Ionos £1 VPS Review
What's the deal?
UK Cost: £1.20 (Including VAT) - 12 Month Contract
US Cost: $2 - 1 Month Contract
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VPS Linux XS Specs:
- 1 vCPU
- 1GB RAM
- 10GB NVME
- IPv4 and IPv6
- 1Gbit Port
- Unlimited Transfer
Other benefits:
- Firewall
- DDoS Protection
Locations: UK, US, Germany, Spain, France
These are great little boxes if you don't need much horsepower. I personally have a couple of these, one is currently hosting this blog. Granted I've converted it to be static as 1GB/1CPU isn't powerfull enough to run Ghost CMS. The other I use for the public IPv4 which I can then port forward to my router with Wireguard. As I'm stuck behind a CG-NAT it's either this or pay £5/month to my ISP.
I've not had any issues with uptime while running these boxes. I did have some issues in the early days with packet loss this was when the network port was capped at 400 Mbits. It looks like Ionos are now deploying VPSs in a different datacenter and with 1Gbit ports, happy to say I've not had any packet loss issues on the new VPSs.
I've run a YABS benchmark which can be found at the end of this post. The NVMEs seem slightly on the slow side when testing with 4k blocks all the other block sizes are fairly good, I guess for £1 you can't really complain!
CPU
I scored 700 with Geekbench6 on the Intel Xeon CPU. My other VPS has a AMD EPYC CPU. These are both meant to be in the same datacenter so it will be pot luck with CPU you end up with.
Networking
One thing to note is that IPv6 is not enabled by default but can be done for free via the control panel without rebooting the VPS.
The IP of my recently purchased VPS seems to locate to Germany on quite a few GeoIP databases, I'm guessing this will be updated in the coming weeks.
These come with 1Gbit ports and unlimited transfer, I wasn't even able to find the fair usage small print. They do say "We won't throttle or restrict traffic at any time, so you never have to worry about limits or extra costs.". The iperf network tests are contantly hitting over 1Gbit, the highest I've observed was 3.65Gbit download and 1.9Gbit upload, very impressive!
Network Speed:
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.87 Gbits/sec | 3.48 Gbits/sec | 1.46 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.86 Gbits/sec | 3.65 Gbits/sec | 7.93 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 1.90 Gbits/sec | 3.26 Gbits/sec | 14.1 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 454 Mbits/sec | 1.02 Gbits/sec | 191 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.74 Gbits/sec | 374 Mbits/sec | 74.3 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 1.68 Gbits/sec | 1.71 Gbits/sec | 107 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.04 Gbits/sec | 1.25 Gbits/sec | 133 ms
Firewall Setting
Although you can always use a tool such as [UFW](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncomplicated_Firewall) to manage a firewall on the VPS. I always prefer to have my firewall separate from the VPS. The main reason for this is Docker and how it doesn't play nicely with iptables. Previously I was under the assumption there was a firewall in place but Docker was just bypassing it, not very helpful...
Ionos has a basic interface for managing this, with changes being deployed almost instantly.
YABS
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Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 1 days, 21 hours, 29 minutes
Processor : Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores : 1 @ 2100.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 942.4 MiB
Swap : 1024.0 MiB
Disk : 9.8 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-15-cloud-amd64
VM Type : MICROSOFT
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP : IONOS SE
ASN : AS8560 IONOS SE
Host : Ionos
Location : City of Westminster, England (ENG)
Country : United Kingdom
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 40.02 MB/s (10.0k) | 498.01 MB/s (7.7k)
Write | 40.12 MB/s (10.0k) | 500.63 MB/s (7.8k)
Total | 80.15 MB/s (20.0k) | 998.64 MB/s (15.6k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 474.75 MB/s (927) | 469.26 MB/s (458)
Write | 499.98 MB/s (976) | 500.51 MB/s (488)
Total | 974.73 MB/s (1.9k) | 969.78 MB/s (946)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.87 Gbits/sec | 3.48 Gbits/sec | 1.46 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | 1.86 Gbits/sec | 3.65 Gbits/sec | 7.93 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 1.90 Gbits/sec | 3.26 Gbits/sec | 14.1 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 454 Mbits/sec | 1.02 Gbits/sec | 191 ms
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.74 Gbits/sec | 374 Mbits/sec | 74.3 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 1.68 Gbits/sec | 1.71 Gbits/sec | 107 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.04 Gbits/sec | 1.25 Gbits/sec | 133 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 1.81 Gbits/sec | 2.92 Gbits/sec | 2.21 ms
Scaleway | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | busy | 9.88 ms
NovoServe | North Holland, NL (40G) | 1.82 Gbits/sec | 1.73 Gbits/sec | 9.39 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | busy | busy | --
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 1.62 Gbits/sec | 1.12 Gbits/sec | 74.4 ms
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 1.27 Gbits/sec | 1.02 Gbits/sec | 111 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1000 Mbits/sec | 1.06 Gbits/sec | 135 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 700
Multi Core | 502
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3999447
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