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Extremely happy with GreenCloudVPS
I have been using Hetzner for most stuff for years, and I still use them (and love them) for several things, but I was looking to save some bucks with a few non critical apps, so I first tried Contabo (as some may remember from another thread), and it was kinda ok at first, but I was disappointed by support when I told them about the high CPU steal etc. But I also had problems with the low port speed (200Mbps).
So when @arda recommended GreenCloudVPS, I was surprised to see how cheap their budget VPSes were, like $45 per year for 4 cores, 8 GB of RAM, 60 GB of storage and 10Gbps port speed. It's like 3.75 euros per month, so even cheaper than Contabo for the same shared cores and ram (with less storage but much faster network), so I thought I'd give it a try since I also read other positive reviews.
I was so happy with the VPS that I picked another one. For the same price I was paying to Contabo, I have two VPSes with double the resources that perform well (the CPUs are E5-2698 v4s, so not the most recent but my apps - Mastodon, Nextcloud, a couple of Rails apps and some other small things - work beautifully) and are stable, with CPU steal constant at zero. I have had absolutely no problems so far and next time I need some either budget or high performance VPS I will likely buy from them again. This provider was a nice discovery for me.
That's the review 
I will post some more about uptime after some more time has passed.
Edit: I tried to tag the provider but it seems there is no GreenCloud user. cc: @NDTN
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Nice review, I can also recommend this provider. I actually got 9999 Birthday RO VPS from them and it works smoothly.
It's just too bad that I'd purchased that vps only because of great specs and of course price but not using it for nothing as I already got bunch of other servers for my needs.
Hope I will find something to ran on this beast server.
@vitobotta can you please share the link with me? I cannot find those prices in the website and I would be interested as well. Thanks for sharing this info!
@Sapcedor
https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale
https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/premium-kvm-sale
Where are these servers, and what about the uptime? One of my EPYC server with GreenCloud works perfect, yet with occassional reboots.
For my experience, their support is very good. I got a problem with my vm and submitted a ticket, they resolved it within a short time.
I see you already got the links
There are various locations as you can see from those links. I bought two in Frankfurt, Germany. For a proper feedback on uptime I need to wait a few months...
Is it just me, or is this offer crazy cheap (considering it has 1 IPv4 included, even)?
2048MB RAM
1024MB SWAP
20GB SSD RAID-10 Hard drive
1 core @ E5v3 CPU
1 IPv4
/112 IPv6
2TB Bandwidth
10Gbps Port
Linux OS
Amsterdam, NL Location
SolusVM Control Panel
For 15$/year
Thanks @vitobotta for bringing this provider to my attention. I knew they existed, but never looked at them more thoroughly.
That’s really cheap for this specs
me too.
I'm also a happy customer of GCV here.
Hoping they can also provide servers in Jakarta, it would be awesome!
If you pay for 3 years upfront it come even cheaper. Something like $13,33 / year. Worth every penny.
Servers on this location come with /64 now, not /112. (site needs update)
unfortunately no Ryzen in frankfurt; it is foreseeable when 5950x or 7950Xx will come to Frankfurt @NDTN
Glad to hear you're happy with the VPS, @vitobotta !
I've been using their services since this summer, one at NL, and another VPS at DE, and never been happier. Study uptime with no reboots, and I run some of my personal scripts, mastodon, writefreely, redis, postgres mariadb etc, all through docker, and running rock stable!
I have a 4 GB instance in their London DC, with current uptime at 42 days, but I read from other users they got significant outages in other European DCs recently. I wasn't affected.
Nah, nothing like that - or at least I don't remember it. Just small IPv6 only outage in AMS recently. Those yisp /112 subnets are now replaced with their own /64 subnets. Everything's fine.
My Uptimerobot monitor of my VPSes (IPv4 only)
This include also my own reboots, etc., so everything's close to the 100% uptime.
Also happy with the provider.
Instant activation of VPS.
I have been with GreenCloudVPS for 11 months now, I have 2 VPS in Miami.
Downtimes in 11 months by Hetrixtools:
The last one was on January 13, 2023 -> 17 minutes
Overall good uptime. I will renew both servers
What period?
