Black Friday 2019 best VPS under 7 bucks

poisson

I have been watching the BF2019 deals with interest and I guess I will put together in one thread the value assessments I am doing this period to see who gives the best value for the least money. I am selectively choosing only those VPS I think have a shot at winning and must be from reliable providers (else I won't have time for anything else).

The current standing:

1. UltraVPS.eu SAS-Special-1 (LEBRE score: 281)
2. HostDoc Dallas Dual Compute (LEBRE score: 194)

MarkD

if it's not $7/year then its not a Black Friday.

Rahul

I was also expecting

MarkD said: $7/year

Silly me.

Don't worry Ant has some coming at https://inceptionhosting.com/limited-offers.html

poisson

@MarkD said:
if it's not $7/year then its not a Black Friday.

7 a year can get you something but not sure how useful it will be. Best value, not absolutely cheap and not useable

lgsin

Thought the title means $7/year. D;

Rahul said:

Don't worry Ant has some coming at https://inceptionhosting.com/limited-offers.html

It's probably going to be €7(at best $7 if top advertising word is right), so strictly not under $7/year.
Still, assuming it's the 100GB+IPv4 plan at the price of €7, would be a deal too good to pass.

InceptionHosting

lgsin said: €7(at best $7 if top advertising word is right

oopsie!

lgsin

AnthonySmith said:

lgsin said: €7(at best $7 if top advertising word is right

oopsie!

That was quick!

InceptionHosting

lgsin said: That was quick!

I restored balance and put a €6.99 p/year offer up.

Rahul

The balance on LES was restored

also @poisson found

poisson said: 7 a year

poisson said: Best value

Deal

cybertech

Php-friends is still doable at EUR 4,95 including VAT (cheaper with non EU)

poisson

@cybertech said:
Php-friends is still doable at EUR 4,95 including VAT (cheaper with non EU)

yes, but unfortunately not very competitive this time.. at that price point might as well do hostdoc or UltraVPS.eu.. if they offered higher RAM or more vCPU, that would be difficult to resist

cybertech

@poisson said:

@cybertech said:
Php-friends is still doable at EUR 4,95 including VAT (cheaper with non EU)

yes, but unfortunately not very competitive this time.. at that price point might as well do hostdoc or UltraVPS.eu.. if they offered higher RAM or more vCPU, that would be difficult to resist

dedicated thread, RAID 10 SSD, first-colo network. schnupperspecial has been prem for me

vimalware

Edit : in addition to the ultravps SAS,

I personally like the liteserver 3 Eur storage HDD.
1 E3 vCPU, 1GBram, 0.5 TB raid10 disk, 6TB transfer.

Considering additional IP costs on Hetzner, I'd rather move seafile /nextcloud to something like this, from the dedi.

willie

Link to above is here, note 40% off coupon at top of page: https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/
These days as a pure storage hog I find that offer kind of meh, but Liteserver is a good host.

cybertech

Inception Hosting UK-SSD-KVM-2048

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/690467

https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0

EUR 30,00 annual after using code BF2019-UK-KVM-SSD equivalent to two-fiddy / mth

UK network prem

vimalware

@cybertech said:
Inception Hosting UK-SSD-KVM-2048

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/690467

Looks like the usual BF cpusteal is acting up.
Wait 7 days before checking again.

poisson

@vimalware said:
Edit : in addition to the ultravps SAS,

I personally like the liteserver 3 Eur storage HDD.
1 E3 vCPU, 1GBram, 0.5 TB raid10 disk, 6TB transfer.

Considering additional IP costs on Hetzner, I'd rather move seafile /nextcloud to something like this, from the dedi.

Not familiar with Liteserver. Your expert opinion, please. I would like to know if it is another solid provider.

vimalware

SOLID and FRIENDLY.
That's just icing on a beefy infrastructure cake.

willie

Liteserver is solid.

seanho

I have less need for EU VPSes nowadays, but in the past had only good experiences with LiteServer. Excellent support.

Solaire

+1 for @liteserver. I trust them with my main VPN box for over 4 years now.

tgl

that php friends is a good offer also @liteserver for the location

DP

@liteserver ftw!

tgl

got this from @SpeedTest:

Switzerland

Linux SSD VPS - тарифный план Lite (CH) (45 с быстрой установкой) -
Платформа: KVM
Процессор: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 2.6 GHz
Память: 1 GB
Диск: 20 GB SSD (RAID 10)
Трафик: Не учитывается
Порт: 1000 Mbit
IP: 1 шт. (возможен дозаказ) + IPv6 по запросу

https://cp.inferno.name/cart.php?gid=55

50% off recurring with BF2019VPS

so you end up paying $2.50/month or $30/year

I dont know about the provider, but for Swiss, its damn cheap

angstrom

@willie said:
Link to above is here, note 40% off coupon at top of page: https://liteserver.nl/hdd-storage-vps/
These days as a pure storage hog I find that offer kind of meh, but Liteserver is a good host.

