Horrible quality and performance. Not so user frienly support
Short version:
Hardware: 7 years old L5640 Xeons (on rootservers/VPS). Received the server having tons of I/O-errors - sluggish as h*ll. Reason - faulty SAS-drive, repair time: 72 hours! (Wave the TOS!)
Connectivity: 10GBPS - Shared. Didn't get any higher results than 900Mbps on any location (tested 10 different locations inside Germany - universities and different hosts - even the 10Gbe hosts). Results varied between 2Mbps - 900Mbps.
Support: Overcocky one man team, aka "I know it all, you're wrong".
Conclusion: Paying for 15€ for 10Gbps VPS having 8GB Ram aint much. However, as I wasn't getting any faster than 900Mbps and received old and faulty hardware, there's a bunch of 1Gbps VPS's for higher quality. Also hiding the details of the hardware used on VPS's is kinda jerky. Knowing (I know, should've asked) that they'd be using this old CPU's, I would've taken the deal. The CPU is ~2,2GHz.
Long Story: I received the server on 23.1.2017 and at the beginning it felt sluggish. SSH-shell was lagging while typing and even the apt-get update took long time. At the next day I sent a ticket concerning the I/O-issue. I also pointed out, that they're running servers on 7 year old hardware (L5640 Xeons) and I wanted them to make sure nothing was broken. I also pointed out, that this setup is sluggish and slow.
He/they told, that one of the SAS-drives was broken and it will be changed _tomorrow_. That's unacceptable on a rootserver.
Support (he) answered and argued that the L5640 Xeon is as fast as new E3-E5's and wanted me to clarify what I meant by calling L5640 Xeon's slow. At the end he mentioned "As you only pay 15€, it`s quite a reasonable pricing for the offer including 10G Shared Connectivity and our DDoS Protection. "
I answered him and told I based my argument on facts and benchmarking results, but he said "You shouldn't compare higher frequency CPU's to this one." Ok?
I ended the discussion stating, that we're having so different aspects about quality and speed, so just delete the account and my services.
Lost 15€, but it's ok - at least the headaches are gone.








