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Netcup Root Server G11 (Annual Cycle of Repeats)
https://lowendbox.com/blog/netcup-faces-user-riot-over-throttling-supposedly-dedicated-cores/
It happens again in August - September 2024 , the 2nd time.
Impact on Root Server G11 Nuremberg
not just the performance of Root Server, but impact on the network speed also.
YABS dropped again.
I got GB6scores SingleCore 1400 and MultiCore 4800 during PeakTime after LunchHour at Germany Time
Looks to me,
Profits from over subscribing makes more sense to me.
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Netcup root server cores are not dedicated cores, but they allow unrestricted usage. You can use 100% of the core, but it’s not dedicated. The provider relies on the fact that not all customers will use 100% of their core all the time.
Mine in Vienna also dropped to 1600 in GB6. This impacts to Wordpress (and Woocommerce) performance. WP bench score dropped from 9+ to 7+.
It’s crazy that this is still a discussion.
Even if you don’t overprovision (not saying that they don’t), single core (thread, actually) speed IS affected by overall load due to multithreading BUT mostly due to thermal throttling.
If you want to maintain zero impact by other guests, get a dedicated server.
I’m so tired of people paying for a shared envirement and then expecting zero guests in that.
The above goes NO MATTER if they lie about dedicated resources or not. That’s a seperate discussion. But a drop from 1600 to 1400 when the hypervisor isn’t idle is rutine. Get a dedicated server.
Emgh out.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Price performance wise it's currently the best server I have, for this little money this amount of compute power with 2,5gbit line. Sorry but better than this it's not gonna get. Like @emgh said get a dedi
10 percents drop is acceptable
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more than that, ROBBING is what the suitable WORDS ..
Little money?
If customers alerted with drop performance of 50%
who going to choose this VPS or RootServer if the drop happens almost 12-16 hours a day.
Maybe customers are targeted to be fooled.
Get a dedi. You'd get performance drops everywhere when nodes starts to fill. That is to be expected. Geekbench benchmarks isnt actually meant for hosting setting.
What exactly RS server you got? RS1000?
RS2000
RS 1000 G11 4c8g512gb (vienna)
10 days ago
Now
Singlecore is normal (you get 1800-2000 if you get turbo boost for your core), but 4800 is very bad result for 8cores. Contant support.
I highly doubt it's due to thermal throttling, almost every respectable VPS provider would try their best to keep their CPUs under the thermal limits (or at the very least, have enough cooling to the point where the difference in performance is very negligible). There is almost no incentive to intentionally thermal throttle processors.
AMD EPYC processors are “easy” to cool because of the large IHS, and even the top end SKU (9654) can just be air cooled in a 2U.
From our experience, even if we keep nodes under 50-60% CPU usage, we still see significant drops in GB6 performance on AMD EPYC 9004 series of processors. Despite having almost 40-50% of CPU leftover and not even reaching maximum CPU load on these host nodes, drops in GB6 scores can happen. It's important to keep in mind that they are simply artificial benchmarks that are typically not at all representative of real-world performance.
RS 1000 G11 SE VIE BSS24
27/8
19/9
Its still hella good for 96core Genoa. These chips are used so much by providers, because it is dense chip.
Infinity fabric is not fast enough for that much cores, this is why performance degrades even without any overselling, because communication inside CPU doesnt scale to good enough level.
I dont know if there is any point of going above 48/64 cores on Genoa, I saw so many benchmarks where performance just stops to scale even tho cores are seemingly utilized. Maybe some provider can test it if KVM also doesnt scale, so far @ProHosting24 found degredation, but I dont know after how many cores were used
We started to notice that clocks tend to boost a lot more aggressively when using the high performance preset and setting TDP to 400W on the 9654 SKUs. We started doing that on more recent nodes and the situation had improved significantly.
This is your third thread expressing dissatisfaction with netcup
(See https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/196611/i-was-shocked-using-netcup-vps and https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/197083/netcup-cpu-steal-and-the-low-quality-of-support )
Why not cancel the server? Or do you have a contract for a year?
Open a topic in there forum, support is pretty good from NetCup
Actually I think the real problem is not the cpu but the disk speeds
It is decreasing every passing day. It will be like Contabo soon.
I agree on this one.
Same experience.
Specially after Germany lunch hour until 5-6pm,
Correct ..
The worst experience is with one my ARM @ NUE
Disk Speed only 75% of this YABS
And I don't know if disk speeds play a big role also in performance
Thanks
Why you don't send support a mail
Have you tried 9754? This CPU suffers the most from the scaling problem, I didnt found out anything where it would be better than 9654. Not just because of clocks. When I added more parallel encodes to fill all of cores then more CPU cores were utilized, but combined FPS of encodes was the same, because each encode slowed down. More power used, same overall performance, so there is some bottleneck in architecture in IO or frontend of cores and you could go for cheaper 96core in a first place and get same(or better cause higher boost clocks) performance.
I think Infinity Fabric is the problem as overclocking it even on 16cores increases performance.
"up to 32Gbps" on Genoa doesnt sound that great for 128 cores with context switching all the time (cause more hypervisors deployed per node). Maybe it is enough and problem lies somewhere else like DDR5 bandwidth or limited L3 caches, idk, but for now I think Infinity Fabric just doesnt scale good enough.
It's sitting idle. If it was for production I would contact support.
Or go to Contabo, very good for production
I'll ask you who I should buy from next time.
Thanks for the references.
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That make sense they had so many issues with their Nuremberg location
Soon Vienna
and Amsterdam is just counting the month ... soon in 1 or 2
I am planning to test their Netcup Milan VPS 2000 or 1000 instead of RootServer
While advise for Dedicated Server would be good option.
Based on searching this LET these late 2 days , it seems Netcup had repeatable issues and YABS from 2020 showing the performance still in par with Contabo,
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while Contabo is so reputable in this LET (for their down side of course
Guess no other option, Hetzner or Dedicated
Seriously, cancel service.. and save your health and us from Netcup nagging
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Netcup isn't perfect, but comparing it to contabo isn't right.
Otherwise, if you have no constraints on processor architecture.
You can test their ARM range, I've had stable performance since day one.