A brief evaluation of arkecx’s new Korean SK line cloud server (1Gbps bandwidth, direct connection)

arkecx, a cloud server brand owned by zenlayer, has opened a new data center in Seoul, South Korea, providing a new Korean cloud server business. The official default bandwidth of arkecx's Korean cloud server is 1Gbps (the actual measurement is far more than this number), as low as US$9/month (after discount), and the minimum traffic is 1Tbps... How is arkecx's Korean cloud server? We have brought you a simple evaluation for reference only!

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Memory	CPU	SSD	Traffic	Price	Purchase
1G	1 core	25G	1T/month	$108/year	Link
2G	2 cores	75G	3T/month	$18/month	Link
4G	2 cores	100G	4T/month	$22/month	Link
4G	4 cores	100G	4T/month	$36/month	Link
8G	4 cores	160G	5T/month	$40/month	Link
8G	8 cores	200G	6T/month	$72/month	Link
16G	8 cores	300G	8T/month	$90/month	Link
32G	6 cores	600G	12T/month	$144/month	Link

After virtualization, the CPU model cannot be seen. The main frequency is approximately 2.1GHz. With BBR enabled, the I/O is approximately 361MB/s:

FIO ran the data again, and the approximate test results are as follows:

Use speedtest.net's three-network node in mainland China to run the uplink and downlink to see what the maximum can be? Judging from the current situation, a blind guess would be at least 5Gbps, right? !

When the backbone network explodes during the evening peak, let’s test it again and compare it with the previous one during the day:

Run a few more nodes in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia to see the approximate data:

Let’s look at some more data in Asia:

Continue to look at the nodes that iperf3 tests in Europe and the United States, the approximate data:

The files stored on the test chicken are downloaded directly from Guangzhou Telecom and Chrome browser. Approximate speed:

Let’s compare the download speed during the evening peak period:

Chengdu China Unicom, evening peak, download speed:

Hubei Shiyan Telecom, evening peak, download speed:

Latency test data of multiple nodes in mainland China:

Outbound telecommunications, direct connection to SK, South Korea:

On the outbound journey of China Unicom, the backbone network connected with NTT and went to Japan and then back to South Korea:

Moving outbound, CMI connects with South Korea's SK:

Return to China Telecom: South Korea's SK is directly connected to the backbone of China's telecommunications

Return to China Unicom: South Korea's SK is directly connected to the backbone of mainland China

Return, move to mainland China: take NTT to Tokyo, Japan, then return to Hong Kong NTT and then return to the mainland

tiktok unlock, invalid:

Partial cross-regional streaming media unlocking test:

Server performance test, results of some parameter tests:

A rough summary:

The server performance is currently pretty good, above average;

The Internet,

Outbound: China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile are all directly connected, but China Mobile dropped the package on the outbound journey, so there is probably something wrong;

On the return trip, both China Telecom and China Unicom were directly connected to China. China Mobile took NTT, bypassed Japan, and then returned to Hong Kong and then to the mainland. This time, there was no packet loss on the return trip of China Mobile, so there was no problem. According to the current test, it is basically equivalent to a directly connected Korean VPS/Korean cloud server, and it also has large bandwidth, which looks pretty good.

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