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Contabo: new SSD storage, promo with no setup fees

LeviLevi Member
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Just received email with news. Pretty good pricing for SSD storage. Wondering about IOPS, but members will dump YABS here for sure.

https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/

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  • AstroAstro Member

    It's going to end up being oversold. Last time had to open a ticket to remove iops limit

  • bulbasaurbulbasaur Member
    edited November 2022

    Hard pass. Storage VPSes elsewhere are better, and cheaper too.

  • host4nerdhost4nerd Member, Host Rep, LIR

    Would wait until black friday to get a better deal from a good provider

  • masiqbalmasiqbal Member

    waiting someone to post bench and yabs... :)

  • masiqbalmasiqbal Member

    @stevewatson301 said:
    Hard pass. Storage VPSes elsewhere are better, and cheaper too.

    and larger size?

  • bulbasaurbulbasaur Member
    edited November 2022

    @masiqbal said:

    @stevewatson301 said:
    Hard pass. Storage VPSes elsewhere are better, and cheaper too.

    and larger size?

    Yes. In fact, for an IOPS constrained resource, I'm not sure what Contabo is up to by offering 4GB memory, but only 400GB disk.

    Both of these providers offer 512GB+ disks at a lower price, and a decent amount of memory and cores (1GB and 1vCPU). Or wait for BF for the killer deals, @Ian_Dot_Tech had 512GB for $18 if I recall correctly.

    https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/
    https://www.alwyzon.com/en/storage-servers

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  • cybertechcybertech Member

    lmao ok

  • LisoLiso Member

    @stevewatson301 said:

    @masiqbal said:

    @stevewatson301 said:
    Hard pass. Storage VPSes elsewhere are better, and cheaper too.

    and larger size?

    Yes. In fact, for an IOPS constrained resource, I'm not sure what Contabo is up to by offering 4GB memory, but only 400GB disk.

    Both of these providers offer 512GB+ disks at a lower price, and a decent amount of memory and cores (1GB and 1vCPU). Or wait for BF for the killer deals, @Ian_Dot_Tech had 512GB for $18 if I recall correctly.

    https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/
    https://www.alwyzon.com/en/storage-servers

    But contabo offer SSD storage, not hdd though?

  • adnsadns Member

    @Liso said:

    @stevewatson301 said:

    @masiqbal said:

    @stevewatson301 said:
    Hard pass. Storage VPSes elsewhere are better, and cheaper too.

    and larger size?

    Yes. In fact, for an IOPS constrained resource, I'm not sure what Contabo is up to by offering 4GB memory, but only 400GB disk.

    Both of these providers offer 512GB+ disks at a lower price, and a decent amount of memory and cores (1GB and 1vCPU). Or wait for BF for the killer deals, @Ian_Dot_Tech had 512GB for $18 if I recall correctly.

    https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/
    https://www.alwyzon.com/en/storage-servers

    But contabo offer SSD storage, not hdd though?

    Contabo SSD is very limited. The total 4k IOPS near 10 MB/s, 64k 128 MB/s and 512M-1G near 200 MB/s.
    Better than a cheap HDD, but it might be oversold that means that the entire user experience might not the best however acceptable for this price. If overloaded you can ask a node migration but the new node might be loaded too.

  • mosquitoguymosquitoguy Barred

    @adns said:
    Contabo SSD is very limited. The total 4k IOPS near 10 MB/s, 64k 128 MB/s and 512M-1G near 200 MB/s.
    Better than a cheap HDD, but it might be oversold that means that the entire user experience might not the best however acceptable for this price. If overloaded you can ask a node migration but the new node might be loaded too.

    This is true of any vps, not just contabo. It doesn't need to be oversold. You just need one guy running a database that's hammered and everything starts crawling. Frankly, I'd rather have a vps that performs consistently mediocre rather than a vps that performs spectacular one day and crawls the next day, so I see the iops limits as a good thing.

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  • LeviLevi Member

    @adns said: The total 4k IOPS

    Limits on storage nodes may be different and adjusted according to port speed. I see they gradually increase port speed, so I guess IOPS must match port speed 1:1, otherwise on maximum speed there would be issues with I/O.

