Cheapest VPS in Belgium - competition

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This stems from a discussion in the cest pit with @debaser

It seems that Belgium VPS prices are stuck in 2010 and some of the websites use clip art from 1995 :)

So I thought it would be fun to leverage the power of community in a fun competition to find the cheapest VPS in Belgium.

2 competitions actually.

  1. The outright cheapest regardless of specs.
  2. The cheapest 2GB KVM VPS with IP4 and a Minimum of 15 GB disk.

Whomever wins I will pay for the first 3 months of service on both or if the same person finds both I will cover 1 for 6 months with the caveat that you give me a few hours on it to test it initially :)

Please give a moderate level of detail to avoid duplication.

Happy hunting.

Ant.

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  • AC_FanAC_Fan OG

    Not interested, but for those looking seriously, cheapest is probably EDIS.at. Monthly pricing is at roughly 10 dollars for a 2GB VPS.

  • debaserdebaser OG
    edited October 2020

    The outright cheapeast that I've found was at Oneprovider as part of their 'OneCloud'. 3 USD for 1 cpu/512M/10GB SSD/500 GB traffic. (downsides: Oneprovider, wouldn't get provisioned and M247 network)

    Cheapest 2GB that I've found is at https://www.versio.be/vps-hosting for 9.99 EUR (bit cheaper than EDIS). Order form brings you to Amsterdam West, but you can also choose Antwerp.

  • RadiRadi ProviderOG

    https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=EQQ-P8L-SD1

    Seems EDIS is your answer.

    Get some hosting at https://drserver.net .

  • debaserdebaser OG

    It should be noted that a lot of providers are missing in Serverhunter and that their pricing omits VAT. EDIS 2GB would be 10,21 with 21% Belgian VAT for instance.

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired
    edited October 2020

    I should add a caveat that resellers dont count (so no Oneprovider) and they should actually be available to buy (so no Oneprovider) and taxes should be added.

    :)

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  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired
    edited October 2020

    So the cheapest so far is @AC_Fan with:

    EDIS
    KVM STARTER

    • 2048 MB RAM
    • 20 GB HDD
    • 1 IPv4
    • 2 TB Traffic
    • KVM based

    €10.19
    https://manage.edis.at/whmcs/cart.php?a=add&pid=987

    (versio don't list taxes until the end either making it more than EDIS)

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  • XenicXenic OG
    edited October 2020

    i have currently in Belgium a VPS. The VPS have 512MB RAM, 1vCore, 20GB SSD and a 1GBIT Link and its in the M247 Network in the Interxion Brussel. It cost me 4€ monthly. It was a custom Deal from a German Company. Greetings Xenic.

  • vpsgeek3333vpsgeek3333

    Belgium is like a rare location. @AnthonySmith if you manage to find an appropriate offer from a DC for hardware + IPv4 then I suggest you do it. Much better than offering DE or NL if a VPS provider manages to find a nice deal for that location.

    Recommend: BuyVM|TierHive|Prometeus| NameCrane

  • RazzaRazza OG
    edited October 2020

    https://vps247.com/ Basic plan 4.50 euro 1 core 512MB 10GB SSD.

    They have a Belgium location.

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired
    edited October 2020

    @Razza said:
    https://vps247.com/ Basic plan 4.50 euro 1 core 512MB 10GB SSD.

    They have a Belgium location.

    So that seems to be the cheapest one generally so far but imagine using M247 :disappointed:

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  • alwyzonalwyzon Provider
    edited October 2020

    It might be interesting to see latency differences between those Belgian providers compared to cheaper neighbouring nations from an actual Belgian user. Latencies don't necessarily scale with air travel distance when its just about a few hundred kilometres. The ISP used for my Graz office, for example, routes pretty much all traffic over the Vienna Internet Exchange which results in local datacenters having higher latencies than some datacenters in Germany.

