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don't celebrate it too much... otherwise it attracts too many rats.
Impossible. Even fart master can’t do that.
Confirmed. This is the best deal in existance ATM. No one can beat it nor should try.
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Seems that they found out the trick and block it.
I wonder what will happen to my previous discounted contract. lol
Is there any way to benefit of the discounts as a new customer?
Now - no. Rats did their dirty ratty job.
Negative, still works.
Yes, discount works again.
Btw do you received any confirm mail that shows up new price?
My "Confirmation of Contract Adjustment" mail didn't mention new price and I can't find in customer panel too, only can see the contract do extended.
Never asked me any id verification
I used to do a lot of work for United Internet (1&1, Ionos, GMX, Sedo) some years ago.
It's a typically German company, they follow every rule down to the last letter. They love contracts and paragraphs, you can't take a shit without filling out a form. Downside is they are extremely square and does not negotiate. Upside is you always know what you get, they will follow every single point in every single contract.
They play by the rules. If you also follow the rules, you will not have a problem.
Yes, and even if you got 75% off and you don't pay on time.
They gonna charge you about 5€ in fees.
Yes, those are the rules. As I said, they follow the rules.
If you do too and pay in time, they will not charge you.
Yea I am fine by that, best deal so far.
Even for 1€ it was unbeatable already.
I think this does apply to many differnt products. I could use it on a bigger server aswell. Maybe it does even work for the biggest servers. That would be an awesome deal.
The cheapest plan I found on their website is $2 per month, not 1 euro... did I miss anything?
Good features, but own DC is nice until you get stuck fixing their unique quirks. For a few euros? Good for backups or a side project, but don't expect it to work like a charm when it's busy. Uptime and the internet? Yep, until you hit a maintenance window that lasts two hours at 3 AM.
I host 2 micro servers with ionos and use them for prod. That’s how good and reliable they are. And I do not host my prod shit even on hetzner.
I think you underestimate their size. Ionos, 1&1 and Strato all belong to United Internet and in sum have >10 Mrd. turnover per year and their network is terabit scale. They also have consumer internet connections with over 4 Mio. customers in Germany (me included).
I have two 1€/mo VPSes from Strato and there was only a single 15 min downtime in a whole year.
but it's still 1+1 etc. not good. no no no not good. move on, there's nothing to see and nothing to get. keywords: öffline, outages, no support, expensive, germany, eu, socialism, lame, gb6 underground.
Had to cancel my credit card recently and got stung for €3.90 for each €1 VPS, (I have 3), because I didn't update IONOS with the new card details in time. But I still have 3 super cheap servers from them with zero uptime issues in the last year so it was worth paying the fees
Ionos also offers free plesk host edition. Never used them, just checked the vps plans
Anyone that uses Ionos in the US (North Kansas City or Lawrence or Leavenworth or wherever their DC is in that Area - US Midwest): could you post the /24 prefix or have any pingable test ip (switch etc)? Thank you.
No, I have not paid 2 months in a row due to cc failure. Servers was running just fine and I find it by accident that I need to pay. No late fees.
Strato must have really improved then.. they had continuous outages some 10 years ago due to slow hard drives / noisy neighbours.
They just did not get it to limit IO per customer and blamed it on slow disks.
Th new KVM line is decent, can't complain.
The OpenVZ was a shitfest, numproc limit of 300, unstable too.
IO speeds have been very consistent, always 20k IOPS (was increased a few months ago, was 10k previously) and 500 MB/s for me. But I've only used them for a bit over a year, and I've also heard there were some issues in the past, IIRC they didn't use KVM then.
And as Ionos and Strato both belong to United Internet, both use the same network, maybe even the same hardware, so I don't expect that there are significant differences anymore.
But while uptime and performance has been rather good for me, I wouldn't use them for anything really important because of unclear traffic limits, disabled steal time reporting and because the support isn't that fast.
Same, I don't see any 1 euro plan.
66.179.248.0/21
Strato was only "recently" bought by United in 2016, I would not assume a huge server transfer happening, nor that being even a plan in first place.
I see similar with webtropia and wiit, it does not look like wiit will change anything on hardware side, if anything, they most likely bought myloc/webtropia to gain additional infra and hardware.
Nevertheless, glad to hear they are finally doing well performance-wise.
most prolly only for European customers - they still convert USD to EUR 2:1 from 10 years ago 🤭