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Reaching for them nines - Europe
NotFoundException
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I‘m looking for a VPS from a provider that guarantees an uptime of at least of 99,99% in Europe. Paid for 1-3 years in advance.
Specs:
1-2 Cores (Any CPU will do the trick)
2-4GB RAM
30+GB (NVMe) SSD
1+TB Traffic per month
Budget depending on the location, specs and percentage guaranteed, I‘ll take IONOS as the baseline with location Germany, 2C, 2GB RAM, 80GB NVMe and 99,99% for around 24€/y
Thanks!
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Hetzner, OVH and like mentioned IONOS. Wouldn't really trust anyone else for 99.99% uptime.
I’ve had downtime with both OVH and Hetzner that’d fuck 99,99 up
Especially OVH, I had a VPS be down for about a week there
You’re not going to be able to guarantees any amount of uptime with any provider
SLA just means you’ll be compensated for downtime. With OVH I wasn’t even though it dragged on for many days. And even if you are the amounts are almost nothing given the VPS cost almost nothing on a daily basis
Not even me
Thanks, but I agree with @emgh
To clarify, I am searching for a provider who doesn't hold back when it comes to compensation, something like 2x downtime added to the current period. It's not about the VPS being actually online 100% of a year, even if this would be the goal.
Is it one of the local zones? I haven't had downtime with Hetzner or OVH
Yes local zones. Also issues with restarts causing a VPS to me marked as offline for much longer than the actual restart, leading to no control over the VM in the meantime. Support is also clueless, I had to fight for a tech to look into my downtime for days during the time it was down. They refused to look at it before they could rule out user error which given their delay in response time meant further downtime.
@onidel @oloke
The issue is let’s say your VPS is €5 a month. That’s about €0.17 a day.
So for 24 hours of downtime with a 2x SLA you’d be compensated 2 days of extra service time, worth roughly €0.33.
If that’s what you want I’m sure you can find it but for 24 hours of downtime will you really be glad with a third of a coca cola back anyway?
Thanks, but as far as I'm aware they only offer a 99,9% SLA and for that, the pricing is a too much in comparison
yea I think I remember reading about that on here. This is why I have stayed away from local zones. Service quality is worse and you have to pay a bit more than their regular DCs.
Why not do a HA cluster with servers from multiple independent providers yourself? You are the only responsible for SLA of your own services, can't rely on a single vendor if that's important
Yeah. Even if status pages show uptime, doesn't mean there won't be 10-30 second blips from routing issues, even if not globally. Only networks I have actual near 99,99% uptime on is probably the most expensive one I use lol...
They have 99.99% SLA: https://kb.onidel.com/hc/kb/articles/1756042265-service-level-agreenment
Clouvider
Vultr offers 100% uptime guarantee.
https://www.vultr.com/company/sla/
I already do that, but on top of that I want to use a provider who offers a similar SLA too.
Thanks for the mention @buggedout !
And yes, we have 99.99% SLA
You should change it in your hero section on the main page, I take a look
I saw that you (Onidel) have
50OFF2026AMS, which still can be used. Would it be possible to extend this to triennially for 60% off?I had netcup pico for 2 years without single downtime. 2 times restarted by me for updates, znc up for almost year on both occasions.
Got a deal from @onidel ( @oloke ), thanks
I'm still open for more providers to diversify if the deal is good
@NotFoundException forgot to mention KuroIT, so far 100% in over 400 days in UK. Worth checking them out. Also with them, Oracle is pretty stable for free.