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Arubacloud vs Netcup
Hello all,
I have a VPS from both, Aruba-France location and one from Netcup. Both perform equally well and are priced similarly, Netcup being a bit cheap on 4gb VPS.
The majority of visitors comes from US-East, EU and rest from Indian subcontinent.
Please pour in your observations which would be best to host 4-5 busy commercial sites, reliability of network & bandwidth being the most important.
Arubacloud vs Netcup.de
- Arubacloud vs Netcup.de43 votes
- Arubacloud53.49%
- Netcup.de46.51%
Comments
Use both for redundancy and split traffic? ^^
netcup +1
Netcup is pretty good, had a VPS there and pumped 20TB+ per month on their 9 EUR / Mo. plan. They never throttled anything or contacted me what I was doing.
Giving it to netcup without second thought. Great performance and prices. Even if aruba would be slightly cheaper. Netcup +1
I can't see 4GB plan
Netcup is fine, Aruba if you want to go cheap.
Netcup VPS is more expensive than OVH.
Netcup doesnt have a 4gb plan. Only 2,6,12,24
yup -- I'm already using the 2C/6Gb/120GB Root-Server Happy 2016 €7.49 from last 2-3 months running fine.
Anyone running ArubaCloud "L - 2C/4GB" or "XL-4C/8GB" VPS ? Would like to have benchmarks. Or else I'll spin up one for a few hours and check myself.
What projects do you run? I can consider Aruba only for development, experimental or educational purposes.
Why? Aruba has a really good reputation in Italy. It's pretty big.
Netcup allows signups outside Germany? D'oh
They do, but are totally unflexible.
Yes you need to pay your first invoice via Bank Transfer but after that you could pay by paypal.
And:
you cannot change plans without move all data to a new VPS and pay twice for this time
You cannot move the IP to another system
You can not even move the service to another person without paying a fee of 8€
There is no possibility to use ISOs on cheaper systems
VAT cannot be removed from the invoice if you are outside the eu (only possible for commercial customers)
and a lot more.
Well,
I have run live -- pretty busy sites on 1GB /€1Aruba VPS without a prob... uptime was 100% but mysql would just spike sometime which I had to fine tune. Aruba is absolute production class... no doubts. I am in the Italy-1
For Netcup Sign-up, I gave them my company ID proof, and paid them via paypal after 2-3 email conversations. Wasn't a prob as such... if you are not trying to play shady.
Nope, not production ready.
1GB plan is sandbox, if have problem support answer: "it's sandbox".
I switched shared host: 1gb php memory limit, mysql, smtp, good support etc...
what do you mean it's a sandbox?
I totally agree that 1) netcup cant move normal ips (only failover 5$/mo. if you e.gm let your normal ips vps expire ip is gone too) and 2) no upgrade without server move are things that really are a hassle and they dont seem as they will be changing this.
HOWEVER, I have experienced one of the most stable vps performance I have had in a long time and their prices are great. You get alot of resources (no noticeable overselling) and are always informed of downtimes.
If you need support... at software configuration level then Aruba/Netcup both are not for you. They only take in calls for hardware/network problems. Rest is none of their business even otherwise. So good that you moved out.
I never use Netcup, but Arubacloud is quite stable for me.
I moved 2 busy sites to them since 2 months ago, and no issues so far.
Which server do you use?
I don't need software configuration support. I have problem with IO,
yesterday 1,3GB/s today unstable 30-80MB/s and bad ioping, my page is slowed.
I wrote ticket to support. They do not help in performance, because is sandbox vps.
Arubacloud is good provider, but 1$/mo plan not production ready.
I think little vps worse than a good shared host.
Little VPS: 1gb memory for php + mysql + nginx + os + postfix.
Shared host: 1GB memory for PHP.
I still do not accept that statement unless you show me a ticket number in which they replied "it is a sandbox".
@ArubaCloud is officialy present here on LET, I'd like them to clarify on this. I have their statement on record on a ticket where they confirmed the €1 VPS uses is hosted on same nodes & network infra as the other bigger plans and is production ready.
if you refer this old yet very long detailed thread you will see that I/O is a problem at some DCs, they have like 6 different DCs. Try the Italy or France one... I/O is always above 330 for me.
Re-read my ticket (email, Hungarian language).
Support answer: smart server io performance not guaranteed
Still Disagree until you paste in the Ticket number with Full transcript. Please don't make up stories of your own.
Anyways... Stay out if you don't know it, let others help with their reviews.
Sent in email. (Not public)
Hi
Cloud Smart servers are VMware Virtual Machines on ssd based hosts.
Our staff monitors 24h infrastructure to guarantee the best performances.
This is what Aruba says: With the Cloud Monitoring service, it is possible to monitor all your websites, Cloud Servers, dedicates servers whether they are hosted in the Aruba Cloud data centers or with other providers.
In cases of failures or errors detected in the monitored resource or service, Cloud Monitoring will automatically and immediately send you a notification via email or SMS, so you can always know the progress of your infrastructure in real time and if need be, take action as soon as possible.
By using the charts found in the Cloud Monitoring control panel you can quickly register and analyze all the activity of the monitored services, and easily identify any problem and see how it repeats during the course of time.
@arubacloud do you allow custom ISO and/or image import. Have a machine running on KVM i'd be tempted to move it's linux so it probably won't care about being moved from KVM to Vmware (It's been clonezilla'd a couple times before and so far not cared about hypervisors changing.)