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Update
I indeed finally got my (2 Epyc vCores) VPS on day 3 but there is a nice 'but': Once I got it everything changed to quite positive. Their support still is more on the slow side (2 - 8 hours) but is very friendly and actually helpful. Hell, they even created a (non linux) template for me and relatively quickly too!
The VPS is quite fast (well, an Epyc, duh) and not overloaded/overbooked and the disk seems to be 25+ MB/s and north of 6000 IOPs. And connectivity is quite OK, too, e.g. 800+ Mb/s to both DE, FRA and FR, PAR and almost 100 Mb/s to Mumbai!
Considering the very low price this seems to be among the best deals I've made via LET so far.
Preliminary verdict so far: Excellent - if you can live with slow (but good) support.
I'll soon have a sufficiently large result set for a short review. What I've said here is based on a few runs only.
Kudos, @zgocloud!
You need to specify in your work order that you want an immediate resolution or chargeback will be filled.
Looking Glass：https://lg.naaldwijk.nl.zgovps.com/
Benchmark / Review
After doing almost 100 runs of benchmarking I can tell with satisfaction that my first (positive) impression was correct. This offer is a very good deal and amazing bang for the buck indeed.
First basic info on my VPS (2 Epyc vCores, 3 GB memory, 30 GB SSD, 4TB traffic for a bit over $25 or a bit under €25 per year)
First a note @zgocloud: Uhm, that's the spec of the quarterly offer, I seem to remember though that I ordered and paid an annual one (the ca. $/€25 one). Maybe an error on my side maybe one on your side. Please kindly check and adapt.
That however changes nothing in this review. That system is a very nice VPS at an incredible price! I particularly like their choice of a 24 core (rather than >=32 core) Epyc model, not only because fewer cores tend to mean higher performance per core but especially because it also means fewer VPS/users on the disks.
I'm very satisfied and happy with what I've got.
Now, on to the processor and memory performance
Yay I like it with one minor caveat, the single core performance which indicates that there either are a bit too many users per core (well, actually HWT) or that I have one or more neighbours who uses more than his/their fair share. But then, again, we're talking about an Epyc VPS costing in the range of mere 2 bucks a month so I'll certainly not complain about ZgoCloud! Also, the multithreading performance is really nice. Also note the quite low spread in multithreading tasks. Again only the single core performance has a high spread.
So, on to the SSD
Uhm, that NVMe territory but the offer speaks of 'SSD'! What a very pleasant surprise! I've seen plenty NVMes that are significantly slower than those SSDs. Yay! Also note the quite tight spread over all tests and runs! Me impressed.
Finally, the network, ordered by continent, first Europe
First note the max speeds within Europe; all major targets 800+ Mb/s and a couple even on average. Nice, indeed. Even otenet.gr which I basically have as an "evil trap" in my targets list (because many hosters fail on it) achieves not crappy performance and has less then 10% of testing attempts fail (normally 65% and higher failure rate). And even the somewhat remote Russia/Moscow target achieves a decent result.
The asian targets show decent results, too and even down under is kind of halfway acceptably reachable (my apologies with the Singapore target; maybe it's an unlucky one for ZgoClouds routing or maybe it's just in a wheelchair currently. It's a bit sad but I've yet to find reliable a stable targets and China (mainland) is a real pita ...)
But there's good news too: Both Afrika target did work and show halfway decent results. I know, I know, 25 and even 65 Mb/s normally is nothing to write home about but, hey, for Afrika that's quite decent.
But North America has no excuse; there's plenty fibers across the ocean and I guess, or at least hope, in their grounds as well. But hell, no, what I see is a not at all uncommon lottery. Washington for example shows very decent results incl. nice ping times. NYC however looks, pardon my French, shitty - and no that's not simply a bad target choice on my part; after all that's a university and I have seen quite nice results with them, but alas, not this time.
Similarly, LAX usually tends to show halfway decent results while San Jose tends to show crappy ones. Oh well, this times is just the other way around.
I'll end on a positive note: Sao Paolo shows a good result (well, for South America). Hey it's better than NYC and LAX albeit naturally with a higher ping time.
Summary:
I hardly can shout loud enough how pleased I am with that VPS. Processor and memory on par with (or better) than many intel Scalable and significantly better crypto performance too, which is important as nowadays ("httpS everywhere!") even Joe and his dog's website use TLS as if their life depended on it.
The disk performance - remember, we're talking about a ca. 2 bucks a month thingy! - deserves a love poem but I won't even try, for your and my benefit *g
The network might be a weak point for some; for others it may be OK. For me it definitely is (a) because I'm pretty much only interested in Europe, and (b) I've seen plenty similar or even worse but for more than double the price ...
The only clear weakness I see is their slooooow support response time. But that can be forgiven for the very low price and once they do respond they give you a reasonable, actually helpful, and friendly answer. But still, my advice to them would be to find one more support guy as soon as their revenue allows for that.
All in all clearly highly recommended, especially for Europe centric users.
Update - and a really nice one.
Today I opened a ticket re. the inconsisteny between my order, the offer here, and what was delivered.
Very positive note 1: the response came quickly, and I mean really quickly, as in "half an hour or so". On a weekend, well noted.
Very positive note 2: (a) I'm partly guilty myself because I stupidly forgot to enter the code given in their offer/OP, and (b) @zgocloud fully and quickly corrected the situation and did even more than I had asked for (they even (credit) refunded the difference between normal price and price with LET code although I had not asked for that).
What a nice provider. Kudos.
It should have plan 1 month