    Alwyzon - Virtual Servers in Austria starting at 4,49 €/month (excl. VAT)

  • RazzaRazza OG
    edited October 2020

    @AnthonySmith said:
    So that seems to be the cheapest one generally so far but imagine using M247 :disappointed:

    I wouldn't host anything there my self, the network is full of abuse its don't help that virtually ever VPN provider use them.

  • debaserdebaser OG

    @alwyzon said:
    It might be interesting to see latency differences between those Belgian providers compared to neighbouring nations from an actual Belgian user. Latencies don't necessarily scale with air travel distance when its just about a few hundred kilometres.

    It's not very much. Look up Roubaix (where OVH is) on a map. It's almost in Belgium.

    If you live in Antwerp and you choose a VPS in Rotterdam it might just be 2ms extra.

    But this is exactly why a lot of Flemish people choose a Dutch hosting provider and French Speaking Belgians choose for a French provider.

  • ButheadButhead

    Know Belgium very well and Prefer OVH of I3D network for latency things from there.

    Reason why it's more expensive
    BTW of VAT
    Elektricity
    And yes Bandwith, most providers had a FUP 750GB between specific times for coax cable
    For Vdsl2 of vdsl FUP too but thé speeds are slow ?

    But it will be better
    they are starting with fiber to houses slowly so that will help a little

  • DPDP OG

    https://fusa.be/nl/hosting/offer - not a VPS, but a dedi ;)

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  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    @Buthead said:
    Know Belgium very well and Prefer OVH of I3D network for latency things from there.

    Reason why it's more expensive
    BTW of VAT
    Elektricity
    And yes Bandwith, most providers had a FUP 750GB between specific times for coax cable
    For Vdsl2 of vdsl FUP too but thé speeds are slow ?

    But it will be better
    they are starting with fiber to houses slowly so that will help a little

    I used to have friends in Belgium during the early 2000’s who used belnet? From memory, they used to have serious BW restrictions in place, they got a fairly low allowance in what I believe was 512k DSL and when they reached it they got restricted to 64k for the rest of the month.

    It was always an issue. I expected things would have changed by now.

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  • debaserdebaser OG

    @Buthead said:
    Know Belgium very well and Prefer OVH of I3D network for latency things from there.

    Haha, yes. That's what I'd think. Most of my Belgian tech friends would do so. I3D from Proximus (incumbent telco) FttH is like 10ms.

    Reason why it's more expensive
    BTW of VAT
    Elektricity
    And yes Bandwith, most providers had a FUP 750GB between specific times for coax cable
    For Vdsl2 of vdsl FUP too but thé speeds are slow ?

    It's primarily bandwith costs. VAT is as high as in The Netherlands, electricity costs just a tad higher, but bandwith is expensive. Amai. The standard subscription of the largest access provider has a data allowance of 750GB as you sai. And after that it's back to the stone age or pay up.

    @AnthonySmith said:
    I used to have friends in Belgium during the early 2000’s who used belnet? From memory, they used to have serious BW restrictions in place, they got a fairly low allowance in what I believe was 512k DSL and when they reached it they got restricted to 64k for the rest of the month.

    Belnet is the academic network, like JANET in the UK, DFN in Germany or SURFNet in The Netherlands. In that age they had DSL lines over the incumbent telco's hardware I guess.

    It was always an issue. I expected things would have changed by now.

    They have changed, but because of the duopoly (cable/Proximus) not much. Data allowances on fixed lines are still a thing as @Buthead said. It's only for the more expensive plans that you get 'unlimited' (but I wouldn't bet on it that it's truly unlimited).

    The duopoly is broken now Orange (with backing from their French parent company) is in the market. That would be the biggest change for home connections. But data center wise it'll be slim pickens still.

  • FalzoFalzo Senpai

    https://face-h.eu/website/vps.php

    2.99 for 2GB ... says they are having their infrastructure somewhere in belgium close to Namur since end of 2019 ...

    no idea who they are and why, you asked about Belgium though ;-) ;-)

  • ButheadButhead
    edited October 2020

    True fact, Orange is doing well they will launch before end of the year a internet only (on the cable) that will be cheaper then all others, only the support desk is .. not so well but for that price acceptable i helped testing when they where called mobistar for their internet and tv launch.

