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MevSpace - The worst dedicated server in my experience. My honest review.

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  • First server completely died: confirmed. less than 3 hours after posting here.

    The system is not booting because there is no bootable device available, even
    though both drives are still detected in the BIOS.
    This is likely the same drive that was showing errors during tests a few days
    ago - the one we had planned to replace as soon as you completed the backup to
    the other test server.
    Unfortunately, it now appears to have failed completely, and a replacement
    will be necessary.

    Before we proceed, could you please confirm whether you managed to create a
    backup on the new server, as previously discussed?

    Let us know so we can determine the best next steps.

    So that was a good time to migrate
    What are your guesses, will they refund or compensate me or neither, for less than 70% uptime

  • monmon Member

    @flexinov said: it came out clean (as far as my knowledge goes)

    Yeah, it is clean. Is it just after a boot? You need to capture it right after the drive fails

  • luckypenguinluckypenguin Member
    edited September 6

    @flexinov said: What are your guesses, will they refund or compensate me or neither, for less than 70% uptime

    My guess is that your uptime measurements are incorrect, or something is messed with your BIOS. I was using a basic Mevspace server as a Proxmox hypervisor for a few months and except a few network issues (but still 99%+ up) it was great value for the price. They are the Poland version of Expenzner.
    Ryzen 5 4650, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, unmetered 1gbps for 48 Euros/m in 2026 is a deal.
    And they provide free IPMI for 4 hours after a few minutes if shit hits the fan. So I have a little
    different experience than you, but again, I took the basic server and made sure I have the latest BIOS (had to violate ToS to access it), default settings, no power saving BS, and that the
    drive was in good shape. I guess you hit some issue with your hardware combo. Yes, it's not a datacenter grade hardware, but you also don't pay datacenter grade prices :)

    Thanked by 2rpqu concept
  • Keep in mind MevSpace is a heaven for stresser operators.

  • @luckypenguin said:

    @flexinov said: What are your guesses, will they refund or compensate me or neither, for less than 70% uptime

    My guess is that your uptime measurements are incorrect, or something is messed with your BIOS. I was using a basic Mevspace server as a Proxmox hypervisor for a few months and except a few network issues (but still 99%+ up) it was great value for the price. They are the Poland version of Expenzner.
    Ryzen 5 4650, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, unmetered 1gbps for 48 Euros/m in 2026 is a deal.
    And they provide free IPMI for 4 hours after a few minutes if shit hits the fan. So I have a little
    different experience than you, but again, I took the basic server and made sure I have the latest BIOS (had to violate ToS to access it), default settings, no power saving BS, and that the
    drive was in good shape. I guess you hit some issue with your hardware combo. Yes, it's not a datacenter grade hardware, but you also don't pay datacenter grade prices :)

    My problem is that:

    1) The hardware is dying completely, and unable to boot back up without full server reboot.
    2) The SSDs died after 6 days of work on that server.
    3) Why does a customer needs to go through all this work, to get a working server they have paid for?

    I get that 120 euros is a cheap price for a dedicated server, but also I would at least expect the server to work, not have high end enterprise infrastructure and hardware

  • monmon Member

    @slideFactor said: and storage I've had was normal consumer stuff

    they have enterprise nvmes as well, have to pick server type specifically with those though

  • I used to have their Ryzen 3600 dedicated server. When I bought it, their tech noticed there was a hardware issue, they replaced the server and notified me and I was up and running. After that incident, I've had no problems with their service. It's unfortunate that you are having issues.

    Thanked by 1luckypenguin
  • rpqurpqu Member

    @flexinov said:

    @luckypenguin said:

    @flexinov said: What are your guesses, will they refund or compensate me or neither, for less than 70% uptime

    My guess is that your uptime measurements are incorrect, or something is messed with your BIOS. I was using a basic Mevspace server as a Proxmox hypervisor for a few months and except a few network issues (but still 99%+ up) it was great value for the price. They are the Poland version of Expenzner.
    Ryzen 5 4650, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, unmetered 1gbps for 48 Euros/m in 2026 is a deal.
    And they provide free IPMI for 4 hours after a few minutes if shit hits the fan. So I have a little
    different experience than you, but again, I took the basic server and made sure I have the latest BIOS (had to violate ToS to access it), default settings, no power saving BS, and that the
    drive was in good shape. I guess you hit some issue with your hardware combo. Yes, it's not a datacenter grade hardware, but you also don't pay datacenter grade prices :)

    My problem is that:

    1) The hardware is dying completely, and unable to boot back up without full server reboot.
    2) The SSDs died after 6 days of work on that server.
    3) Why does a customer needs to go through all this work, to get a working server they have paid for?

