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Looking for cheap (but quality) VPS in Europe with 6 cores for $12 or less

Hi guys, I'm new here. Great resource for finding hosting deals. I'm working on a personal project and require a few VPS's in different countries in Europe, that are somewhat close to Germany. I've already secured a few in Helsinki (Webdock), Amsterdam (MaxKVM) and Bucharest (dedicatserver.ro) for the price I'm looking for. Looking for one more quality VPS, hopefully in Germany and still cannot find it for the price. The most important part it needs at least 6 cores.

Specs I'm looking for are:

VZ Type: Any (KVM preferred)
Cores: 6
RAM: 4 GB
Disk Space: 25 GB
Disk Type: Any (NVMe or SSD preferred)
Bandwidth: Any
Port Speed: Any
Location: Germany (or any country relatively close to Germany)
Budget: $12 USD monthly or EUR 10 monthly (or less!)
Billing Period: Any
OS: Ubuntu 20.04

That's it - tough find I know, but I'm sure someone might know of some hidden gems out there that have a spec that matches (or comes very close to) the above for the price. Thanks in advance.

Comments

  • contabo. Germany, low price , big machine

    Thanked by 2fixxation bruh21
  • snzsnz Member

    yeah, as long as you don't need gigabit I'd also say contabo

    Thanked by 2fixxation bruh21
  • Nice one, thanks guys :)

  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    Yup, contabo should have what you need. Be sure to ask them to remove the disk IO limit.

    Thanked by 1fixxation
  • Wow- this looks amazing. Exactly what I had hoped for as you can configure it to your exact requirements. Thanks a million for the share, this looks perfect. My 'ideal' server is working out to be about EUR 6.24 with the promo so that's well below my target EUR 10 month. Thank you!

  • WebProjectWebProject Host Rep, Veteran

    We can do XEN VPS in France and KVM VPS in UK, if you wish?

    Thanked by 1fixxation
  • KassemKassem Member

    Just out of curiosity @fixxation , why 6 cores specifically? it doesn't matter how these cores actually perform?

    If you can run your app on 2 VMs instead of 1 (so you have two machines for Germany, one in Nuremberg, another in Falkenstein), I'd suggest getting two cpx21 VMs from HC. That way you get 6 vCPU cores, 8 GBs memory, 160 GBs storage distributed across two machines for 13.8 EUR/mo.

    Thanked by 1fixxation
  • @WebProject said:
    We can do XEN VPS in France and KVM VPS in UK, if you wish?

    Thanks for that, found one in Germany the other day so all sorted for now.

  • @Kassem said:
    Just out of curiosity @fixxation , why 6 cores specifically? it doesn't matter how these cores actually perform?

    If you can run your app on 2 VMs instead of 1 (so you have two machines for Germany, one in Nuremberg, another in Falkenstein), I'd suggest getting two cpx21 VMs from HC. That way you get 6 vCPU cores, 8 GBs memory, 160 GBs storage distributed across two machines for 13.8 EUR/mo.

    Hi @Kassem - my project is made up of several parts, I actually have the core APIs and database with HC in Nuremberg. The servers I need here are apps running headless browsers, and I've found that 6 cores is the ideal number to keep my normalised load average < 0.5 most of the time. As long as they're about 2.50GHz or above, should be fine to keep them running smoothly. I'm trying a VPS with prepaid-hoster.de at the moment, got the 6 cores for EUR 6.24, all going well with that so far. I'm a big fan of HC though, really love it compared to all the other cloud hosting providers. Thanks for your message.

  • KassemKassem Member

    I see. I wonder if running these apps with headless browsers on a server with integrated GPU be any faster?

    Let's know how your experience goes with prepaid-hoster.de. Can you post a YABS?

  • edited June 2021

    @Kassem said:
    I see. I wonder if running these apps with headless browsers on a server with integrated GPU be any faster?

    Let's know how your experience goes with prepaid-hoster.de. Can you post a YABS?

