Why are EU servers cheaper than US servers (in general)?

The common complaint about budget providers is usually bad support, which is quite understandable (they have to cut all expenses).

You can check the server quality on the first day, but I believe two problems are critical: hardware failure and network outage. You can always restore a website from the remote backup, but you do not know if you should wait for the server or give up and change the DNS pointing somewhere else.

There are a few well-known budget providers, but there are many small providers (usually one-man army) which offer decent servers. I am an avid supporter of small businesses in general.

1. How do you find such small providers?
2. How do you check/trust them?

Hello

we are webhosting company we focuse of selling dedicated servers and VPSs , we need location in Europe

which best Dc we can depend on it as prices and fast response for hardware and network maintenance?

thanks alot

Hi,

I'm currently looking for dedicated servers in APAC.

Specs I wanted:
- CPU: Intel i7/Xeon E3-12xx (Ryzen is much better)
- RAM: 32-64GB RAM
- Storage: prefer SSD, HDD is okay.
- Network: 500mbps or above (5tb/10tb).

My budget is around US$ 70-150/mo.

Yes there are several providers in the region, but there are some issues.

1. OVH
Their APAC servers seems to be sold out (Rise/APAC lineup)

2. Leaseweb
Requires business/entrepreneurship registration, but servers are for personal use/under my name.

3. PhoenixNAP
Servers are in stock, budget fits well, but their upstream & network routing does not fit with my users (and they're not in SG exchanges? eqx sg, sgix, megaport?)

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi Guys,

I guess they deserve to have this feedback, I've been using wholesaleinternet dedicated servers since 1st of January 2013 over 8 years damn! I am getting old

I used to have dedicated server with expensive providers before I met wholesaleinternet, believe or not I have less problem with wholesaleinternet after I changed from previous dedi provider. I have 0 problem last 5-6 years. These guys knows what they are doing from management to support, they have backup power, backup internet providers etc to maintain servers in good shape.

Price: I don't think you would find better pricing than wholesaleinternet I also have ovh budget dedicated servers close to wholesaleinternet prices they are also good after wholesaleinternet.

Support: When I had dedicated server with expensive service providers, response time of tickets around 2-12 hours. believe or not every time I create ticket with wholesaleinternet they response and make it happen solution nearly in an hour. My last interact was I need to have KVM and they installed within 30min. I have no words with these guys they are not only fast but also proactive.

I'm looking for dedicated servers (6-8 servers) with the following configurations:

CPU i9-9900K
RAM 64GB
SSD 500GB / 1TB
Unmetered network / no limits
Possibility to install my own OS by rescue system
KVM access (if possible)
No setup fees
Collocation Germany

Do you guys know any providers who offers such at a decent price?
I would go on hetzner, but, their setup fees of $670 would kill me
Lets say I had a budget of $40-50 per server, any providers with that range?

I'm looking for dedicated in EU have own datacenter and have AMD Servers.

Dedicated managed or unmanaged, not OVH, Hetzner or similar i need serious company if have multi servers in EU better.

Looking for suggestions.

My budget is 150-200$ for one server, I can buy max 5 servers because my storage already nearly 10TB.

- I am currently using HDD storage - 2x2 TB HDD and make it become raid 0 to use full 4 TB HDD on /root disk, but photos load very slow and blur ( customers load, not servers load ) when servers had nearly 3 TB/4 TB.

So anyone recommend best dedicated for my budget and it can load fast?

Thank all for support!

I've used Hetzner on and off for the past 10 years or so. I'm currently part of a few different projects that are using Hetzner, with in total around 30 active servers at the moment, however in total across the years, I must have had around 50-60 servers with Hetzner.

Sales: 6/10
I've had limited contact with the sales team, simple questions are answered quickly and there is live chat for these types of questions as well. Sales responses are anywhere from a couple of hours to a full day. The only real issue I've encountered with sales or billing is the inability to remove the "flexi pack" charge. This was a surcharge that was later abolished for when you wanted to customise the hardware of the server, however clients with existing servers were still being charged this fee. When I requested this charge be removed from some of our servers, sales said that it would only be removed after we had the servers for 2 years. So the solution? Cancel the older servers and order new ones. This was a hassle to overcome some pointless inflexibility, although we ended up with newer/better hardware at a cheaper price.

Setup: 8/10
Setup times are usually within an hour or so. Customised servers typically take a couple of days. I've encountered 1 mistake, with incorrect hardware as they misread our setup notes, this was corrected within an hour upon being notified of the mistake.

Support: 7/10
Responses typically take 10-30mins, I believe the longest I've had to wait has been an hour. Support responses have been a little curt at times, but this could be due to the language differences, and these responses are in the minority. Failed hard drive replacements take around 30 mins upon being notified. A major downside is lack of any client side ticketing system, with everything having to be dealt with via Email.

Network: 8/10
All servers have a 1Gbps dedicated port by default, sometimes there can be issues maxing the port, but it's rare to see anything below 800Mbps when I've tested, although this hasn't been extensive testing. Stability has been good, there was a hiccup earlier in the year which resulted in some packet loss, although this didn't affect us very much.

Control Panel: 5/10
As I said, lack of a proper ticketing system is a major issue which I'm surprised hasn't been rectified yet. Other than that, their panel is pretty feature rich, with extra features like alerts/notifications, decent bandwidth graphs, power management, etc.

Pricing/Value: 11/10
Hetzner's value for money is completely insane. If budget is your primary concern and you need an unmanaged provider in Europe, I don't think you can do any better.

I heard of Tempest hosting from several Discord servers, and give it a try.

Bought an M610 dedicated server in Amsterdam, running X5677, 32GB RAM, 900GB storage, 10gbps dedicated unmetered port. yes, you're not reading it wrong.

Onboarding process, it was smooth sailing. Registered, paid, and their IPMI system will automatically install the OS I chose. They also provide "Firewall Manager", where we can add filters on what ports/ips/protocols should be allowed/rejected to our server IP. They also provide DDoS filters, such as OpenVPN/VSE/TCP/TS3.

Compared to other providers, specs/hardware wise, there are far better options (ryzen/epyc/E5), but considering the price, no other providers can offer what they offer. 10gbit unmetered dedicated port for only US$150/mo!?

They do offer Ryzen servers, but I think it's a pre-order system and takes 2-6 weeks.

Network wise, the downside is that they're not on any exchanges/IXs (AMS-IX, DE-CIX, NL-IX, LINX, etc). They only use tier-1 upstreams (GTT & NTT), so sometimes routing outside of Europe (specifically Asia Pacific) is a bit weird.

In terms of support, they offer two options, either via WHMCS or their Discord server. All of the people who I talk to are friendly and knowledgeable.

Overall, for $150/mo, 10gbps unmetered port, it's fantastic. I hope that more & better specs will be available in the near future.

Hi

We are currently looking for Romania Dedicated Servers . Looking for budget friendly and 64GB Ram and 4x1TB SSD or 2x2TB NVMe storage setup . Also cheap IP cost would be nice .
If you guys can recommend providers would be great .

Thanks
Riyad