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HostSlick's new EU location launch deal worth it?

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center807

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8 #1

Looking at their pre-order page for the "Amsterdam-adjacent" facility. Redundant feeds advertised, N+1 cooling mentioned but no specifics on generator runtime. Enterprise-grade network with "premium blend" upstreams—typical launch language.

The pricing: 2GB KVM at €2.50/mo if you commit to 12 months upfront. No monthly option. No refund policy stated.

I asked sales about actual facility location and got "within the Amsterdam metro fiber ring." Deflected my power density question to "our sales team."

Anyone actually pre-ordered? I need to know if this is another KnownHost situation where "EU location" meant a reseller cage in Frankfurt with 80ms last-mile routing.

My use case is redundant feeds for a secondary monitoring node. Not critical, but I do not enjoy explaining to management why our "enterprise-grade" backup path is down.

marcus_qc

Member

#2
center807 said:
Anyone actually pre-ordered?

If (preorder) {
Return "technical debt";
}

I bash out a curl script to check their looking glass every 10 min via cron

So far packet loss is idempotent—always 3% at peak

My technical debt is I havent automated the refund request yet

42U and still growing
Aleksi

Member

#3

I preordered on launch day. My VM provisioned in six hours. Routing to my home ISP is acceptable at 28ms. I have not stress tested beyond iperf3 for ten minutes. The network feels comparable to my old InterServer instance in Secaucus — https://www.interserver.net/vps/ — though obviously further from me. I would not call it a bargain but it is not a scam either

-- Marcus

olya

Member

Always Free

#4

Pro tip: skip the pre-order entirely and grab an Oracle free tier ARM instance in Amsterdam. I have run my secondary monitoring there for 14 months with zero billing surprises.

Heads up: you need to check compartment quotas before provisioning. Steps:

  • Create compartment for isolation
  • Request ARM quota if not visible
  • Use Ubuntu 22.04 minimal, not their "optimized" image
  • Set up OCI monitoring alarms on day one or they suspend without notice

The HostSlick deal is fine if you need x86 specifically. For anything else, Oracle covers this use case at zero cost.

licensing is a suggestion
PU

Member

#5

N+1 cooling with no runtime figure? That's not a spec, that's marketing.

AL

Member

#6

"Amsterdam metro fiber ring" is not a location, it's a sales deflection

kasper_quelle

Member

Uptime Junkie

4 #7
olya said:
Oracle free tier ARM instance in Amsterdam

I tried this twice. First time: account terminated after 89 days for "suspicious activity" with zero appeal path. Second time: quota request denied with no explanation. Oracle's free tier is a lottery, not infrastructure.

For €2.50 I would rather pay HostSlick and have someone to invoice when it breaks.

center807

Member OP

#8
marcus_qc said:
If (preorder) { Return "technical debt"; } I bash out a curl script to check their looking glass every 10 min via cron So far packet loss...

That's not idempotent, that's consistently bad. Different thing.

But useful data. What hours are you measuring? CET business hours or Montreal local?

marcus_qc

Member

#9
center807 said:
What hours are you measuring?

00:00-23:59 UTC. The loss is not time-correlated in any way I can detect. Random 3% like someone configured a broken QoS rule and left for lunch.

My cron is literally:

*/10 * * * * curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}" https://lg.hostslick.com/...

Not science. Sufficient for my risk model.

42U and still growing
Aleksi

Member

#10

I ran mtr for six hours to their looking glass from my Helsinki flat. No packet loss. Either marcus_qc hits a congested peer or the issue is geographic. My trace goes through Stockholm, his likely through London or New York.

Geographic routing asymmetry: the hobbyist's eternal blind spot.

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