German KVM with CPU-Passthrough starting at 2,26EUR / Month (1Gbit/s, Intel Xeon, HW-Raid10)

First-Root

Hi,

we are First Root and in business since 2011.

KVM Basic Light:

• 1 shared CPU (CPU-Passthrough, Intel XEON Processor)
• 512MB ECC Ram
• 50 GB SATA (HW-Raid10 with at least 12 Disks)
• 10TB @ 1Gbit/s
• 1 IPv4 address
• 1 IPv6 address
• F-Com Control Panel
• 2,26EUR / month or 20,41EUR / year

https://first-root.com/vps-configurator/kvm-basic-e2-light-special/

KVM Basic Start:

• 2 shared CPU (CPU-Passthrough, Intel XEON Processor)
• 1024MB ECC Ram
• 100 GB SATA (HW-Raid10 with at least 12 Disks)
• 10TB @ 1Gbit/s
• 1 IPv4 address
• 1 IPv6 address
• F-Com Control Panel
• 3,35EUR / month or 36,20EUR / year

https://first-root.com/vps-configurator/kvm-basic-e2-start-special/

Do you need additional services?
We offer the following services:

• BGP Session
• IP announcement
• private VLAN

All prices are excluding VAT, if you life inside of the European Nation VAT will be applied.

sibaper

test ip?

First-Root

http://lg.first-root.com/

193.25.100.1

pike

You are in KPN DC dusseldorf right? Sad to see my connection from Berlin going through Cogent. tracert

First-Root

Yes correct. your location is unimportant, tell me your isp and I will see why it uses cogent.
We will also add Telia to our traffic mix witin the next months.

Falzo

best of luck, nice to see more professional german players around here anyway. #notreudler ;-)

pike

@FR_Michael said:
Yes correct. your location is unimportant, tell me your isp

vodafone, former kabel deutschland. I edited my first post with the traceroute.

First-Root

Thanks for the traceroute.
On their looking glass https://support.cw.com/prod/tools_lookingglass.html you can see that they are directly connected to KPN as well as Cogent.
Cogent just has a lower metric2 (coming from their IGP).

The traceroute looks fine to me, what exactly is your problem with Cogent?
Can you do a download test to see if you can maxout your connection?

KenobisVPS

Can you offer a benchmark?

tr1cky

Do you pass through Quicksync?

First-Root

@Windmm said:
Can you offer a benchmark?

Tell me which Benchmark you need and on which VPS it should be executed.

@tr1cky said:
Do you pass through Quicksync?

No Quicksync, sorry.

chrisp

Why only one IPv6 and not a /64? That's really the only drawback. Apart from that, really good pricing and a nice chunk of traffic you offer.

Edit:

FR_Michael said: 2,26EUR / month or 20,41EUR / year

Something seems wrong with the price. Your signature would also say 2,06€ monthly while in the post it is 2,26€ and the yearly price doesn't match either. Yearly price in post = 20,41EUR vs. yearly price on website 24,41EUR

First-Root

@chrisp, we currently extend our software to provide /64 for every VPS.

If you need it before just order a VPS and open up a ticket so that we can allocate a /64 for you.

First-Root

@chrisp said:

Indeed i fucked up my calculation. Its pretty hard to calculcate 2,26 * 12 * 0,9, I am sorry

Sadly I cannot edit my first post to fix it.

chrisp

FR_Michael said: If you need it before just order a VPS and open up a ticket so that we can allocate a /64 for you.

Cool, ordering in the next few minutes! If anyone wants some tests I can run them.

@FR_Michael said:

@chrisp said:

Indeed i fucked up my calculation. Its pretty hard to calculcate 2,26 * 12 * 0,9, I am sorry

Sadly I cannot edit my first post to fix it.

My favorite math mistakes happen with RAM allocations :P

@AnthonySmith, could you maybe change the prices for @FR_Michael? I think it's only the first plan, that is wrong -> 24,41 instead of 20,41

First-Root

@chrisp said:
My favorite math mistakes happen with RAM allocations :P

That's the reason every ressource adjustment happens automatically. I am way to stupid to calc these amounts correctly all the time...

chrisp

So far so good. I got my ipv6 /64 and it works smooth. The control panel is pretty intuitive and reinstalling is fast. Benchmark with some random locations because I didn't want to wait forever to finish downloads from Japan/Hong Kong/Australia. Yes, downloads from there are always below 10Mbyte/s. Don't need a test for that

In general however network speed looks great. Disk IO looks great as well at first sight and connection to the server feels quick and snappy altogether.

A friend of mine has incredibly low pings to this machine from his home ISP in Germany

64 bytes from 193.25.100.xxx: icmp_seq=7 ttl=53 time=2.27 ms

64 bytes from 2001:67c:12a0:xxx: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=1.71 ms

Windmm said: Can you offer a benchmark?