    I get that 120 euros is a cheap price for a dedicated server, but also I would at least expect the server to work, not have high end enterprise infrastructure and hardware

    If the SSD constantly dying, either it's due for replacement or your workloads is incompatible with the hardware capability.

    Thanked by 1luckypenguin
  • MikeAMikeA Patron Provider, Veteran

    @rpqu said:

    @flexinov said:

    @luckypenguin said:

    @flexinov said: What are your guesses, will they refund or compensate me or neither, for less than 70% uptime

    My guess is that your uptime measurements are incorrect, or something is messed with your BIOS. I was using a basic Mevspace server as a Proxmox hypervisor for a few months and except a few network issues (but still 99%+ up) it was great value for the price. They are the Poland version of Expenzner.
    Ryzen 5 4650, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, unmetered 1gbps for 48 Euros/m in 2026 is a deal.
    And they provide free IPMI for 4 hours after a few minutes if shit hits the fan. So I have a little
    different experience than you, but again, I took the basic server and made sure I have the latest BIOS (had to violate ToS to access it), default settings, no power saving BS, and that the
    drive was in good shape. I guess you hit some issue with your hardware combo. Yes, it's not a datacenter grade hardware, but you also don't pay datacenter grade prices :)

    My problem is that:

    1) The hardware is dying completely, and unable to boot back up without full server reboot.
    2) The SSDs died after 6 days of work on that server.
    3) Why does a customer needs to go through all this work, to get a working server they have paid for?

    I get that 120 euros is a cheap price for a dedicated server, but also I would at least expect the server to work, not have high end enterprise infrastructure and hardware

    If the SSD constantly dying, either it's due for replacement or your workloads is incompatible with the hardware capability.

    Pretty common issue on Ryzen systems tbh. Could be a mb/pcie issue or could be NVMe temps and the controller is cooking like an egg and dying, especially if it's under a NIC or something.

    Thanked by 1rpqu
  • @flexinov said: 1) The hardware is dying completely, and unable to boot back up without full server reboot.

    Unable to boot back up - as in backup the server (software issue), or the server is frozen (kernel panic) and you have to hard reboot it? Please clarify as it is an important thing to
    have or at least troubleshoot the issue. Do you have logs when the server is "dead"?
    I'm trying to do my best to help you, and a little bit on the side of Mevspace here, because
    I really don't think it's something on their end. I will tell why - here is a simple test.
    Run yabs in a loop for 24/7, print the logs to /root/logs.txt . Run it for 24 hours.
    Server doctor at your service.

    Thanked by 1rpqu
  • rpqurpqu Member

    @MikeA said:

    @rpqu said:

    @flexinov said:

    @luckypenguin said:

    @flexinov said: What are your guesses, will they refund or compensate me or neither, for less than 70% uptime

    My guess is that your uptime measurements are incorrect, or something is messed with your BIOS. I was using a basic Mevspace server as a Proxmox hypervisor for a few months and except a few network issues (but still 99%+ up) it was great value for the price. They are the Poland version of Expenzner.
    Ryzen 5 4650, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, unmetered 1gbps for 48 Euros/m in 2026 is a deal.
    And they provide free IPMI for 4 hours after a few minutes if shit hits the fan. So I have a little
    different experience than you, but again, I took the basic server and made sure I have the latest BIOS (had to violate ToS to access it), default settings, no power saving BS, and that the
    drive was in good shape. I guess you hit some issue with your hardware combo. Yes, it's not a datacenter grade hardware, but you also don't pay datacenter grade prices :)

    My problem is that:

    1) The hardware is dying completely, and unable to boot back up without full server reboot.
    2) The SSDs died after 6 days of work on that server.
    3) Why does a customer needs to go through all this work, to get a working server they have paid for?

