BuyVM USA Las Vegas AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Server Test and Review
BuyVM’s SLICE 1024, a budget-friendly KVM VPS hosted in Las Vegas, was evaluated to assess its suitability for small to medium-sized enterprise workloads. Powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 1 core, 1 GB RAM, and 20 GB SSD storage, the server promises unmetered bandwidth at 1 Gbps.
Our test aimed to measure CPU performance, memory speed, disk I/O, network reliability, and IP quality for applications like web hosting, lightweight databases, or media streaming. Conducted on Debian 11, the evaluation used tools like Sysbench, YABS, and iperf3 to provide a comprehensive performance snapshot for IT administrators.
The VPS scored 1768 on Sysbench CPU tests, with strong disk I/O (500 MB/s 4K, 2.5 GB/s 1M) and memory reads (43 GB/s), but weaker writes (16.5 GB/s). Network send speeds hit 1 Gbps, while receive speeds ranged from 165 to 879 Mbps. Streaming support was limited (Netflix/Disney+ IP bans), and email ports were mostly blocked. IP quality showed high fraud/proxy scores.
About BuyVM
BuyVM.net, a division of Frantech Solutions, has been a trailblazer in the affordable virtual server market since 2010. Specializing in high-performance Virtual Private Servers (VPS), BuyVM offers a compelling blend of affordability, reliability, and innovative features, making it a top choice for budget-conscious users seeking quality hosting solutions. With data centers in Las Vegas, New Jersey, and Luxembourg, BuyVM ensures low-latency, global accessibility, catering to diverse needs with privacy-focused hosting in Luxembourg.
BuyVM stands out with its custom Stallion Control Panel, which simplifies server management with a user-friendly interface and robust features. Their VPS plans, starting at just $2.00 per month, include SSD storage for fast performance and unmetered bandwidth for seamless operations. Offerings such as OpenVZ, KVM, and KVM Storage, along with dedicated KVM slices, provide flexibility for various workloads, ranging from web hosting to resource-intensive applications. Optional DDoS protection and Anycast networking enhance security and performance, safeguarding against cyber threats and reducing latency.
The company emphasizes customer satisfaction with 24/7 support from experienced technologists, ensuring quick and reliable assistance. BuyVM’s competitive pricing—up to 62.5% less than competitors like AWS or DigitalOcean—combined with high-performance Intel® processors and customizable block storage slabs, delivers exceptional value. They also support multiple cryptocurrencies for payments, prioritizing user privacy.
Despite its strengths, BuyVM’s popularity often leads to sold-out plans, and some users report issues like blocked ports (e.g., port 25) requiring manual intervention. Overall, BuyVM is ideal for those seeking cost-effective, feature-rich VPS hosting with a focus on performance, security, and customer support. For more details, visit their official site.
Pricing
Official Website: https://BuyVM.net
Coupon
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Basic Information
Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
CPU Numbers : 1
CPU Frequency : 3792.872 MHz
CPU Cache : L1: 128.00 KB / L2: 512.00 KB / L3: 16.00 MB
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 276.73 MiB / 964.54 MiB
Swap : [ no swap partition or swap file detected ]
Disk Space : 1.88 GiB / 19.59 GiB
Boot Disk : /dev/vda1
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 15 min
Loads : 0.45, 0.17, 0.10
OS Release : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) (x86_64)
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel Version : 5.10.0-34-amd64
TCP Acceleration : bbr
VM Type : KVM
NAT Type : Full Cone
IPV4 ASN : AS53667 FranTech Solutions
IPV4 Location : Las Vegas / Nevada / US
CPU Benchmark
---------------------------CPU-Sysbench-Test----------------------------
-> CPU test in progress (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
1 Thread(s) Test: 1768 Scores
Geekbench test failed and low memory was detected. Add at least 1GB of SWAP or use GB4 instead (higher compatibility with low memory systems).