    Not my benchmark, also not YABS, but found this somewhere else, might be useful:


    OS : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (64 Bit)
    Virt/Kernel : KVM / 4.19.0-5-amd64
    CPU Model : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)
    CPU Cores : 2 @ 3094.186 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
    CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
    Load Average : 0.29, 0.16, 0.06
    Total Space : 46G (1.3G ~3% used)
    Total RAM : 3946 MB (89 MB + 840 MB Buff in use)
    Total SWAP : 4095 MB (0 MB in use)

    Uptime : 0 days 0:7

    ASN & ISP : AS24940, Hetzner Online GmbH
    Organization :
    Location : Falkenstein, Germany / DE

    Region : Saxony

    Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

    Single Core : 4963 (EXCELLENT)
    Multi Core : 8579

    Geekbench v5 CPU Benchmark:

    Single Core : 1068 (EXCELLENT)
    Multi Core : 2011

    IO Test

    CPU Speed:
    bzip2 : 136 MB/s
    sha256 : 264 MB/s
    md5sum : 672 MB/s
    RAM Speed:
    Avg. write : 2491.7 MB/s
    Avg. read : 9216.0 MB/s
    Disk Speed:
    1st run : 1.2 GB/s
    2nd run : 1.3 GB/s
    3rd run : 1.3 GB/s


    Average : 1297.1 MB/s

    Global Speedtest.net

    Location Upload Download Ping

    Nearby 175.31 Mbit/s 184.61 Mbit/s 17.342 ms

    USA, New York (Optimum) 103.46 Mbit/s 148.66 Mbit/s 82.398 ms
    USA, Chicago (Windstream) 71.75 Mbit/s 130.09 Mbit/s 97.644 ms
    USA, Dallas (Frontier) 79.76 Mbit/s 134.58 Mbit/s 134.684 ms
    USA, Los Angeles (Windstream) 35.62 Mbit/s 112.77 Mbit/s 141.950 ms
    UK, London (toob Ltd) 155.74 Mbit/s 184.47 Mbit/s 23.149 ms
    France, Lyon (SFR) 139.56 Mbit/s 183.00 Mbit/s 21.363 ms
    Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 171.79 Mbit/s 184.69 Mbit/s 15.722 ms
    Spain, Madrid (MasMovil) 129.48 Mbit/s 174.44 Mbit/s 29.522 ms
    Italy, Rome (Unidata) 135.20 Mbit/s 178.81 Mbit/s 31.577 ms
    Russia, Moscow (Rostelecom) 104.70 Mbit/s 157.81 Mbit/s 44.375 ms
    Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 85.59 Mbit/s 158.77 Mbit/s 72.054 ms
    Singapore (FirstMedia) 51.48 Mbit/s 49.47 Mbit/s 181.975 ms
    Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 35.04 Mbit/s 73.86 Mbit/s 239.785 ms
    Australia, Sydney (Optus) 8.15 Mbit/s 45.20 Mbit/s 295.007 ms
    RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas) 48.61 Mbit/s 116.82 Mbit/s 179.735 ms

    Brazil, Sao Paulo (Criare) 35.69 Mbit/s 50.90 Mbit/s 192.551 ms

    Finished in : 12 min 12 sec
    Timestamp : 2021-06-10 20:36:57 GMT
    Saved in : /root/speedtest.log
    Share results:

    That seems quite... good? Also Hetzner ISP? Are they a Hetzner reseller?

    Thanked by 1Kassem
  • @Kassem said:
    I see. I wonder if running these apps with headless browsers on a server with integrated GPU be any faster?

    Let's know how your experience goes with prepaid-hoster.de. Can you post a YABS?

