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Lobster Unlimited Expanding Storage Plan

Unlimited expanding storage VPS — starts at 2000 GB and grows automatically by 3 GB every day. Built on RAIDZ2 for data safety (survives 2 simultaneous disk failures). Suits backups, archives, and media libraries that keep growing.

$10/mo $110/yr ($9.17/mo billed annually)
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Specifications

CPUIntel Xeon Gold
vCPU Cores4
RAM3 GB
Storage2 TB HDD grows +3 GB/day
PlatformXen
Operating Systems Linux, Windows
Bandwidth Option 1: Unlimited transfer — 250 Mbps port, grows +1 Mbps/day up to 1 Gbps
Option 2: 10 Gbps port — 18TB 1Gbps monthly cap (throttled to ~10 Mbps after cap)

Measured Performance

Real numbers from a YABS run on this exact plan — not estimates.

1,077 Geekbench 6 Single Core
3,271 Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Disk speed (mixed 50/50 read+write)

Block size 4k64k512k1m
Throughput 41 MB/s239 MB/s294 MB/s411 MB/s
IOPS 9.9k3.6k560391
Full YABS report
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Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 9 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6132 CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2600.156 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 2.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 2.0 TiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Kernel     : 5.15.0-40-generic
VM Type    : XEN
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : Rica Web Services
ASN        : AS26832 Rica Web Services
Host       : Rica Web Services
Location   : Montreal, Quebec (QC)
Country    : Canada

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-lv--root):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 20.30 MB/s    (4.9k) | 119.00 MB/s   (1.8k)
Write      | 20.31 MB/s    (4.9k) | 119.63 MB/s   (1.8k)
Total      | 40.61 MB/s    (9.9k) | 238.63 MB/s   (3.6k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 143.25 MB/s    (273) | 198.65 MB/s    (189)
Write      | 150.86 MB/s    (287) | 211.88 MB/s    (202)
Total      | 294.11 MB/s    (560) | 410.53 MB/s    (391)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.62 Gbits/sec  | busy            | 76.8 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 2.81 Gbits/sec  | 2.33 Gbits/sec  | 79.7 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.13 Gbits/sec  | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 172 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 620 Mbits/sec   | 692 Mbits/sec   | 269 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.88 Gbits/sec  | 2.21 Gbits/sec  | 81.0 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 3.24 Gbits/sec  | 4.79 Gbits/sec  | 9.93 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 1.79 Gbits/sec  | 1.55 Gbits/sec  | 117 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     |1077
Multi Core      |3271
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18847959

YABS completed in 11 min 59 sec

What's Included

Flexible Bandwidth

Two options per VPS, chosen at checkout: (1) Unlimited transfer starting at a 250 Mbps port that grows +1 Mbps/day up to 1 Gbps; or (2) a 10 Gbps port with a per-plan monthly transfer cap (throttled to ~10 Mbps after the cap).

Windows or Linux

Run Linux or Windows on any VPS — selected at deployment.

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