fastpipe.io - SSD Cloud Servers (KVM) - Frankfurt, Germany - Free BGP starting at 2,95€!

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fastpipe.io is a brand of combahton GmbH, offering Cloud and Dedicated Servers within two datacenters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Our services are based on latest HPE and Supermicro servers, offering outstanding realiability and performance. We also operate our own fully redundant, multi-datacenter Juniper based network.

Want to learn more about our technical infrastructure and how we take care of their operation? - See our infrastructure details.

Some key features of our Cloud Servers

• Excellent connectivity: By default, every cloud server node is connected with 2x 10Gbit to our network. This provides network-level fault resilience, fast data transfers, and best performance even at peak times. Network-intensive applications are excellently hosted with us.

• DDoS-Protection: Our cloud servers include our exclusive DDoS protection, which unique beside other well known solutions. Even DDoS attacks on web applications are filtered out by our DDoS protection.

• Additional IP-Addresses: You can add additional IP addresses (from 1.49€) and subnets (from 6.95€) to your instance. The setup takes place immediately, the reserved address ranges are routed to an instance of your choice.

• Daily Backup: Data loss is annoying. Accordingly, our cloud server nodes are equipped with several hard drives (hardware raid) as standard. You can avoid the risk of self-generated data loss with minimal effort through our automated snapshot backups. For this purpose we make a complete backup of your server daily between 02:00 to 10:00 am.

• Scale at any time: Do you need more CPU power, memory or disk space instant? Scale your server automatically to the next higher level, fully automated and without changing the existing configuration or data. We only charge you the difference in connection with the current remaining term.

• Virtual Private Lan: Create your own, isolated networks with our Virtual Private Lan (VPL). VPLs behave like V-Lans and provide an internal network between different instances where you can freely use your own IP addresses. Choose between 1Gbit, 2Gbit or 5Gbit interfaces.

• Free BGP Sessions: Already own an AS and IP-Space? Just open a ticket after your server has been provisioned and tell us your ASN and Prefixes with valid route objects. We will configure the session within two business days.

Small entry offerings

With a small budget, you get a lot of power and possibilities with our Cloud Servers. Starting at 2,95€ ($3,32) per 30 days, we offer:

• Cloud SE-2
• One CPU Core (Intel Xeon E5v2/v3/v4 @ +2,5GHz)
• 2048MB ECC Memory
• 30GB SSD Storage
• Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and FreeBSD available as one-click installation
• Additional details and order link available on our website

More power needed? Choose a higher package or upgrade with just a few clicks, without moving configuration or data.

Not satisfied yet? Challenge accepted. Just order the desired instance, open a ticket including the link to this post and we will provide a free Cloud SE-4 instance with 14 days lifetime, without any contract binding.

Want to learn more about our current progress? Checkout our blog.

somystart

any testing ip or coupons?

datanoise

somystart said: testing ip

https://lg.combahton.net/

ulayer

Does this renew at 2,95€?

datanoise

Seems like it does, it's their regular pricing. Nice to see a smaller company with what seems to be a really great offer (good nodes & network) at a price competitive with ovh/hetzner!

dfroe

Sounds tempting.
As soon as a 30% off black friday coupon for a 24 EUR yearly deal pops up, I'm in.

datanoise

A yearly deal would be awesome

angstrom

Although @combahton_it didn't say it explicitly above, these are new, lower-priced plans. See their statement at https://www.fastpipe.io/blog/?p=174 .

alexvolk

Looks good except:

• expensive at little bit? %30 discount will make sense for sure
• charging VAT for non-eu customers? Why?
• Unlimited Traffic what exact speed limation it has?

combahton_it said: If you want more network performance, you need more cpu performance - it's a single core and a small instance.

cybertech

nench.sh v2019.03.01 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2019-05-11 00:33:38 UTC
-------------------------------------------------

Processor:    Common KVM processor
CPU cores:    2
Frequency:    2499.998 MHz
RAM:          3.9G
Swap:         1.9G
Kernel:       Linux 5.1.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 x86_64

Disks:
loop0    1.5G  HDD
sda     60G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    3.296 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    7.485 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    4.406 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 292.6 us / 552.9 us / 23.5 ms / 393.8 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 3.33 k requests in 5.00 s, 831.2 MiB, 664 iops, 166.2 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    721.93 MiB/s
    2nd run:    729.56 MiB/s
    3rd run:    702.86 MiB/s
    average:    718.12 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:

    Cachefly CDN:         157.48 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        128.05 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   7.76 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      127.37 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         10.95 MiB/s

IPv6 speedtests
    your IPv6:    

    Leaseweb (NL):        139.65 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   0.00 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      17.32 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         11.35 MiB/s
-------------------------------------------------

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13074445

https://serverscope.io/trials/7oyL

datanoise

Thanks a lot @cybertech ! If someone has a nench.sh for a single core instance that would be great

nullnothere

Does any one know or can @combahton_it clarify if we can request CPU pass through (or at least better flags). From the looks of the bench from @cybertech it looks like even AES isn't enabled.

desperand

alexvolk said: expensive at little bit? %30 discount will make sense for sure

No, it's not. There are a lot of providers with higher price but with much worst performance for the price and features out the box.

cybertech

@alexvolk said:
Looks good except:

• expensive at little bit? %30 discount will make sense for sure
• charging VAT for non-eu customers? Why?
• Unlimited Traffic what exact speed limation it has?

combahton_it said: If you want more network performance, you need more cpu performance - it's a single core and a small instance.

