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PHP Friends Offer: VPS 2 dedicated cores, 12 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD 8€/mo
Found this offer to be quite interesting 
Of course netcup gives you double cores and ram @12,99€/mo but this is a different provider and perhaps also a bit more friendly regarding cancellation and VAT hint hint
2 dedicated cores (Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 / v4; nested virt enabled)
12 GB RAM
60 GB SSD (RAID 10)
1 Gbit/a shared
5 TB traffic inclusive (after they contact you)
IPv4 + IPv6 (own subnet)
Term: 3 months minimum
Comments
What does this mean?
€8 incl. EU VAT
€6.72 net in case of 19%
Do they have test ip/ lg?
If you use over 5TB a month too often, they’ll contact you. They won’t bill for traffic or throttle the connection until they’ve got in touch. (From the product page)
^ this
Benchmark:
`root@web1:~# wget -qO- https://git.io/fABdu | bash
sysperf.co -- https://github.com/iandk/perf
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 2199.998 MHz
Total size of Disk : 60.0 GB (0.9 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 12019 MB (63 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 0 min
Load average : 0,00, 0,00, 0,00
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.9.0-8-amd64
I/O speed(1st run) : 226 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 550 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 803 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 526.3 MB/s
Location IPv4 Latency IPv6 Latency
Frankfurt 0.889 ms 1.038 ms
New York 85.961 ms 86.261 ms
San Francisco 146.162 ms 146.133 ms
Singapore 179.289 ms 179.332 ms
Location IPv4 Speed IPv6 Speed
Linode, Frankfurt 101MB/s 101MB/s
Digitalocean, Frankfurt 106MB/s 106MB/s
Meerfarbig, Frankfurt 105MB/s 99.2MB/s
Linode, London 98.6MB/s 97.5MB/s
Digitalocean, London 66.9MB/s 83.3MB/s
Digitalocean, Amsterdam 93.7MB/s 92.5MB/s
Total CPU bench time : 5.7269s
----------------------------------------------------------------------`
@v3ng can you please
cat /proc/cpuinfo@ehab
`
root@web1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 79
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
stepping : 1
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 2199.998
cache size : 16384 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl xtopology pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single kaiser tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt arat
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf
bogomips : 4399.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 79
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
stepping : 1
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 2199.998
cache size : 16384 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl xtopology pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single kaiser tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt arat
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf
bogomips : 4399.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:`
Seems quite decent
Thanks for sharing!
@v3ng can you please do also a nench run:
(wget -qO- wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; wget -qO- wget.racing/nench.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.logddos protected by first-colo https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/ddos-protection up to 200 GBit/s
This seems to be pretty awesome. Network apparently performs great.
It does. For what it's worth they are a long established german provider on the market. Iirc they started out by giving free tech/server support on some german forums back then before actually founding their hosting company. Until now they've been proven to be customer friendly (afaik from forums/reviews I read), stable (still around) and performant.
Some guys with baseball bits will do that.
(base 2 bits)
Sadly they use SolusVM.
thought it was custom!
Yeah they use Solus. But it's okay for enduser I guess^^
for a non-german customer, will they bill only €6.72 net in case of 19%
Best to open a support ticket
Did anyone else order the server? If yes, could you please also run a benchmark?
Maybe there are some to be found on serverscope.io ?
They apply MOSS. So your country VAT is applied, EU only. No VAT if you are a company with a valid VAT number.
Interesting, I haven't seen this before in a provider TOS...
https://php-friends.de/technische-beschraenkungen
Benchmarks forbidden? I assume as long as you don't peak out the VPS permanently they won't complain? At least I haven't heard of someone getting his VPS cancelled because of running nench.sh or whatsoever.
They just probably don't want you to setup a cron and run hourly benchmark script. Don't think they care if it isn't abused.
i am in US, my invoice is €20,17 total for 3 mos
dedicated cores mean its dedicated... i should be able to max cpu 24/7 ... or am i wrong in understanding the dedicated term?
i ordered, i open a ticket and i ask about VAT and BW, here is reply:
`thanks for your order. Please notice that we will deliver your server once the invoice is paid. (As you live in the USA, you don't have to pay VAT. In general we remove the VAT from invoices a few hours after the order by ourselves and send you a new / corrected invoice. Unfortunately our checkout process is not aware of the VAT-free countries right now as 99% of our orders come from Europe. That's why we have to set your account to VAT-free and resend the invoice after the order is in our system.)
We can offer you more traffic for 10,00 EUR / TB (without VAT). Unfortunately traffic in Frankfurt am Main (FFM) is not that cheap, also due to the DDoS protection we offer (which is known as one of the best in Germany).
But you don't have to buy traffic in advance, we will contact you if you highly exceed the 5 TB. However, 99% of our customers don't need more than 1-2 TB. So if you have nothing specific which really needs so much traffic I don't think that you will ever reach the 5 TB "soft limit"
In a few months we will be able to offer about 50% lower traffic prices as we extend our network infrastructure massively at the moment.
If you have further questions, please let me know.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Tim Schneider
PHP-Friends GmbH
`
Normally yes.
EDIT:
Quote.
Nice reply
Nice reply and a quick reply, I'm about to pay the invoice this is the first time I've ever ordered a VPS with the total intentions of letting it idle, have no idea what I'm going to do with it yet.