Anything competitive to my Kimsufi server KS-3C at 10 EUR/month?

stab · January 2022

In 2016 I got a KS-3C and won the jackpot with i5-3570S CPU @ 3.10GHz / 16GB RAM / 2TB HDD at 10 EUR / $11.34 USD per month.

It was an insane deal back then, but I haven't kept up with servers at all. Is this still a good deal, or something better be had at this prince point these days?

mhn · January 2022

Kimsufi has the most legendary deals. It's still very good for its price.

Neoon · January 2022

The KS-LE yes, E5, 32gig and 4TB for 17$ USD, however its gone now.
However, they seems to be a KS-LE Version 2 coming.

Rumors say it has 8TB with a better E5 CPU for 23$ USD.

Astro · January 2022

@Neoon said:
The KS-LE yes, E5, 32gig and 4TB for 17$ USD, however its gone now.
However, they seems to be a KS-LE Version 2 coming.

Rumors say it has 8TB with a better E5 CPU for 23$ USD.

Neoon · January 2022

@BarkingIron said:

@Neoon said:
The KS-LE yes, E5, 32gig and 4TB for 17$ USD, however its gone now.
However, they seems to be a KS-LE Version 2 coming.

Rumors say it has 8TB with a better E5 CPU for 23$ USD.

There are also leaked benchmarks, No idea if this is legit doh.

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    Sat Jan 22 18:13:29 UTC 2022

    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v2 @ 3.50GHz
    CPU cores  : 12 @ 1487.600 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM        : 31.3 GiB
    Swap       : 4.0 GiB
    Disk       : 3.6 TiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 1.65 MB/s      (413) | 19.32 MB/s     (302)
    Write      | 1.68 MB/s      (421) | 19.87 MB/s     (310)
    Total      | 3.33 MB/s      (834) | 39.19 MB/s     (612)
               |                      |                     
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 64.28 MB/s     (125) | 76.71 MB/s      (74)
    Write      | 67.28 MB/s     (131) | 81.82 MB/s      (79)
    Total      | 131.56 MB/s    (256) | 158.53 MB/s    (153)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                    |                           |                 |                
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 96.9 Mbits/sec  | 941 Mbits/sec  
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 96.9 Mbits/sec  | 941 Mbits/sec  
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 96.8 Mbits/sec  | 940 Mbits/sec  
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 70.0 Mbits/sec  | 66.3 Mbits/sec 
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 94.2 Mbits/sec  | 898 Mbits/sec  
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 89.1 Mbits/sec  | 731 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 87.1 Mbits/sec  | 19.6 Mbits/sec 
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 84.9 Mbits/sec  | 699 Mbits/sec  

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed     
                    |                           |                 |                
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 95.6 Mbits/sec  | 928 Mbits/sec  
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 95.5 Mbits/sec  | 928 Mbits/sec  
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 95.4 Mbits/sec  | 927 Mbits/sec  
    WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 54.4 Mbits/sec  | busy           
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 91.9 Mbits/sec  | 887 Mbits/sec  
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 80.1 Mbits/sec  | 822 Mbits/sec  

    Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value                         
                    |                               
    Single Core     | 3851                          
    Multi Core      | 19050                         
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16470757

    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value                         
                    |                               
    Single Core     | 849                           
    Multi Core      | 4785                          
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/12331405

Astro · January 2022

@Neoon wonder if you'll hit the jackpot with gig down and 16TB. Your luck with last LE was pretty great.

pbx · January 2022

@Neoon said: The KS-LE yes

A better deal... if you need more resources; If i5/2TB/16GB is enough the KS-3C is the deal with the best bang for the buck!

Mr_Tom · January 2022

@Neoon said: No idea if this is legit

Looks legit

Neoon · January 2022

@Mr_Tom said:

@Neoon said: No idea if this is legit

Looks legit

Could be, who knows.

jon617 · January 2022

@stab said: Is this still a good deal

With the i5-3570 and 16GB RAM, it's still a good deal in my opinion, especially if you don't have something better like the KS-LE. Few other deals like what you got.