Hetzner United States Hillsboro AMD EPYC Dedicated vCPU Cloud Server Test and Review
This time, we will test the Hetzner Dedicated Server in Hillsboro, United States. An AMD EPYC-Milan Processor powers this server and boasts impressive specifications: 4 cores CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 160 GB of SSD storage, a 1 Gbps internet port, and a generous 20 TB data transfer allowance. This server also comes with an IPv4 and an IPv6 address.
How well does this sever perform? Let’s find out. Our investigation includes a variety of detailed tests:
- Basic Benchmark, Yabs, and Unix Benchmark: These trials measure crucial performance data like a health check-up for your server.
- Global Node Test: This examines the network quality by checking connection points worldwide.
- Global Ping Test: This measures how quickly data can travel back and forth to the server, indicating its response times.
Looking deeper into the server’s accessibility and web performance, we’ll also conduct:
- Media Unlock Test: This shows which geographical regions can access the server and its media content.
- CloudFlare Internet Test: This will help us understand the quality of internet connections by seeing how they interact with a popular web infrastructure and security company.
- Performance evaluations using PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix: These reviews help assess how quickly a webpage loads and performs on this server.
Through these thorough and detailed tests, you’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of this server’s overall performance.
About Hetzner
Hetzner Online GmbH is a renowned cloud hosting services provider. They have a variety of server options to meet different needs.
1. Shared vCPU (x86) servers: They’re best fit for small to medium-sized websites and applications that can adjust to fluctuating levels of CPU allocation. These servers offer a great balance between cost and performance.
2. Shared vCPU (Arm64) servers: This is an alternative to traditional x86-based cloud servers. These servers introduce you to the powerful and eco-friendly Arm64 architecture at an attractive price point.
3. Dedicated vCPU servers: These servers are the go-to for apps and workloads that require high CPU and network usage. They demonstrate low lag times and predictable performance, making them a great fit for highly trafficked website gaming servers, machine learning, and big data processing tasks.
Hetzner also provides flexible and expandable Volumes, which let you increase the SSD-based storage for each cloud server as required. Also, if you use the server for less than a month, you only pay for the hours you use.
The company has newly launched ARM64-based cloud servers. These new offerings, called the “CAX” line, come with up to 32 GB of ECC RAM and as much as 320 GB of NVMe SSD-based storage. Due to their impressive performance, these plans are perfect for busy web servers, servers employing various applications, and other performance-intensive tasks.
Official Website: https://www.hetzner.com
BasicBench: Server Profile, I/O Speed, Upload and Download Speed
CPU Model : AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
CPU Cores : 4 @ 2445.406 MHz
CPU Cache : 512 KB
AES-NI : ✓ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✗ Disabled
Total Disk : 150.2 GB (1.5 GB Used)
Total Mem : 15.2 GB (138.7 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 18 min
Load average : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
OS : Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 5.4.0-156-generic
TCP CC : bbr
Virtualization : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✓ Online / ✓ Online
Organization : AS212317 Hetzner Online GmbH
Location : Hillsboro / US
Region : Oregon
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I/O Speed(1st run) : 1.2 GB/s
I/O Speed(2nd run) : 1.4 GB/s
I/O Speed(3rd run) : 1.4 GB/s
I/O Speed(average) : 1365.3 MB/s
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Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
Speedtest.net 8694.37 Mbps 6535.40 Mbps 0.77 ms
Los Angeles, US 3004.80 Mbps 9739.34 Mbps 25.72 ms
Dallas, US 1408.28 Mbps 9141.53 Mbps 57.17 ms
Montreal, CA 643.78 Mbps 937.51 Mbps 66.74 ms
Paris, FR 486.07 Mbps 4151.63 Mbps 164.96 ms
Amsterdam, NL 554.87 Mbps 4841.36 Mbps 145.20 ms
Shanghai, CN 273.49 Mbps 2683.97 Mbps 230.26 ms
Guangzhou, CN 484.89 Mbps 355.34 Mbps 179.35 ms
Hongkong, CN 465.05 Mbps 2472.78 Mbps 176.98 ms
Mumbai, IN 297.94 Mbps 1604.32 Mbps 268.00 ms
Singapore, SG 409.69 Mbps 1340.44 Mbps 203.00 ms
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Finished in : 5 min 41 sec
Timestamp : 2023-10-17 03:00:09 UTC
YabsBench: Disk Speed, iperf3 Network Speed, Geekbench 6 Benchmark
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 30 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
CPU cores : 4 @ 2445.406 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 15.2 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 150.2 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Kernel : 5.4.0-156-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP : Hetzner Online GmbH
ASN : AS212317 Hetzner Online GmbH
Host : HETZNER-DC
Location : Portland, Oregon (OR)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 240.09 MB/s (60.0k) | 1.74 GB/s (27.2k)
Write | 240.73 MB/s (60.1k) | 1.75 GB/s (27.4k)
