Contabo.com VPS Review - 6GB Ram - SSD 500GB - 7.99EUR

New VPS has arrived, now it comes from Contabo.com, yep... that is one of the Germany pioneer, founded by Michael Herpich and Michael Bölke, they already established more than 5000 server in Germany with customer from around the world, in 2003 they establish new data center in Munich with enough room for 4000 servers, according to their history, i'm pretty sure that they can satisfied the customer with their service, no doubt about it.

Contabo provide us VPS with Plan M, the smallest plan in it's class, BUT, don't even underestimate it, small plan with HUGE specification, their VPS (M) label it with only 7.99 EUR, equipped with Intel Xeon E5-2620V3 with 2 Core running at 2.4Ghz, 6 GB RAM guarantee, wow... that's fantastic, there's more, you need high capacity with speed??? they give you 500GB SSD, so what else did you need with that price?? Let's go test this VPS.

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz

Number of cores : 2

CPU frequency :  2399.994 MHz

Total amount of ram : 5851 MB

Total amount of swap : 0 MB

System uptime :   14:27,

Download speed from CacheFly: 12.0MB/s

Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 10.2MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 10.1MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 7.52MB/s

Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 11.5MB/s

Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 11.8MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 6.39MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 5.13MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 9.81MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 10.4MB/s

I/O speed :  102 MB/s

Benchmark Result (By Geekbench.com)

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/2933148

Geekbench Score

Single-Core Score 3141 - Multi-Core Score 6205

Angelimus Score

169.123

(Plan M Ram 6GB)

Package

M 6GB RAM Guarantee	L 14GB RAM Guarantee	XL 30GB RAM Guarantee
EUR 7.99 / month GO!	EUR 13.99 / month GO!	EUR 24.99 / month GO!
24/7 Tech Support	24/7 Tech Support	24/7 Tech Support
2 Core	4 Core	6 Core
500 GB Storage SSD	1000 GB Storage SSD	2000 GB Storage SSD
6 GB RAM	14 GB RAM	30 GB RAM
Linux & Windows	Linux & Windows	Linux & Windows
Root Access	Root Access	Root Access
VNC Access	VNC Access	VNC Access
TUN/TAP On	TUN/TAP On	TUN/TAP On
1 IPv4	1 IPv4	1 IPv4

Terms of service :

You can read in here (https://contabo.com/agb.html)
I'll explain only the terms that related to VPS Usage.

§ 2 Third party rights (1) (2)

At this point, it's cleary explain related your material that you will be hosted in your VPS, you can host anything whatever you like, BUT, do not host copyright files, image, music, etc without special permission from the owner.

 § 5 Limitation regarding content (2) (5)

This is the boundary or rules about VPS Content other than copyright item, with strong statement about "The provider reserves the right to immediately suspend the webpages or servers" in point (5) the provider means "Contabo Side", but in point (2) they wrote "If no other agreement has been reached, the following content is forbidden" in other word, they will permited you host script, irc, or anything outside the copyright parameter, but with special permission from provider, which is Contabo. In this case, i will not write things that you can't do in this server, but remember the point (5).

§ 11 Applicable law, place of jurisdiction

At this point, because they are stay in Germany, so you must obey the applicable regulation in Germany, i suggest you search first in the internet, what rules related to cyber crime in Germany, so you know exactly what you must do, or consult with Contabo customer service about this matter.

Contabo VPS Control Panel:

They provide control panel like other VPS Host, but i see something special in their control panel, it's very simple and easy to understand, especially for newbie, there are not much option in their control panel, you will not see option for TUN/TAP or PPP.

Why you don't see TUN/TAP and PPP?? Contabo already turn this "ON" by default, so you don't need to worry about VPN or anything that use TUN/TAP and PPP.

Okay, let's go inside the control panel, to access control panel, click on the right top "Customer Control Panel" see image below.

After you click, type your username and password, if you forgot, check your email that registered in Contabo at sign up process.
When you successfully login, you will see like this.

