** First four hours with Netcup now and steal is averaging about 0.1% - I'm happy! Thanks for all the advice and replies, appreciate it. **

As for Contabo / @contabo_m and netcup (not here at LET afaik) I happen to have VMs from both and I happen to have both of the benchmarked. Neither of them can do miracles but both offer good product

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Yes. But unfortunately I don't have a PayPal account . And php-friends don't accept credit or debit card. Same goes to netcup

Thanks for all the replies guys - glad I posted here first. I think I'll give Contabo a miss now. Just don't feel very confident based on previous posts and I think Netcup sounds like it'll be a muc

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I would never recommend them for anything more than development. Performance varies a lot. If you want cheap & good german VPS then I would suggest to go with Netcup or PHP-Friends - both prov

Thanks, definitely uptime sensitive - perhaps Netcup as suggested by @CalmDown is a better choice here. As long as I have peace of mind knowing that I can move to a different physical host in case of

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Yes. Netcup is in my list. But waiting fir their special offer

With that kind of budget I guess it's netcup Root-Server or phpfriends vServer S SSD G3 AMD, but that is in DE/Europe.

NetCup's Root Server + Virtualmin

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I had to take a picture of myself with a piece of paper writing netcup on one hand and my billing address on the other hand when i verified with netcup.

Yeah, your connection will easy be limited to 200 mbps, so Netcup is not a good idea for this.

Good luck with using netcup for this much transfer. The server will be crippled before you can transfer this much amount. Those are shared servers. Only CPU is dedicated for root servers. Hetzner is y

Go with NetCup. Here's 5 euro coupon for new customers: 36nc16281461202

I compared all 3 and it looks like NetCup is the winner, thank you chocolateshirt!

Fod that much bandwidth you can use NetCup

Also some companies charge VAT if you're outside of Europe (netcup charges 19% IIRC) and some don't (Hetzner). I can't give you full list, as I mainly use only these 2 providers and I live on Europe s