    I get that 120 euros is a cheap price for a dedicated server, but also I would at least expect the server to work, not have high end enterprise infrastructure and hardware

    If the SSD constantly dying, either it's due for replacement or your workloads is incompatible with the hardware capability.

    Pretty common issue on Ryzen systems tbh. Could be a mb/pcie issue or could be NVMe temps and the controller is cooking like an egg and dying, especially if it's under a NIC or something.

    Yeah, temperature matters. I assumed @flexinov checked the nvme temp before posting the thread

  • luckypenguinluckypenguin Member
    edited September 6

    @MikeA said: or could be NVMe temps and the controller is cooking like an egg and dying

    NVMe controllers are not cooking machines. I'm not sure what OP is doing, but this must
    be over the workload of typical stuff that hardware should do.

    "unable to boot back up without full server reboot" - if you mention a boot, that's already a
    full server reboot my friend. So please clarify.

    @Mevspace I won't be shielding you more than I care, chime in and participate.

  • @luckypenguin said:

    @MikeA said: or could be NVMe temps and the controller is cooking like an egg and dying

    NVMe controllers are not cooking machines. I'm not sure what OP is doing, but this must
    be over the workload of typical stuff that hardware should do.

    "unable to boot back up without full server reboot" - if you mention a boot, that's already a
    full server reboot my friend. So please clarify.

    I had this issue on standby Proxmox setup, with no VMs, running on top of Debian 13

  • @luckypenguin said:

    @MikeA said: or could be NVMe temps and the controller is cooking like an egg and dying

    NVMe controllers are not cooking machines.

    Temperatures put them in slow cooker status for sure.

  • luckypenguinluckypenguin Member
    edited September 6

    @flexinov said: I had this issue on standby Proxmox setup, with no VMs, running on top of Debian 13

    Just as a measurement - Can you run yabs on a clean server, Alpine Linux, latest kernel,
    Mevspace provides 48h free test of any server. This will make the picture more clear. I'm
    100% it's a software issue - but I want to check my feelings against real tests.
    I'm also not sure how your measurements were done. Install Proxmox and YOLO?
    First you run a 24h benchmark on the disk, CPU, and RAM. Nothing fails? Good.

    Thanked by 1rpqu
  • @luckypenguin said:

    @flexinov said: I had this issue on standby Proxmox setup, with no VMs, running on top of Debian 13

    Just as a measurement - Can you run yabs on a clean server, Alpine Linux, latest kernel,
    Mevspace provides 48h free test of any server. This will make the picture more clear. I'm
    100% it's a software issue - but I want to check my feelings against real tests.
    I'm also not sure how your measurements were done. Install Proxmox and YOLO?
    First you run a 24h benchmark on the disk, CPU, and RAM. Nothing fails? Good.

    We have gotten the replacement server, that we are test driving now, after the first one died. After first 2 reboots at the start, server is holding straight. I will update here if anything changes

  • @flexinov said: We have gotten the replacement server, that we are test driving now, after the first one died. After first 2 reboots at the start, server is holding straight. I will update here if anything changes

    Run my methodology and I'm sure you will be fine. Ask mods to change the title, this is
    just a, how to call it, not the right way to call a provider like that. They are not a scam.
    @Mevspace where are my free credits? /s

  • Typical MJJ behavior!

  • @luckypenguin said:

    @flexinov said: We have gotten the replacement server, that we are test driving now, after the first one died. After first 2 reboots at the start, server is holding straight. I will update here if anything changes

    Run my methodology and I'm sure you will be fine. Ask mods to change the title, this is
    just a, how to call it, not the right way to call a provider like that. They are not a scam.
    @Mevspace where are my free credits? /s

    I never called them a scam lol? Just the worst server provider in my opinion. There is plenty of people who share my frustration in the same thread

  • @slideFactor said:
    Consumer hardware is expected at this price point. I run a few systems like that from other hosting providers and they've generally been fine. As a rule of thumb: if IPMI access isn't offered, it's probably not a server motherboard.

    Delivering obviously failing hardware's not a good look though, it probably means that it hasn't been tested between customers. Edit: but deploying a new server to production without having tested it seems like the same level of thoroughness from OP LOL

    Sidenote: because Hetzner was mentioned above, I was pleasantly surprised to see server motherboards on systems with consumer CPUs sometimes (e.g. motherboards from the ASRock Rack series for Intel Core CPUs), but all the RAM and storage I've had was normal consumer stuff.

