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Nice and tempting offers.
I purchased the Easter special Root-Server Eierkanone, which is comparable to the RS 1000 G8. The main advantage of the latter is the new processor, but otherwise the former wins with its 400 GB SAS and the three-month contract period (vs 12 months for the same price). So I'm happy with the Root-Server Eierkanone. :-)
(That said, it would be interesting to compare the benchmarks of these two servers.)
Are you sure about that? I was thinking the same and asked the support about that. Unless I misunderstood them you do not have to hit the limit before.
I've got an RS-1000-G8 (SSD); definitely fast and bold when first installed.
Log in three hours later, performance gone down a lot, IOPS gone down a big and the whole instance stutters like it was fully swapped out to disk...
RAM doesn't look very ..."dedicated"
I really wanted to keep this but honestly, I'm not impressed at all
yes I am sure. in the german text it says:
which essential means in addition or on top of that :-)
it's been a comparable regulation before, just with lower numbers and in addition has been discussed on their forums too. also note the can be limited phrasing - they don't limit automatically but only manually after review.
as said before that's essentially a limit to be able to do something against abuse and suspicious behaviour, but I doubt if the 80TB are now the limit, that's coming into play ever again.
Perhaps you can post a benchmark :-)
Benchmarks are pointless in real life.
Timing a project build at 6pm (2:20) and 10pm (4:08) or experiencing stuttering when instance resumes from being swapped out say more than any benchmark, at least to me.
Although I don't doubt what you say, it seems strange that this would be anything but a temporary condition due to a significant number of new deployments and everyone's running benchmarks at the same time. I mean, if everyone consistently experiences what you have, the whole product line will be a massive failure. (By the way, what do you mean by "RAM doesn't look very ..."dedicated"
"?)
@Falzo, big thanks for the clarification! Netcup offers got even more attractive.
price is good, but i have heard alot of bad things about their billing and fees for canceling or late paying are extremely high, so when you cancel your order you be paying like 70-100 euro fee? anyone heard about it?
plus seems like their ddos protection kind of limited and even lower than basic 5gb/s ?
Its more like a bank. If you not pay your recurring invoices, you will be kicked hard. Too hard.
If your server deactivated because of abuse problem, you have to pay 30 euro to activate it again
If you order an additional IP and you want to move your IP to another server, 40euro
BUT
If you pay the invoices in time you will be okay.
If you reply to abuse reports within 24 hour you will be okay
If you cancel it correctly in the control panel you will be okay.
If your IP get blacklisted, act quick.
Standard things, i working for a german company now, and same things. STRICT rules everywhere.
But after all.. stable network and servers.
DDOS?
Once my server attacked and they are always defended my server without any problem.
no worries, whoever told you that, it's simply not true or missing a bigger part of the story.
for their rootserver line-up they even give a 30 day satisfaction guarantee after the initial order which one can claim and get eventually paid money on your order back in full.
if you want to normally end an active service you still need to cancel 31 days before the renewal date. but that should be it and can be done via their control panel.
only if you miss this date or think you can let it simply expire, then indeed you are in the wrong and they will continue to charge you with the ongoing costs and probably even send a collection agency after you if you don't pay.
so always read and understand ToS of providers you want to deal with. ;-)
Do they expose AVX from the host CPU? That could really help my workload.
Looks very promising, I might get the SAS RS4000 G8 and see how it goes.
Picked up the 8G/320SAS - wow, extremely impressed!
Very fast in terms of latency/network (from America no lag in ssh, no difference that I can tell from an American-based VPS for me) and disk (getting 400-490 MB/s avg disk speed on the 320G SAS).
Nice customer and server control panel, I like the fact I can upload any ISO etc. That is very customer oriented.
Can't believe Netcup hadn't hit my radar before now. Seems like a great and solid provider from everything I've read and cursory experience so far. And, amazing prices for the service/product they are offering!
BTW, the default image was Debian8 + Froxlor CP. I won't be sticking with this OS/CP (will be doing Ubuntu+LXD/LXC+HAProxy), however, I didn't realize Froxlor was still around; I hadn't played with that in probably 8-10 years.
It's definitely low footprint, even with the standard Froxlor web services running, it's only using ~600M (~200M after cache) of memory. Obviously under 0 load (no websites running), however that's still pretty memory usage with those services running.
can you do a
and post the output for one of the cores here? thanks! ;-)
That's very impressive!
and post the output for one of the cores here? thanks! ;-)
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Pasting output from 2nd processor below. Let me know if you need anything else.
I have it 1 month and I am really impressed. Do anyone want any bench?
@jvnadr
wanna do a serverscope.io bench? :P
Sure, when ready I'll post the results
Se, here are the tests. I also did a test to my G7 similar specs server for comparison:
NETCUP gen8, 2 DEDICORES ROOT SERVER
NETCUP G7, 2 DEDICORES ROOT SERVER
Both servers are in production state, both have proxmox and 2-3 instances on them (LXC), but Gen8 server do have more load carrying a much more loaded WP site on it, so, benchmark is not that fair compared to the latter gen7 server.
Proxmox on top of KVM eh? Any issues or caveats for installing on KVM? Did you use the Proxmox ISO, or the installer post-Debian-install?
https://www.netcup.de/vserver/stay_in_germany.php
free for 3 months
Good find, but note that the contract is for 6 months, so one would still have to pay for 3 months (9,99€/month). Nevertheless, it's a good deal if one would need the server for (say) no more than 6 months, but for a longer period of time (say, >1 year), it may be better to go with their (present) regular pricing, which is less than 9,99€/month.
It works like a charm, but for LXC only. If you want to enable nesting virtualization for KVM, then, IIRC netcup will charge you for that (you have to ask support to enable it for your vps and there is a monthly fee). If you try to create a vm without virtualization flags enabled, then, it will work but it will be slow.
I am using NAT environment, so I have a single ipv4 on the g8 vps. I purchased an extra ipv4 for the older server and it is also works like a charm.
I used debian installer, but you can upload proxmox iso thru netcup client area to do a bare metal install.
Thanks mate! Some nice benchmarks for sure
Is there a minimum contract period on these servers?
depends on what you choose while ordering. from one month up to yearly. you need to cancel 30 days in advance through their control panel...
only their new generation VPS range is billed hourly, but you still need to prepay for three months or so and get the rest refunded, if you remove the instance earlier.
I need to buy my Netcup account again. Do you sell me!