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Does it have to be a dedicated servers? How about a VPS with dedicated cores, e.g. from NetCup?

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I used "new" as "relatively new". At some point in the not-so-distant past, netcup redesigned the Root-Server series and the vServer series. I believe that your two

But, you're right, if we want to be kind to netcup, we could say that they understood "performance" to mean "caching", and they also thought that everyone would und

https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1754

Indeed. Again, looking at that old offer, https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1121 , for the hard drive there was a choice between "120 GB SSD Performance" (the defau

german providers used to trick around with terms all the time, 'rootserver' only being the most common example. also netcup did so with their 4x 123 GB RAID 10 before, which could lead to the idea you

For comparison, if you look at their current Root-Server offers, e.g., https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1769 , you'll see that the word "Performance" isn't added.

I mean, it's not netcup's (or any provider's) fault if one can't completely reliably test for HDD vs SSD in Linux in a virtualized environment.

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Except that the OP's "root server" (at netcup) doesn't have dedicated CPUs. (See my comment before yours.)

I was thinking about Netcup Root-Server is there any better alternatives.

As @Falzo said, there are a number of factors influencing disk performance in a shared environment, and it seems unlikely that netcup would claim to sell you an SSD if it's not in fact an SSD.

In Germany, usually "root servers" means a server that some resources are dedicated, mostly cpu/vcpu. Netcup is definitely this: their root servers do have dedicated cpus, while vser

As far as I can tell, your Root-Server belongs to the old series of Root-Servers at netcup, because the new (=present) series of Root-Servers have dedicated cores. The old series of Root-Servers are m

So those measurements you reported are from Netcup's HDD boxes? Thanks for the information

@edfox thanks for the links, I am glad I will be using a Contabo box soon. Sorry for the off-topic, but those stats definitely makes me conclude that the SSD in my Netcup review is not a real one

I am going to test/review soon a Contabo box similar to this one; I expect it to be similar to the one I reviewed from Netcup.

This is a now discontinued product from Netcup (https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1121). I am terminating the contract with them but I have to say that it was a quite good experience