At first screen after login process, you will see greetings, news on bottom, and navigation pane on the left. I like the simplicity of their control panel, at the left pane, you will see "VPS Control", in this tab, you can start, stop, restart, and reinstall your OS.

See, that's it, only that option are in contabo control panel, if you have more that 1 VPS, you can manage your other VPS from "Your Service" see left pane, first option.
The minus of this control panel is, there are no statistic about your resource usage, like RAM, Storage Disk, Processor and Bandwidth usage history, but don't worry, just continue reading, you will understand where to find that missing part.

Another Feature :

This feature must be set first when you choose plan before you buy the plan

- Service and Upgrades

This is some special feature worth for upgrade it

- Full Monitoring - with additional charge of 9.99 EUR /Month you can enjoy special monitoring from contabo, like monitoring your available service that running on your VPS, get SMS about your VPS, Monitor online and offline VPS, and many more.

- You can get additional IP with only 2 EUR/Month.

- This feature i think the best Upgrade, "Instant Setup" with only 29.99 EUR (One Time Payment Only) your server can be ready to use without more configuration from user, in other words, Contabo will install all necessary package that you need and configure it, so there are no conflict in your server, just let the pros do the job, after it finish, you or your user can use VPS without problems.

- Administration Panel

In this feature, Contabo will offer you if you want to Install Webmin and LAMP, both feature are FREE, and Contabo will configure it for you, so you don't need to install it again.

Webmin = Webmin is a free control panel for VPS, there are a lot of configuration you can do from here, rather than manual setting from terminal, it really decrease time for configure VPS, you can install package to from here, Webmin interface is not glamour or elegant, just simple, but with many option, it makes webmin can compete with other commercial control panel.

LAMP = Linux Apache MySQL PHP, Contabo also offer FREE install for that package, a most usefull package if you running VPS, Even LAMP is free, but still need time to Install and Configure it, so better let Contabo do that for us.

- VNC Access
This feature is enabled by default, you will get the login information by email when your payment is already processed and approved.

This is one of Contabo VPS Feature, you can rescue your VPS when you inaccidentally damage it, or get an external attack from "unauthorized person", it use System Recovery from (http://www.sysresccd.org/) it comes with some handy tool to recover your system, or even adjust created partition using GPARTED, you can search the tutorial there.

From this Feature, you also can reinstall your OS, so what the diffrent with reinstall feature from Control Panel??? The diffrent is, if you reinstall from VPS Control Panel, you can choose many diffrent OS from the list, but if you reinstall with VNC Access, you only can reinstall OS, with previous OS that you already install before.

Speedtest.net Result

https://www.speedtest.net/result/4491387083.png

Try Installing

• PPTP VPN - http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/tutorial-install-pptp-vpn-on-centos-6.html
• VestaCP - http://www.angelimus.com/2015/07/how-to-install-vestacp-on-centos.html

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EthernetServer.com VPS Host Review

Hello again, First i want to say Thanks to EthernetServers.com for provide me trial VPS with 2G Plan for review. Now we will start reviewing a VPS from EthernetServer.com, never heard before? yeah, me too, maybe we are too young to know the fact that is that VPS Host is exist, not only exist, but i think its good enough, i have propose the trial for this VPS, espesially in 4Gb Memory plan.

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz

Number of cores : 4

CPU frequency :  3392.357 MHz

Total amount of ram : 2048 MB

Total amount of swap : 0 MB

System uptime :   56 min,

Download speed from CacheFly: 43.9MB/s

Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 20.3MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 7.24MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 932KB/s

Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 1.30MB/s

Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 3.98MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.09MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 1.62MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 1.44MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 40.7MB/s

I/O speed :  690 MB/s

Benchmark Result (By Geekbench.com)

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/2841242

Geekbench Score

Single-Core Score 3090 - Multi-Core Score 7655

Angelimus Score

253.112

(Plan Ram 2GB)

Note : SSH Port in Here are not using port 22, for security reason EthernetServers change the port, i will not mention the port, to avoid brute ssh.

