Welcome, HostShield! They’ve been in the game for a few years and are offering some cheap KVMs in the Netherlands:
- Get a 2GB system with 20GB of disk and 1TB of transfer for $35.99/year!
- Or get a 4GB system with 2TB of transfer for $59.99/year!
Awesome, guys. HostShield is registered in UK. Their Terms of Service is available on their web site. They accept Bitcoin, Perfect Money, Stripe, and Paypal.
This is their first appearance on LowEndBox. Have you been a customer? Let the community know how it went, or if you decide to sign up now, be sure to come back and tell us how the service is.
Here’s a little about HostShield in their own words:
“Prior to 2018, Hostshield hosting company was developed by a young and tech-savvy team who followed their passion and dreams and decided to invest in the VPS industry. In that time, such investments were challenging due to market saturation and high competition. Hostshield’s main goal is to offer customers an exceptional experience with the lowest prices. For more than three years, we’ve been successfully growing and providing our services for hundred of customers all around the world. Behind our success story, stands a competent team who is committed to achieve the growth of our company.”
Now read more to see the offers!
KVM Yearly I
| KVM Yearly II
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NETWORK INFO:
- Cellnex Tower, Lelystad, Netherlands, Europe
- Test IPv4: 193.142.59.82
- Test file: http://lg-lelystad.hostshield.net/100MB.test
- Looking glass: http://lg-lelystad.hostshield.net/
HOST NODE INFO:
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v2 @ 2.40GHz
- 384GB RAM
- 5x 1TB SSDs
- Hardware RAID10
- 1Gbps uplink
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Hello everyone,
I’m Jad Hanna the owner of Hostshield LTD, I’m glad to help you if you need any assistance.
Best regards
Just ordered KVM Yearly I, doing some tests.
I/O perfomance just terrible. Large file write speed
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=500M count=7
7+0 records in
7+0 records out
3670016000 bytes (3.7 GB, 3.4 GiB) copied, 352.021 s, 10.4 MB/s ←←←←←←←←←← 10 MB/s ?????
Disk latency writing small chunks
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=800000
800000+0 records in
800000+0 records out
409600000 bytes (410 MB, 391 MiB) copied, 40.6274 s, 10.1 MB/s ←←←←←←←←←←←←← are you kidding?
Something badly misconfigured, or I don’t know…
Resolved fast, thanks.