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I have a kvm on the first node, which is now full (that's why ucxo had to wait for the 2nd node). If you want me to test something let me know. CPU availability is fine and disk seems responsive.
Crissic after Sklyar sold it.
Not personally, no. I've been a laughing bystander at the various deadpools here, but I'm not sure how much (and what kind) of a history those providers had.
In hindsight, I agree that I should have made it clearer that I've only had the server for a very short time. I've amended my post to reflect that.
Still, I personally don't have a problem with sharing what information I have so far. I know I'd appreciate it if someone else did and thus made it easier for me to decide whether I want to try out a certain new provider.
I'm convinced people on here can decide how much weight to assign to a review, based on the history of the poster and the information he/she is sharing — if the review is the first post of a new account, pretty much ignore it outright; if it's a review written after just a few days of service usage, don't buy a €500/year plan just because of that review, etc.
I have a KVM on both nodes, and StatusCake reports that the one on older node was down for 15 minutes just under 2 hours ago. No difference in performance observed, really snappy for the specs.
VPS01 whas down for 9 minutes because of a (D)dos attack.
https://status.contraweb.net/
I've been with them since 2013, had several different VPS plans over the years.
Every single one of them had severe network issues at one point or another (think 30% packet loss, 400 ms ping from two hops away, that sort of thing). Every time, support started out as "Really? We haven't noticed any issues with our constant monitoring", then three tickets and 6 mtr pastes later went to "Oh, yeah, we noticed a user on your node was saturating the uplink. We've limited them, try again now." or "No clue what's wrong, but we've migrated you to another node and your ping is fine now."
Curiously enough, I have a friend who has also been with Netcup since 2013 and he never had problems (we never had VMs on the same host node, though).
So all this is basically anecdotal evidence, to be taken with a grain of salt.
And the current sore spot: I'm paying a pretty decent markup on my current plan to get SSD storage instead of HDD. My server had been running unattended for a while, but when I had to run a manual update one day, it seemed surprisingly slow. So I ran ioping. Didn't believe my eyes. Ran ioping again. Rebooted into rescue mode to make sure my software wasn't to blame and ran ioping again:
http://ix.io/1LLl
That was about two months ago. I didn't have the time to investigate further at that time, but I ran another ioping yesterday: http://ix.io/fJa
So yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Netcup at the moment.
That actually crashed the node rather than just hosing the network? Is that typical? I thought nodes get ddos'd all the time and the node becomes inaccessible or slow, but keeps running.
Wow that's pretty terrible for "SSD"
I had one of these I signed up for, but I can't login to it or reset it from WHMCS.
Can u open a ticket so we can take a look at this? @WSS
No, this shouldn't happen normally.
U need to go to https://webcp.contraweb.net directly.
Can you link me up with that benchmark? Thanks
Although you have a valid point here, any LET (or other forum's member) that want to buy hosting services for his needs, should read carefully any reviews or opinions and do some search about (e.g. how long this provider is on business). If he doesn't, then, a single review should not lead him to buy from the provider.
On the other hand, there are people (like me in this particular case) that saw the offer from this review and wanted to try it because the price is so low and the specs are fine.
There are providers in LET from time to time that are starting with some exceptional offers and quickly gained audience, clients and started establishing a stable endeavor.
Besides, OP did mention all the details of his experience: when hi bought the service, when he got delivered to him, the first not so good impressions on delay of delivery and a quick benchmark of the server itself.
sure: https://github.com/K4Y5/ServerBench - credits to @K4Y5 who put this together ;-)
One thing I do like is seeing initial experiences and quick network speed results along with any other benchmarks because even though he hasn't been with the provider for very long it still provides some info to help users making an informed decision on their purchases.
When I come across a deal that looks good the first thing I do is look for user impressions, reviews, any kind of benchmark or network speed results on LET and then go from there.
So thank you @ucxo :-)
That doesn't work for who is on the first node, right? I were told that the first node will eventually move to cp later this month (and now that I re-read the ticket I'm not sure if there will be some new template/OS or not)
Hello,
https://webcp.contraweb.net is still the Control Panel of the first node that will move to SolusVM later.
https://solus.contraweb.net is the link to the CP of the second node.
well, I had some issues using the proposed URL so I continued on a ticket and already got a reply and solved, nice
I don't have a problem with that either. It's the fact that you specifically state that you would recommend them after 2 days that I find surprising.
Does it matter? Jesus. He's obviously happy with his new VPS - so far. And he registered at ContraWeb over 10 days ago so his opinions could be based on things like friendly support etc.
Clearly, it matters to me, I'm interested in his views. If you're not interested, don't read on.
Mine's been idling nicely for more like 2 weeks now-- is that long enough? There's a fair amount of other evaluations and reports in the offer thread. Everything is pretty positive iirc. I'm quite happy with this vps except for the usual issue that I don't have a good use for it. But that's not the host's fault
I had one, and opened a second to cancel the first one, but find that my service is terminated from my first exasperated email. Oh well.
Wait, u requested a cancellation in youre first ticket and opened a second ticket to cancel the cancellation?
I was rather pissed that I couldn't access the account or reset my password.
Oh sorry about that.
Thats another reason why we are moving away from Virtpanel they promised me to fix that 3 months ago. :')
Plus the fact that it's hosted so we don't have control over it.
Fixed that for you. British/UK terminology, and all.
I do hope that it goes well for you.
I recall getting as far as turning on tun/tap, and then I couldn't access it any longer. Thought I put in my cancel-cancel request with the "Please fix this", but logged in to see no services just showed me to keep a level head (and not write support tickets when pissed).
Wait why not just have one master and 2 slaves? Wouldn't it be easier for customers?