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Whenever you come out with these excellent offers, do you allow us to combine multiple orders into a bigger VPS? In the sense, if I order two, can I get one with double resources?
@PHP_Friends what's your current cheapest monthly deal?
Do you still have this discount?
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2955550/#Comment_2955550
yesterday some hostingdude guy said the same here. Since 2003, plus a horrible site.
I don't know what this refers to as I don't know Hostmantis, but everyone can check the internet for our "history" to find out that we really have been offering hosting a decade ago. The whole story would be a bit long. In short, we started as a "sponsoring" project (don't ask me why, but that was a hype in Germany many years ago), then offered regular free hosting - the project became one of the biggest free hostings in Germany - and started managed hosting and web design for local companies when we still went to school (mainly to pay the bills for the free hosting servers
). Our first KVM products where launched 2013 in a long (free) beta test to make sure everything really works well when we begin to sell them in the beginning of 2014. As a company, we are profitable from the beginning and never needed an investor or money from our bank, our friends or something else.
That's possible, but blease order one and contact our support for the further steps. If you order two servers, you get two servers
Hmmmm. Yes, just refer to it when you order it
Best Regards,
Tim
https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-s-ssd-g3
I will gladly take it, especially if the 2 cores are dedicated and allow nested virtualization. Thanks!
Some information and benchmark of this deal https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-s-ssd-g3.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
nench.sh
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz CPU cores: 2 Frequency: 2300.000 MHz RAM: 9.8G bash: line 156: swapon: command not found Swap: - Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 x86_64 Disks: vda 40G HDD CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB 4.132 seconds CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB 6.749 seconds CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB 1.341 seconds ioping: seek rate min/avg/max/mdev = 75.4 us / 175.8 us / 8.93 ms / 133.4 us ioping: sequential read speed generated 8.00 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.95 GiB, 1.60 k iops, 400.0 MiB/s dd: sequential write speed 1st run: 924.11 MiB/s 2nd run: 951.77 MiB/s 3rd run: 942.23 MiB/s average: 939.37 MiB/s IPv4 speedtests your IPv4: xxxx.xxxx Cachefly CDN: 76.44 MiB/s Leaseweb (NL): 83.88 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 12.66 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 80.16 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 24.73 MiB/s IPv6 speedtests your IPv6: xxxx:xxxx Leaseweb (NL): 9.61 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 0.00 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 42.20 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 25.82 MiB/sbench.sh
Do you have any offer for dedicated server?
Yes, but as our virtual servers are very powerful and cheap, dedicated servers are more or less always senseless compared to our G3 servers. We only sell dedicated servers with 12 month contract period and only to business customers.
Best Regards,
Tim
This one is the most interesting to habitual dedi users:
https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-l-ssd-g3
40gb ecc ram and 8 dedicated "cores" (presumably vcores, but still very good at the price), and 140 GB NVMe raid-10, for 27 euro/m including VAT, wow! Can non-EU customers get credited for the tax? I'm sure this has come up before but I've lost track of how it is handled by the different EU providers with these sorts of offers. I know in some cases everyone has to pay it unless they do a lot of annoying paperwork which isn't great.
Cpu calculation: this is a Xeon Gold 6140 which is an 18 core 2.30 ghz cpu with about 24k passmark on single socket (dual socket is only about 33k but those figures seem to reflect heavily shared-memory workloads and I usually run a lot of parallel processes). So that's around 1331 passmark per pcore, or counting a vcore as 60% of a pcore (that reflects my experience) the 8 vcores are at worst around 6390 passmark and optimistically (depending on host load) around 10k, so in the same ballpark as the traditional cheap 4 core i5 or i7 dedi. Not bad at all, and beats the comparable dedicated-cpu Hetzner cloud offers by better than 2x, except for the lack of hourly billing.
Do you have any kind of storage add-ons? I could imagine junking a few of my dedis if I could get one of the above with around 4TB of HDD storage, especially if I could add and release storage dynamically.
I believe extra storage was definitely possible, just forgot at which price. I posted it in here somewhere iirc.
Ympker I took a quick look and didn't see anything about storage (might have missed it), but did find a mention that they remove the VAT charge for customers who don't have to pay it (link). So that's good to know. That brings the price of the L instance to 22.88 EUR/m if my math is right, beating even the NON-dedicated 32gb 8-core Hetzner cloud instance on a monthly basis by a fair bit.
The hourly billing really does matter though, and maybe it's infeasible with these kinds of prices. I like having a fairly powerful monthly server (currently a Hetzner dedi) to call home, and also to be able to spin up more cores when I have a big computation to do. But that is not currently economical since hourly cores cost around 4x what monthly ones do. I hope the coming high-core-count EPYC processors will change the economics of these products.
Costs for adding storage, RAM, IPs, bandwidth are explained here https://php-friends.de/hilfe (scroll down a bit)
Yes, the VAT is removed "automatically", just wait with the payment until we send the new invoice.
We can give discounts to additional storage, just contact our support with the needed amount of storage
Just to say +1 for PHP-Friends
Anyone a customer here want another service package of this? I have a billing issue with this and someone agree to take over the service invoice/package but he is a new user and it's taking too long for them. @PHP_Friends