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Netcup announces EPYC Root Servers (dedicated cores)
Hey LET.
Netcup news once again, seems like they started to sell their new "Root Server" line.
Strangely the price is cheaper on the page of their german website than on the European one.
On the German one we find this:
RS 1000 G9
AMD EPYC™ 7702
8 GB DDR4 RAM (ECC)
2 dedizierte Kerne
160 GB SSD
Snapshots (Copy-On-Write)
Remote-Konsole...
for 8,40€ per month while it's 10€ on their EU website.
Original announcement in german: https://www.netcup-news.de/2020/05/26/netcup-launcht-neue-root-server-generation-9-auf-amd-epyc-der-7002-serie/
What do you think? Seems like they offer nice value for the money, with the smaller plans available it seems more interesting to me than contabo latest offers . Of course a real special on their Root Server series would have been cool. Not sure it's gonna happen anytime soon tho...
Edit: 5 EUR promo code (aff) in case some folks might enjoy one, makes it possible to test such VPS at half price first month: 36nc15825765594 / 36nc15825765593 / 36nc15825765592 / 36nc15825765591 / 36nc15825765590 - Can be redeemed at a specific URL: netcup.de / netcup.eu.
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Interesting plans indeed.
The German site lets you choose: a one year contract for 8,40 EUR/month (paid per 6 months), a halfyearly contract for 9,40 EUR and a monthly contract for 10,40 EUR.
On the international site you can only pick a monthly contract. Probably done to prevent drama from customers that refuse to pay after a few months.
Good catch thanks. As you say it's probably to avoid drama. It's a shame as that's a better deal, and yearly contracts are no big deal if you intend to stay long term with your provider. Do you know if international customers can order on the german site? Always used the .eu one...
Good to see they offer monthly (for international) customers now, as I can imagine this has lead much drama in the past.
Yep.
Asked them and they told me that anyone could order on their .de site, so the 12 month commitment promo is available for anyone, just have to go to netcup.de rather than .eu website. Wise move as it probably make sense to limit the .eu order form to monthly contract as that probably avoid many support ticket and angry customers, and the folks who want the yearly deal still can get it...
Contabobuster.
Bench? Benchmark? anyone?
Does anyone know if nested virt is enabled? Also, waiting on some benchmarks!!
Found some Geekbench5 benchmarks for the 2 and 6 core offer:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2301913
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2302195
I bit the bullet and ordered one, apparently my order requires manual verification. Is this standard practice for netcup?
It is, at least for you very first order with them.
They are legit.
Which one did you order?
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This is my E5-2680 6 core "Adv17 RS 1000 Plus" (26.97€/3m) with them:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2309201
Yet I hesitate to upgrade.
Highest one, replacing my OVH dedi with it providing I/O is good.
Seems like a beast. Could you please share a yabs benchmark with us when you'll have it?
Sad I can't cancel my current contract with them. Would have upgraded to this.
Sure, have sent my ID and waiting on response
Find it below @pbx
Thanks! Seems to be a nice little box.
how much does it cost ?
46 EUR a month, month to month on their international website. It's a bargain for what it is.
For reference, this is their RS 2000 SSDx4 G8 BF19 for 10.99/month (4 cores of a Gold 6230, 16 GB Ram, 240 GB SSD storage, 1G Internet speed, 40TB bandwidth, Black Friday 2019, price on annual basis)
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2327538
The server had most services down but it was not on a blank state.
I get similar cpu results when I do test in hetzner vps servers. but not sure if hetzner allow 7/24 cpu intensive tasks.
@tester4 unlimited bandwidth on the 2.5g, our similar to contabo with throttling? Won’t leave my ex42 but very interesting if no limits
It is unlimited flat-rate bandwidth, which in their terms says any use of 1Gbps or more for longer than 1 hour on average that they reserve the right to limit you to 200/200. It also says any more usage than 120TB per month can lead to a 200/200 limitation. However, so far I've been able to do 2Gbps down and 2Gbps upload at the same time for bursts with no problems.
Providing you aren't using 1Gbps 24/7 and don't plan on using virtualisation, this server is definetely worth the money with practically no difference to a dedicated server in terms of load/resource usage so far.
That is something shy of 300mbit/s sustained, isn't it? Doesn't look bad.
Right, and the hardware is monitored and so on: best of both worlds!
Got me a shiny new RS2000 G9. Performance is amazing... Network is blazing fast.
I upgraded my RS 4000 G8E server to a RS 4000 G9 and created a Serverscope benchmark:
RS 4000 G8E: https://serverscope.io/trials/AZZM
RS 4000 G9: https://serverscope.io/trials/NYYy
That's quite the difference between the old and new generation. And a nice SSD storage upgrade as well (from 140 to 800GB).
Prolly should have used other benchmark tools as well, but I have to admit. I only paid 5 euro's extra for a very nice upgrade.
Do they provide an upgrade path, or do you need to cancel your current one, pay up to the agreed date, and purchase the new one?
You are unable to upgrade your G8 to G9. I contacted support to have mine cancelled (without me paying for next month as well due to the 31 days notice). So I had to buy a G9 server separately . But that's not something they will always do.
Yeah..I’m paying for mine on an annual basis. Guess that I’ll have to decide on whether to idle my G8 and get a G9 or keep using what I bought already for once.
But that storage speed..I guess that it will go down as their nodes should be empty now.
Kimsufi 3C with i5 2400, France:: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2352213
Netcup RS 2000 G9: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2352164
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Anyone knows what the bandwidth limit is on those servers?