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Ceuservers.net review for 1$ server: First week with excellent service and support
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Ceuservers.net review for 1$ server: First week with excellent service and support

jvnadrjvnadr Member
edited July 2015 in Reviews

First impressions from CEUservers.net

It has been just a week, but this period is enough for a first attempt to do an initial review about this Czech company selling dedis.
The dedi is their... “free giveaway promo” of 1$ per month! Yes, some very lucky people (like me, this time!) grabbed their advertised promo of 1$ recurring server with those specs:

Intel Celeron G1620  
8GB RAM  
1x 120GB SSD  
100Mbps unmetered  
/29 of Ips  (5 usable)  
Incredible?

Server is located in Czech, in their own datacenter.

I initially ordered the server with debian 7. I later (2 days after) asked them to change it to proxmox bare metal. They fulfill my request in 7 hours!

Their control panel does not offer automatic reinstalls or reboots, so, it has to be done via ticket. Their responses till now are very fast and the responses are very polite and professional, for both technical support and sales/billing.

The server is up for 5 days now without a single hickup and with very good performance. Speed from Czech to Greece are very good :

Download: 40.48 Mbit/s  
Upload: 49.65 Mbit/s.  

Speeds to closest server are very good:

Testing from CEU Servers s.r.o. (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)...  
Selecting best server based on latency...  
Hosted by Nej TV a.s. (Prague) [0.00 km]: 10.851 ms  
Testing download speed........................................  
Download: 91.86 Mbit/s  
Testing upload speed..................................................  
Upload: 89.76 Mbit/s  
Share results: https://www.speedtest.net/result/4511491745.png  

I/O speed is as it should be:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync  
16384+0 records in  
16384+0 records out  
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.8697 s, 220 MB/s  

I installed already 2 vps there, the additional ips are working like a charm and the first vps (with 10 sites joomla/wp loaded there) has this benchmark (access to 1 core, 1 GB memory, 2 GB swap, 40 GB HDD):

UnixBench score: 1490.0  
I/O rate: 243.0 MB/second  
Bandwidth rate: 10.9 MB/second  

The only thing that I would like to see, is a control panel for reboots / reinstalls, but they say that they offer them 24/7 thru tickets.

I know that the price is not for paying the service, just for opening an active account. This server is for free! If the stability, support and attitude to customers are near close what I experienced at the initial signup and my first week there, CEUservers.net are highly recommended!
The normal prices for servers are not high and, as I saw in their site, are fair enough with /29, ipv6 and options for inmetered bandwidth.
I also know that it is just been 1 week. So, I will keep monitoring closely the service, and will do an update in the near future!

Thanked by 1FrankZ

Comments

  • LaXiSLaXiS Member

    Nice to see, I arrived late and everything was already "given away" D:

    This was a fantastic offer...

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited July 2015

    I got a pricematched offer, if still someone interested from: https://www.worldstream.nl/more_specialinfo.php?id=3287

    Intel Celeron G1620

    4GB RAM

    1x 500GB HDD

    100Mbps with 2TB

    /29 of IPv4 and /64 of IPv6

    for 8,99Euros and some discussion.

    The Support is helpfull and you can talk with them with no issues.

    Just drop them a email.

  • ehabehab Member

    @Infinity580 said:

    drop who?

  • jvnadrjvnadr Member

    ehab said: drop who?

    I think he means ceuservers. They advertize in WHT that they will do price match to similar servers.

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @ehab to [email protected]

    Just mention:

    "Also, if you have found a cheaper server anywhere on the Internet, provide a link or screenshot of the deal and we will not only price match but even undercut the competition by 10% !"

  • gtraxgtrax Member

    Yeah seems got late in getting their promo. Also do not follow WHT that much

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    I also tried to get one, but was late. Oh, well, the 2 Eur a month online.net is lucky enough for me:)

  • RadiRadi Host Rep, Veteran

    I missed this and online.net . :(

  • jvnadr said: Server is located in Czech, in their own datacenter.

    No it is not - It's FDCs Zlin facility, CEU has some relation to them but neither owns the DC/Building.

