Check out lowendtalk, it's often smaller providers but you can find some good deals there.
I couldn't find similar products on Ionos and Hetzner (either too expensive or not enough storage).
However I didn't know Netcup, and it seems to be a pretty good fit! Especially the VPS 3000.
Thank you :)
I did the same move from contabo to Netcup. Contabo I had all sorts of weird bandwidth limiting problems that I couldn't explain and which the continued to deny they were throttling. Netcup worked perfectly.
With Hetzner you can get "Storage Boxes" and mount those. They are pretty cheap for 1tb and 5tb. From my experience they are fast enough for media streaming for multiple people.
I was in the same boat. Years at Contabo, until they became dogshit and then moved to Netcup. No problems with them so far.
Hetzner is fucking trash. Dare you to try canceling, I took me over 6 months to get them to stop billing me 80 fucking cents per month over a resource that I had no way to delete. Then they started threatening me with collections for like $3, fuck them.
Why did it take six months to resolve the issue? What steps did you take, how did they respond? Serious claims require proper explanation at the very least.
I shutdown all the he resources visible to me, then went thru their cancellation process, then 2 months later I started getting past due bills for very small amounts. Since I had closed my account I had no way to login again to view and make payments, and all this even though I had automatic billing thru my credit card. Every time I reached out I got automated emails in German and no response for like a week at a time, even though they kept emailing these petty ass messages about past due amounts of less than a dollar. I even received snail mail with a collection notice, over $0.83 one time. It’s downright petty as fuck and unprofessional as fuck, and they are very well known for this behavior.
Never had problems with Hetzner 🤔
Me neither. And I've been using them for 6ish year. That said, mistakes may happen, so...
Hetzner tried to charge me additional €20 for €5 VPS just because of my country. Cancelled the order immediately and I will never try them again.
And no, I am not from Russia. Even if that is the case, this sort of discrimination should not be accepted.
Can’t recognise that, but unfortunate you have had such an experience with them.
Get a Hetzner dedicated server. Don't mess with vps once it gets that large. Look on hetzner.com/sb for auction servers that might be better deals than regular ones. And does your 800gb of storage really have to be all SSD? Hard disks still exist and cost lots less.
Why should I stop using vps for my needs? I looked at the dedicated servers but they're all too expensive for me.
And yea I would like it to be all SSD, to me it makes a big difference for browsing large file collections, pictures and videos.
Dedi will perform a lot better and be more consistent and reliable. They're not THAT expensive if you're making nontrivial use of them. Otherwise maybe you can keep moving around between Contabo products. Keep in mind too that hdd performance will seem a lot better when you're not sharing it with dozens of other users. I have an HDD server and it's fine for browsing. Might not be great for large seek-intensive databases but I'm not currently doing that
Anyway you can also ask on lowendspirit.com which is a forum about budget vps.
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