Asked about VAT and was told that non EU not charged VAT. So for my plan prepaid EUR 5.25 for 30 days.

angstrom

Can anyone post the CPU flags?

Falzo

@cybertech said:

thanks. does look quite good... iops could be better for it being SSD, but still. I've been tempted for a long time to try, as frankfurt is obviously a good pick for most latency critical stuff. however, I agree on the 30% discount thing as need be :-P

@nullnothere said:
Does any one know or can @combahton_it clarify if we can request CPU pass through (or at least better flags). From the looks of the bench from @cybertech it looks like even AES isn't enabled.

totally agree, imho it makes sense especially from a providers pov to at least passthrough AES, as using hardware acceleration when it's there will unburden the node cpu in general...

cybertech

@angstrom said:
Can anyone post the CPU flags?

root@cloud606994 ~]# lscpu
Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                2
On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    2
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            15
Model:                 6
Model name:            Common KVM processor
Stepping:              1
CPU MHz:               2499.998
BogoMIPS:              4999.99
Hypervisor vendor:     KVM
Virtualization type:   full
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              4096K
L3 cache:              16384K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc nopl xtopology cpuid tsc_known_freq pni cx16 x2apic hypervisor lahf_lm cpuid_fault pti
[root@cloud606994 ~]#

nullnothere

cybertech said: Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc nopl xtopology cpuid tsc_known_freq pni cx16 x2apic hypervisor lahf_lm cpuid_fault pti

Thanks - confirms a rather restricted subset of flags - I would have been interested had this been better or at least possible for improvement via a support ticket.

@combahton_it - any hopes here?

Falzo said: totally agree, imho it makes sense especially from a providers pov to at least passthrough AES, as using hardware acceleration when it's there will unburden the node cpu in general...

Exactly - and I have no idea why providers still insist on limiting most of the flags (even those like AVX) which actually benefit the host node a lot by allowing more efficient CPU use from all the hosted VPSs on it. I wish Netcup listened and kept only the vmx flag (and maybe a few more related ones) for pay-and-enable mode.

They buy some wonderful and capable CPUs and then hard limit them in some rather braindead ways to no ones benefit.

Falzo

nullnothere said: I wish Netcup listened

they enabled AES even on their vps range long time ago, afaik because someone finally understood how that helped their nodes...

model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx lm rep_good nopl xtopology pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave hypervisor lahf_lm invpcid_single ssbd ibrs ibpb kaiser invpcid

cybertech

Everything good , network feel responsive. Just that not sure about SSD performance from serverscope. Not that numbers are absolute but it's indication for me. CPU performance is concern as per geekbench.

nullnothere

Falzo said: they enabled AES even on their vps range long time ago, afaik because someone finally understood how that helped their nodes...

Yup - and I was very happy when they did that since at least crypto stuff improved quite significantly.

There are still many other flags (esp. avx and related) which help a lot on a lot of computation stuff which have no virtualization benefit (in case they were worried about that since they charge for the vmx flag) that they don't enable on the vServers (but that do exist on the Root servers).

Parity wise, I was hoping that Netcup would consider the vServers essentially as non-dedicated/shared Root servers (all else being equal) so the only catch is that the performance will not be consistent like the Root servers (and of course I assume that on the root servers you can run intensive CPU stuff 24/7 but it is not fair/expected on the shared core vServer line).

Unfortunately the Root servers do have different (more) flags exposed than the vServers which I'm not exactly thrilled about - it's not only about dedicated use when one thinks about these extra flags but also about a lot of efficient operations.

Even UltraVPS doesn't expose a lot of desired flags but when I asked them over a ticket, they mentioned that it is due to some limitations on their virtualization platform (so not an easy change) but that they are in the works and soon one can expect better flags.

angstrom

For comparison, PHP-Friends is pretty attractive in this respect:

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt

cybertech

@angstrom said:
For comparison, PHP-Friends is pretty attractive in this respect:

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt

Yes and overall performance has improved since the sale , so may cancel my cancellation

Falzo

@cybertech said:

@angstrom said:
For comparison, PHP-Friends is pretty attractive in this respect:

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt

Yes and overall performance has improved since the sale , so may cancel my cancellation

still I consider their pricing (depending on the use-case) not comparable/more in the middle-range. yes their sale wasn't bad, but essentially it was just a lot of RAM on top that justified it as being a sale.
I think there are only very few people that really utilize that amount, so that's why the calculation might work quite good for them in the end ;-)

anyway, that's just my subjective pov, but I like balanced packages where the amount of vcore, ram and fast disk matches each other well.
--> @Ultravps SAS specials are a perfect example, thinking about it alone makes me want to buy another SAS2 ...