Total | 480.83 MB/s (120.2k) | 3.50 GB/s (54.7k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 2.17 GB/s (4.2k) | 2.31 GB/s (2.2k)
Write | 2.29 GB/s (4.4k) | 2.46 GB/s (2.4k)
Total | 4.47 GB/s (8.7k) | 4.78 GB/s (4.6k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.14 Gbits/sec | 1.21 Gbits/sec | 155 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.29 Gbits/sec | 1.16 Gbits/sec | 152 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 1.10 Gbits/sec | 1.13 Gbits/sec | 166 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 744 Mbits/sec | 694 Mbits/sec | 218 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 2.19 Gbits/sec | 2.28 Gbits/sec | 84.1 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 459 Mbits/sec | busy | 56.7 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 3.99 Gbits/sec | 7.64 Gbits/sec | 26.1 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.07 Gbits/sec | 1.06 Gbits/sec | 155 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | busy | 159 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | busy | 814 Mbits/sec | 166 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 692 Mbits/sec | 770 Mbits/sec | 217 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | busy | 1.58 Gbits/sec | 83.9 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 2.87 Gbits/sec | 2.82 Gbits/sec | 57.3 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 6.75 Gbits/sec | busy | 26.7 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
|
Single Core | 1542
Multi Core | 3535
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3118049
YABS completed in 16 min 1 sec
UnixBench: CPU Performance, A score higher is better
Benchmark Run: Tue Oct 17 2023 03:56:18 - 04:24:18
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 47464769.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 7752.7 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 2525.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 583066.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 150509.8 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2046753.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 816563.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 57792.3 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 6910.2 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 6296.2 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1587.1 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 975714.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 47464769.6 4067.2
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 7752.7 1409.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 2525.2 587.3
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 583066.0 1472.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 150509.8 909.4
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 2046753.5 3528.9
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 816563.2 656.4
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 57792.3 144.5
Process Creation 126.0 6910.2 548.4
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 6296.2 1485.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1587.1 2645.1
System Call Overhead 15000.0 975714.6 650.5
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System Benchmarks Index Score 1064.4
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Benchmark Run: Tue Oct 17 2023 04:24:18 - 04:52:23
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 138438628.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 26173.6 MWIPS (10.1 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 7622.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1172699.3 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 303898.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 3999307.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 2583310.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 318274.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 19704.4 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 12511.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1696.4 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 3129957.8 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 138438628.9 11862.8
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 26173.6 4758.8
Execl Throughput 43.0 7622.5 1772.7
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 1172699.3 2961.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 303898.2 1836.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 3999307.7 6895.4
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 2583310.6 2076.6
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 318274.0 795.7
Process Creation 126.0 19704.4 1563.8
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 12511.6 2950.8
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1696.4 2827.4
System Call Overhead 15000.0 3129957.8 2086.6
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System Benchmarks Index Score 2726.6
======= Script description and score comparison completed! =======
Looking Glass
Test-Files
Global Node Test
## CDN Speedtest
CacheFly : 164.47 MiB/s | 1315.79 Mbps | ping 15.615ms
Gdrive : 46.88 MiB/s | 375.06 Mbps | ping 4.631ms
## North America Speedtest
Softlayer, Washington, USA : 2.65 MiB/s | 21.17 Mbps | ping 58.781ms
SoftLayer, San Jose, USA : 56.19 MiB/s | 449.51 Mbps | ping 19.953ms
SoftLayer, Dallas, USA : 0 B/s | N/A | ping error!