(Previous Day Scene)
I have contact their Customer Service by email, and has been redirected into their Sales Promotion Team, and finally spoke with "The Person" i don't mention name :P, the respon for that is quite fast, and very kind, they offer me server in Buffalo, NY for trial with the spec as i requested.

And i request to review their VPS and post it on my blog which is angelimus.blogspot.com the old domain, and now is Angelimus.com.

They gave the permission, its nice.

Now, from the value side, it has diffrence in what they offer in website and their promo, promo are not mentioned in their official website, it's a special offer, i have verified with ethernet server, and it's valid. But until when? for this time it's still valid until next confirmation.

      

Last check : June, 25 2015

Terms of Service

Before you buy service, you must read the Terms from EthernetServers.com

(https://www.ethernetservers.com/terms)

Examples of unacceptable content or links: 

- Unsolicited Mail (Spamming) 

>> no mass mailing

- Distributing illegal copies of copyrighted software or Warez 

>> can't host illegal warez from anywhere including torrent. 

- Violations of copyrights, trademarks or U.S laws

- Selling and/or distributing illegal contraband

- Anything related to IRC

- Hacking Tools and/or programs 

>> Including hacking script using python, bash, etc.

>> Including Metasploit, even if you are a pentester, so there are no exception for this matter.

>> Including Port Scanner too :P, so no hacking activity too, even if your reason is for security purpose.

- File Sharing, Image Galleries, Image Hosting, and/or Storage sites

- Escrow sites

- Investment sites

- AutoSurf sites

- Banking sites

- Lottery sites

VPS CPU Usage

We operate a fair-share CPU policy. CPU is not dedicated to any one VPS on a host machine, and as such, you are asked to moderate your usage and consider other people who are sharing the same hardware as you. We do not allow any other form of CPU intensive application such as Bitcoin Mining which can utilize a large amount of CPU. Our Management Team reserve the right to suspend any VPS' that we believe are using excessive CPU. Game servers are acceptable assuming they do not utilize too much CPU.

>> Max CPU Load is 1.00

Server Abuse

Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or customer of Ethernet Servers is strictly prohibited. As our customer you are responsible for all your accounts. Should you violate the Terms of Services outlined within, your account will be cancelled without chance of refund. 

Traffic Usage

All accounts that exceed bandwidth usage will be automatically suspended, it is up to the service owner to work with Ethernet Servers on a solution. 

I don't know about ADULT PORN material, but personally, i'm not agree with CHILD PORN.
-updated-

above are respond from EthernetServers.com about porn.
There are no restriction about Porn, it is legal, but it will be illegal if you don't have permission from the original author. Note that.

VPS Control Panel.

 You can reinstall your VPS Using Centos, Ubuntu, and Debian, all OS With 32 and 64 Bit Support

 you can activated this on statistic, by select time span.

Okay, Now we have VPS, let start installing.

1. Speed Test.

2. Access Root From PuTTY

3. Install MySQL (http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/install-mysql.html)

4. Install Wordpress
(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/part-4-installing-wordpress-to-centos-6.html)

5. Installing SSH Dropbear

(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/part-5-installing-ssh-dropbear.html)

if you follow my previous tutorial (link above), it said when starting dropbear at first time after install script will failed (Step 1, last picture), on this server, it's not failed, it success,

 but you still need input OPTIONS="-p 443"

in /etc/init.d/dropbear

in order Dropbear run in port "443"

Read the tutorial about SSH Dropbear for how to add user and connect it.

(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/part-5-installing-ssh-dropbear.html)

6. Install PPTP VPN
(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/tutorial-install-pptp-vpn-on-centos-6.html)

Before installing, go to Control Panel (vpanel.ethernetservers.com)

and turn on both TUN/TAP and PPP.