The thing is that you've become a true storage aficionado, whereas most of the rest of us have much more modest storage needs

Edit: And, of course, this is a KVM from LiteServer (and not some OVZ where you're not allowed to do apt dist-upgrade)

angstrom

@cybertech said:

@poisson said:

@cybertech said:
Php-friends is still doable at EUR 4,95 including VAT (cheaper with non EU)

yes, but unfortunately not very competitive this time.. at that price point might as well do hostdoc or UltraVPS.eu.. if they offered higher RAM or more vCPU, that would be difficult to resist

dedicated thread, RAID 10 SSD, first-colo network. schnupperspecial has been prem for me

Yeah, I also find the PHP-Friends offer to be excellent -- one needs to look a bit beyond the simple specs of the VPS.

Still debating whether to get it ...

Solaire

AlphaVPS:

1 CPU
256 MB RAM
5 GB SSD
100 GB Bandwidth
1 IPv4
2.99 EUR / year

https://blackfriday.alphavps.bg/#!/

tgl

6 months contract / billing period (-> 29,70 EUR recurring). The VAT is now removed automatically for non-EU citizens, without VAT the recurring price is 24,96 EUR.

Like our regular offers & specials we only use "real" server hardware with redundant power supplies and redundant network in the First Colo datacenter in Frankfurt (FFM). Of course our DDoS protection is included for free

The product: https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-black-friday-2019-ssd
The news (German): https://php-friends.de/neuigkeiten/black-friday-2019

Rahul

@Solaire

Here is one for $ 10 a year

https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/5658/#Comment_5658

cybertech

@angstrom said:

@cybertech said:

@poisson said:

@cybertech said:
Php-friends is still doable at EUR 4,95 including VAT (cheaper with non EU)

yes, but unfortunately not very competitive this time.. at that price point might as well do hostdoc or UltraVPS.eu.. if they offered higher RAM or more vCPU, that would be difficult to resist

dedicated thread, RAID 10 SSD, first-colo network. schnupperspecial has been prem for me

Yeah, I also find the PHP-Friends offer to be excellent -- one needs to look a bit beyond the simple specs of the VPS.

Still debating whether to get it ...

Mate don't wait.

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CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
Number of cores      : 2
CPU frequency        : 2199.998 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 66.5 GB (13.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 5948 MB (1273 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 5947 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 18 days, 1 hour 38 min
Load average         : 0.17, 0.06, 0.01
OS                   : CentOS 7.7.1908
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 5.3.10-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
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I/O speed(1st run)   : 1.3 GB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 1.3 GB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 1.4 GB/s
Average I/O speed    : 1365.3 MB/s
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Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         81.4MB/s
Linode, Tokyo2, JP              139.162.65.37           5.72MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            7.91MB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           69.9MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           102MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             8.11MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           12.6MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          10.8MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            101MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           9.04MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          6.96MB/s
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[root@cybertech ~]#

uhu

@Rahul said:
@Solaire

Here is one for $ 10 a year

https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/5658/#Comment_5658

That's the first one that has my finger hovering over the buy button. I think I've been spoiled in previous years where I've got 4GB+ ram, 40-100GB disk for ~$20.

poisson

Will calculate the value of HostHatch nvme later.. this looks like another winner, esp Chicago/London

Rahul

Here is a Euro 4.99 a year deal

https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/5707/#Comment_5707

sonic

@poisson said:
Will calculate the value of HostHatch nvme later.. this looks like another winner, esp Chicago/London

Isnt UltraVPS winner at this price point?

ITLabs

servaRICA

Mouse Storage Offer
1 CPU cores shared
1GB RAM
500gb disk
100mbps with 2TB limit
/64 IPv6 included
NO IPv4
12$/year

https://servarica.com/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=434

poisson

@ITLabs said:
servaRICA

Mouse Storage Offer
1 CPU cores shared
1GB RAM
500gb disk
100mbps with 2TB limit
/64 IPv6 included
NO IPv4
12$/year

https://servarica.com/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=434

For a storage offer, this is excellent. Can't fight @cociu though. He still wins on storage.

poisson

I have updates after doing two more analyses:

The revised standing:

1. HostHatch Nvme Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 327)
2. UltraVPS.eu SAS-Special-1 (LEBRE score: 281)
3. HostDoc Dallas Dual Compute (LEBRE score: 194)
4. HostDoc LA Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 165)

HostHatch has come in smashing the party!

sonic

@poisson said:
I have updates after doing two more analyses:

The revised standing:

1. HostHatch Nvme Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 327)
2. UltraVPS.eu SAS-Special-1 (LEBRE score: 281)
3. HostDoc Dallas Dual Compute (LEBRE score: 194)
4. HostDoc LA Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 165)

HostHatch has come in smashing the party!

Bought HostHatch 2GB NVMe right after reading your reviews. My wallet is empty atm, do NOT add any new reviews til BF/CM end

willie

poisson said: For a storage offer, this [Servarica] is excellent. Can't fight @cociu though. He still wins on storage.

For a North American offer it is amazing: does anyone know the server location? Their site says Canada in several places, but doesn't say where the DC is. Anyone have a test IP?

