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netcup nice offer
Hey leb-ians,
found an interesting offer, maybe some of you could need it. Thats why netcup deserves my respect (greetings to @BlazingServers)
kvm
2 cores
6 GB ram
640 GB SAS hdd
snapshots, own isos, 3 months contract
8€/months
https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1547
and here you can generate a 5€ coupon (only for new customers )
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It was an excellent, perfect offer.
nice offer
Can someone please remind me if NetCup require ID verification?
wait let me check, but they need a sms verifcation for sure.
couldnt find something in the tos (agb). maybe for foreigners they will apply an id verification I am not sure.
for german citizens they ask for a sms verfication, as mentioned before.
I wonder do they remove VAT for people outside of the EU? Should be 6.47 instead of 8 EUR then.
must... resist... damn.
I, at my turn, wonder do they mean 2 physical dedicated cores, or logical ones
"No additional fees are charged for traffic to and from your root server / vServer (VPS). On average, you will have 200 Mbit/s of bandwidth available, assuming that your root server / vServer (VPS) has a 1 Gbit/s network card. If your server uses up an average bandwidth of over 80 Mbit/s for more than 15 minutes, then the root server's / vServer's (VPS) network connection may be throttled back to avoid disadvantaging other customers. We can also offer you dedicated network cards with guaranteed bandwidth. Please contact our Support for details."
they also want 2 euros extra if you want to do nested virtualization.
The €5 coupon doesn't take anything off, it's taking off the setup fee only and the setup fee is €0.
Looks like you need to set a reminder to cancel early if you're not keeping it.
where did you get that from? as I ordered a server for testing purposes back in april this wasn't an option (not even on request) and was the reason I didn't kept it.
out of curiosity ordered the above offer... without knowing to what use. damn, I hate this place. ;-)
better not @Amitz see this offer.
i almost ordered this until couldn't get cancellation policy read in last screen before order.
Good provider with nice offers, I grabbed 6GB/2core/120GB SSD offer for €72/yr back in January.
hello @mehargags , long time no speak! tell us some benchmarks with server above if you still have?
I am sitting in front of the screen. Sweating. My hands are shaking. Bugs are crawling all over me. I... must... resist... The 80 Mbps/15min restriction helps a lot. However... Still sweating.
Netcup is Great though When I was with them everything went smooth. My ID was being verifiedm
We are sorry to inform you that we are not able to validate your personal data on
an electronic way. This may depend on a non existent telephone directory entry,
or your IP address does not fit with your postal address.
If you are not living in Germany we have to demand on a payment in advance for the
first invoice.
Please place a payment in advance so that we can proceed with your order. Send the following amount of 18.97 Euro (including VAT) by standard bank transfer to the following bank account:
A payment in advance by Paypal is not possible.
Source: https://forum.netcup.de/netcup-intern/fragen-vor-dem-kauf/8184-nested-virtualization-in-root-vserver-g7-nun-moeglich/
Agree. Thanks @Butters for bringing that restriction to our attention.
Do they offer additional IPs or /28 subnet and at what price?
It's a really shit.
I wonder if they're using a bunch of old 320gb SAS drives. That would be swell for iops.
I thank the lowend-addiction gods for that 80mbit restriction.
hugs my online.net c2750 ssd limited
thx, worth mentioning that it is said there nested virt will cost 2€ per month and core, so if you go for a 4 core server this will result in 8€ more.. not that interesting as you would also need to pay for additional IPs and such. for this price its easier to book another server (probably intended).
back to topic, geekbench for the actual special offer:
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/8086227
dd results differ a lot, seen numbers between 250MB/s and nearly 1GB/s but that may heavily depend on underlying caching and hardware raid...
probably going to run the bench script of @K4Y5 twice now which may pull around 7GB each turn and also may take some time to check on that BW limitation thing (80Mbps/15min roughly equals 9GB if I am not mistaken ;-))
maybe transferwise is an option for this? https://transferwise.com
They are good. I'm using them for 6 months now and they have very solid servers.
You can see my first impressions here: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/82223/netcup-eu-first-impressions-for-root-server-m-ssd-iv6
Just had a minor network problem for some minutes a month ago for all this time.
The first payment must be made by bank transfer, the next ones can be made using paypal. They didn't ask for any id.
Netcup, hah!
I tried buying a VPS to test it out a couple of months back. Turns out, I wasn't from Germany, so they wanted me to pay in advance, that too via bank transfer.
So, I politely asked them to fuck off, and took my business to Virtwire**
As for that ServerBench test, I am thinking about enhancing it a bit, and providing an option so that people can test speeds based on specific geographical locations. Hopefully, that should save people some bandwidth and provide results they're actually interested in.
I, personally, was interested in getting a good idea about global connectivity of the servers that I use. Hence, the bloated list of test files totaling a cool 7 GBs (the LET standard!) :P
** No, not really. I just blew that money on a few SP-64 boxes that @Falzo told us about.
@ehab,
Yes this is a production server for me.
Looks like the same hardware from April, but with some differences:
April: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30 GHz 1 processor, 2 threads
Single Core Score: 2695
Multi Core Score: 5050
October: Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30 GHz 2 processors
Single Core Score: 2317
Multi Core Score: 4435
I'm curious about the new specs: E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
can't recall exactly and being just to lazy to look it up in the old thread ;-)
thought I had tested the 4 vcore version with 12 GB back then, but may be wrong.
by now I pulled some backup files of around 80 GB at steady 250 Mbps onto this box. so far no limitation at all. going to push them onto another box to see if it depends on traffic direction. or maybe it is simply a 'maybe' term on traffic usage which is a.) not defined in their tos b.) worded some time back and simply not changed to more fitting rules c.) there to easily get rid of abusers/torrenters/whatever causes much enduring traffic consumption.
Listen, @Falzo... This 80 Mbps/15min. restriction is that thin piece of paper between my brain keeping control and my passion going crazy. Don't take it away by finding out that it's just a "maybe clause". Please. With sugar on top. Pleeeeeaaaase...
they even throttled freifunk (mesh) networks in germany.