  • patropatro Member
    edited November 2022

    @stevewatson301 said:
    Hard pass. Storage VPSes elsewhere are better, and cheaper too.

    is there any with same bandwidth and cheaper ? (ger/uk/nl)

  • kazawikikazawiki Member
    edited November 2022

    @patro said:

    @stevewatson301 said:
    Hard pass. Storage VPSes elsewhere are better, and cheaper too.

    is there any with same bandwidth and cheaper ? (ger/uk/nl)

    Time4VPS if you have no problem with OpenVZ 6

  • itsnotvitsnotv Member
    edited November 2022

    Storage VPS M

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2022-08-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Wed 02 Nov 2022 02:47:20 PM PDT

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 14 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2794.748 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 7.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 786.3 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-12-amd64

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 5.30 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.04 MB/s    (1.0k)
Write      | 5.32 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.47 MB/s    (1.0k)
Total      | 10.62 MB/s    (2.6k) | 128.51 MB/s   (2.0k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 127.62 MB/s    (249) | 97.33 MB/s      (95)
Write      | 134.40 MB/s    (262) | 103.81 MB/s    (101)
Total      | 262.02 MB/s    (511) | 201.15 MB/s    (196)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                |                           |                 |                
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 352 Mbits/sec   | 144 Mbits/sec  
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 346 Mbits/sec   | 358 Mbits/sec  
Hybula          | The Netherlands (40G)     | 342 Mbits/sec   | 328 Mbits/sec  
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 316 Mbits/sec   | 325 Mbits/sec  
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 371 Mbits/sec   | 382 Mbits/sec  
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 373 Mbits/sec   | 386 Mbits/sec  
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 379 Mbits/sec   | 392 Mbits/sec  

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 803                           
Multi Core      | 2815                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/18394549
    Thanked by 5Arkas cyberpunk nick_ Liso niranjan
  • masiqbalmasiqbal Member
    edited November 2022

    @itsnotv said:
    Storage VPS M
    ```

    Can you ask Contabo to lift up the disk IO limit and do yabs again?

  • kazawikikazawiki Member

    @masiqbal said:

    @itsnotv said:
    Storage VPS M
    ```

    Can you ask Contabo to lift up the disk IO limit and do yabs again?

    Same results as the cloud vps m.

  • itsnotvitsnotv Member

    @masiqbal said: Can you ask Contabo to lift up the disk IO limit and do yabs again?

    Nope, I'm cancelling this. After using it for a while, the performance is awful. This seems to be same hardware as the as the regular VPS. Contabo never fails to disappoint.

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  • nick_nick_ Member

    @itsnotv said:

    @masiqbal said: Can you ask Contabo to lift up the disk IO limit and do yabs again?

    Nope, I'm cancelling this. After using it for a while, the performance is awful. This seems to be same hardware as the as the regular VPS. Contabo never fails to disappoint.

    You just saved me 6 euros.

  • AdvinAdvin Member, Host Rep
    edited November 2022

    @masiqbal said:

    @itsnotv said:
    Storage VPS M
    ```

    Can you ask Contabo to lift up the disk IO limit and do yabs again?

    I grabbed the top plan, the one with 3.1TB of SSD, in the US East region :)

    Here was before asking to unlock the disk:

    Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 8 @ 2794.746 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌  Disabled
RAM        : 31.4 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 3.1 TiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Kernel     : 5.4.0-105-generic

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 5.30 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.12 MB/s    (1.0k)
Write      | 5.32 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.54 MB/s    (1.0k)
Total      | 10.62 MB/s    (2.6k) | 128.66 MB/s   (2.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 127.69 MB/s    (249) | 97.37 MB/s      (95)
Write      | 134.48 MB/s    (262) | 103.85 MB/s    (101)
Total      | 262.17 MB/s    (511) | 201.23 MB/s    (196)

    Here was after asking to unlock the disk:

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 5.30 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.12 MB/s    (1.0k)
Write      | 5.32 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.55 MB/s    (1.0k)
Total      | 10.62 MB/s    (2.6k) | 128.68 MB/s   (2.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 526.10 MB/s   (1.0k) | 627.76 MB/s    (613)
Write      | 554.06 MB/s   (1.0k) | 669.57 MB/s    (653)
Total      | 1.08 GB/s     (2.1k) | 1.29 GB/s     (1.2k)

    Performance wasn't anything shocking, was basically the same as the normal Contabo VPS's, just with more disk.

    I planned on using this as a media server (Plex), and this seems to work well for that use case:

    There is some minor CPU steal, but overall, performance is decent. I could reach around 700-800 Mbps network speeds consistently. I think this might be a keeper for me. I don't really see many storage options with a decent amount of CPU and RAM with 3-4TB in the US for under or around $30/month.

