Looking for a reliable VPS under $7

arsalanj

Edited: Thanks for all your suggestions. I have selected a provider (Crowncloud) and hopefully it will fulfill my requirements.

My minimum requirements are following:

Price: maximum $7 per month
CPU: 2 core
RAM: 4 GB
KVM virtualization
SSD storage: 20 GB
Location: Europe or North America
Mode of payment: credit/debit card (ideally through Stripe)

It would be great if a benchmark is available.

cybertech

@SpeedBus still has some in Frankfurt:

https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/159181/crowncloud-4-gb-ram-60-gb-ssd-kvm-at-frankfurt-los-angeles-7-month-more#latest

Have a service in LA and its real good, that i changed to semi annual billing.

sanvit

iirc HostHatch will be doing the 2xRAM,DISK, 5xBANDWIDTH promotion for london and chicago soon. It will be $5 for 4GB RAM and 40GB NVMe storage. It only comes with 1 core though.

Here's a nench for london 4GB

pike

https://www.hetzner.de/cloud 2vCPU, 4G RAM, 40G SSD, 20TB Traffic in Nuremberg and Falkenstein, Germany or Tsuula/Helsinki, Finland

https://www.first-root.de/server/vps/kvm-power-edition 2 CPU, 4G RAM, 80G SSD, 5TB Traffic in Düsseldorf, Germany

https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-s-ssd-g3 2 CPU, 10G RAM, 40G SSD, 5TB Traffic in Frankfurt a.M., Germany (slightly above your budget)

arsalanj

@cybertech said:
@SpeedBus still has some in Frankfurt:

https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/159181/crowncloud-4-gb-ram-60-gb-ssd-kvm-at-frankfurt-los-angeles-7-month-more#latest

Have a service in LA and its real good, that i changed to semi annual billing.

Thanks. I just ordered this same VPS. Let's see how is it.

arsalanj

@sanvit said:
iirc HostHatch will be doing the 2xRAM,DISK, 5xBANDWIDTH promotion for london and chicago soon. It will be $5 for 4GB RAM and 40GB NVMe storage. It only comes with 1 core though.

Here's a nench for london 4GB

Thanks for recommendation. I already have VPS with 1 core and its performance is quite poor. Hence, looking for 3 or 4 cores now.

arsalanj

@pike said:
https://www.hetzner.de/cloud 2vCPU, 4G RAM, 40G SSD, 20TB Traffic in Nuremberg and Falkenstein, Germany or Tsuula/Helsinki, Finland

https://www.first-root.de/server/vps/kvm-power-edition 2 CPU, 4G RAM, 80G SSD, 5TB Traffic in Düsseldorf, Germany

https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-s-ssd-g3 2 CPU, 10G RAM, 40G SSD, 5TB Traffic in Frankfurt a.M., Germany (slightly above your budget)

I already tried registering with hetzner.de and first-root.de. Hetzner.de rejected my application and credit card processing module of first-root.de was buggy & wasn't processing the credit card. I have just signed up with crowncloud.net.

HostDoc

I can do the following in Germany:

4 vCores @ 4.0 GHz
Unlimited BW @ 1 gbps
4GB DDR4 RAM
1 IPv4
20GB SSD
KVM Virt
£3.99/m

Found Here

[root@arsalanj-Bench ~]# wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU model            : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Number of cores      : 4
CPU frequency        : 4007.996 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 19.0 GB (1.2 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 3789 MB (79 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 1022 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 0 days, 0 hour 0 min
Load average         : 0.18, 0.06, 0.02
OS                   : CentOS 7.6.1810
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 420 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 471 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 462 MB/s
Average I/O speed    : 451.0 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         93.4MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP              139.162.65.37           9.54MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            9.38MB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           95.4MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           95.9MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             14.6MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           12.8MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          9.52MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            87.6MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           6.14MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          5.83MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
[root@arsalanj-Bench ~]# (curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.log
-------------------------------------------------
 nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2019-09-17 09:40:24 UTC
-------------------------------------------------

Processor:    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
CPU cores:    4
Frequency:    4007.996 MHz
RAM:          3.7G
Swap:         1.0G
Kernel:       Linux 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64 x86_64

Disks:
vda     20G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    1.521 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    0.884 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 98.5 us / 211.5 us / 19.3 ms / 202.6 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 7.27 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.77 GiB, 1.45 k iops, 363.4 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    425.34 MiB/s
    2nd run:    416.76 MiB/s
    3rd run:    423.43 MiB/s
    average:    421.84 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    51.77.75.xxxx

    Cachefly CDN:         86.09 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        102.91 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   11.38 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      100.02 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         24.42 MiB/s

No IPv6 connectivity detected
-------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------
 nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2019-09-17 09:41:02 UTC
-------------------------------------------------

Processor:    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
CPU cores:    4
Frequency:    4007.996 MHz
RAM:          3.7G
Swap:         1.0G
Kernel:       Linux 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64 x86_64

Disks:
vda     20G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    1.665 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    0.918 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 90.4 us / 176.6 us / 5.94 ms / 54.6 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 7.25 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.77 GiB, 1.45 k iops, 362.3 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    432.97 MiB/s
    2nd run:    417.71 MiB/s
    3rd run:    428.20 MiB/s
    average:    426.29 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    51.77.75.xxxx

    Cachefly CDN:         85.26 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        76.39 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   11.82 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      102.46 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         24.00 MiB/s

No IPv6 connectivity detected
-------------------------------------------------

[root@arsalanj-Bench ~]#

pike

@arsalanj said:
I already tried registering with hetzner.de and first-root.de. Hetzner.de rejected my application and credit card processing module of first-root.de was buggy & wasn't processing the credit card. I have just signed up with crowncloud.net.

