This forum saved me from a $2,000 mistake

I wanted to share a quick thank-you to this community, specifically to @LichunLars who replied to my thread last month about dedicated server contracts.

— Context: I was about to sign a 24-month term with a provider (not Contabo) offering what looked like an amazing deal on a "dedicated" EPYC box.
— The catch: Lars pointed out the routing table in their own looking glass showed the server was actually sitting on a shared hypervisor with noisy-neighbor disk IO patterns.
— I ran the yabs benchmark myself and confirmed:

• Disk IO: 180 MB/s (should be 2,000+ on NVMe dedicated)
• Network: routed via consumer-grade ASN
• Support SLA: 99.9% with 72-hour response clause hidden in addendum

I cancelled before the cooling-off period expired. The provider is now in a PE acquisition thread here, so I dodged two bullets.

— Jane @ Contabo

P.S. — Happy to check any Contabo quotes via DM if useful, though this isn't a sales post.

Route via 1299 adds 4ms
Route via 3356 adds 11ms
Their route via 174 adds 38ms and packet loss 2.3%

Was obvious once you look at the path. traceroute dont lie

Host                          Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.1.1               0.0%    10    0.5   0.6   0.4   1.2   0.2
2. provider.edge             0.0%    10    1.2   1.4   1.1   2.8   0.5
3. 10.244.1.1               20.0%    10   12.3  15.1  11.2  45.6   9.8

Hypervisor hop at hop 3, dead giveaway

I remember your thread, no? You was very worried about the contract in server, to backup, to migration. The clause little clause about the early termination fee was the worst, no?

I have similar story from last year with GreenCloudVPS, no? The control panel was the cPanel but modified, no standard backup, no? I ask in forum and people say "run away". I run away. Szerwer from them still spam me with offers.

Is good when community helps, no?

https://greencloudvps.com

Glad you saved the money
Was good thread
The routing table analysis
Especially the hypervisor detection
I have tabs open from that thread still
Code is life
Life is tabs
Never trust provider with 72-hour SLA
Just tabs