How about smarthost? Salt Lake City (Utah - USA) VPS simple evaluation

How about smarthost? Is smarthost good? smarthost has deployed its own VPS business in Salt Lake City in the far western region of the United States. It is based on KVM virtualization, pure SSD array, and has a default bandwidth of 1Gbps. It is more suitable for states across the United States, especially for people in Asia who want to deploy business in North America. This article will take you to test the Salt Lake City VPS to see if it is suitable for users in mainland China. Evaluation data is for reference only! Note: Location Utah – USA is Salt Lake City!

Official website: https://www.smarthost.net/

Special note: The order page will load reCAPTCHA verification, which is harmonious in mainland China; the system comes with fraud detection (requires the customer's IP address, phone number, and selected country, authenticity is not required, but these three The information must be consistent, otherwise it will not pass the automatic detection of the system and you will not be able to buy a VPS. For example: "Hong Kong IP, US phone number, registration information, select the UK", this is not consistent!)

The VPS in Salt Lake City seems to use the e5-4640 series CPU, with a main frequency of 2.4GHz. According to the general practice, this CPU often has 4 channels; the webmaster has enabled BBR, and the current hard disk I/O It is roughly 313MB/S:

FIO tests hard disk read and write data:

Use mainland China's speedtest triple network node to run a circle to see how high the uplink and downlink can be? It's roughly as follows:

For the same test, let’s focus on the evening peak data:

Test some international nodes of speedtest:

speedtest’s nodes in Asia:

iperf3 tests several European and American nodes:

Similarly iperf3 tests European and American nodes, but in an IPv6 environment:

We can roughly summarize it here: Salt Lake City’s VPS seems to have a default bandwidth limit of 100Mbps.

The file stored on the test chicken, the download speed of Guangzhou Telecom’s home bandwidth:

Look at the download speed during the evening peak backbone network congestion period:

Evening peak, Hubei Shiyan Telecom’s download speed:

In the evening peak, the download speed of Sichuan Meishan China Unicom:

Latency test data of multi-nodes of three networks in mainland China:

Outbound journey from China Telecom: Directly connect to China Telecom’s San Jose node and then take NTT to the Salt Lake City computer room

Outbound journey to China Unicom: Directly connect to China Unicom's San Jose node and then take HE.net to the Salt Lake City computer room

Mobile outbound journey: directly connect to Mobile San Jose node and then take cogent to Salt Lake City computer room

Telecom return trip: take NTT to San Jose and then go to Telecom’s Los Angeles node, directly connected back to China

Return from China Unicom: Take NTT to Los Angeles/San Jose, and then directly connect China Unicom and level 3 pop in Los Angeles/San Jose back to China

Mobile return trip: Take NTT to Los Angeles, go to Tokyo, Japan, and then to Hong Kong, China, and then return directly to the mainland from the mobile Hong Kong node

Tiktok streaming media unlock: United States

Unblocking some cross-region streaming media:

Some North American streaming media unlocking tests:

VPS performance test:

A rough summary:

Overall, VPS performance is relatively weak, probably due to the four-way big hen;

Looking at the network return journey, it is basically a direct connection from West Coast Pop, which is relatively okay. The actual effect is subject to everyone's actual measurement. It may be relatively better if the bandwidth of a single VPS is not 100Mbps but 1Gbps.

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