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Black Friday 2019: 100 GB SSD storage - 4,95 EUR monthly
PHP_Friends
Member, Provider
Hi,
our Black Friday offer is online:
- Intel Xeon E5 CPU
- 2 cores (host-passthrough & nested virtualization)
- 6 GB ECC RAM
- 100 GB SSD storage (RAID-10 via SAS)
- 1 Gbps
6 months contract / billing period (-> 29,70 EUR recurring). The VAT is now removed automatically for non-EU citizens, without VAT the recurring price is 24,96 EUR.
Like our regular offers & specials we only use "real" server hardware with redundant power supplies and redundant network in the First Colo datacenter in Frankfurt (FFM). Of course our DDoS protection is included for free 
The product: https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-black-friday-2019-ssd
The news (German): https://php-friends.de/neuigkeiten/black-friday-2019
Enjoy it!
Best Regards,
Tim
Comments
moar cores if you already added moar ram in comparison to few hours ago offer!
Thanks
Any bench?
what mean 100 GB SSD storage (RAID-10 via SAS) ???
RAID-10 via SASЮ???
@PHP_Friends
What's the stock like for this offer?
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Up to 16 SSDs per node connected via SAS combined in a RAID-10.
(Not sure if I understand the question.)
Anyone have PHP-Friends Looking Glass?
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any benchmark?
detached cores?
@PHP_Friends😊
http://lg.first-colo.net/
Can I do a direct credit card payment? If so can I dm the order number...
Hi @PHP_Friends
Your got a great BF 2019 offer there. But will this be ever made available again?
https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-schnupperspecial-2019-ssd-g2
Thought it was a mix of SSD and SAS disks
No, it doesn't get that dirty
Only via PayPal, sorry.
From their news section:
Edit: And SAS is a protocol, not a specific type of disk.
If we have enough resources in the used hardware generation that would be possible, but currently the resources are sold for at least 6 months (and as we don't receive many cancellations in general I don't think we will have enough resources available in 6 months already).
Thanks for the great translation. That's right. However some providers consider SAS drives as HDDs which is simply wrong. We mean the protocol only as a dedicated PCI Express SAS controller with enough fast datacenter SSDs really makes fun. Way faster than SATA (which is fine for a few SSDs but not for that amount) if you are using the right backplane
I wish it were my translation. Google Translate is getting better and better. So not much work done
That is how you separate the good from the bad provider. Someone said: nerd catnip
And thank you for the great offer by the way.
interesting...
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@PHP_Friends
Is each CPU core dedicated?
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No, the cores are not dedicated this time. Of course we make sure that the nodes don't get overloaded, but as this is a completely new product (older CPUs + new SSDs = cheap Black Friday deal with a lot of fast storage
) we don't have much experience yet with this exact hardware / offer combination so we don't want to guarantee more than we can. I personally think that you won't experience more steal time than on our servers with dedicated courses, but currently we don't know it for sure.
that's sad news, it's supposed to be your the best deal of the year, not the worst
do you offer a refund?
Indeed, i‘m glad i didn‘t purchase it.
64~128gb ram VPS next offer cyber monday?
Thanks.
LET style: provider raises price = BAD, provider experiments with higher density to provide a smaller price = BAD
What the fuck is wrong with you.
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provider being sustainable = BAD
No one has problems with that, but if you offer regular only dedicated cores, you should at least mention it.
Does anyone know the cancellation policy of PHP-Friends?
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Do not drop PHP-Friends for that LEB thing you posted in other thread. The guy running that company is the guy that was running AlphaRacks. You really don't want that deal, avoid it.
My wallet has been burnt by SSDnodes, so I am not purchasing anything now. Thanks for letting us know that the guy was running AlphaRacks.
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Is that true?
don't buy what you don't need: you'll save money and will end up able to grab a quality VPS when really needed.
Sorry if this led to irritations. We do absolutely not offer dedicated cores here. The term "dedicated" is mentioned twice on our regular offers / product pages - dedicated resources and dedicated cores - which we explicitly don't mention here. Also we don't specify a specific CPU model, so even if the cores were dedicated you could get a different performance from different orders as we use several CPUs here. Any feedback on how we could make this more clear on our website for further offers is highly appreciated.
Actually I think that 4,19 EUR (without VAT) per month is a fair price for 100 GB fast SSD storage and 6 GB ECC RAM, so for a product where storage (amount & performance) is the main goal. The product is not meant to be a CPU flagship.
However, we are known for making our customers happy and we don't want any of you to be disappointed. So here's my promise for all Lowendtalk members: Should you experience any steal above 1-3% average, please send me a message here on LET, and we will set up a special node for this purpose on which the cores will be dedicated for you.
Like I said I'm pretty sure that this won't be necessary. We just don't want to promise dedicated cores before we know exactly how this works out. If we did, it would be worse for sure, wouldn't it?
Best Regards,
Tim
Would that be interesting for more users? Could be an idea for our yearly winter special. To get tons of RAM till monday will be too hard
I'm sorry, I can't follow here, could both of you clarify this?