Vultr, New Jersey, USA : 787.38 KiB/s | 6.15 Mbps | ping 80.961ms
Vultr, Seattle, USA : 495.05 MiB/s | 3960.40 Mbps | ping 4.382ms
Vultr, Dallas, USA : 46.58 MiB/s | 372.61 Mbps | ping 49.971ms
Vultr, Los Angeles, USA : 88.03 MiB/s | 704.23 Mbps | ping 24.964ms
Ramnode, New York, USA : 27.16 MiB/s | 217.30 Mbps | ping 83.765ms
Ramnode, Atlanta, USA : 34.24 MiB/s | 273.95 Mbps | ping 66.780ms
## Europe Speedtest
Vultr, London, UK : 13.24 MiB/s | 105.93 Mbps | ping 151.014ms
LeaseWeb, Frankfurt, Germany : 23.37 KiB/s | 0.18 Mbps | ping 169.909ms
Hetzner, Germany : 340.01 KiB/s | 2.66 Mbps | ping 174.468ms
Ramnode, Alblasserdam, NL : 11.18 MiB/s | 89.42 Mbps | ping 156.951ms
Vultr, Amsterdam, NL : 11.87 MiB/s | 94.99 Mbps | ping 151.427ms
EDIS, Stockholm, Sweden : 277 B/s | N/A | ping 169.423ms
OVH, Roubaix, France : 373 B/s | N/A | ping 146.859ms
Online, France : 12.35 MiB/s | 98.77 Mbps | ping 152.196ms
Prometeus, Milan, Italy : 119 B/s | N/A | ping 170.549ms
## Exotic Speedtest
Sydney, Australia : 11.86 MiB/s | 94.90 Mbps | ping 157.471ms
Lagoon, New Caledonia : 160 B/s | N/A | ping 244.907ms
Hosteasy, Moldova : 5.17 MiB/s | 41.33 Mbps | ping 171.492ms
Prima, Argentina : 190.52 KiB/s | 1.49 Mbps | ping error!
## Asia Speedtest
SoftLayer, Singapore : 2.05 MiB/s | 16.37 Mbps | ping 198.312ms
Linode, Tokyo, Japan : 16.36 MiB/s | 130.86 Mbps | ping 127.058ms
Linode, Singapore : 8.08 MiB/s | 64.68 Mbps | ping 188.747ms
Vultr, Tokyo, Japan : 24.84 MiB/s | 198.76 Mbps | ping 92.422ms
Benchmark finished in 111 seconds
Global Latency Test
Query: ping 5.78.65.167, interval: 5s, dense mode: no
Probing 5.78.65.167 – RIPENCC /24 AS212317 HETZNER-CLOUD3 – United States, Oregon, Portland
Media Unlock Test
** Test Starts At: Tue 17 Oct 2023 03:30:54 AM UTC
** Checking Results Under IPv4
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** Your Network Provider: Hetzner Online GmbH (5.78.*.*)
============[ Multination ]============
Dazn: Yes (Region: US)
HotStar: No
Disney+: No
Netflix: Originals Only
YouTube Premium: Failed
Amazon Prime Video: Yes (Region: US)
TVBAnywhere+: Yes
iQyi Oversea Region: US
Viu.com: No
YouTube CDN: Seattle, WA
Netflix Preferred CDN: Portland, OR
Spotify Registration: No
Steam Currency: USD
ChatGPT: Yes
=======================================
** Checking Results Under IPv6
--------------------------------
** Your Network Provider: Hetzner Online GmbH (2a01:4ff:1f0:*:*)
============[ Multination ]============
Dazn: Failed (Network Connection)
HotStar: Yes (Region: US)
Disney+: Yes (Region: US)
Netflix: Originals Only
YouTube Premium: Failed
Amazon Prime Video: Unsupported
TVBAnywhere+: Failed (Network Connection)
iQyi Oversea Region: Failed
Viu.com: Failed
YouTube CDN: Seattle, WA
Netflix Preferred CDN: Miami, FL
Spotify Registration: No
Steam Currency: Failed (Network Connection)
ChatGPT: Yes
=======================================
Testing Done! CloudFlare Internet Test
PageSpeed Insights
GTmetrix Performance
Get Started with Hetzner
Getting started with Hetzner Cloud Servers involves a few steps:
- Create a Server: Log in to your Hetzner Cloud Console account and visit a project. Click on the button
ADD SERVERAnd choose a server location and configuration. You can customize your server with features like location, OS images, server type, networking, SSH key, and volume. - Install CloudPanel: Install CloudPanel on the server by logging in with SSH and running the installer script. Access CloudPanel as fast as possible to create the admin user and secure the server.
- Connect to Your Server: After creating your server, you can connect via SSH using a command-line interface (CLI). Enter the following command to connect to your server remotely Via IPv4 or IPv6:
<span class="hljs-comment"># For IPv4</span> ssh root@<203.0.113.1> <span class="hljs-comment"># For IPv6</span> ssh root@<2001:db8:1234::1>Replace
<203.0.113.1>and<2001:db8:1234::1>with the actual IP addresses of your server3. - Use Hetzner CLI: You can also use the Hetzner CLI for managing your servers. To start, visit the Hetzner Cloud Console at the console.hetzner.cloud, select your project, and create a new API token. Configure the
hcloudprogram to use your token:hcloud context create my-projectNow, you’re ready to use the program.