cybertech

@Falzo said:

@cybertech said:

@angstrom said:
For comparison, PHP-Friends is pretty attractive in this respect:

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt

Yes and overall performance has improved since the sale , so may cancel my cancellation

still I consider their pricing (depending on the use-case) not comparable/more in the middle-range. yes their sale wasn't bad, but essentially it was just a lot of RAM on top that justified it as being a sale.
I think there are only very few people that really utilize that amount, so that's why the calculation might work quite good for them in the end ;-)

anyway, that's just my subjective pov, but I like balanced packages where the amount of vcore, ram and fast disk matches each other well.
--> @Ultravps SAS specials are a perfect example, thinking about it alone makes me want to buy another SAS2 ...

I fully agree with u. keeping an NL SAS-1. just wanna try proxmox and see just how many vps can be made with 3GB ram rach

ruben

datanoise said: If someone has a nench.sh for a single core instance that would be great

-------------------------------------------------
 nench.sh v2019.03.01 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2019-05-11 08:51:57 UTC
-------------------------------------------------

Processor:    Common KVM processor
CPU cores:    1
Frequency:    2499.998 MHz
RAM:          2.0G
Swap:         -
Kernel:       Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 x86_64

Disks:
vda     30G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    5.370 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    8.597 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    5.409 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 83.7 us / 154.4 us / 19.7 ms / 350.9 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 15.4 k requests in 5.00 s, 3.76 GiB, 3.08 k iops, 769.1 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    181.20 MiB/s
    2nd run:    259.40 MiB/s
    3rd run:    504.49 MiB/s
    average:    315.03 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    

    Cachefly CDN:         59.01 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        130.32 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   11.02 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      129.73 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         12.29 MiB/s

IPv6 speedtests
    your IPv6:    

    Leaseweb (NL):        121.35 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   0.00 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      13.17 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         11.47 MiB/s
-------------------------------------------------

I had an old generation HE-1 and now switched to the new SE-2.
In my view, the price is pretty good, especially if you count in the daily backups, DDoS-Protection, and free BGP Sessions.

angstrom

@Falzo said:

@cybertech said:

@angstrom said:
For comparison, PHP-Friends is pretty attractive in this respect:

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt

Yes and overall performance has improved since the sale , so may cancel my cancellation

still I consider their pricing (depending on the use-case) not comparable/more in the middle-range. yes their sale wasn't bad, but essentially it was just a lot of RAM on top that justified it as being a sale.
I think there are only very few people that really utilize that amount, so that's why the calculation might work quite good for them in the end ;-)

anyway, that's just my subjective pov, but I like balanced packages where the amount of vcore, ram and fast disk matches each other well.

I agree with you about balance, and I also agree that PHP-Friends utilized the "RAM trick" in their recent sales.

Nevertheless, I've decided to keep my €6/m sale VPS at PHP-Friends for the near future even if it's a bit "RAM-heavy". It performs well, the network is also good -- it's been worry-free, to be honest.

--> @Ultravps SAS specials are a perfect example, thinking about it alone makes me want to buy another SAS2 ...

I've had a SAS1 since BF, but I still feel tempted by the SAS2 ...

Falzo

@angstrom said:

--> @Ultravps SAS specials are a perfect example, thinking about it alone makes me want to buy another SAS2 ...

I've had a SAS1 since BF, but I still feel tempted by the SAS2 ...

back to topic: I'd buy a CLOUD HE-4 from @combahton_it immediatly - if only they would come across with that 30% discount ;-P

vimalware

@angstrom said:

@Falzo said:
--> @Ultravps SAS specials are a perfect example, thinking about it alone makes me want to buy another SAS2 ...

STOP THAT. My petite CC is getting double teamed by hetzner and ultravps.eu.

I've had a SAS1 since BF, but I still feel tempted by the SAS2 ...

I'm more tempted by another 2x SAS1s.
Makes for a very affordable run-forever microk8s/rancher 3node test cluster .
I've yet to wrap my head around this k8s thing.

Falzo

@vimalware said:

@angstrom said:

@Falzo said:
--> @Ultravps SAS specials are a perfect example, thinking about it alone makes me want to buy another SAS2 ...

STOP THAT. My petite CC is getting double teamed by hetzner and ultravps.eu.

I've had a SAS1 since BF, but I still feel tempted by the SAS2 ...

I'm more tempted by another 2x SAS1s.

come on, just give in. you know you need them (not) but won't be able to resist anyway.

and they said stock is already low... 😈

angstrom

@ruben said: In my view, the price is pretty good, especially if you count in the daily backups, DDoS-Protection, and free BGP Sessions.

I also find the new pricing pretty attractive (especially for what you get).

Of course, on LET, we always long for further discounts, but this is a never-ending longing ...