2024 Catcat’s Black Friday Order Log (Continuously Updated)

FameSystems#

A big German box I’ve been eyeing for quite a while. The provider is a bit stingy with bandwidth, but with Cloudflare caching it’s generally enough. Back when the 3rd-gen Milan promos were running, I already wanted to grab one to play with, but I held off until Black Friday.

As expected, they launched two new models: AMD EPYC 9654 and AMD 9900X. Looking at the overall specs, the price‑performance ratio is excellent, and it’s said these machines were freshly purchased by the owner. The datacenter is the same as bero’s. During checkout, you can choose Linux or Windows — they’re on different virtualization stacks: Linux gets KVM, Windows gets Hyper‑V.

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My chosen configuration:

• 6x AMD EPYC 9654 Cores
• 24 GB DDR5 RAM
• 300 GB PCIe 5.0 NVME storage space
• 1 IPv4 address
• /64-IPv6 subnet
• 2 Gbit/s (Shared)
• 3 Backup Slots
• Price: €8.00/month (€ 80.00/yr)

I’ll talk about performance later. The machine has just been provisioned, and everyone is hammering it with YABS right now, so benchmarks don’t mean much yet.

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Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 19 minutes
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Processor  : AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core Processor
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CPU cores  : 6 @ 2400.000 MHz
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AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
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VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
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RAM        : 23.5 GiB
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Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
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Disk       : 293.2 GiB
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Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
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Kernel     : 6.1.0-28-amd64
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VM Type    : KVM
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IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
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IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : ROETH \u0026 BECK GbR
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ASN        : AS44486 Oliver Horscht is trading as \"SYNLINQ\"
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Host       : Rene Roeth trading as ROETH \u0026 BECK GbR
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Location   : Gelnhausen, Hesse (HE)
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Country    : Germany
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fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda3):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
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Read       | 361.22 MB/s  (90.3k) | 3.73 GB/s    (58.3k)
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Write      | 362.17 MB/s  (90.5k) | 3.75 GB/s    (58.6k)
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Total      | 723.40 MB/s (180.8k) | 7.48 GB/s   (117.0k)
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Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
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Read       | 4.92 GB/s     (9.6k) | 7.71 GB/s     (7.5k)
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Write      | 5.18 GB/s    (10.1k) | 8.23 GB/s     (8.0k)
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Total      | 10.10 GB/s   (19.7k) | 15.94 GB/s   (15.5k)
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Geekbench 6 BenchMark Test:
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Test            | Value
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Single Core     | 1976
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Multi Core      | 8489
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Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9136287
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YABS completed in 7 min 32 sec

BuyVM#

Nothing special to say here — just renewing. I use the Luxembourg location as a reverse proxy and for DMCA resistance; it’s cheap and works well.

Spent $24.

HostBrr DirectAdmin Storage Boxes#

I also find this one to have great value for money: $7/year for 500 GB. It’s more than enough as a small image hosting service or general storage box. But because the value proposition is so strong, many people have ordered and are actively using it, and the node is obviously hitting bottlenecks. I’d guess the owner is swamped dealing with this product line and barely participated in this year’s Black Friday.

Spent $7.