Please note that these are general steps and might vary based on your requirements and configurations.
Admin Control Panel
Hetzner’s Cloud Console is a user-friendly interface that allows you to manage your cloud servers. Here are some key features:
- Server Management: Select your server and login via the console. The server console should appear, allowing you to manage your server.
- Root Access: You can log in as the root user with the root password you received via email. You can request a new root password if your server was created with an SSH key or you no longer have the password.
- VNC Console: Hetzner provides a VNC console for your Cloud Console. This allows you to interact directly with your server physically at the machine.
- API Token: You can create a new API token for your project from the Hetzner Cloud Console. This token can be used with the Hetzner CLI for managing your servers.
Please note that you need to enable JavaScript or switch to a browser that supports JavaScript to view the Hetzner Cloud Console.
Server Pricing
Official Website: https://www.hetzner.com
Payments
Hetzner accepts the following payment methods:
- Credit Card: The payment is automatically debited from your account.
- SEPA: The payment is automatically debited from your account.
- Bank/Wire Transfer: You make manual payments.
- PayPal: You make manual payments.
- UnionPay: You make manual payments.
Please note that Hetzner may ask customers with late invoices to pay via bank/wire transfer.
As for setup fees, it depends on the Hetzner product that you want to order. For instance, there are no setup fees for their cloud servers/instances. However, the setup fees for their dedicated root servers change from model to model and may change over time. Servers in the Server Auction generally do not have a setup fee.
For more specific information about the payment methods and setup fees, refer to the Payment FAQ on Hetzner’s official website.
Coupon
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Customer Support
Hetzner offers a comprehensive customer support system to assist its users. Here are the key features:
- Support Center: Hetzner’s Support Center is an extensive knowledge base where you can enter any search term to get results on a subject. It also provides an overview of support for various products like Managed servers, Web Hosting, Domains, Storage Share, SSL certificates, Domain Registration Robots, Dedicated servers, Colocation, Storage Box, vServer, Cloud Console, Cloud server, DNS Console, and DNS API.
- Telephone Support: Hetzner provides competent and tailored support via telephone and email. The customer service number is +49 (0)9831 505-0. The general support requests are available from Monday to Friday, 8:00 am – 6 pm (CEST). Technical support is available 24 hours from Monday to Sunday.
- Support Form: If you have any questions or need help, you can fill out the quick contact form on their website. They aim to answer your questions as quickly as possible.
- Hetzner Docs: Hetzner Docs provides tips and tricks on Hetzner Online products from their comprehensive collection of guides and documentation.
When contacting their support, remember to have your customer number ready if you are already a Hetzner Online customer.
Conclusion
In our primary test, the Basic Bench, our server yielded an average I/O Speed of 1365.3 MB/s, hinting at its rapid data read/write capabilities. We also observed how the server behaved across different global locations. The specifications performed impressively, with the highlights being download speeds well over 9 Gbps from Los Angeles and Dallas.
We then put the server through the Yabs Performance Bench. The read-write operations showed promising results. It achieved impressive speeds with mixed read/write operations, hitting 2.31 GB/s on a 1m block-size operation. Transitioning to the Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test, it pulled off scores of 1542 and 3535 for single-core and multi-core performance, soaking up the demanding workload with ease.
With UnixBench, we wanted to measure the server’s CPU performance. The first run scored a substantial index of 1064.4 but showed its muscle in the second run with 4 parallel copies of tests, yielding an index of 2726.6, which truly highlights the server’s superb performance.
Finally, our server underwent the Media Unlock Test for global content accessibility. It unlocked Dazn (US Region), Amazon Prime Video (US Region), and TVBAnywhere+. However, it couldn’t unlock services like Disney+, HotStar, and Viu.com.
In conclusion, the Hetzner Dedicated Server is quite a force to be reckoned with. It presents a commendable performance in benchmark tests, impressive network speeds, and reasonable global media accessibility. It’s a solid choice for users who seek a server with heavy-duty specs and extensive data transfer allowances.
However, its media unlocking abilities fall a little short for some major services, which might need consideration for users relying heavily on those platforms. Overall, though, this server’s performance seamlessly aligns with Hetzner’s reputation for reliability and power.
Official Website: https://www.hetzner.com
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