    Sure, this the script run from Hetzner (Nuremburg):

    ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

    Yet-Another-Bench-Script

    v2021-06-05

    https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

    ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

    Sat Jun 12 07:13:44 IST 2021

    Basic System Information:

    Processor : AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core Processor
    CPU cores : 6 @ 2200.000 MHz
    AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM : 4.0 GiB
    Swap : 0.0 KiB
    Disk : 24.5 GiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

    Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 101.95 MB/s (25.4k) 393.90 MB/s (6.1k)
    Write 102.22 MB/s (25.5k) 395.98 MB/s (6.1k)
    Total 204.17 MB/s (51.0k) 789.88 MB/s (12.3k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 237.76 MB/s (464) 245.71 MB/s (239)
    Write 250.39 MB/s (489) 262.07 MB/s (255)
    Total 488.16 MB/s (953) 507.78 MB/s (494)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 925 Mbits/sec | 558 Mbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 901 Mbits/sec | busy
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 872 Mbits/sec | 561 Mbits/sec
    Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 741 Mbits/sec | 305 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 870 Mbits/sec | 206 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 611 Mbits/sec | 330 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 829 Mbits/sec | 176 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 613 Mbits/sec | 120 Mbits/sec

    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:

    Test | Value
    |
    Single Core | 824
    Multi Core | 3229
    Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8369234

  • I'm not an expert at analysing these benchmark results but... looks pretty decent for a 6 euro machine? My app runs smoothly on it, and still lots of room for spikes so that's the most important part IMHO.

  • cant find a 6 core 4 gb 25 gb disk setup at prepaid-hoster.de

  • edited June 2021

    @hyperblast said:
    cant find a 6 core 4 gb 25 gb disk setup at prepaid-hoster.de

    I think he went with the OpenVZ vServer config, it has shared cores and a 25GB disk, the rootserver (which is the link sent) is dedicated cores and 50GB disk minimum.
    Take a look at this:
    https://www.prepaid-hoster.de/vserver/vserver-mieten/vserver-konfigurator.html

    Thanked by 2bruh21 hyperblast
  • KassemKassem Member

    Yes that's pretty good.

    Looks like they are using these beasts: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax161

  • Bit of a shame the vServer are OpenVZ instead of KVM, but at least its not ancient, they are using OpenVZ 7

  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    here's a yabs result from one of the vServers i just got, not bad for 4.5 eur

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2021-06-05                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Sat Jun 12 12:07:58 EDT 2021
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : AMD EPYC 7371 16-Core Processor
    CPU cores  : 4 @ 2500.000 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM        : 2.0 GiB
    Swap       : 0.0 KiB
    Disk       : 98.3 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 67.79 MB/s   (16.9k) | 180.29 MB/s   (2.8k)
    Write      | 67.96 MB/s   (16.9k) | 181.24 MB/s   (2.8k)
    Total      | 135.75 MB/s  (33.9k) | 361.54 MB/s   (5.6k)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 184.80 MB/s    (360) | 233.74 MB/s    (228)
    Write      | 194.62 MB/s    (380) | 249.30 MB/s    (243)
    Total      | 379.43 MB/s    (740) | 483.04 MB/s    (471)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 55.4 Mbits/sec  | 553 Mbits/sec
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 55.4 Mbits/sec  | 539 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 55.4 Mbits/sec  | 559 Mbits/sec
    Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 36.8 Mbits/sec  | 329 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 54.3 Mbits/sec  | 533 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 52.6 Mbits/sec  | 460 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 51.7 Mbits/sec  | 391 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 39.0 Mbits/sec  | 203 Mbits/sec
    
    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 646
    Multi Core      | 1897
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8376529
    

    If they had servers in North America, they would be perfect, but I am considering switching to using their hosting for my website. The only problem is that I don't speak German, so it would be difficult to work with support.