Serverbench.sh

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CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
Number of cores      : 1
CPU frequency        : 2599.998 MHz
Total amount of ram  : 492 MB
Total amount of swap : 2282 MB
System uptime        : 0days, 0:26:30
Load average         : 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
OS                   : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 4.9.0-5-amd64
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                   IPv4 address        Download Speed
CacheFly                    205.234.175.175     93.6MB/s
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG     103.254.153.18      9.67MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN     119.81.130.170      4.39MB/s
Leaseweb, HongKong, CN      43.249.36.49        1.60MB/s
Vultr, Sydney, AUS          108.61.212.117      5.06MB/s
Tele2, Gothenberg, SE       90.130.74.151       32.7MB/s
Tele2, Frankfurt, DE        90.130.74.155       98.3MB/s
Vultr, Frankfurt, DE        108.61.210.117      84.7MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE       139.162.130.8       96.7MB/s
OVH, Strasbourg, FR         5.135.128.81        30.2MB/s
Tele2, Amsterdam, NL        90.130.74.153       36.9MB/s
Vultr, Amsterdam, NL        108.61.198.102      83.7MB/s
DO 2, Amsterdam, NL         188.226.175.227     99.1MB/s
Linode, London, UK          176.58.107.39       84.0MB/s
Softlayer, London, UK       5.10.97.132         74.5MB/s
Softlayer, Mexico, MX       169.57.4.116        7.07MB/s
Softlayer, Brazil, BR       169.57.128.148      5.53MB/s
Vultr, Los Angeles, USA     108.61.219.200      10.7MB/s
DO, San Francisco, USA      107.170.223.15      9.74MB/s
Linode, Fremont, USA        50.116.14.9         5.31MB/s
Leaseweb, SF, USA           209.58.135.187      9.65MB/s
DO, Toronto, CA             159.203.57.38       17.2MB/s
OVH, Beauharnois, CA        192.99.19.165       2.55MB/s
EastLink, Canada, CA        24.222.0.194        5.72MB/s
Softlayer, Montreal, CA     169.54.124.180      12.6MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name           IPv6 address        Download Speed
Linode, Atlanta, GA     2600:3c02::4b       6.62MB/s
Linode, Dallas, TX      2600:3c00::4b       12.2MB/s
Linode, Newark, NJ      2600:3c03::4b       15.2MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG   2400:8901::4b       10.2MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP       2400:8900::4b       7.25MB/s
Softlayer, Paris, FR    2a03:8180:1301:8::4 69.3MB/s
Softlayer, Tokyo, JP    2401:c900:1001:16::4 4.62MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run) : 640 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 771 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 789 MB/s
Average I/O speed  : 733.333 MB/s

First-Root

ISP of your friend? Thats insane...

thanks for your benchmarks and feedback

chrisp

FR_Michael said: ISP of your friend? Thats insane...

"Deutsche Glasfaser" and he lives pretty close-by in Neuss

First-Root

Ok now I am pissed. I sit 200 meters away from this server and have a higher ping...

ascicode

Can i remove auto renewal and pay annualy before cancellation, is that possible?

First-Root

@ascicode said:
Can i remove auto renewal and pay annualy before cancellation, is that possible?

yes. simply disable auto renewal during ordering process and change payment interval to 12.

ascicode

Guys, whats the better deal then, KVM or OVZ?

First-Root

Hi,

that depends on your needs. KVM is after all the better solution and openvz will not be updated after november 2019. Tell us what you want to run and we can tell you what the better deal is .

ascicode

I wonder how it works with different amount of RAM. All other parts seems the same.

angstrom

@FR_Michael said: and openvz will not be updated after november 2019.

And what will happen then?

First-Root

Then there will be no further security updates or features so either someone forks it or openvz (6 not 7) will die.

angstrom

@FR_Michael said:
Then there will be no further security updates or features so either someone forks it or openvz (6 not 7) will die.

I guess that I meant to ask: what will you do then? (All of those customers on OpenVZ 6.)

First-Root

This is 1 1/2 years in the futur, I can't tell you yet.
We are aware of that end of lifetime and will contact our customers early enough with a solution.

As we developed our own control panel and software solutions we are free to integrate any solution we find resonable as a replacement for openvz.

TheLinuxBug

@FR_Michael

So just curious, what routes actually don't take Cogent from your location? Every single place I have tested from is either Cogent or local peering (Eurorings), even routes to many networks in the Netherlands seem to go over Cogent. Do you actually have any other upstreams besides Cogent? What networks do you actually peer with directly, if any?

Additionally, if you only primarily peer with Cogent, does this mean your IPv6 is also over Cogent and doesn't play well with he.net?

Thanks in advance for your time in reply.

Cheers!

First-Root

Hi

we have Cogent and KPN International (eurorings) as upstreams as you can see here https://bgp.he.net/AS41108. Eurorings is not a local peering but a big carrier in Europe (pretty sure they are tier 1).

roughly 1/3 of our traffic goes through cogent so I guess you just had a good (or bad) hand in picking your tests

But as mentioned in an other thread we will add Telia as well within the next months.

not sure about your he.net question, tell me what to test and I will provide all results. Have you ever made business with he? They are what most people think cogent is. They have lots of problems and blaming the customer or the other site for it.
I am into this shit since 18 years and from my point dealing with cogent is hussle free. They keep their promises and deadlines, they communicate scheduled maintenance windows, they monitor your session for lots of parameters, in case of an unplanned outage they get in touch with you and their noc is blazing fast. During my business time i dealt with lots of carriers (mostly tier 1) and believe me, most of them don't give a shit about your session and services if you are not one of the big players. 2 months delay for a bgp session? nothing uncommon in tier 1. Question to billing? yeah we might answer in 2-3 weeks, r maybe not. Sure you get a full table. what you dare to push traffic to DTAG (deutsche telekom)? sorry we need to double your price then or we will filter out those routes.