7. Install KDE (Tutorial Install KDE)

Remote VPS Server that running KDE Desktop using VNC From Windows 7

8. Wait a moment, come back later, you'll never regret it, promise... :P

For now, this is my review about EtherServers, for me, this VPS is quite good even only with 2GB of RAM, next review, we will try install Virtualmin and Webmin, i will post in here too.

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Evoburst.com VPS Host Review - Low Cost VPS

Hello Again, have you heard about evoburst.com ? for you the one who not know about that, it's a VPS Hosting that offering a good VPS Plan with high specification, but in low price.
I dont know for sure how it works, and what limitation in that, but one thing for sure, it's not scam :P, that is the most important things of all, lets we dig more about Evoburst.com.

Benchmark Result (by geekbench.com)

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/2813698

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU  X5650  @ 2.67GHz

Number of cores : 24

CPU frequency :  2659.966 MHz

Total amount of ram : 4096 MB

Total amount of swap : 0 MB

System uptime :   8 days, 18:31,

Download speed from CacheFly: 99.5MB/s

Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 19.6MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 53.6MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 11.1MB/s

Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 7.57MB/s

Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 6.49MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 11.5MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 70.8MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 95.5MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 4.67MB/s

I/O speed :  227 MB/s

Geekbench.com Score

Single-Core Score 1839 - Multi-Core Score 11688

Angelimus Score

397.86

(Based on Plan 4G)

Updated Info and Promo Code

EVOBURST.COM

10% off EvoBurst1G (Any Billing Term) - Coupon Code: EB1GJuly

20% off EvoBurst2G (Any Billing Term) - Coupon Code: EB2GJuly
25% off EvoBurst4G (Any Billing Term) - Coupon Code: EB4GJuly
30% off EvoBurst6G (Any Billing Term) - Coupon Code: EB5GJuly
30% off EvoBurst8G (Any Billing Term) - Coupon Code: EB8GJuly
50% off EvoBurst8G (Annually Billing) - Coupon Code: EB8GYJuly

BUDGETVZ.COM

20% off ANY BudgetVZ Product - Coupon Code: BVZJuly

MEGAVZ.COM

20% off ANY MegaVZ Products - Coupon Code: MEGAJuly

New Payment Method : Alipay

Last Update : July 16, 2015

First, READ the TOS (http://evoburst.com/terms.html), the TOS is really scary, so beware, you'll get banned if you break it. See below!!! Read Carefully

EvoBurst VPS Servers

1. Spamming (including search engine spam, doorways, form spamming, etc.)
2. Mass mailing of any type (including double opt-in)
3. DoS or other attacks (either outgoing or incoming)
4. Hacking (including situations when your VPS was hacked)
5. Distribution of malware/viruses - with or without knowledge
6. Port scanning
7. Copyrighted content/mp3/movies/cracked software or links to such content
8. Nested virtualization (running Qemu, etc)
9. Traffic Exchanges (Hitleap/AutoSurf/etc)
10. Open Proxies (Web etc due to High Abuse Rates)
11. Data mining (due to heavy I/O usage)

NanoVZ/MegaVZ & BudgetVZ VPS Servers

1. Spamming (including search engine spam, doorways, form spamming, etc.)
2. Mass mailing of any type (including double opt-in)
3. DoS or other attacks (either outgoing or incoming)
4. Hacking (including situations when your VPS was hacked)
5. Distribution of malware/viruses - with or without knowledge
6. Port scanning
7. Copyrighted content/mp3/movies/cracked software or links to such content
8. Torrents (Clients, Trackers or Indexers)
9. Nested virtualization (running Qemu, etc)
10. Traffic Exchanges (Hitleap/AutoSurf/etc)
11. @home Software (Seti, Hentai etc due to heavy I/O Usage)
12. Data mining (due to heavy I/O usage)
13. Open Proxies (Web etc due to High Abuse Rates)
14. TOR entry nodes, relays and exit nodes (ie. TOR is not allowed in ANY way)