    I use Telenet currently due no other option and vdsl2 is no good at all here

    Belnet is indeed for only important company's or Academic and it is very great and fast when i used it 4y ago

    For VPS/dedi
    Fusa.be is very good hoster :)
    I'm also on Belgian forum for IT where owner is on it and he sometimes sell hardware or etc :)

  • debaserdebaser OG

    @Falzo said:
    https://face-h.eu/website/vps.php

    2.99 for 2GB ... says they are having their infrastructure somewhere in belgium close to Namur since end of 2019 ...

    no idea who they are and why, you asked about Belgium though ;-) ;-)

    The seem to stress the Namur region, but other than that all signs point to OVH. The 250Mbps speed, the DDoS filtering, the place they run their website. Might try them out to get to the bottom of that.

    @Buthead said:
    True fact, Orange is doing well they will launch before end of the year a internet only (on the cable) that will be cheaper then all others, only the support desk is .. not so well but for that price acceptable i helped testing when they where called mobistar for their internet and tv launch.

    I use Telenet currently due no other option and vdsl2 is no good at all here

    I always used Telenet in Belgium. Expensive, but solid. Orange is also available via Telenet’s cable network, aren’t they?

    For VPS/dedi
    Fusa.be is very good hoster :)
    I'm also on Belgian forum for IT where owner is on it and he sometimes sell hardware or etc :)

    I never really liked their network. Good people otherwise. Are you referring to Userbase.be by the way?

  • ButheadButhead

    For Orange yes they use coax cable network from Telenet. But Orange started testing with it's own fiber in 1 big city.
    The fiber race is going to start comming year.
    Most IT people or people who like it stuff hope so ?

    For Fusa.be they also sell OVH things next too there own.
    And correct userbase forum :)

    Let's hope fiber will bring more peering and bandwith and become cheaper

  • FalzoFalzo Senpai

    @debaser said: The seem to stress the Namur region, but other than that all signs point to OVH. The 250Mbps speed, the DDoS filtering, the place they run their website. Might try them out to get to the bottom of that.

    yes, I fully agree, especially the dedis and stuff is probably just reselling. could be though, that the VMs are belgium, dunno... maybe really someone tries and ask for a refund if not belgium. would be a good test on support and handling billing issues as well, LOL.

  • debaserdebaser OG

    @Falzo said:

    @debaser said: The seem to stress the Namur region, but other than that all signs point to OVH. The 250Mbps speed, the DDoS filtering, the place they run their website. Might try them out to get to the bottom of that.

    yes, I fully agree, especially the dedis and stuff is probably just reselling. could be though, that the VMs are belgium, dunno... maybe really someone tries and ask for a refund if not belgium. would be a good test on support and handling billing issues as well, LOL.

    It’s OVH in Roubaix :'(. And by signing up I waived my right of withdrawal. But, meh 2.99. Was worth a try.

    They’re honest about it in their (very nice) panel.

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    Ah yes it was telnet.be easy memory mistake to pull out of my brain as belnet I think :)

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  • debaserdebaser OG

    @debaser said:

    @Falzo said:

    @debaser said: The seem to stress the Namur region, but other than that all signs point to OVH. The 250Mbps speed, the DDoS filtering, the place they run their website. Might try them out to get to the bottom of that.

    yes, I fully agree, especially the dedis and stuff is probably just reselling. could be though, that the VMs are belgium, dunno... maybe really someone tries and ask for a refund if not belgium. would be a good test on support and handling billing issues as well, LOL.

    It’s OVH in Roubaix :'(.

    Lol, it’s not even Roubaix, but Gravelines. Good god.

