• 1 vCore (KVM)
• 1GB RAM
• 30GB SSD
• 1Gbit/s fair use. Throttled to 100 Mbit/s if the average traffic in the last 24 hours is above 100 Mbps (back to 1 Gbps once it's below)
• Germany, Nuremberg 🇩🇪

12 €/year for EU residents (VAT), 10.08 €/year for others (VAT exempt). That's 1 and 0.84 euro per month.
Previously they've had 5 per customer limitation.

Order: https://netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=3422

Info: https://www.netcup.com/de/server/vps/vps-piko-g11s-12m

YABS (not mine):

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Sa 4. Jan 18:52:36 CET 2025

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 109 days, 17 hours, 37 minutes
Processor  : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2294.576 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 960.7 MiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 29.4 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-25-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : netcup GmbH
ASN        : AS197540 netcup GmbH
Host       : NETCUP-GMBH
Location   : Nuremberg, Bavaria (BY)
Country    : Germany

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 76.78 MB/s   (19.1k) | 939.22 MB/s  (14.6k)
Write      | 76.98 MB/s   (19.2k) | 944.16 MB/s  (14.7k)
Total      | 153.76 MB/s  (38.4k) | 1.88 GB/s    (29.4k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.28 GB/s     (2.5k) | 1.60 GB/s     (1.5k)
Write      | 1.35 GB/s     (2.6k) | 1.71 GB/s     (1.6k)
Total      | 2.64 GB/s     (5.1k) | 3.31 GB/s     (3.2k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.08 Gbits/sec  | 821 Mbits/sec   | 21.2 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.09 Gbits/sec  | 929 Mbits/sec   | 19.7 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 990 Mbits/sec   | 794 Mbits/sec   | 96.4 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 811 Mbits/sec   | busy            | 161 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 920 Mbits/sec   | 221 Mbits/sec   | 156 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.02 Gbits/sec  | 816 Mbits/sec   | 94.2 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 841 Mbits/sec   | 390 Mbits/sec   | 234 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.07 Gbits/sec  | 749 Mbits/sec   | 21.1 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 1.09 Gbits/sec  | 908 Mbits/sec   | 19.7 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.02 Gbits/sec  | 573 Mbits/sec   | 96.3 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 878 Mbits/sec   | 709 Mbits/sec   | 161 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 951 Mbits/sec   | 373 Mbits/sec   | 156 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.01 Gbits/sec  | 702 Mbits/sec   | 94.2 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 863 Mbits/sec   | 418 Mbits/sec   | 234 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 342
Multi Core      | 310
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9766899

However, with Windows10, it moves past and craps out here.

Any thoughts/ advice?

Thanks in advance

@imok and I each got Netcup ARM G11 VPSes for Black Friday! Yaaay!

@imok's VPS is bigger than mine!

I finally was able to order mine as a result of seeing and following the link in @Blembim's post on December 20. Thanks again @Blembim!

CPU

Both @imok's and my new VPSes run on ARM CPUs. They also are Netcup's "11th generation" VPSes. So, @imok and I got Netcup "ARM G11 Netcup VPSes."

@imok has 10 cores, but I only have 6.

Nested virtualization (VM-x/AMD-V) to set up more fast KVM VPSes inside the main VPS is not enabled.

RAM

@imok has 15.6 GiB RAM, but I only have 7.7.

Disk

Our Netcup Holiday bargains have double the disk size above the non-Holiday, standard offers.

@imok has 1007.9 GiB SSD (not NVMe) disk, and I only have 503.9.

Network

2.5 Gbit/s; temporarily throttled to 200 Mbits/sec if previous 24 hrs average traffic exceeds 2 TB

1 x IPv4/32; 1 x IPv6/64

Location

Both @imok's VPS and mine are located in Manassas, VA, USA.

Pricing

My VPS costs €5.26 per month. No VAT for me because I ordered from the Mexico location where I currently am visiting.

There was an annual pricing option, which provided, in effect, two months free, but I prefer monthly pricing.

I used a $5 Netcup coupon ($5.00 = €4.20) for the first month. So my first month is costing only €1.06 = $1.11.

@imok posted that his VPS costs "$9/m."

Operating Systems

Netcup offers the expected Linux and FreeBSD images. One thing I really like is that the Netcup Server Control Panel ("SCP") makes it possible to upload custom images and ISOs via sftp. No support ticket and no waiting for support is needed to upload and use a custom image or ISO.

Account Setup and Ordering

Here is a list of links to my previous posts about the ordering process. The overall process seemed lengthy and painful. Product availability seemed intermittent. I had to try repeatedly. I had difficulty navigating the order and payment processes where I had to co-ordinate between email and web pages on my phone and on my Chromebook. The terms of service and all the notices seem like long and complicated walls of text.

Yabs

A yabs from my VPS is posted in the Pit.

@imok also posted his VPS's yabs.

Performance Decreases

I haven't analyzed the data carefully, but it looks like my VPS' disk I/O and Geekbench 6 performance have been descreasing, maybe as the Node filled up or as new users added their workloads -- or maybe both.

root@manassas:~# uptime
 18:48:36 up 12 days, 20:23,  2 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.19, 0.27
root@manassas:~# 

20241222:

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1056                          
Multi Core      | 4726                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9565111

20250104:

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 994                           
Multi Core      | 4351                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9766934

Steal

I have been keeping an eye on top to see what it says about steal. Mostly the steal says 0.1 or 0.2. Rarely, once or twice, I have seen a slightly higher steal.

Discussion

So far, after upgrading to Debian sid, I only have used my new Netcup ARM VPS for storing a few backups. It's performance has seemed great. Certainly, if I hadn't been rerunning yabs from time to time, I wouldn't have noticed the performance decreases. The Netcup ARM VPS gives the impression of being very well connected. It's fast, and snappy.

Eventually I will try a few processor-intensive tasks, such as compiling. Also, it would be fun to install NetBSD and Plan 9, which should be easier to do because I don't have to contact support to upload ISOs.

I think these Netcup ARM VPSes in Manassas USA seem great! Especially when we consider the combination of the USA location; the reliability expected due to Netcup's reputation; the generous CPU, RAM, and disk provisioning; and the low pricing. My VPS costs only approximately $5/mo. That's less than $7! What more could a Low Ender ask!? Plus, for more cores, RAM, and disk space, anyone can get the bigger, slightly more expensive machine, like @imok did.

Of course there are trade offs. Ryzen cores are faster than ARM. NVMe disks are faster than SSD. 10 Gbps is faster than 1 Gbps. But, so far, my Netcup VPS has been reliable. Everything at Netcup seems very well organized, and, once one naviagtes through the account setup and ordering processes, hassle free.

The combination of the US location, generous resource allocation, and low price makes me wonder -- despite the trade offs -- whether these Netcup Gen 11 ARM machines are the best Low End VPSes. The fact that @imok and @Blembim also got them makes me feel good about my purchase.

Is anyone aware of a better or cheaper USA VPS deal --

• from a well known provider and

• with equivalent or better CPU, RAM, disk, and network?

@imok @Blembim How are your new Netcup ARM VPSes doing?

Did anyone else get one of these for Black Friday? How is it doing?

Thanks and best wishes!