First impressions from CEUservers.net
It has been just a week, but this period is enough for a first attempt to do an initial review about this Czech company selling dedis. The dedi is their... “free giveaway promo” of 1$ per month! Yes, some very lucky people (like me, this time!) grabbed their advertised promo of 1$ recurring server with those specs:
Intel Celeron G1620
8GB RAM
1x 120GB SSD
100Mbps unmetered
/29 of Ips (5 usable)
Incredible?
Server is located in Czech, in their own datacenter.
I initially ordered the server with debian 7. I later (2 days after) asked them to change it to proxmox bare metal. They fulfill my request in 7 hours!
Their control panel does not offer automatic reinstalls or reboots, so, it has to be done via ticket. Their responses till now are very fast and the responses are very polite and professional, for both technical support and sales/billing.
The server is up for 5 days now without a single hickup and with very good performance. Speed from Czech to Greece are very good :
Download: 40.48 Mbit/s
Upload: 49.65 Mbit/s.
Speeds to closest server are very good:
Testing from CEU Servers s.r.o. (xx.xxx.xx.xxx)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Nej TV a.s. (Prague) [0.00 km]: 10.851 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 91.86 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 89.76 Mbit/s
Share results: https://www.speedtest.net/result/4511491745.png
I/O speed is as it should be:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.8697 s, 220 MB/s
I installed already 2 vps there, the additional ips are working like a charm and the first vps (with 10 sites joomla/wp loaded there) has this benchmark (access to 1 core, 1 GB memory, 2 GB swap, 40 GB HDD):
UnixBench score: 1490.0
I/O rate: 243.0 MB/second
Bandwidth rate: 10.9 MB/second
The only thing that I would like to see, is a control panel for reboots / reinstalls, but they say that they offer them 24/7 thru tickets.
I know that the price is not for paying the service, just for opening an active account. This server is for free! If the stability, support and attitude to customers are near close what I experienced at the initial signup and my first week there, CEUservers.net are highly recommended!
The normal prices for servers are not high and, as I saw in their site, are fair enough with /29, ipv6 and options for inmetered bandwidth.
I also know that it is just been 1 week. So, I will keep monitoring closely the service, and will do an update in the near future!