Uhm OK. It's not too small downtime in 11 months though
Like said, this uptime monitor above include also my own reconfigurations, upgrades & reboots, so some short blips may be caused by me. Some vpses are monitored longer, just uptime log is from the last 90 days. Their stuff is stable.
For my use case it's fine (I use Jellyfin).
https://uptime.is/99.9936
I guess it's JAX not Miami, there was a network outage there/ Waiting for more information from the DC before sending out RFO emails.
We are not aware of any significant outages in EU recently, maybe that was the IPv6 outage as @Mumbly mentioned that took around 24 hours to resolve.
We will have our EPYC nodes shipped next week (Milan 7763) to Frankfurt. We have postponed our Ryzen plans there as we are waiting for the availability of Ryzen 7950x motherboards (rack mount versions).
Holycow, DDR5 RAM is really expen$ive.
Oh right, my mistake. It's Jacksonville.
I requested the switch from NY to JAX and support was quick to get it done.
using greencloud for 3 months now, no downtime, never restarted by them, awesome pings and bandwidth, disk IOs at 8MBps. Awesome.
My experience is also still extremely positive. Really happy so far
Hey guys, I'm leaving RackNerd because of constant outages, and I've switched to GreenCloud. I’ll share my experience since I made the order yesterday.
4096MB RAM
35GB NVMe RAID-10 Hard drive
2 cores @ EPYC Rome CPU
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
4TB Bandwidth
10Gbps Port
Linux OS
Ashburn, VA Location
Virtfusion Control Panel
1 Free Backup/Snapshot
I expected the IP to be in Ashburn, but it ended up being in Chicago DC2
Here's my experience so far:
✔ Uptime, ✔ Latency, ✔ RAM, ✔ CPU
Hard drive ❌
Observations:
The offer mentioned 35GB NVMe RAID-10, but after running some tests, I got the following results:
root@server1:~# sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=./testfile bs=8k count=100000 oflag=direct
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
819200000 bytes (819 MB, 781 MiB) copied, 15.3815 s, 53.3 MB/s
root@server1:~# lsblk -d -o name,model,rota
NAME MODEL ROTA
sda QEMU_HARDDISK 1
sr0 QEMU_DVD-ROM 1
vda 1
This doesn't look like NVMe RAID-10—it seems more like an HDD. I’m curious if anyone else is seeing the same thing. Honestly, I would love to buy more servers here in the future, but this is a bit concerning. Cheers!
It's indeed NVMe RAID-10. Could you please take a YABS test for disk and post the result? https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
Feel free to reach out to our support if you need further assistance.
Thanks for responding! Interesting, I was running the test with very small block files (bs=8k). That might be the reason why I wasn't seeing the true disk speed.
root@server1:~/yet-another-bench-script/yet-another-bench-script# sudo bash yabs .sh
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##
Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2024-06-09
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##
Wed 20 Nov 2024 09:18:24 PM -05
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core Processor
CPU cores : 2 @ 1999.999 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 3.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 35.0 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel : 5.10.0-20-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
ISP : tzulo, inc.
ASN : AS11878 tzulo, inc.
Host : tzulo, inc
Location : Ashburn, Virginia (VA)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
Running GB6 benchmark test... cue elevator music
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 1401
Multi Core | 2563
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8978866
YABS completed in 10 min 42 sec
root@server1:~# sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/vda
/dev/vda:
Timing cached reads: 18304 MB in 2.00 seconds = 9165.52 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 6296 MB in 3.00 seconds = 2098.38 MB/sec
I've been with GreenCloud for 3+ years and have nothing but good things to say about them. Keep it up guys, you're a great team!
they usually provide very less storage, how are you using jellyfin with them?
( i was thinking of adding another provider storage as a volume mount in it, so wants to find yours)
Hey @NDTN -- we have a lot of VPS nodes/services currently with GreenCloud. And it has been an ongoing request from us to get us access to virtfusion panel to manage all our existing GC VPS nodes.
Could you please make things happen to get us a Virtfusion panel access, to manage all our existing VPS. It is much easier to cycle OS reinstalls etc. using virtfusion. Without Virtfusion, the current GC web dashboard is very clunky.
I'm with you on this.