  • jvnadrjvnadr Member

    William said: neither owns the DC/Building

    I thought that CEU is in direct relationship with FDC and the last one, owned the datacenter. So, they colocate there? It has good connectivity epecially not for a country that has huge peers like France, NL and Germany.

  • WHTWHT Member

    Wow. Its always $1? Or only first month?

  • @Infinity580 said:
    I got a pricematched offer, if still someone interested from: https://www.worldstream.nl/more_specialinfo.php?id=3287

    Intel Celeron G1620

    4GB RAM

    1x 500GB HDD

    100Mbps with 2TB

    /29 of IPv4 and /64 of IPv6

    for 8,99Euros and some discussion.

    The Support is helpfull and you can talk with them with no issues.

    Just drop them a email.

    What specs do you get from CEU?is it same or better?

  • I didn't buy one of these because it seemed too good to be true, lol.

  • ehabehab Member

    @Nixtren said:
    I didn't buy one of these because it seemed too good to be true, lol.

    and now it feels painful to have missed it.

  • jvnadrjvnadr Member

    Nixtren said: I didn't buy one of these because it seemed too good to be true, lol.

    I was, too, but till now it is! It is very good!

    robohost said: What specs do you get from CEU?is it same or better?

    Aw I see in speedtest.net's graph, those specs are for the CEU server

  • Damn, exactly the location I am looking for. Too bad I missed it.

  • @jvnadr said:
    Aw I see in speedtest.net's graph, those specs are for the CEU server

    my question is for the hardware specs

  • jvnadrjvnadr Member
    edited July 2015

    @robohost And my answer, too.

    Intel Celeron G1620  
    4GB RAM  
    1x 500GB HDD  
    100Mbps with 2TB  
    /29 of IPv4 and /64 of IPv6  
    for 8,99Euros and some discussion.  
    

    My server has the same specs, except Ram (8GB) and HDD (1x120SSD).
    Sorry, and the bandwidth: mine is unm.

    I think @Infinity580 's other offer from worldstream was Intel Celeron G1620 with 2GB RAM Memory, 500GB HDD and 1 TB Traffic, 1 ipv4 @ 10€ per month.

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited July 2015

    I send the URI to CEUServers from worldstream offer to get a pricematch which ended in that Specs i posted above.

  • salakissalakis Member
    edited July 2015

    Will they match my Ikoula 1TB Atom for 5 EUR?

    How is the connectivity? So far I am used to utter shit network in Zlín FDC, literally the worst in CZ based on my experience.

    EDIT: Nope, they claim that they don't do low end servers.

  • tr1ckytr1cky Member

    Honestly, they are a joke.

    I showed them the delimitervps offers and they sent me a price match that would cost 100€/m.

  • FrankZFrankZ Veteran
    edited July 2015

    I tried what @Infinity580 said above and got this response from CEUServers ..

    The deal mentioned seems to be for € 18.39 p/m when choosing the "Payment every month" radio button. Furthermore, the minimum HDD size we can currently offer is 1.5TB, 8GB RAM and a /29 subnet with 5 usable IPs.  Please see the quote below that comes with 100Mbps unmetered BW plan included, we do not offer metered traffic with this server package. 
    
    Intel Celeron G1620 
    8GB RAM 
    1x 2TB HDD 
    100Mbps unmetered 
    /29 of IPs and /64 IPv6 
    €29/month 
    -- 
    Kind regards, 
    

    we do not offer metered traffic sigh....

    Thanked by 1TarZZ92
  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited July 2015

    @FrankZ you need to talk with them, they told me that also before.

    Tell them you want that stuff equal that offer. Maybe they are trying to get these people away for 9 bucks and cheaper.

    Thanked by 1FrankZ
  • @Infinity580 said:
    for 8,99Euros and some discussion.

    So you need to have discussion with them every month to keep the server? /jk

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @DalComp Nope, you take things to seriously.

  • @Infinity580 said:
    DalComp Nope, you take things to seriously.

    ...right.

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    The Support seems to be nice but they changed my bandwidth overcharge now 4 times, so i would not recommend them anymore.

    From 1EUR for 1TB to 0.60Cents for MB, then back to 1EUR for 1TB, Today to 0,02EUR for GB.

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