Neoon

Did @cociu posted any storage yet?

nullnothere

@Neoon said:
Did @cociu posted any storage yet?

He had a bunch of posts early on LET's Nekki thread.

tarasis

@poisson said:
I have updates after doing two more analyses:

The revised standing:

1. HostHatch Nvme Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 327)

Guess its gone, don't see it on the LET page. I can see

2 GB NVMe
2 CPU core (25% dedicated, burstable up to 200%)
2 GB RAM
20 GB RAID-10 NVMe
2 TB bandwidth
$30 per year

but that's not 10TB bandwidth.

Decicus

@tarasis said:

@poisson said:
I have updates after doing two more analyses:

The revised standing:

1. HostHatch Nvme Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 327)

Guess its gone, don't see it on the LET page. I can see

2 GB NVMe
2 CPU core (25% dedicated, burstable up to 200%)
2 GB RAM
20 GB RAID-10 NVMe
2 TB bandwidth
$30 per year

but that's not 10TB bandwidth.

10 TB bandwidth is available upon request:

London/Chicago (come with 5x bandwidth and free 40 Gbps DDoS protection on request)

sonic

@poisson Could you please also review Smarthost deal? It's under 7$

poisson

@sonic said:
@poisson Could you please also review Smarthost deal? It's under 7$

This same offer was available earlier and I reviewed it: https://lowendboxes.review/smarthost-kvm-nvme-ssd-budget-vps-flash-sale/

If he dropped the price by a dollar probably the score might hit near 200. I think you are in Asia and you can consider this if you need a powerful VPS with good speeds to Asia. See the bench.sh posted by @dahartigan

sonic

@poisson said:

@sonic said:
@poisson Could you please also review Smarthost deal? It's under 7$

This same offer was available earlier and I reviewed it: https://lowendboxes.review/smarthost-kvm-nvme-ssd-budget-vps-flash-sale/

If he dropped the price by a dollar probably the score might hit near 200. I think you are in Asia and you can consider this if you need a powerful VPS with good speeds to Asia. See the bench.sh posted by @dahartigan

Tnx, I saw it. UltraVPS and HostHactch is winner now.

cybertech

@cybertech said:
Inception Hosting UK-SSD-KVM-2048

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/690467

https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0

EUR 30,00 annual after using code BF2019-UK-KVM-SSD equivalent to two-fiddy / mth

UK network prem

Requested for AES flag and it got approved faster than I could use the toilet

The BF loads are dying down so here's a better one, note I have been eyeing this prem VPS since beginning of the year. It's unforgettable and even more so with the price now.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14982183

Can feel the power returning!!!!

vyas

Got the Hostslick 6 Vcore/8 GB RAM / 150 GB SSD /5TB (Ovz7)

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14982507

will run another test mid-week after BF/CM rush

$50 if paid annual. I think there was an additional 10 percent discount code- did not use it (I know!) but if applicable, at 44.5 USD/year should be a sweet deal

vimalware

@poisson said:
This same offer was available earlier and I reviewed it: https://lowendboxes.review/smarthost-kvm-nvme-ssd-budget-vps-flash-sale/

If he dropped the price by a dollar probably the score might hit near 200

AlphaVPS had a 6 Eur/mo price-beater for that 8GB Smarthost KVM
Available in Clouvider, Hetzner-Nuremberg, and their own Sofia DCs.

4 vCPU (shared)
8GB ram
40G ssd
2TB gigabit transfer
1IPv4, /64 IPV6
DDOS protection in Nuremberg (and London I guess)

5.99 EUR/mo (WHMCS pid hasn't expired. not sure if one will get approved.)
https://alphavps.bg/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=312

poisson

The revised standing with PHP-Friends in it:

1. HostHatch Nvme Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 327)
2. UltraVPS.eu SAS-Special-1 (LEBRE score: 281)
3. HostDoc Dallas Dual Compute (LEBRE score: 194)
4. HostDoc LA Black Friday 2019 Special (LEBRE score: 165)
5. PHP-Friends vServer SSD Black Friday 2019 (LEBRE score: 122)

poisson

@vimalware said:

@poisson said:
This same offer was available earlier and I reviewed it: https://lowendboxes.review/smarthost-kvm-nvme-ssd-budget-vps-flash-sale/

If he dropped the price by a dollar probably the score might hit near 200

AlphaVPS had a 6 Eur/mo price-beater for that 8GB Smarthost KVM
Available in Clouvider, Hetzner-Nuremberg, and their own Sofia DCs.

4 vCPU (shared)
8GB ram
40G ssd
2TB gigabit transfer
1IPv4, /64 IPV6
DDOS protection in Nuremberg (and London I guess)

5.99 EUR/mo (WHMCS pid hasn't expired. not sure if one will get approved.)
https://alphavps.bg/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=312

Yea this AlphaVPS offer probably beats SmartHost in value and possibly similar to PHP-Friends, just that it offers more vCPUs instead of PHP-Friends' much larger disk storage. I wonder if we can find out if it is still available.