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[Review] Strato VPS Entry V3
Quick note before I start: I've been reading LET for some time now but never registered until recently. This is not an ad and I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just thought this would be a good start as I have never seen Strato being mentioned here and I think it's a very good offer.
I was looking for a cheap idle VPS from a reputable provider. I found Strato's VPS Entry for just 1 EUR per month for half a gigabyte of ram, 10 GB SSD and unmetered 100 mbps bandwidth.
A Plesk license is included as well but I haven't actually tried that out.
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2019-12-09 13:29:48 UTC
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Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 1999.511 MHz
RAM: 512M
Swap: -
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0 x86_64
Disks:
ploop65206 10G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3,966 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
6,650 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
2,199 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 1.79 us / 418.9 us / 63.5 ms / 2.45 ms
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 993 requests in 5.10 s, 248.2 MiB, 194 iops, 48.7 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 94.80 MiB/s
2nd run: 77.15 MiB/s
3rd run: 85.93 MiB/s
average: 85.96 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 81.169.131.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 73.10 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 140.87 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 6.03 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 94.99 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 22.94 MiB/s
IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2a01:238:42e1:xxxx
Leaseweb (NL): 144.50 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 13.99 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 102.44 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 23.21 MiB/s
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Speedtest.net
root@h2860782:~# ./speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Strato AG (81.169.131.xxxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by ColocationIX 10G (Dusseldorf) [61.73 km]: 10.091 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 2312.27 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 97.35 Mbit/s
root@h2860782:~
Download 10 GB file from Hetzner:
Verbindungsaufbau zu speed.hetzner.de (speed.hetzner.de)|2a01:4f8:0:59ed::2|:443 … verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet … 200 OK
Länge: 10485760000 (9,8G) [application/octet-stream]
Wird in »/dev/null« gespeichert.
/dev/null 100%[===================>] 9,77G 144MB/s in 69s
2019-12-09 15:08:12 (145 MB/s) - »/dev/null« gespeichert [10485760000/10485760000]
I tried Geekbench as well but it's always crashing.
They advertise 100 mbps networking but seem to only throttle the upload.
Their website is only in German but here's a translation:
1 vCore
512 MB memory
10 GB SSD
IPv4 / IPv6
Plesk Web Admin Edition License
Virtuozzo container virtualization
https://www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/mini-vserver/
Overall, I'm very pleased with the performance and would recommend this. Keep in mind that this is a one-year contract which has to be cancelled. They will probably hunt you down if you don't pay. ;-)
Comments
Why didnt you chose the 1&1 offer. It's exactly the same, however you'll get 20GB SSD (yes, it's a mistake) & KVM virtualization. Further, a 1Gbps connection is included which is very nice.
@benj0x Thank you, I didn‘t know about that offer. I suppose the performance will be similar as it‘s the same parent company (United Internet). Would you mind posting a benchmark?
Nevermind, ordered one myself.
EDIT: BTW, it's VMWare (not KVM)
Ah, sorry, my bad.
I hope that's also fine for you, if not you can use your so-called "Widerrufsrecht" to cancel your service immediately.
There is no other contract period?
inb4 I did not cancel my 1and1 contract and now they send a collection agency after me
I know these benchmarks are notoriously unreliable but holy dipsticks, do they really sell this as SSD? That is some bad I/O you’ve got going on there. Probably a very oversold host (as one would expect at Strato). I wouldn’t be happy with that, but could be that it doesn’t impact you in real life performance.
It's a dollar
@Falzo
They're also the only company (that I know of anyway) that will continue your contract after you transfer your domain away. Go figure.
I'd stay away from 1&1 but well..
Fair enough, thought that would just be a promotional price for the first x months, but seems to be a fixed price.
I’ve seen a lot better for a euro a month too (1&1 above for instance) so yeah. Still not very impressed.