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just saw that netcup revived the offer mentioned in the initial posting of this thread. probably just for today within their advent calendar type of thing...
https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1610
price includes german VAT, be aware of contract term length (6 month) and cancellation terms. but powerful KVM with big disk may be of interest to anyone? probably gone after midnight. ;-)
https://www.netcup.de/adventskalender/ this one?
my RS1000 from previous offer still going strong - solid provider
what monitor cp are you using? ^
Looks like UptimeRobot public status page
uptimerobot
Yes indeed. Sorry, forgot to post the link itself...
So, looks like they have one offer per day during December.
They are really good !
yeah .. not a bad little marketing ploy ..
Thanks @Falzo for posting this X-Mas offer. Got a RS-1000 that I missed last time.
This is NOT the case if you are a business or your former contract mandates it - laws are NOT retroactive, which is illegal by the German constitution (there are few exceptions eg. invalid contracts as in banks, however this is a contract change, not an invalidation.)
Funny thing is; it is disputed if this actually applies to someone not in the EU - the general consensus seems no, but no one wants the court fees to be certain.
Obviously this implies nested VTx, not OVZ on Xen/KVM which always works as long as you have a real bridge interface and not a routed thing (very rare).
On the side, congratulations to my friend Alexander for buying Netcup as part of yet another expansion... by now the largest hosting provider in Austria and one of the largest holding companies in EU...
https://www.anexia-it.com/blog/de/anexia-erwirbt-netcup-fuer-strategische-allianz/
I hope things remain the same. Usually these purchases are not good for costumers... to many changes, price increase, etc, etc. , Let's wait and see what the following months have to tell!
I still do not understand that. Can someone explain it in more detail?
They never mentioned the actual capacity of the SAS hard drives they're using on the host nodes, only that you (as a customer) will get a 320GB slice of that on each drive that's in the hardware RAID 10 array. When calculating that, you'll end up with a single virtualized disk of (50% of 4x320GB)=640GB. From the customer side of things it's totally invisible how they implemented it.
And for the folks who have the RS 500, it'd be (50% of 4x120GB)=240GB.
For the SSD versions atleast... the vps (root server) get installed on a 10gb default disk for the OS, the specified storage in the pkg needs to be mounted/merged manually into the OS
here's what the 4x320Gb RAID10 array looks like under Ubuntu 16.04;
Today they offer one dedicated E5-2670v3 core with 3GB RAM and 320 GB SAS for €3,49/month (Six month contract period). - https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1707
sold out already... damn.
Oh, wow... if you like two cores and are ok with a 12 month contract, there's this one (€4,99/month): https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1607
I think they switched over at a given time. The 320gb SAS offer was open all day and I was tempted but managed to resist
. Note that the 3.49 euro includes DE VAT so it's presumably 18.5% less if you're non-EU.
I'd want some clarification that those are really dedicated cores (or more likely threads), and even still, it's a less attractive offer than the earlier one imho, because of the lower storage and higher price. If I need enough cpu to care about dedicated cores/threads on a vps, I'm better off with a dedicated server.
that second offer isn't from their christmas calendar though. has been available from yesterday already, but as said 12 month contract term, two core but less disk space...
this offer probably will be available some days longer.
I have another box idling with them with two cores. out of curiosity I put a boinc client on it some weeks ago... it's running since then without problems or notifications or something like that, so I'd say dedicated here means at least given ressources are usable as much as you like.
I know it's not a real benchmark at all, so I can't tell if the power literally equals two full indepedent cores on a 2670 or if there are other limitations in place. geekbench results are like to be expected for that kind.
back in stock for the moment... managed to grab one ;-)
I got mine one. Thanks!
You know, you could have used that coupon generator mentioned before?
https://www.netcup-gutscheincode.de/
5€ setup, 0,19€ p/m
Saving even 5€ (50%) for setup on a 19 cent vps is important I think :-)
no need to use a generator from a random customer... if anyone needs such a coupon just ask me for it or use one of these ;-)
those coupons are only valid for new customers and not usable on their promotional offers...
(and yes, it's part of their affiliate program, 10% coupons for their expert M - XL webhosting are also available if needed)
Don't even knew where that coupons came from. Just wanted to mention, that these can be used for that deal too.
yes that's right and I agree it's always good to spare on such things anyways ;-)
PS: geekbench v4 one core offer: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/1400987 vs. two core: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/701565
arggh. must... feed... KVM addiction.
No luck though with stock.