Big LET VPS/VDS shootout - 18 providers, 25 VPS/VDS - who's the bestest?

dustinc

Thanks for sharing this, and it's always good to know where we perform, and can improve too!

jsg

@dustinc said:
Thanks for sharing this, and it's always good to know where we perform, and can improve too!

Actually you, well, my RN VPS in Ireland was a positive surprise for me due to many rumours about Colocrossing connectivity being crappy. OK, your strength was the disk (in relation to the price) but still, the connectivity wasn't crappy at all, definitely "damn good enough" in my books.
But yes, some improvement is needed I guess to reach the top-tier. But it seems you're on a good way.

AlexBarakov

@jsg said: I'll start with an example, AlphaVPS / @AlexBarakov and the first VPS in my list. That VPS was given (at a very decent price at least back then) in the context of a dedi change (to my colleague and friend with whom I share most of our servers). That is he was in a pinch and wanted to store important data of the old dedi somewhere during the dedi change. That VPS looks like a lamb but actually is one of the VPS I (and he too) value highly and like a lot. Why?

Because it's damn fast enough and is totally reliable. Also with AlphaVPS I'm really confident that, should there ever be a problem, they'd fix it and fix it quickly. (Besides, to be honest, I wanted to definitely mention AlphaVPS here because IMO they are among the best (as in reliability, quality, and a decent price) providers I know.

That "boring lamb" VPS does its job since years and does it very reliably and damn well enough. It pretty much never comes up in my monitoring and its status is always green, period. How big is its drive, how fast is it, what traffic volume does it have? Frankly, I didn't even know, I had forgotten. It's big enough and fast enough for what it was and is used for. And it was cheap. Nowadays I highly likely could get something like it significantly cheaper or we could ask AlphaVPS for a lower price or a more modern and/or beefier VPS. But why? Nope, won't happen. It does the job and does it well and reliably since years, so rather than utterly needlessly updating/replacing it or asking for a price decrease I - very positively - mention AlphaVPS here and recommend them.

Thanks a bunch for the great mention! We do our best to always be rock-solid. @jsg

That all being said - we're currently in the process of upgrading all of our Storage VPS infrastructure to:

• SSD/NVMe Cached storage arrays
• 10G of networking, included for free
• Newer generation of hardware with overall (nearly) double performance

Price remains the same, no charge to old or new clients. We're slowly rolling this out for new orders and migrating old machines one by one.

Our "Cheap VPS" Series is getting a huge revamp as well - up to Xeon Gold CPUs, NVMe storage, KVM Virt, 10G ports and much more on same or better per-resource pricing.

Our network in Sofia is getting major upgrades weekly these days and so are other networks. Sofia is getting a brand new mix of premium transit, which will also act as our "Volume" network, where we'll be offering unmetered, but quality, dedicated servers at very reasonable pricing and probably lowest in the region. For example - Germany / Nuremberg is soon to be connected to Frankfurt directly for some PNI peering. We're currently establishing peering with other players in the region as well. DTAG remains direct via Core-Backbone.

I was just in London last week rackmounting a bunch of storage from our newer generation, along with EPYC nodes (Finally coming to London). Ryzen is to follow in London. New Xeon Gold nodes are also waiting deployment in London for our new generation of Cheap VPS services.

Things are moving fast.

JohnFilch123

@AlexBarakov said: KVM Virt

Oh boy, I have been waiting for this since last year. I have a baby 256MB RAM OVZ machine with you, will it get RAM bump to be ready for KVM?

AlexBarakov

@JohnFilch123 said:

@AlexBarakov said: KVM Virt

Oh boy, I have been waiting for this since last year. I have a baby 256MB RAM OVZ machine with you, will it get RAM bump to be ready for KVM?

These upgrades are generally targeted at regular paying customers. I can't say for sure what will happen to the tiny OVZ plans. They might end up on a nested VM in the end, depending on how much they cost. Higher plans will get on KVM for sure, but unlikely on Golds. Cheapest plans will most likely end up the same as they are.

JohnFilch123

@AlexBarakov said: I can't say for sure what will happen to the tiny OVZ plans

Worrying. I do not mind paying a bit more but let's see. Fingers crossed. Good luck with upgrades.

AlexBarakov

@JohnFilch123 said:

@AlexBarakov said: I can't say for sure what will happen to the tiny OVZ plans

Worrying. I do not mind paying a bit more but let's see. Fingers crossed. Good luck with upgrades.

They are not going away or anything like this, no worries. I can't say if they will be converted to KVM or left as they are. We do not want to spend human resources on 7EUR/y plans, naturally.

JohnFilch123

@AlexBarakov said: left as they are

OVZ is a security risk as I am sure you are aware, so I still hope for KVM bump.

Hybula

@jsg Nice work here! I have some suggestions that might be handy in such comparison like the network ASN, actual city and data center name. Some datacenters are pricier than others, for example. Regarding Hybula's network, our upstream will add more T1 and peering soon, as our goal is to have the best network in NL. Our routing in Frankfurt will be up soon, so we can even bring peers from Frankfurt all the way to Amsterdam over our backbone.

jsg

@Hybula said:
@jsg Nice work here! I have some suggestions that might be handy in such comparison like the network ASN, actual city and data center name. Some datacenters are pricier than others, for example. Regarding Hybula's network, our upstream will add more T1 and peering soon, as our goal is to have the best network in NL. Our routing in Frankfurt will be up soon, so we can even bring peers from Frankfurt all the way to Amsterdam over our backbone.

I'm all ears! How about shooting me an email or PM? *excited

jsg

@AlexBarakov said:
That all being said - we're currently in the process of upgrading all of our Storage VPS infrastructure to:

• SSD/NVMe Cached storage arrays
• 10G of networking, included for free
• Newer generation of hardware with overall (nearly) double performance

Price remains the same, no charge to old or new clients. We're slowly rolling this out for new orders and migrating old machines one by one.

Our "Cheap VPS" Series is getting a huge revamp as well - up to Xeon Gold CPUs, NVMe storage, KVM Virt, 10G ports and much more on same or better per-resource pricing.

Our network in Sofia is getting major upgrades weekly these days and so are other networks. Sofia is getting a brand new mix of premium transit, which will also act as our "Volume" network, where we'll be offering unmetered, but quality, dedicated servers at very reasonable pricing and probably lowest in the region. For example - Germany / Nuremberg is soon to be connected to Frankfurt directly for some PNI peering. We're currently establishing peering with other players in the region as well. DTAG remains direct via Core-Backbone.

I was just in London last week rackmounting a bunch of storage from our newer generation, along with EPYC nodes (Finally coming to London). Ryzen is to follow in London. New Xeon Gold nodes are also waiting deployment in London for our new generation of Cheap VPS services.

Things are moving fast.

WOW! What great news! I'm very much looking forward to enjoying that