RackNerd Los Angeles DC02 Data Center VPS Review: Unlocks TikTok/ChatGPT and More
RackNerd is one of the most popular US VPS providers, with Los Angeles DC02 being RackNerd's data center with the best network performance for China, so it's quite reasonable that it attracts so much attention. Currently in April 2026, to help everyone get a basic understanding in advance, we bring you the latest review data (the last review was on May 8, 2022: RackNerd's VPS has been online for 500 days, let's re-review this VPS). During this period, the Multacom data center was acquired by HostPapa, and the IP attribution changed to Canada. The IP of this VPS has also changed. Detailed review data is shown in this article. For those who don't want to spend time reading, here's a one-sentence summary: Although the IPv4 is broadcast, it doesn't affect unlocking capabilities - TikTok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Netflix, Disney+, etc. can all be unlocked; the AMD Ryzen + NVMe SSD platform is indeed very powerful with extremely high benchmark scores.
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This VPS has been in use since September 2022. The CPU was initially AMD Ryzen 3900X, and later the provider successively offered 5950X and 7950X... AMD Ryzen 3900X (12 cores, 24 threads, base frequency 3.8GHz, boost frequency 4.6GHz), KVM virtualization, BBR enabled, supports IPv4 & IPv6, upstream provider is Multacom, located in Los Angeles, USA. Current I/O test shows approximately 725MB/s:
FIO read/write test results show 4K read/write at approximately 330MB/s, IOPS around 82K, which is quite impressive:
International speedtest results from some speedtest nodes:
Speedtest results from some Asian nodes:
IPERF3 speed test in IPv4 environment, upload/download performance to some international nodes:
IPERF3 speed test in IPv6 environment, upload/download performance to some international nodes:
Multiple databases' assessment of the current IPv4 properties: broadcast IP, can unlock TikTok, ChatGPT, Netflix, Disney+, etc.
Some streaming service unlock results: Gemini, Claude, and other popular services can all be accessed:
Multiple databases' assessment of the current IPv6 properties: native US IPv6, can unlock ChatGPT and Netflix, cannot unlock TikTok:
In IPv6 environment, some streaming service unlock test results: Gemini and Claude can be unlocked:
VPS performance remains very strong, Geekbench 6 single-core 1270 points, dual-core 2225 points, which is quite impressive:
