It's Easter, show me what you've got! Providers, Give us the crazy deals! Mega-request thread!

Chuck · April 2018

@Multi said:
I just found a nice offer. As far as I can tell just availble for a few minutes:

https://store.itefg.de/shop/index.php/announcements/6/April-April.html

2VCores

2GB RAM

20GB SSD Storage

300Mbit/s Uplink

Unlimited Traffic (really Unlimited)

only 0,99€ monthly or 1,99€ every 3 month.

I do not know anything about that company. Came across that offer in another forum.

Another Edit: You get 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6.

Last Edit: Here are some more offers of this company ending at 2nd April: https://store.itefg.de/shop/index.php/announcements/5/Oster-Angebote---VServer-mit-2GB-Ram-ab-099-mtl.html

looks dangerous.

spammy · April 2018

@MikePT said:

Report that to @Virmach. Something doesnt sound good there. Specially closing the ticket and ignoring the issue.

Did log in to check just now, the ticket status was changed to Awaiting Sales Department, so may be that person simply forwarded the ticket to sales and sales isn't open till Monday.

Here is the screenshot if @Virmach would like to investigate further, again, I am not here to complain and if anything I am happy that I saved myself from getting another idle VPS

quick · April 2018

999 posts, 0 useful offer

muffin · April 2018

@quick said:
999 posts, 0 useful offer

There were quite a few good offers which I think you definitely missed. The real offers only come on Black Friday though, so what did you expect?

Clouvider · April 2018

@muffin said:

@quick said:
999 posts, 0 useful offer

There were quite a few good offers which I think you definitely missed. The real offers only come on Black Friday though, so what did you expect?

Hold my beer.

‘XTYO71SYLO61A‘ for £10 recurring discount on E3-1241V3 with 32 GB DDR3 ECC and 2x 512 Samsung 850 Pro SSD.

Same rules apply. 1 unit only. Offer valid until tomorrow.

https://console.clouvider.co.uk/cart/easter-dedicated-servers-sale/

On that note, last few units of E3v5s with SSD and NVMe for £40/£42 left.

FAT32 · April 2018

@muffin said:

@quick said:
999 posts, 0 useful offer

There were quite a few good offers which I think you definitely missed. The real offers only come on Black Friday though, so what did you expect?

We expect something that we will buy although we don't need it

mikewazar · April 2018

Doesn't even look like that cheap LXC box has RAID lol

lemon · April 2018

@WebGuru said:

@pullangcubo said:
Maybe a n00b question: why are most of the deals right now from Germany (or generally Europe)? Because my impression was bandwidth and parts are relatively more expensive in Europe compared to North America...

Electricity and bandwidth is cheap in Europe

never laughed that hard

Clouvider · April 2018

We just added some more units for 40% off coupon, 5I086NUUCYCE, https://console.clouvider.co.uk/cart/easter-dedicated-servers-sale/

This is valid for the custom servers:

Supermicro MC E3v6 SSD
Supermicro MC E3v6 NVMe

at Telehouse North 2

pullangcubo · April 2018

Just a head's up to all intrested, Root-Server Eierkanone is back at
https://www.netcup.de/vserver/uebersicht_vserver_angebote.php

Falzo · April 2018

@ehab said:
@FALZO what you think of https://store.itefg.de/ look previous page at the bottom.

summer is coming? ;-)

honestly can't tell much, seem quite new to the game. from the looks of it simply reselling OVH and others. as above mentioned maybe not OVZ but LXC, so I'd expect quite some overselling.

if not on OVH, IPs going to make anything very cheap very unsustainable. once they get featured in a chinese aff blog, we might know what eventually happens...

I didn't have a closer look yet, three (probably young) unknown people. at least they registered a business, a UG in germany is a small limited with not much money needed, restricting liabilities.

didn't check the validity of their licenses like WHMCS and TS3 etc. - simply not interested to buy from them.
though, every now and then some starters might be lucky enough to evolve, so good luck to them!

angstrom · April 2018

@pullangcubo said:
Just a head's up to all intrested, Root-Server Eierkanone is back at
https://www.netcup.de/vserver/uebersicht_vserver_angebote.php

Psychologically, I let this go yesterday ... but tempting ... but no ... but maybe ...

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angstrom · April 2018

@Falzo said: as above mentioned maybe not OVZ but LXC, so I'd expect quite some overselling.

One would think that they would clearly state the virtualization technology used (not so great that they don't).

pullangcubo · April 2018

@angstrom said:
Psychologically, I let this go yesterday ... but tempting ... but no ... but maybe ...

There's a 14-day no explanation guarantee, if that helps...you just have to make sure to file the proper papers, haha!

nullnothere · April 2018

@angstrom said: I never found the egg to begin with!

The egg still appears for the "VPS OsterEi 1.89 EUR/mo" deal. I suppose it's still available for anyone who's (still) interested. To me it's worth getting one just because getting an extra IP at Netcup is almost as expensive and here you get at least a decent proxy/forwarder if nothing else.

elliotc · April 2018

Since I only paid a small amount of money, I do not plan to request a refund.
Cancellation after applying for the end only.

angstrom · April 2018

@nullnothere said:

@angstrom said: I never found the egg to begin with!

The egg still appears for the "VPS OsterEi 1.89 EUR/mo" deal. I suppose it's still available for anyone who's (still) interested. To me it's worth getting one just because getting an extra IP at Netcup is almost as expensive and here you get at least a decent proxy/forwarder if nothing else.

I couldn't find this egg yesterday (and I tried a number of times throughout the day), so I think that they've added new eggs today. I'll look again ...

nullnothere · April 2018

@angstrom said: I couldn't find this egg yesterday

PM me if you can't get it - I'll let you know you where I found it (I suspect it's different for every browser/user/whatever). Don't want to publicly post in case it helps keep it under wraps.

angstrom · April 2018

@nullnothere said:

@angstrom said: I couldn't find this egg yesterday

PM me if you can't get it - I'll let you know you where I found it (I suspect it's different for every browser/user/whatever). Don't want to publicly post in case it helps keep it under wraps.

Thanks, but I'm afraid that a direct link wouldn't help anyway. I'll keep looking ...

tomle · April 2018

@nullnothere said:

@angstrom said: I never found the egg to begin with!

The egg still appears for the "VPS OsterEi 1.89 EUR/mo" deal. I suppose it's still available for anyone who's (still) interested. To me it's worth getting one just because getting an extra IP at Netcup is almost as expensive and here you get at least a decent proxy/forwarder if nothing else.

The egg is still there but it's not possible to order, just says that it's out of stock. I wouldn't spend time looking for it, I'll check a few times today and write back here if it get's back in stock.

"Das Produkt VPS OsterEi 2018 ist aktuell ausverkauft"

angstrom · April 2018

Well, I went wild and ordered the Root-Server Eierkanone. :-) In fact, this makes more sense for me than to get another small VPS (I can now do some consolidation), and I never managed to find an egg for the VPS OsterEI anyway!

pullangcubo · April 2018

@angstrom said:
Well, I went wild and ordered the Root-Server Eierkanone. :-)

Do update us with a benchmark upon package delivery...

EHRA · April 2018

@Falzo said:
summer is coming? ;-)

honestly can't tell much, seem quite new to the game. from the looks of it simply reselling OVH and others. as above mentioned maybe not OVZ but LXC, so I'd expect quite some overselling.

I bought for testing, the performance is already getting pretty bad. CPU at 100% even when I do not perform tasks. Unfortunately it is not proving to be reliable.

@pullangcubo said:
Just a head's up to all intrested, Root-Server Eierkanone is back at
https://www.netcup.de/vserver/uebersicht_vserver_angebote.php

I did not find Easter egg. But NetCup has interesting prices.

angstrom · April 2018

@pullangcubo said:

@angstrom said:
Well, I went wild and ordered the Root-Server Eierkanone. :-)

Do update us with a benchmark upon package delivery...

Will do but may take a few days. I hope that the servers won't be too overloaded (= all of the Root-Server Eierkanone people together), but we'll see! The contract is for 3 months, so not a huge risk. (I already have a vServer at netcup and have never experienced significant problems.)

angstrom · April 2018

@pullangcubo said:

@angstrom said:
Well, I went wild and ordered the Root-Server Eierkanone. :-)

Do update us with a benchmark upon package delivery...

I hadn't noticed that the server was provisioned within minutes, am still waiting for the bill! :-)

What follows are two benchmarks. The first (bench.sh):

----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores      : 2
CPU frequency        : 2297.338 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 390.0 GB (1.4 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 8005 MB (345 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 3899 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 0 days, 0 hour 49 min
Load average         : 0.14, 0.09, 0.06
OS                   : Debian GNU/Linux 8
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 3.16.0-5-amd64
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 859 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 929 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 823 MB/s
Average I/O speed    : 870.3 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         45.8MB/s      
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          2.67MB/s      
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            5.41MB/s      
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           23.1MB/s      
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           84.3MB/s      
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             4.48MB/s      
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           9.99MB/s      
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          11.3MB/s      
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            25.9MB/s      
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           8.06MB/s      
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          8.12MB/s      
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The second (vpsbench):

Benching I/O ... OK
Benching CPU. Bzipping 25MB file ... OK
Benching inbound network. Downloading 100MB file ... OK
Share at https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/wiki/VPS-Hosts
CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores: 2
CPU frequency:  2297.338 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 8005 MB
Total amount of swap: 3899 MB
System uptime:   1:01,       
I/O speed:  1.1 GB/s
Bzip 25MB: 5.42s
Download 100MB file: 61.1MB/s

I'm running a third benchmark (unixbench.sh) at the moment; will post when completed.

angstrom · April 2018

@EHRA said: @pullangcubo said: Just a head's up to all intrested, Root-Server Eierkanone is back at https://www.netcup.de/vserver/uebersicht_vserver_angebote.php

I did not find Easter egg. But NetCup has interesting prices.

The eggs may be gone by now. I feel as if I had found one of the last eggs for the Root-Server Eierkanone!

beagle · April 2018

Does anyone know how these Root-Server Eierkanone perform compared to the 8vCore/8GB/320GB SAS vServers from BF?

Cdoe · April 2018

How do Netcup make any profit with dedicated cores and this pricing?

Neoon · April 2018

@Cdoe said:
How do Netcup make any profit with dedicated cores and this pricing?

E5, tons of cores, up to something 40-48 per node.

Also some provider still do sell a more then they have on the node as dedicated cores, not that much as you would to on usual vps but still a bit.

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