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I got around 1/3 of the speed of an ovh ssd 1 while using their 2 core offer. My experience has been that their performance is a joke and their Network will randomly go down in small increments throughout the day.
Posting the full test again, the initial write is always a bit slow. It looks like a spinning disk warm-up but obviously this cannot be the case anymore nowadays
For now I am keeping this, let's see how it goes.
Uptimerobot monitoring a Contabo IP:
Since 119 hrs, 44 mins (2018-04-30 11:01:59)
Uptime
100% (last 24 hours)
99.93% (last 7 days)
99.98% (last 30 days)
I can also share uptimerobot logs worth of some months with you if intetested
I just don't understand why you would get a vps over a dedicated server if they are worth the same price. I've rented contabo's largest vps for 27 euro, and any dedi from another company at the same price will outperform it.
27EUR dedi might not come with RAID and won't come with dual power supplies. Etc.
I've no idea if contabo's nodes do - but a large number of VPS providers will have nodes with useful things like that - improving your uptime.
I would suggest that unless you got a REALLY good deal, any dedi you get for €27 will not even out perform the VPS in the last bench mark, will certainly have slower disks, much older CPU's be less redundant and probably has no IPMI (VPS has pseudo with ISO options via VNC)
Maybe I am wrong though?
You are definitely not wrong. Closest thing for the price is Kimsufi KS-4C – i5-2300, 16GB DDR3, 2TB HDD, 100Mbps port for 23€, which I wouldn't exactly call reliable with AIO motherboards and 1 HDD.
What are you expecting? you pay 9 euro for 12GB ram and 4 pretty good era CPU cores.. OVH gives you WAAAAY less resources to play with. And judging by the benchmarks above, their read/writes and iops are extraordinairy for the price.
Would be interested in seeing those if you want to share
I confirm that it's a really good deal for the price.
I am expecting what is advertised, that's the basic of a honest service market. I also have interest for the good providers to grow in a healthy market.
So far it seems great, I am barely using network so can't comment on that (will add monitoring later) but the vps behaves consistently. I will do another review after a few months, this was the initial impact review.
The fact you have to ask to remove the IO limitation is kinda weird, I wouldn't have known without reading about it here on LET. Nothing else negative to report so far.
This is mine, i didn't ask to remove limitations or anything - i just installed stock debian from the sysrescue:
PM to remind me. I'm not feeling very well today. Probably tomorrow
Before:
After:
I can still see some "warm-up" issues from time to time:
No idea why is that..I find it puzzling
Today it's the first time that I notice disk performance completely thrashed. I can safely say that it has been as reported above in all the past months.
Now it is so slow that basically
bench.sh -ionever completes..or it's going to take around 10 minutes since about 5 have already elapsed.Does any other Contabo user have similar issues? They might have some problem...let's see what is their reply.
Edit: issue seems to have been temporary, I will observe what happens in future. It lasted about 1h; now everything seems back to the usual speed:
Disk Speed
I/O (1st run) : 284 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 362 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 318 MB/s
Average I/O : 321.333 MB/s
Disk Speed
I/O (1st run) : 344 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 376 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 380 MB/s
Average I/O : 366.667 MB/s
Perhaps an array rebuild?
Do you really need to do that still? I did test my box using Serverscope a few months back and the the speeds were still superb:
https://serverscope.io/trials/n23R
Today noticed again very sluggish performance (like, can't edit a file remotely). Checked the I/O:
Following runs:
@Prime404: Yes, I had to do that once at the beginning. And I cannot explain why sometimes performance becomes completely thrashed, probably a noisy neighbour
Again today:
Then after two runs of the IO benchmark it becomes faster again.
I am considering switching to a provider that has no such "benchmark detection" in place...