  • @bruh21 said:
    here's a yabs result from one of the vServers i just got, not bad for 4.5 eur

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2021-06-05                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Sat Jun 12 12:07:58 EDT 2021
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : AMD EPYC 7371 16-Core Processor
    CPU cores  : 4 @ 2500.000 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM        : 2.0 GiB
    Swap       : 0.0 KiB
    Disk       : 98.3 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 67.79 MB/s   (16.9k) | 180.29 MB/s   (2.8k)
    Write      | 67.96 MB/s   (16.9k) | 181.24 MB/s   (2.8k)
    Total      | 135.75 MB/s  (33.9k) | 361.54 MB/s   (5.6k)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 184.80 MB/s    (360) | 233.74 MB/s    (228)
    Write      | 194.62 MB/s    (380) | 249.30 MB/s    (243)
    Total      | 379.43 MB/s    (740) | 483.04 MB/s    (471)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 55.4 Mbits/sec  | 553 Mbits/sec
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 55.4 Mbits/sec  | 539 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 55.4 Mbits/sec  | 559 Mbits/sec
    Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 36.8 Mbits/sec  | 329 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 54.3 Mbits/sec  | 533 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 52.6 Mbits/sec  | 460 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 51.7 Mbits/sec  | 391 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 39.0 Mbits/sec  | 203 Mbits/sec
    
    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 646
    Multi Core      | 1897
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8376529
    

    If they had servers in North America, they would be perfect, but I am considering switching to using their hosting for my website. The only problem is that I don't speak German, so it would be difficult to work with support.

    I don't speak German either, but Google translates the site. The guy on support is very responsive, tickets getting answered usually within 5-15 mins, very helpful and his English is perfect. Hugh value with these guys really, for what you get. In time I'll probably switch to their KVM machines, but for now the OpenVZ ones are more than enough for me - and for the price, can't beat it. Kudos to @ascicode for the share earlier, never would have found these guys in a Google search.

  • My only gripe is the amount of times I have to click on pictures of boats or bicycles in order to login

    Thanked by 1bruh21
  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    @fixxation said:
    My only gripe is the amount of times I have to click on pictures of boats or bicycles in order to login

    yeah, that is a real pain in the ass

  • @AleksaDjordjic said: but at least its not ancient, they are using OpenVZ 7

    OpenVZ 7 still uses an ancient kernel though :tongue:

  • I decided to test out one of their KVM machines with similar specs, 6 cores, 4 GB RAM, etc. Quite a bit better, and I prefer knowing my resources will 'be there' when I need them to be, here's the YABS result from the new machine:

    `# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

    Yet-Another-Bench-Script

    v2021-06-05

    https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

    ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

    Mon 14 Jun 2021 06:36:38 PM IST

    Basic System Information:

    Processor : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)
    CPU cores : 6 @ 2495.312 MHz
    AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM : 3.8 GiB
    Swap : 4.0 GiB
    Disk : 45.2 GiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

    Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 226.96 MB/s (56.7k) 337.30 MB/s (5.2k)
    Write 227.55 MB/s (56.8k) 339.08 MB/s (5.2k)
    Total 454.51 MB/s (113.6k) 676.39 MB/s (10.5k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 313.42 MB/s (612) 373.63 MB/s (364)
    Write 330.07 MB/s (644) 398.51 MB/s (389)
    Total 643.49 MB/s (1.2k) 772.14 MB/s (753)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 191 Mbits/sec | 186 Mbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 192 Mbits/sec | 186 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 191 Mbits/sec | 186 Mbits/sec
    Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 151 Mbits/sec | 118 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 179 Mbits/sec | 181 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 165 Mbits/sec | 163 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 124 Mbits/sec | 166 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | busy | busy

    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:

    Test | Value
    |
    Single Core | 933
    Multi Core | 4254
    Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8404920
    `

  • Does anyone know the **VM-x/AMD-V ** section is, and should I be concerned that it's disabled? Some of my other KVM hosts with other providers have this enabled.

  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    @fixxation said:
    Does anyone know the **VM-x/AMD-V ** section is, and should I be concerned that it's disabled? Some of my other KVM hosts with other providers have this enabled.

    it's for making vms i think, so unless you are doing nested virtualization, you will be alright.

    Thanked by 1fixxation
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