I would like a big chungus with nested virt to play with docker swarm on.
He posted about a different, much better offer, but it is run by a more questionable person and is a brand new host. It is not related to you and is a compliment for you.
I'm still not sure if I'm getting this completely wrong, but no, we never had any other label than PHP-Friends. Never heard of AlphaRacks before, sorry.
Edit: Thanks @hzr for explaining.
Thanks @hzr this makes more sense, I got it wrong as well and I couldn't understand the magic behind this affirmation.
don't buy what you don't need: you'll save money and will end up able to grab a quality VPS when really needed.
yep. the CPU is somewhat disappointing and this node is't even under load
what's your refund policy for this deal? I would rather skip it
This is an excellent deal, people. It is just that it isn't standing out compared to other Black Friday crazy pricing but it is a steal at any other day of the year. Just because the price isn't half as crazy does not mean it is a bad deal.
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You're happily pumping 300+Mbit/s across all eurasia on a 5€/m VPS while being behind a OVH-GAME level firewall and youre complaining about what? Disappointing CPU? Better get that Widerruf done, this is not for you.
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Control panel shows Bandwidth 5TB. But your website shows "Traffic kostenlos". So does it unlimited or not?
Will not be suspended but throttled at 10 mbits after 5tb..
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after 5tb it is 10mbit, it is still cost los
Hi Folks,
This can't be posted where it should be, since I'm not a provider but I just wanted to share this great deal from @PHP_Friends with you all. It's the slightly "mini" version of the "vServer Black Friday 2019" package which they have released on Black Friday and I figured that some of you might want/need this, especially those who missed Black Friday and Cyber Monday, for who knows what reason(s)
Price: €29.70/year (Inclusive of 19% VAT)
Order Link: https://php-friends.de/add-to-cart/id:148
If you're not from the EU, VAT will be excluded automatically at checkout.
There'll be only 50 of these
Enjoy!
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Hi,
to quickly answer a few questions / critic points:
1) We don't have a "refund policy", in Germany we have excellent (consumer-friendly) laws for that and we strictly stick to them. So every private person has the right to revoke a contract within 14 days. There are a few exceptions which don't are relevant here.
2) If someone considers 5 TB traffic as too few, that's fine, but we can't change it. Our experience shows that 99% of our customers don't even need more than 1 TB. That's no exaggeration. We have that few amount of customers with traffic over usage that we didn't even implement an automatic process for throttling these VMs. It's simply not necessary.
If we offer a server with 1 Gbps bandwidth, you can always use it. As long as you don't consume more traffic than we have defined. I know that there are providers who will tell you about "unlimited" traffic, but there is no such thing as unlimited traffic. At the very latest the switch port defines how much traffic you can make. And if the provider doesn't define what bandwidth he guarantees, you simply - sorry - can't give a shit about that "unlimited" traffic. We don't like that way of hosting, but we like to tell our customers clearly what they can expect from our service (and what they can't).
Another popular form of "unlimited" traffic is (for example) do define a port speed of 1 Gbps, a guarantee way less (let's say 200 Mbps) and a small text with several special cases in which you will be throttled to an undefined bandwidth for an undefined period of time. Of course we don't like that either.
Long story short: Good traffic costs money and I don't know a single provider in our data centre (First Colo) who can include that amount of traffic like we do. There might be a reason for that - maybe 5 TB isn't that few
By the way, even with only 10 Mbps you can use 6,48 TB per month (+ your regular full speed traffic).
3) I have pointed out clearly why we don't offer dedicated cores here. And to be honest, even if I'm making myself unpopular with this opinion, I don't think that anyone can expect 2 dedicated cores for that price. Yes, some providers will do that for promotional reasons, and that's fine, but we all have to earn money and I clearly tell you that this is impossible with dedicated cores at that price. If you use old(er) CPUs, they have too few cores; if you use new(er) CPUs, they have enough cores, but are too expensive to get ever refinanced by a 4,16 EUR product.
By the way, this is the load of one full Black Friday node:
You won't see any steal time within the VMs for sure. But again, as long as we don't have enough experience with this setup yet, we won't talk about dedicated cores.
Best Regards,
Tim
thank you @PHP_Friends for this clear answer, even if it was not needed, some times being honest it seems hurts, some people want to be lied to so they feel good about themselves
I bought already two instances (one from the last offer, that schupperspecial) and one this black friday, both perform very well
I can say that in my opinion @PHP_Friends is a very good provider considering the price/specs ratio, the specs are good, he's also being honest what he's offering, instead of hyping it up to catch the dumb fish
it seems some people are never happy
just my two eurocents
I can also only say that @PHP_Friends is very good. I have the 'Schnupperspecial' server and contacted them about some performance issues on that. Was solved within one hour after opening the ticket.
Very good provider. Definitely worth the money.
@PHP_Friends Hello. Do you have Snapshots for your offers?