Hetzner asks for an ID check via E-Mail or to top up 20€ on your account as a security to prevent abuse. Did they even ask or they simply dropped your order?

As for the first root payment system you may want to inform @FR_Michael about that.

Another german provider known to get you most CPU power for your money is netcup. However their contracts can feel unusual for international customers since they got stuff like contract period 6 months but monthly payment and 30 days cancellation period. Theyre not intentionally fooling their customers, you just need to read carefully and expect what I mentioned above.

uptime

that offer from @HostDoc looks like it might be just what the doctor ordered ... with a benchmark even.

Looks pretty good to me. (Also - if you're looking for solid CPU / NVMe / network - I really like HostDoc's Xeon Gold node in Dallas - I got a nice deal from a flash sale a while ago - you might want to look into possibilities on that node as well)

Also ... I've recently been working with a couple $7/m plans (that come with more SSD) and am so far quite pleased with both:

1) CrownCloud (@SpeedBus) in Los Angeles

https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/159181/crowncloud-4-gb-ram-60-gb-ssd-kvm-at-frankfurt-los-angeles-7-month-more/p1

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14262365

---

2) DrServer (@Radi) in Dallas

https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/160235/drserver-net-dual-e5-back-in-stock-starting-at-61-mo/p1

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14625544

(if you get the DrServer deal do be sure to put in a ticket to get CPU passthrough enabled)

First-Root

@pike said:

@arsalanj said:
I already tried registering with hetzner.de and first-root.de. Hetzner.de rejected my application and credit card processing module of first-root.de was buggy & wasn't processing the credit card. I have just signed up with crowncloud.net.

Hetzner asks for an ID check via E-Mail or to top up 20€ on your account as a security to prevent abuse. Did they even ask or they simply dropped your order?

As for the first root payment system you may want to inform @FR_Michael about that.

Another german provider known to get you most CPU power for your money is netcup. However their contracts can feel unusual for international customers since they got stuff like contract period 6 months but monthly payment and 30 days cancellation period. Theyre not intentionally fooling their customers, you just need to read carefully and expect what I mentioned above.

we already know, it's a stripe thing.

arsalanj

@pike said:

@arsalanj said:
I already tried registering with hetzner.de and first-root.de. Hetzner.de rejected my application and credit card processing module of first-root.de was buggy & wasn't processing the credit card. I have just signed up with crowncloud.net.

Hetzner asks for an ID check via E-Mail or to top up 20€ on your account as a security to prevent abuse. Did they even ask or they simply dropped your order?

As for the first root payment system you may want to inform @FR_Michael about that.

Another german provider known to get you most CPU power for your money is netcup. However their contracts can feel unusual for international customers since they got stuff like contract period 6 months but monthly payment and 30 days cancellation period. Theyre not intentionally fooling their customers, you just need to read carefully and expect what I mentioned above.

Hetzner asked for ID verification but rejected it after I sent it. I realized later that the reason might be that I entered my office address in registration whereas my IDs contained my home address.

vyas11

@uptime said:
that offer from @HostDoc looks like it might be just what the doctor ordered ... with a benchmark even.

Looks pretty good to me. (Also - if you're looking for solid CPU / NVMe / network - I really like HostDoc's Xeon Gold node in Dallas - I got a nice deal from a flash sale a while ago - you might want to look into possibilities on that node as well)

Also ... I've recently been working with a couple $7/m plans (that come with more SSD) and am so far quite pleased with both.

@uptime
Is it only me or are you developing this speciality in creating “folks have you noticed what you’ve been missing or missed?” Posts?

@arsalanj Hetzner asked me for ID AND 20 Euro advance. I rejected them instead.

For some of the providers here a PM might help. Worked in 3 out of 4 cases with me.

@HostDoc a test machine with OP’s name on it and a BM. Now that’s how you wow a potential customer new patient

pike

Hetzner would even refund that 20€ within 14 days if youre not satisfied.

uptime

@vyas11 said:
have you noticed what you’ve been missing

Horses for courses, as the saying goes

I'm happy to have found a few solid performers that maybe tend to fly under the radar here most of the time. (Recommend to bookmark their offers for when you find a need for next level of moar superior potassium) ...

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Radi

@uptime CPU Passthrough is now enabled by default on all new plans.

cybertech

crowncloud's a good catch for their promo plan.

they cpu stronk and generous with compute powa - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14452519