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ServerCow - "Enterprise capable VPS"
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ServerCow - "Enterprise capable VPS"

Hi,

I had the chance to test a VPS from ServerCow one month for free and now I'd like to share my experience I had with them.

ServerCow is a brand from the developer of the MailCow script which sets up a complete mail server.

ServerCow provides KVM SSD VPS from 7,50€/month in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany) in the Meerfarbig DC (AS34549). The price may sound a bit high first of all, but it's definitely worth the product imo.

The VPS you get for 7,50€ got 768MB RAM (DDR3), 15GB SSD space in HW RAID60, 2 vCores @ 2,1Ghz and Fair-use traffic flat @ 1GBit. Further, you'll get 1 IPv4 and 5 IPv6. That's the VPS I had as well.

Here are the node specs:

2x Intel Xeon E5 2620v2 (8704 points each at the PassMark benchmark)
160GB RAM
16x 240GB Intel 530 series SSDs in RAID 60
2x PSU
2x NIC

The raid controller is an Adaptec RAID 71605.

RAID60 is something not many LE providers are offering (though their pricing isn't LE, but it's nearly) and it won't reach dd results which other VPS may reach.
Why they are using it then? Because they don't want to provide the fastest I/O speeds - they want to provide a great redundancy / HA. And they do.

VPS ordered, delivery was pretty fast. They provide the most common OS templates (which are Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS) but you may send any ISO you want to them and they'll mount it for you.

The uptime was 100% while I had the VPS. The "feel-performance" was very good. Everything's super fast - CPU, SSD and network. Here are some benchmarks:

GetIPAddr EU benchmark:

-------------Speed test--------------------

Testing EU locations
Speedtest from Tallinn, Estonia on a shared 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 0 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 0 MB/sec
Speedtest from London, United Kingdom on a shared 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 64.56 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 6.93 MB/sec
Speedtest from Paris, France on a shared 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 27.84 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 9.87 MB/sec
Speedtest from Alblasserdam, Netherlands [ generously donated by http://ramnode.com ] on on a shared 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 81.93 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 62.64 MB/sec
Speedtest from Spijkenisse, Netherlands [ generously donated by http://www.freshnetworks.co ] on a 1 Gbps shared port
        Download Speed: 0 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 0 MB/sec
Speedtest from Milan, Italy [ generously donated by http://www.prometeus.net ] on a shared 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 59.54 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 64.07 MB/sec
Speedtest from Dusseldorf, Germany [ generously donated by http://megavz.com ] on a shared 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 0 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 0 MB/sec
Speedtest from Falkenstein, Germany [ generously donated by http://megavz.com ] on a shared 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 14.41 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 53.10 MB/sec
Speedtest from Bucharest, Romania [ generously donated by http://www.prometeus.net ] on a semi-dedicated 1 Gbps port
        Download Speed: 9.55 MB/sec
        Upload speed: 3.31 MB/sec
---------------CPU test--------------------
CPU: 2 x QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Time taken to generate PI to 5000 decimal places with a single thread: 0m32.855s
----------------IO test-------------------
Writing 1000MB file to disk
(1.1 GB) copied, 2.53827 s, 423 MB/s

Ensky:

Systeminformationen

Prozessor :  QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Prozessor-Kerne : 2
Taktfrequenz pro Kern:  2099.998 MHz
Arbeitsspeicher : 746 MB
SWAP : 0 MB
Laufzeit :   33 days, 2:03,

Netzwerk Benchmark

ENSKY Media (FR): 4.54MB/s
Netcologne (DE): 89.1MB/s
Cachefly (CDN): 70.6MB/s
FSIT (CH): 55.7MB/s
Leaseweb (DE): 26.0MB/s

IO benchmark didn't work here, happening for some other VPS/servers as well.

CPU Benchmark

real    0m18.959s
user    0m18.756s
sys     0m0.004s

FreeVPS:

CPU model :  QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency :  2099.998 MHz
Total amount of ram : 746 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime :   33 days, 2:05,
Download speed from CacheFly: 70.0MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 14.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 14.6MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 6.34MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 51.7MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 94.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 6.26MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 11.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 11.3MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 2.02MB/s
I/O speed :  447 MB/s

The benchmarks aren't only "snapshots" I ran the same benchmarks again and again, random date, random time and the results were pretty stable. These here are the latest results but I have to cancel the VPS now as the month is already over (oops).

I never needed the support, but I'm pretty sure they're fast, kind and most important of all - helpful. They may also help you with software problems (according to "persönliche Hilfe" which means "personal help" which is included with every VPS).

Overall I had a really good experience with them and I think you get everything what a great VPS needs in my opinion: performance (CPU, disk space, network), uptime and support.

I may sound like I'd be affiliated with them, but sorry to disappoint you - I'm not. :p I just think they're providing a very solid and good service and should be more popular.

Here's their website - ServerCow.de

Thanked by 1Servercow
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