YABS completed in 3 min 1 sec
RAM Read/Write Tests
----------------------------Memory-Test---------------------------------
-> Memory Test (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
Single Read Test: 43055.10 MB/s
Single Write Test: 16577.96 MB/s
Running memory speed test with the following options:
block size: 1KiB
total size: 102400MiB
operation: read
scope: global
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
Total operations: 67332292 (6732533.11 per second)
65754.19 MiB transferred (6574.74 MiB/sec)
General statistics:
total time: 10.0001s
total number of events: 67332292
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.00
max: 6.49
95th percentile: 0.00
sum: 3369.11
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 67332292.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 3.3691/0.00
Running memory speed test with the following options:
block size: 1KiB
total size: 102400MiB
operation: write
scope: global
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
Total operations: 54559056 (5455401.02 per second)
53280.33 MiB transferred (5327.54 MiB/sec)
General statistics:
total time: 10.0001s
total number of events: 54559056
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.00
max: 9.26
95th percentile: 0.00
sum: 4587.30
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 54559056.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 4.5873/0.00
Disk Read/Write Tests
------------------------Disk-dd-Read/Write-Test-------------------------
-> Disk test in progress (4K Block/1M Block, Direct Mode)
Block Size Write Test Read Test
100MB-4K Block 57.2 MB/s (13.96 IOPS, 1.83s)) 66.3 MB/s (16187 IOPS, 1.58s)
1GB-1M Block 1.2 GB/s (1161 IOPS, 0.86s) 1.4 GB/s (1320 IOPS, 0.76s)
-----------------------Disk-fio-Read/Write-Test-------------------------
Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 249.83 MB/s (62.4k) | 1.06 GB/s (16.5k)
Write | 250.49 MB/s (62.6k) | 1.06 GB/s (16.6k)
Total | 500.33 MB/s (125.0k) | 2.13 GB/s (33.2k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 1.30 GB/s (2.5k) | 1.22 GB/s (1.1k)
Write | 1.37 GB/s (2.6k) | 1.30 GB/s (1.2k)
Total | 2.67 GB/s (5.2k) | 2.53 GB/s (2.4k)
Iperf3 Network Tests
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.01 Gbits/sec | 165 Mbits/sec | 122 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | busy | busy | --
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 930 Mbits/sec | 233 Mbits/sec | 216 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 890 Mbits/sec | 624 Mbits/sec | 230 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.10 Gbits/sec | 879 Mbits/sec | 7.90 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.06 Gbits/sec | 518 Mbits/sec | 64.3 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 957 Mbits/sec | 192 Mbits/sec | 166 ms Streaming Unlock Tests
============[ Multination ]============
Dazn: IP Banned by Dazn
Disney+: No (IP Banned By Disney+ 1)
Netflix: Originals Only
YouTube Premium: Yes (Region: US)
Amazon Prime Video: Yes (Region: US)
TVBAnywhere+: Yes
Spotify Registration: No
OneTrust Region: US [Nevada]
iQyi Oversea Region: US
Bing Region: US (Risky)
Apple Region: US
YouTube CDN: Los Angeles, CA
Netflix Preferred CDN: Failed (CDN IP Not Found)
ChatGPT: Yes
Google Gemini: Yes (Region: USA)
Claude: Yes
Wikipedia Editability: No
Google Play Store: United States
Google Search CAPTCHA Free: Yes
Steam Currency: USD
---Forum---
Reddit: No
---Game---
SD Gundam G Generation Eternal: No
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IP Quality Detection
Data for reference only, does not represent 100% accurate, if and the actual situation is not consistent with the manual query multiple database comparison
The following is the number of each database, the output will come with the corresponding number of the database source
ipinfo databases [0] | scamalytics databases [1] | virustotal databases [2] | abuseipdb databases [3] | ip2location databases [4]
ip-api databases [5] | ipwhois databases [6] | ipregistry databases [7] | ipdata databases [8] | db-ip databases [9]
ipapiis databases [A] | ipapicom databases [B] | bigdatacloud databases [C] | dkly databases [D] | ipqualityscore databases [E]
IPV4:
Security Score:
Reputation: 0 [2]
TrustScore: 0 [8]
VpnScore: 100 [8]
ProxyScore: 100 [8]
CommunityVoteHarmless: 0 [2]
CommunityVoteMalicious: 0 [2]
ThreatScore: 100 [8]
FraudScore: 100 [E] 27 [1]
AbuseScore: 0 [3]
ASNAbuseScore: 0.0442 (High) [A]
CompannyAbuseScore: 0.114 (High) [A]
