It’s been a while since we’ve featured HostShield – three years, in fact!  Now they’re back with two deals for us:

• Need compute?  How about a 4-core, 4GB RAM VPS for $34.99 a year, and that includes unmetered bandwidth!
• Need storage?  Get 4 cores, 6GB of RAM, and 4TB of disk for $79.99 a year, including 20TB of bandwidth!

Nice price, nice offers.

Here’s a bit about HostShield in their own words:

We started this company back in 2018, and to us, it really felt like raising a child. We poured our hearts into it. Every server, every setup, every customer mattered. Watching it grow from a small idea into something real and alive was one of the most rewarding experiences we’ve had.

Of course, like any real journey, it wasn’t always smooth. 2023 brought challenges we never saw coming. They tested us in ways we didn’t expect. But we stayed standing. It wasn’t easy, and the road hasn’t been short, but here we are in 2025, slowly but surely getting back to where we belong.

We’re coming back with more clarity, more strength, and more motivation than ever. We’ve got crazy good hosting deals we’re excited to offer. Not just to make noise, but to truly help people get reliable, solid hosting without breaking the bank.

We know we still have work to do, but we’re here. We’re rebuilding, reconnecting, and we’re determined to earn your trust every step of the way. If you’re looking for a hosting provider that’s been through real challenges and came out stronger, you just found one.

They enjoy a 4.5 rating on TrustPilot.

Learn more at hostshield.net, and be sure to check their Terms of Service while you’re there.  They take PayPal, cards through Stripe, and Coingate.  Questions?  Ping @HOSTSHIELD_LTD on LowEndTalk.

Network and Datacenter Information

• Datacenter: Limburg, Netherlands
• IP: 193.142.59.82
• Testfile: http://193.142.59.82/100MB.test
• LookingGlass: http://lg-nl.hostshield.net
• Network: AS201409

Host Node Specs

KVM YEARLY NODE:
– 2x E5-2695 v2
– 384GB RAM
– 10x 1TB SSD
– RAID10
– 1Gbps uplink

STORAGE NODE:
– 2x E5-2680 v4
– 384GB RAM
– 8x 10TB HDDs
– RAID10
– 4Gbps uplink

YABS

 STORAGE VPS Yabs

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Mon Jun 16 05:24:52 AM EDT 2025

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2397.222 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 5.5 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 3.9 TiB
Distro     : AlmaLinux 9.0 (Emerald Puma)
Kernel     : 5.14.0-70.22.1.el9_0.x86_64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Hostshield LTD
ASN        : AS201409 HOSTSHIELD LTD
Host       : Hostshield LTD
Location   : Amsterdam, North Holland (NH)
Country    : The Netherlands

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 6.90 MB/s     (1.7k) | 46.61 MB/s     (728)
Write      | 6.91 MB/s     (1.7k) | 46.87 MB/s     (732)
Total      | 13.82 MB/s    (3.4k) | 93.48 MB/s    (1.4k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 153.79 MB/s    (300) | 212.92 MB/s    (207)
Write      | 161.96 MB/s    (316) | 227.10 MB/s    (221)
Total      | 315.76 MB/s    (616) | 440.02 MB/s    (428)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 4.65 Gbits/sec  | 5.47 Gbits/sec  | 12.7 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 6.61 Gbits/sec  | 7.93 Gbits/sec  | 10.6 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.47 Gbits/sec  | 2.00 Gbits/sec  | 121 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 595 Mbits/sec   | 1.04 Gbits/sec  | 163 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.24 Gbits/sec  | 1.30 Gbits/sec  | 143 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.76 Gbits/sec  | 2.37 Gbits/sec  | 78.5 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 890 Mbits/sec   | 861 Mbits/sec   | 216 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 4.63 Gbits/sec  | 5.65 Gbits/sec  | 11.4 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 4.96 Gbits/sec  | 6.66 Gbits/sec  | 10.5 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.33 Gbits/sec  | 1.57 Gbits/sec  | 120 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 772 Mbits/sec   | 1.08 Gbits/sec  | 163 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 1.17 Gbits/sec  | 142 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | 2.21 Gbits/sec  | 78.6 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 861 Mbits/sec   | 825 Mbits/sec   | 214 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 934
Multi Core      | 2439
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12464289

YABS completed in 16 min 10 sec

Linux VPS YABS

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Mon Jun 16 05:44:18 AM EDT 2025

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v2 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2394.230 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 1.7 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 59.7 GiB
Distro     : AlmaLinux 9.0 (Emerald Puma)
Kernel     : 5.14.0-70.22.1.el9_0.x86_64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Hostshield LTD
ASN        : AS201409 HOSTSHIELD LTD
Host       : Hostshield LTD
Location   : Amsterdam, North Holland (NH)
Country    : The Netherlands

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 63.36 MB/s   (15.8k) | 356.08 MB/s   (5.5k)
Write      | 63.48 MB/s   (15.8k) | 357.95 MB/s   (5.5k)
Total      | 126.85 MB/s  (31.7k) | 714.04 MB/s  (11.1k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 364.34 MB/s    (711) | 106.60 MB/s    (104)
Write      | 383.70 MB/s    (749) | 113.70 MB/s    (111)
Total      | 748.04 MB/s   (1.4k) | 220.31 MB/s    (215)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 685 Mbits/sec   | 825 Mbits/sec   | 10.7 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 668 Mbits/sec   | 841 Mbits/sec   | 10.8 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 562 Mbits/sec   | 343 Mbits/sec   | 119 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 516 Mbits/sec   | 353 Mbits/sec   | --
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 221 Mbits/sec   | 143 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 566 Mbits/sec   | 457 Mbits/sec   | --
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 474 Mbits/sec   | 52.3 Mbits/sec  | 203 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 709 Mbits/sec   | 716 Mbits/sec   | 10.8 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 649 Mbits/sec   | 828 Mbits/sec   | 10.9 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 601 Mbits/sec   | 326 Mbits/sec   | 118 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 542 Mbits/sec   | 49.5 Mbits/sec  | 163 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 623 Mbits/sec   | 285 Mbits/sec   | 142 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 652 Mbits/sec   | 483 Mbits/sec   | 78.6 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 557 Mbits/sec   | 213 Mbits/sec   | 203 ms

Geekbench 6 test failed. Run manually to determine cause.

YABS completed in 24 min 34 sec

raindog308

Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.

Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.

His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.

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