    Again not true, hetzner have drop in IPMI to none server boards, they have full documentary on youtube about this, when LTT visits to build a server.

    Rule of thumb, expect any low-end priced server to have none enterprise hardware.

  • MikeAMikeA Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited September 6

    @LEBUserJoe said: Again not true, hetzner have drop in IPMI to none server boards, they have full documentary on youtube about this, when LTT visits to build a server.

    None of my Hetzner servers, i9, Ryzen, have IPMI. And I don't think I've ever had a Hetzner server with IPMI in the past. They have KVM console that you can request that they will temporarily attach to your server. Maybe you're thinking about their remote reboot feature that was shown in the LTT video. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your sentence and you mean none of them have drop in IPMI.

  • @MikeA said:

    @LEBUserJoe said: Again not true, hetzner have drop in IPMI to none server boards, they have full documentary on youtube about this, when LTT visits to build a server.

    None of my Hetzner servers, i9, Ryzen, have IPMI. And I don't think I've ever had a Hetzner server with IPMI in the past. They have KVM console that you can request that they will temporarily attach to your server. Maybe you're thinking about their remote reboot feature that was shown in the LTT video. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your sentence and you mean none of them have drop in IPMI.

    I could be mistaken but i've had IPMI with them so maybe that's caused me to re-write the truth, my bad could be mistaken

  • MevspaceMevspace Member, Patron Provider

    Hi, MEVSPACE here on a Sunday evening/night.

    First of all, I'm sorry to hear that you've had problems with our services. Please send me a DM with your account or ticket details and I will personally track down what happened in your case. If I'm not able to resolve it directly, we will treat it as a post-mortem case and investigate what went wrong and what we can improve internally.

    I'm not going to argue here whether this was a software or hardware problem, because based on the information available it simply requires a deeper investigation.

    Regarding our hardware: we operate thousands of physical servers, and we do our best to identify and eliminate faulty components before they affect customers. At this scale, however, hardware failures do happen. What matters to us is how we react when they do.

    We know that sometimes the fault is on our side, and we don't hide from that. We try to learn from every recurring or unusual failure pattern and improve our testing and operational procedures accordingly.

    A good historical example was one of our Ryzen 3600 batches. We received customer reports about instability, while our standard hardware tests were unable to reproduce the problem. After a deeper investigation, we eventually identified a very specific workload/instruction pattern that could trigger CPU instability. It turned out that more than 3.5% of CPUs from that particular batch were affected. That experience resulted in changes to the way we diagnose similar cases today.

    This is exactly why individual reports are important to us. Sometimes what initially looks like an isolated customer issue can reveal a wider hardware or operational problem.

    Regarding the components we use: yes, Goodram memory is used in a large part of our server fleet. Our standard configurations are designed around a balance between performance, reliability and the pricing level for which MEVSPACE is known. We know hardware can fail. When it does, we need to find the faulty part and replace it as quickly as possible.

    For customers who require specific enterprise-grade components, particular vendors, ECC memory, storage models or other specialised configurations, we can also build such solutions, although naturally they come at a different price point.

    We know we are not perfect. What I can promise is that we take cases like this seriously, investigate them and use what we learn to improve the service.

    Please DM me the details and I’ll take a look. And after that, you can start hating me again :)

    adam

  • @MikeA said: None of my Hetzner servers, i9, Ryzen, have IPMI. And I don't think I've ever had a Hetzner server with IPMI in

    They have them on the branded lines like DX-line

  • i do think have a same when i first server for my friend we find ram issues and they had to all server since that time which was in first 5 days it was pretty good for them to replace all of them in couple of hours, for such a price i don't mind that, anyway i had my tool to backup everything for multiple gateway so i think it's all amount collaboration with provider and have some patience

    from my own experience (using them to configure some for my friend) they are good, they even start investige all servers when one of his server was experience ram issues

    Thanked by 1Mevspace
  • i'm using mevspace since 2019, no issue at all,
    they are good, and professional, they replace the burnt ram, and hdd, you must setup raid 1 always, their support is now faster as compare to last year,

    in that competitive pricing, they must need to improve the network connectivity slightly. overall 9/10 score

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