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Is realtoxmedia reliable? 4c Xeon v2 48GB for 8€/mo
I found this deal while browsing server hunter from another one of these cheap german hosters:
✓4 CPU Kern (Xeon v2)
✓48 GB DDR3 ECC RAM
✓ 96 GB Speicher
✓ 25TB Traffic
✓IPv4+IPv6
✓ Standort Düsseldorf
3 in stock
https://mgmt.realtoxmedia.de/index.php?rp=/store/vps-summersale/ram-special
Apart from the amount of RAM, the hardware specs don't seem too great, but 1€ for 6GB RAM is still quite a bargain. It's even cheaper with 5.4€/mo when paying annually.
Never heard of this provider before and I have no need for this config, so thought I'd just share my findings here.
Does anyone have any experience with this provider before? Would be great to know if this provider is reliable or not.
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Seems to be reliable. Their AS is AS207252 (PeeringDB). Upstreams with @AS203446 & WIIT AG (wiit.cloud)
However, the provider itself is banned on LowEndTalk (@RealtoxMedia), but that could be just an impersonator and not the actual provider. @lukast__ tested their disks/geekbench score.
I cancelled my 8€/yr VPS because of up to 10% steal while idling and high iowait, but IMHO for the price it was acceptable. Their support seemed to be rather fast.
Yeah, at 8€/y one can't really expect the world. As long as it's usable i'd call that getting-what-you-pay-for. I mean at that price point it pretty much has to be a loss leader.
Actually possible. There are old servers out there with 800GB DDR3 RAM for under 300€ on eBay auctions in Germany (occasionally). If they got their hands on one of those or even 2, they could totally sell plenty VMs of this kind for a cheap price.
This provider recently bought out DashServ, maybe other small providers as well. As long as it’s monthly payment I see no problems. The usecase for such VPS is questionable though, since CPU and disk IO are not really usable for high load applications. The RAM doesn’t help much if everything else is slow (we talking Intel 4th Gen level of slow)
Well, hardware wise it's sure possible but the there'll still be hefty costs on colocation. These monster servers might be cheap to buy (assuming some E5-4xxx or E5-8xxx system 800GB RAM isn't even all that much and DDR3 RAM is practically free these days) but they are also eating power like there's no tomorrow (the high RAM configurations are especially bad in this regard) and Germany isn't really known for cheap power.
Ye I once bought something like these with around 700GB+ RAM for home use since I thought it was an insane deal and it was sucking power out of my wall like crazy, while performing like shit haha. Directly went to a new owner.
Myloc (who they're upstreamed by) has some colo deals with unlimited power, it's possible to run a really stupidly inefficient server for not a very high cost power wise in Myloc. Terrible facility though.
Haha, yeah, i also basically scratched the idea of building a 1TB RAM box just for the fun of when i realized it what it would actually cost to run the damn thing
Wow, Myloc's reputation aside, that is quite tempting. Hard to imagine someone would be crazy enough to run such an insane deal these days. It's kind of like they are actively asking people to send in all those old quad and hexa E5s.
Yeah I had a friend who was pulling ~4kw 24/7 and was asked to leave after a few years. No idea if it's still a thing, but that's the only thing I can think of that would make sense.
Haha, that's brilliant. I guess i'll have to do some investigating. Not that i'd have much use for these monster E5s (sad but true...) but it would also make nice home for a stack of those bargain bin Teslas/Instincts
Thanks for everyone's inputs! Sounds like the provider is probably legit and there shouldn't be any issues using monthly payments.
But looking at the reviews for their 8€/y deal, you'll probably be getting a very weak CPU with high steal and iowaits, so it won't be useful for most use cases.
id take a similarly priced but significantly more realistic service like hetzner c32 over this anyday
How much watts of power was it using?
i have 3 servers there. One server got migrated to a more powerful node, no problems so far.
I sadly don't have an exact number anymore but i read a post by some guy who build a 1TB (or was it 1,5TB?) quad E5 box and it was drawing hundreds of watts just booting and idling. I don't want to say something wrong but the number was shocking enough to make me drop my plans to build something similar and i'm really not averse to running inefficient hardware.
I have two €8/year vpses. They are good for the price, a bit of network/power issues lately causing some downtimes (especially intermittent IPv6 issues over the weekend). Still above 99,8% of uptime.
I'd say, for something that you don't mind 99,85% of uptime they are really good, their support is quick and responsive. Maybe the uptime issues were only temporary - I've been using them for a month so far, so it's hard to say for me how it looks on the longer term.