Review: KTS24.COM

Oseri

Hello,

Last December @GameTownProjects announced a round of advent specials. The one of December 31 was "Silvester Spezial - 31.12.2018" with following specs at just €9.96/year:

CPU: 1 vCore
RAM: 1 GB
Festplatte: 10 GB SSD
IPv4 Adressen: 1 inklusive
IPv6 Adressen: free
Anbindung: 1 GBit/s
Traffic: fair use*
Standort: Düsseldorf #1

Being that cheap (at near the cost of the IPv4 alone), I could not resist the temptation and ordered one. Being my second experience with a German provider (the first one was Hetzner), it was nice that I could activate my account without the need to send a photo ID or other document. My payment passed without trouble via Paypal.

The VPS activation took around 6 hours (nothing to blame here as I ordered near midnight of New Years eve). One curious thing is that while the whole kts24.com site in in German as well as the account registration and payment emails, the "your new VPS" activation notification email was in English.

By default it came with Debian 9 x64 minimal preinstalled (nice touch!) but the control panel allows to reinstall Centos 7, Debian 9.3, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 and Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 evaluation (I don't think Windows will work due to the limited disk space) There's an option to upload your own ISO. Yes, it's a KVM

Here's the nench.sh output:

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 nench.sh v2018.04.14 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2019-01-02 20:15:52 UTC
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Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2430L v2 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores:    1
Frequency:    2394.230 MHz
RAM:          996M
Swap:         -
Kernel:       Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 x86_64

Disks:
vda     10G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    3.904 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    2.138 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 65.4 us / 102.0 us / 6.24 ms / 57.0 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 14.7 k requests in 5.00 s, 3.60 GiB, 2.95 k iops, 736.7 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    839.23 MiB/s
    2nd run:    837.33 MiB/s
    3rd run:    820.16 MiB/s
    average:    832.24 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    37.228.xxx.xxx

    Cachefly CDN:         74.77 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        51.63 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   3.31 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      39.77 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         10.03 MiB/s

No IPv6 connectivity detected
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Based on the numbers, seems to very a very capable server for light duties and/or serving static content.

Will try to update this review in a few weeks after I put it to work.

Thanks,

Oseri.

P.S. I'm not affiliated to the provider and not getting paid for this review.