[Black Friday plan] RackNerd Canada Toronto 2.5GB RAM at $18.66/year, detailed test

RackNerd gave away one year of service during the event, so of course I had to test it and show some support.

1. Configuration

RackNerd Black Friday promo purchase link (no AFF): https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday
Looking Glass: https://lg-tor.racknerd.com

2. Node Quality

bash <(curl -sL https://run.NodeQuality.com)

💻Basic information

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 1 hours, 29 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5118 CPU @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2299.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 2.4 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 46.0 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.12.57+deb13-cloud-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : HostPapa
ASN        : AS36352 HostPapa
Host       : QEL SL
Location   : Los Angeles, California (CA)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition -):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 81.57 MB/s   (20.3k) | 942.18 MB/s  (14.7k)
Write      | 81.79 MB/s   (20.4k) | 947.14 MB/s  (14.7k)
Total      | 163.36 MB/s  (40.8k) | 1.88 GB/s    (29.5k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.30 GB/s     (2.5k) | 1.58 GB/s     (1.5k)
Write      | 1.37 GB/s     (2.6k) | 1.69 GB/s     (1.6k)
Total      | 2.68 GB/s     (5.2k) | 3.27 GB/s     (3.1k)

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 655                           
Multi Core      | 1279                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23912590

 SysBench CPU Test (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
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 1 Thread Test (Single Core) Score:          868 Scores
 2 Thread Test (Multi-Core) Score:          1722 Scores
 SysBench Memory Test (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
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 Single-thread Read Test:          17887.92 MB/s
 Single-thread Write Test:          14060.89 MB/s

🎬IP quality

Some geolocation databases still place it in the United States.

🌐Network quality

📍Return route

NodeQuality link

3. Streaming unlock

bash <(curl -L -s check.unlock.media)

International streaming	Local streaming

4. Website & DNS speed tests

bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cd1s/network-latency-tester/main/latency.sh)

Website latency	DNS resolution

5. iPerf3 TCP IPv4 Single-threadspeed test (10 seconds per run, 2025-11-19 11:20-11:45)

Test records

6. Speedtest Multi-threadspeed test

curl -sL nws.sh | bash

---------------------------------- nws.sh ---------------------------------
      A simple script to bench network performance using speedtest-cli     
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location         Latency     Loss    DL Speed       UP Speed       Server      

 ISP: Lumen 

 Nearest          31.79 ms    0.4%    801.72 Mbps    755.30 Mbps    Chisholm Broadband - Enid, OK 

 Bangalore, IN    238.22 ms   0.0%    384.62 Mbps    373.17 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore 
 Chennai, IN      266.73 ms   0.0%    416.81 Mbps    325.38 Mbps    RailTel Corporation of India Ltd - Chennai 
 Mumbai, IN       265.56 ms   0.0%    690.08 Mbps    607.12 Mbps    Melbicom - Mumbai 

 Seattle, US      61.62 ms    N/A     677.39 Mbps    783.17 Mbps    Comcast - Seattle, WA 
 Los Angeles, US  107.93 ms   0.0%    219.58 Mbps    755.28 Mbps    ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA 
 Dallas, US       34.53 ms    0.0%    739.92 Mbps    857.19 Mbps    Hivelocity - Dallas, TX 
 Miami, US        47.01 ms    0.0%    871.12 Mbps    844.02 Mbps    Frontier - Miami, FL 
 New York, US     21.98 ms    0.0%    908.56 Mbps    838.31 Mbps    GSL Networks - New York, NY 
 Toronto, CA      0.64 ms     0.0%    853.66 Mbps    817.21 Mbps    Rogers - Toronto, ON 
 Mexico City, MX  96.00 ms    N/A     394.62 Mbps    772.90 Mbps    INFINITUM - Ciudad de México 