    [snip]
6) nl-ams17b-rc1-lag-9-0.aorta.net (84.116.130.241) 6.709 ms, 1/9 ps, 88.9% loss
7) nl-ams09c-ri1-ae-5-0.aorta.net (84.116.134.54) 6.249 ms, 9/9 ps, 0.0% loss
8) be100-153.ams-5-a9.nl.eu (91.121.131.85) 7.459 ms, 9/9 ps, 0.0% loss
9) be104.gra-g2-nc5.fr.eu (213.251.128.66) 14.643 ms, 9/9 ps, 0.0% loss
10) * * *
  • ButheadButhead

    Gravelines is better if u live in BE ;)
    Have arround 14-16ms
    Roubaix is higher

  • debaserdebaser OG

    @Buthead said:
    Gravelines is better if u live in BE ;)
    Have arround 14-16ms
    Roubaix is higher

    Ah, wouldn't have thought that. From The Netherlands Roubaix is a little bit faster, I thought because it's closer by.

    OVH has a single 100Gbps connection between Brussels and Gravelines. Between Amsterdam and Gravelines it's 300Gbps, and Amsterdam-Roubaix is 500Gbps, which might explain that it's a bit faster.

    But anyway: No Belgium, so no good for @AnthonySmith s contest.

  • DPDP OG

    @thedp said:
    https://fusa.be/nl/hosting/offer - not a VPS, but a dedi ;)

    Try this @AnthonySmith :joy:

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  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    @thedp said:

    @thedp said:
    https://fusa.be/nl/hosting/offer - not a VPS, but a dedi ;)

    Try this @AnthonySmith :joy:

    Sold out.

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  • DPDP OG

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @thedp said:

    @thedp said:
    https://fusa.be/nl/hosting/offer - not a VPS, but a dedi ;)

    Try this @AnthonySmith :joy:

    Sold out.

    Oh shoot.

    Yeah looks like the Atom is gone and only AMD E-350 is in stock.

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  • FalzoFalzo Senpai

    @debaser said:

    thanks for trying it out and checking. average joe won't care anyway I guess and pricing seemed to good to really be belgium. no real surprise here...

  • NyrNyr OG

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @thedp said:

    @thedp said:
    https://fusa.be/nl/hosting/offer - not a VPS, but a dedi ;)

    Try this @AnthonySmith :joy:

    Sold out.

    They replenish stock regularly when cancellations happen. Those dedis have been around on and off for almost a decade from them.

    VPS247 is a service from M247 directly and has been around for a while. Dirty and overcommitted network, but other than that I've seen worse.

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  • debaserdebaser OG
    edited November 2020

    Saw this one on Hostedtalk: https://hostedtalk.net/t/novos-antwerp-epyc-nvme-vps-from-eur-2-00-month/5698

    Seems to be the cheapest @AnthonySmith

    1x AMD EPYC 7451 vCPU (Fair share usage)
512 MB ECC Memory
10 GB NVMe SSD Disk Space
/64 IPv6 Subnet (coming soon)
1 x IPv4 address
256 GB Bandwidth
1 GBps shared uplink

Only € 2,00 / month (or € 20 a year with annual payment).

    Edit: 2G RAM/15G storage is 3,63 EUR

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    yep, €2.42 with tax/vat direct order link: https://billing.novos.be/cart.php?a=add&pid=11

    I think you win, order it, send me the invoice and I will pay it :)

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  • ButheadButhead

    That's cheap price :)
    Good one, but only one location, anyone has any experience with them?

  • debaserdebaser OG

    @Buthead said: That's cheap price

    Good one, but only one location, anyone has any experience with them?

    I know that he had been active on LET for a while, but was busted for shilling. Back then he was just reselling from OVH servers.

    Everyone deserves a second chance and you don't just colocate a server in an Antwerp DC for fun so I'm willing to take that gamble.

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    @debaser said:

    @Buthead said: That's cheap price

    Good one, but only one location, anyone has any experience with them?

    I know that he had been active on LET for a while, but was busted for shilling. Back then he was just reselling from OVH servers.

    Everyone deserves a second chance and you don't just colocate a server in an Antwerp DC for fun so I'm willing to take that gamble.

