Informaten, a German hosting provider, recently joined the LowEnd community and shared their first offer this morning and it’s pretty impressive.  Check this out:

• 4 vCores (AMD EPYC)
• 16 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
• 100 GB NVMe SSD
• Unmetered @ 10 Gbit/s (fair use)
• 1x IPv4 included
• 3 Backups
• +3.2 Tbit/s DDoS Protection
• Price: €7.99/month – No setup fee
• [LowEndTalk Thread]

You should also see the YABS!  Quite impressive disk performance.

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Tue Jul 22 05:36:33 PM CEST 2025

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 1 hours, 34 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 12 @ 2449.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 29.2 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 96.9 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 25.04
Kernel     : 6.14.0-23-generic
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : Oliver Horscht is trading as "SYNLINQ"
ASN        : AS44486 Oliver Horscht is trading as "SYNLINQ"
Host       : Synlinq
Location   : Frankfurt am Main, Hesse (HE)
Country    : Germany

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 280.29 MB/s  (70.0k) | 3.30 GB/s    (51.7k)
Write      | 281.03 MB/s  (70.2k) | 3.32 GB/s    (51.9k)
Total      | 561.33 MB/s (140.3k) | 6.63 GB/s   (103.6k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 10.53 GB/s   (20.5k) | 13.80 GB/s   (13.4k)
Write      | 11.08 GB/s   (21.6k) | 14.72 GB/s   (14.3k)
Total      | 21.62 GB/s   (42.2k) | 28.53 GB/s   (27.8k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 7.91 Gbits/sec  | 5.64 Gbits/sec  | 14.3 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 9.10 Gbits/sec  | 10.1 Gbits/sec  | 6.98 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 663 Mbits/sec   | 1.92 Gbits/sec  | 93.9 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 995 Mbits/sec   | 1.50 Gbits/sec  | 160 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.13 Gbits/sec  | 1.41 Gbits/sec  | 146 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.93 Gbits/sec  | 3.22 Gbits/sec  | 81.8 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 1.07 Gbits/sec  | 274 Mbits/sec   | 172 ms

**Geekbench:** https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12974110

Service is in Frankfurt.

So who is Informaten?  Here’s a Google-provided translation:

raindog308

Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.

Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.

His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.

You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.