ThreatLevel: low [9]
Blacklist_Records_Statistics(how many blacklisted websites have records):
HarmlessnessRecords: 60 [2] MaliciousRecords: 0 [2] SuspiciousRecords: 0 [2] NoRecords: 35 [2]
Security Info:
UsageType: DataCenter/WebHosting/Transit [3] hosting - high probability [C] hosting [0 7 8 9 A]
CompanyType: business [7] hosting [0 A]
IsCloudProvider: Yes [7]
IsDatacenter: Yes [0 5 6 8 A C] No [1]
IsMobile: No [5 A C] Yes [E]
IsProxy: Yes [5 6 E] No [0 1 4 7 8 9 A C]
IsVpn: No [0 1 6 C] Yes [7 A E]
IsTorExit: No [1 7]
IsTorExit: No [1 7]
IsCrawler: No [9 A E]
IsAnonymous: Yes [6 7 8] No [1]
IsAttacker: No [7 8]
IsAbuser: No [7 8 A C] Yes [E]
IsThreat: No [7 8 C]
IsRelay: No [0 7 8 C]
IsBogon: No [7 8 A C]
IsBot: Yes [E]
DNS-BlackList: 315(Total_Check) 0(Clean) 7(Blacklisted) 13(Other)
Google search feasibility: NO
Email Port Detection
Platform SMTP SMTPS POP3 POP3S IMAP IMAPS
LocalPort ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
QQ ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
163 ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Sohu ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Yandex ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Gmail ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Outlook ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Office365 ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Yahoo ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
MailCOM ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
MailRU ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘
AOL ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
GMX ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Sina ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Apple ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
FastMail ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
ProtonMail✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
MXRoute ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Namecrane ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
XYAMail ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
ZohoMail ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Inbox_eu ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘
Free_fr ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘ Looking Glass
https://speedtest.lv.buyvm.net/
IPv4: 209.141.56.135
IPv6: 2605:6400:0020:0078::1
Test iperf3: speedtest.lv.buyvm.net
Global Latency Tests
Query: ping 205.185.114.229, interval: 5s, dense mode: no
Probing 205.185.114.229 – ARIN /20 AS53667 PONYNET – United States, Nevada, Las Vegas [hosting]
CloudFlare Internet Tests
PageSpeed Insights
Admin Control Panel
Conclusion
The SLICE 1024 delivered a Sysbench CPU score of 1768, reflecting modest single-threaded performance. Memory tests showed impressive read speeds of 43 GB/s but slower writes at 16.5 GB/s, with low memory triggering a Geekbench failure. Disk I/O shone, with fio tests hitting 500 MB/s (4K blocks) and 2.5 GB/s (1M blocks), ideal for I/O-intensive tasks. Network tests revealed solid 1 Gbps send speeds, though receive speeds varied (165-879 Mbps). Streaming tests were mixed: YouTube Premium and Amazon Prime worked, but Netflix and Disney+ flagged the IP. Email ports were largely blocked, and IP quality raised concerns with high fraud and proxy scores.
The SLICE 1024’s disk and network performance is a standout, akin to a compact car zipping through light traffic—efficient for small payloads. However, the single core and 1 GB RAM limit its multitasking, much like a sprinter tiring in a marathon. Blocked email ports and IP bans on streaming platforms suggest challenges for mail servers or region-specific services. The high fraud score may complicate trust-sensitive applications, like e-commerce. For basic web hosting or static content delivery, the unmetered bandwidth and SSD speed are compelling, but memory constraints demand careful workload planning.
BuyVM’s SLICE 1024 offers remarkable value at $3.50/month, excelling in disk I/O and bandwidth for budget-conscious IT teams. It’s well-suited for lightweight web servers or file hosting but struggles with CPU-heavy tasks or streaming due to IP restrictions. Adding swap space could mitigate memory issues. Enterprises needing reliable, low-cost VPS for non-critical workloads should consider it, but those requiring robust streaming or email functionality may need to explore alternatives or invest in BuyVM’s DDoS-protected IPs.
Official Website: https://BuyVM.net