    Well, I invited them to join, let's see if they do :)

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  • ButheadButhead

    Oke great, let's hope they join us here :) I've got direct peering 12-16ms :)

  • martijnkmartijnk

    Hi Anthony,

    I got your email indeed thanks for the invite and the mention here!

    Indeed I used to resell OVH servers as tryout first but it was always the plan to get my own servers hosted in a facility close to my home so yes I can only offer one location for now but it's all own hardware, IPs etc. Plus I can really focus on this and offer quick incident response times and support.

    I still have around 150 customers hosted on my OVH rentals which will be moved to Antwerp as well (unless they don't want to) so I'm really cutting the cord with OVH but I don't leave anyone behind.

    And yes I was caught shilling once which I didn't know what it meant a year ago and it seems to haunt me forever and I can never advertise again on LET because of it but I think I offer great products and it will only get better so the way I see it it's their loss.

    Thanks again and if there are any questions feel free to ask!

  • debaserdebaser OG

    What really speaks for you is that you're very transparent about your company. I mean a real address on a website shouldn't be very special, but in this world it is. But in your case I now know that you've got your office at Linkeroever ;)

  • martijnkmartijnk

    @debaser said:
    What really speaks for you is that you're very transparent about your company. I mean a real address on a website shouldn't be very special, but in this world it is. But in your case I now know that you've got your office at Linkeroever ;)

    That's correct!

    The DC is actually closeby in 'Burcht' which is a 10 minute drive :)

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    @martijnk thanks for joining, don't worry about LET it is all a bit more mature here generally, we all cringe at our past mistakes, I have certainly made my fair share.

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  • debaserdebaser OG

    @martijnk said: The DC is actually closeby in 'Burcht' which is a 10 minute drive

    I noticed that, connectivity is pretty good from my ISP (goes directly to Telenet). 8ms RTT to another country, haha.

  • SpiritSpirit OG

    @alwyzon said:
    It might be interesting to see latency differences between those Belgian providers compared to cheaper neighbouring nations from an actual Belgian user. Latencies don't necessarily scale with air travel distance when its just about a few hundred kilometres. The ISP used for my Graz office, for example, routes pretty much all traffic over the Vienna Internet Exchange which results in local datacenters having higher latencies than some datacenters in Germany.

    Sometimes I visit https://grax.at and cry

  • NyrNyr OG

    @martijnk said: but it's all own hardware, IPs etc

    Leased IPs are not really your own.

    Anyway you are following very logical and sane steps to get into the industry, so hopefully you will keep growing with work and patience. The deal and location are indeed interesting, let's see where you are in a few years from now :)

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  • XenicXenic OG

    @martijnk its cool that you have servers in Antwerp, because its a cool city. My German Provider cancel my Brussel Server without a reason soon... and idk why. So its perfect for me exotic and nice. Btw i love Belgium much as a german. Greetings from Gummersbach, Germany

  • martijnkmartijnk

    @Nyr said:

    @martijnk said: but it's all own hardware, IPs etc

    Leased IPs are not really your own.

    Anyway you are following very logical and sane steps to get into the industry, so hopefully you will keep growing with work and patience. The deal and location are indeed interesting, let's see where you are in a few years from now :)

    Thanks for the nice words and yes you are right they are leased (for now) :)

  • ButheadButhead

    Great and welcome here :)
    Always great to welcome dutch people.

    @martijnk what happen if u used al u bandwith, slower speed, ..?
    Looking for a friend for teamspeak host

  • martijnkmartijnk
    edited November 2020

    @Buthead said:
    Great and welcome here :)
    Always great to welcome dutch people.

    @martijnk what happen if u used al u bandwith, slower speed, ..?
    Looking for a friend for teamspeak host

    Hi Buthead,

    Yes indeed it will be capped to 10 mbit until the reset at the end of the month.

  • ehabehab

    @martijnk welcome and just in time for upcoming BF :) enjoy your stay.

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