    Unfortunately, I don't have the full Yabs saved, but I believe it was around 700 GB5 single core and 3.4k multicore, not impressive by any means but was enough for my use case.

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  • cybertechcybertech Member

    @Advin said:

    @masiqbal said:

    @itsnotv said:
    Storage VPS M
    ```

    Can you ask Contabo to lift up the disk IO limit and do yabs again?

    I grabbed the top plan, the one with 3.1TB of SSD, in the US East region :)

    Here was before asking to unlock the disk:

    Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 8 @ 2794.746 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌  Disabled
RAM        : 31.4 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 3.1 TiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Kernel     : 5.4.0-105-generic

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 5.30 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.12 MB/s    (1.0k)
Write      | 5.32 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.54 MB/s    (1.0k)
Total      | 10.62 MB/s    (2.6k) | 128.66 MB/s   (2.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 127.69 MB/s    (249) | 97.37 MB/s      (95)
Write      | 134.48 MB/s    (262) | 103.85 MB/s    (101)
Total      | 262.17 MB/s    (511) | 201.23 MB/s    (196)

    Here was after asking to unlock the disk:

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 5.30 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.12 MB/s    (1.0k)
Write      | 5.32 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.55 MB/s    (1.0k)
Total      | 10.62 MB/s    (2.6k) | 128.68 MB/s   (2.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 526.10 MB/s   (1.0k) | 627.76 MB/s    (613)
Write      | 554.06 MB/s   (1.0k) | 669.57 MB/s    (653)
Total      | 1.08 GB/s     (2.1k) | 1.29 GB/s     (1.2k)

    Performance wasn't anything shocking, was basically the same as the normal Contabo VPS's, just with more disk.

    I planned on using this as a media server (Plex), and this seems to work well for that use case:

    There is some minor CPU steal, but overall, performance is decent. I could reach around 700-800 Mbps network speeds consistently. I think this might be a keeper for me. I don't really see many storage options with a decent amount of CPU and RAM with 3-4TB in the US for under or around $30/month.

    Unfortunately, I don't have the full Yabs saved, but I believe it was around 700 GB5 single core and 3.4k multicore, not impressive by any means but was enough for my use case.

    keep us posted how long this IOPS lasts.

  • fadedmaplefadedmaple Member

    @itsnotv said:

    @masiqbal said: Can you ask Contabo to lift up the disk IO limit and do yabs again?

    Nope, I'm cancelling this. After using it for a while, the performance is awful. This seems to be same hardware as the as the regular VPS. Contabo never fails to disappoint.

    I bet they used a 16 core processor with at least 512GB RAM 😂

  • AstroAstro Member

    @Advin what about hetzner servers? They are that cheap albeit not SSD

  • Andrey11Andrey11 Member
    edited November 2022

    Blocked via IP geo RU BY

  • AdvinAdvin Member, Host Rep

    @Astro said:
    @Advin what about hetzner servers? They are that cheap albeit not SSD

    I preferred to have US and Contabo US East is extremely close to me ;)

  • LeviLevi Member

    @Andrey11 said:
    Blocked via IP geo RU BY

    Forward to Solovjoj, interesting what he has to say about this.

  • kazawikikazawiki Member

    @Astro said:
    @Advin what about hetzner servers? They are that cheap albeit not SSD

    Hetzner is more expensive if you want the same storage. Best alternative is Netcup, much lower cpu steal and awesome storage performance.

  • AdvinAdvin Member, Host Rep

    @kazawiki said:

    @Astro said:
    @Advin what about hetzner servers? They are that cheap albeit not SSD

    Hetzner is more expensive if you want the same storage. Best alternative is Netcup, much lower cpu steal and awesome storage performance.

    I have a 2 x 4TB SSD + 2 x 240GB SSD E3 32GB config from Hetzner for ~40 euro per month, so if I really wanted to, I could use Hetzner :)

  • mosquitoguymosquitoguy Barred

    @Advin said:
    There is some minor CPU steal, but overall, performance is decent. I could reach around 700-800 Mbps network speeds consistently. I think this might be a keeper for me. I don't really see many storage options with a decent amount of CPU and RAM with 3-4TB in the US for under or around $30/month.

    you could've gotten vps from interserver with 8TB storage (HDD) for $26 a month. you don't need SSD for plex media.

  • emghemgh Member, BF Ambassador
    edited November 2022

    nvm

  • emghemgh Member, BF Ambassador
    edited November 2022

    nvm

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