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 1.16 Gbits/sec  | 1.15 Gbits/sec  | 145 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 895 Mbits/sec   | 755 Mbits/sec   | 224 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.92 Gbits/sec  | 368 Mbits/sec   | 65.2 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 2.22 Gbits/sec  | 1.80 Gbits/sec  | 63.3 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 2.63 Gbits/sec  | 2.01 Gbits/sec  | 37.1 ms

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 764
Multi Core      | 1431
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21280440

YABS completed in 6 min 33 sec

Let me know if you have further questions!

anthonybrunello

a year ago

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That's pretty impressive, I have to say! This beats my current (non-stripped) NVMe SSD setup noticeably. Great job!

I hope I find some time this or next week to have a closer look!

Thanks for the link.

neathack

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  This is actually RAID6, too, so you'll have redundancy.
  
  Let me know if you'd like to trial an instance for a few days and I can set it up 👍
  
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    I really appreciate it and wouldn't mind. However, it might take a few days before I can actually have a look at it. I could send you a message when I'm ready?
    
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      Of course, no rush.
      
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