With the very strict TOS, i can tell you, this server is for legal activity only, or in other word "Don't mess with this VPS Host"
Why? First, the price is very low, comparing to another competitor, Second, it's limited, Third i bet you cant find this offer again. Now, lets review some of EvoBurst VPS Plan (see below)

Evoburst4G

CPU : Fair Share 24+ Cores

Memory : 4GB RAM

HDD : 30GB SSD/SAS Disk Space

Bandwidth : 3TB Bandwidth

IP Address : 2 Dedicated IPv4

IPv6 : /64 IPv6 Subnet

Max VPS : 2 VPS Limit

Location : Seattle, Washington - Dronten, The Netherlands - Los Angeles, California

Price : €6.00

See Another VPS Plan : https://www.evobilling.com/cart.php

I already bought EvoBurst4G, first i test the connection speed (see pic below)

this is from location : Los Angeles, California

https://www.speedtest.net/result/4416318261.png

Now, lets go to Client Area

Let's go more detail

I use all resource into 1 VPS (EvoBurst4G Plan), but you can split it with equal resouce and create max 2 VPS, and you can create 4 VPS with EvoBurst6G (€10.00 EUR Monthly) and 8 VPS with EvoBurst8G (€20.00 EUR Monthly).

Note, you can create multiple VPS, as long you have enough resource, eg : You buy EvoBurst4G with 4GB Memory, in EvoBurst4G you can create 2 VPS, 1st VPS using 3GB memory, so your memory for 2nd VPS is just 1GB, it apply to Disk Space, Bandwidth, and IP Address.

There are Feature to Enable or Disable TUN/TAP

What is TUN/TAP

TUN (namely network TUNnel) simulates a network layer device and it operates with layer 3 packets like IP packets. TAP (namely network tap) simulates a link layer device and it operates with layer 2 packets like Ethernet frames. TUN is used with routing, while TAP is used for creating a network bridge.

Packets sent by an operating system via a TUN/TAP device are delivered to a user-space program which attaches itself to the device. A user-space program may also pass packets into a TUN/TAP device. In this case the TUN/TAP device delivers (or "injects") these packets to the operating-system network stack thus emulating their reception from an external source.

So far, what i know from tun / tap is its related into VPN PPTP (dont worry, will try installing later, just wait), Next,

Graphs about resource usage

Second, Control Panel.

Eq : you setup 2 VPS using Evoburst4G, and then you can manage it in here (see pic above)

all your VPS will listed there

Click on Manage

In this panel, you can Reboot, Shutdown, Boot, Reinstall OS, Enable TUN/TAP, Enable PPP, Configure Network, ETC.

Third, what can this VPS do???

In this part, i will test installing and using tutorial from part 2 to part 5 and do another tutorial with this VPS.

Part 2 - Access your VPS using PuTTY ✔ (see pic below)

PuTTY

Part 3 - Install mySQL in Centos 6 64Bit ✔ (see pic below)

Part 4 - Installing Wordpress to Centos 6 64Bit ✔ (see pic below)

Part 5 - Installing SSH Dropbear on Centos 6 64Bit ✔ (see pic below)

connect using bitvise

whatismyip.com

Tutorial Install PPTP VPN on Centos 6 64Bit ✔ (click link)

Tutorial Install KDE on Centos 6 64Bit ✔ (click link)

Install Virtualmin on Centos 6 64 Bit ✔ (click link)

Tutorial host multiple website using Virtualmin ✔ (click link)

How To Create Sub-Server Virtualmin ✔ (click link)

How To Create an Email Account for Virtualmin ✔ (click link)

How To Upgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.4 in Centos 6 ✔ (click link)

How To Create Sub-Domain in Virtualmin ✔ (click link)

Until this time (June,13,2015), i have test all my tutorial in evoburst.com without deleting anything, and without stopping unused process, so far the VPS is still running smoothly, and memory usage is 900-1500mb. Good Server.

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