 London, UK       84.67 ms    0.0%    935.80 Mbps    893.13 Mbps    VeloxServ Communications - London 
 Amsterdam, NL    88.33 ms    0.0%    941.74 Mbps    799.29 Mbps    31173 Services AB - Amsterdam 
 Paris, FR        91.54 ms    0.0%    932.18 Mbps    817.35 Mbps    Scaleway - Paris 
 Frankfurt, DE    91.74 ms    0.0%    577.36 Mbps    779.27 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - Frankfurt am Main 
 Warsaw, PL       107.76 ms   0.0%    945.77 Mbps    830.71 Mbps    Play - Warszawa 
 Bucharest, RO    121.64 ms   0.0%    480.12 Mbps    788.35 Mbps    Digi        
 Moscow, RU       126.88 ms   0.0%    964.56 Mbps    798.62 Mbps    Misaka Network, Inc. - Moscow 

 Jeddah, SA       147.70 ms   0.0%    966.40 Mbps    745.95 Mbps    Saudi Telecom Company 
 Dubai, AE        186.98 ms   N/A     852.76 Mbps    171.68 Mbps    e& UAE - Dubai 
 Istanbul, TR     128.92 ms   0.0%    956.43 Mbps    793.75 Mbps    Turkcell - Istanbul 
 Tehran, IR       179.04 ms   0.0%    333.72 Mbps    490.73 Mbps    Irancell - Tehran 
 Cairo, EG        148.62 ms   0.3%    477.00 Mbps    524.94 Mbps    Telecom Egypt - Cairo 

 Tokyo, JP        175.63 ms   63.0%   473.49 Mbps    523.14 Mbps    fdcservers.net - Tokyo 
 Shanghai, CU-CN  188.29 ms   N/A     355.61 Mbps    713.46 Mbps    China Unicom 5G - Shanghai 
 Hong Kong, CN    188.89 ms   N/A     389.61 Mbps    407.68 Mbps    Misaka Network, Inc. - Hong Kong 
 Singapore, SG    248.26 ms   0.0%    306.22 Mbps    389.00 Mbps    ViewQwest - Singapore 
 Jakarta, ID      254.60 ms   0.0%    282.17 Mbps    374.40 Mbps    PT Solnet Indonesia - Jakarta 

 Sydney, AU       205.91 ms   0.0%    866.66 Mbps    718.28 Mbps    Aussie Broadband - Sydney 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Avg DL Speed       : 655.03 Mbps
 Avg UL Speed       : 665.13 Mbps

 Total DL Data      : 27.80 GB
 Total UL Data      : 28.93 GB
 Total Data         : 56.73 GB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Duration           : 14 min 59 sec
 System Time        : 19/11/2025 - 12:06:13 CST
 Total Script Runs  : 509053
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Result             : https://result.nws.sh/r/1763524254_4HSNWB_GLOBAL.txt
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7. Summary

The location is somewhat niche. It suits people with actual business needs who want to host a small site; using Canada as a landing node is a bit luxurious.

8. About the tests

”RackNerd 2.5 GB KVM VPS (Black Friday 2025)” is a retail machine provided by the provider as an event giveaway. The other machines tested in this article, including all machines used for iPerf3 speed tests, were purchased at my own expense. Results may be time-sensitive.
Kernel parameters of the tested machines (/etc/sysctl.conf) are as follows

fs.file-max = 6815744
net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=0
net.ipv4.tcp_frto=0
net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing=0
net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337=0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=1
net.ipv4.tcp_fack=1
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=1
net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale=1
net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf=1
net.core.rmem_max=33554432
net.core.wmem_max=33554432
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=4096 87380 33554432
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=4096 16384 33554432
net.ipv4.udp_rmem_min=8192
net.ipv4.udp_wmem_min=8192
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.route_localnet=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1
net.core.default_qdisc=fq
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1

9. Acknowledgements

Thanks to RackNerd for providing one ”RackNerd 2.5 GB KVM VPS (Black Friday 2025)” machine through the provider event.