
Recently got an email from Contabo about their new US St. Louis Data Center. Here is the email.
Dear Mr Content.id Today we have BIG news for you: We are launching a brand-new data center location in the USA, namely in St. Louis, Missouri. From now on, you can benefit from our made-in-Germany quality and great prices not only in the EU, but also in the US. In our US Location we offer VPS SSD series as well as our 10-Core Dedicated Server. Please visit our blog for more details on prices, data center setup and migration: https://blog.contabo.com/company/contabo-introduces-new-data-center-location-in-the-united-states/ USA was the most requested location among our customers so I hope you will benefit from our expansion across the pond. Best regards, Aleksander Kuczek Chief Revenue Officer
Great Prices
We keep the same base price for all our services in both EU and US locations. At the same time, we are introducing a Location Fee for our US location as the operating costs in the US (including electricity, cooling and data center floor) are higher. The Location Fee depends on the service you order:
VPS S SSD: +1 EUR / month
VPS M SSD: +2 EUR / month
VPS L SSD: +3 EUR / month
VPS XL SSD: +6 EUR / month
Dedicated Server 10-core: +20 EUR / month
For example, the price for VPS S SSD in US Location is 4.99 EUR + 1 EUR Location Fee, which is roughly 6.55 USD per month for 4 cores, 8 GB RAM, and 200 GB SSD disk space.
Contabo New US St. Louis Datacenter and Benchmark
Here is the Benchmark Test of Contabo New US St. Louis Data Center
nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh benchmark timestamp: 2020-04-07 01:06:52 UTC ------------------------------------------------- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz CPU cores: 4 Frequency: 2199.998 MHz RAM: 7.8G Swap: 2.0G Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-96-generic x86_64 Disks: sda 200G HDD CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB 4.049 seconds CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB 6.798 seconds CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB 2.082 seconds ioping: seek rate min/avg/max/mdev = 39.0 us / 67.5 us / 14.4 ms / 70.9 us ioping: sequential read speed generated 26.6 k requests in 5.00 s, 6.49 GiB, 5.32 k iops, 1.30 GiB/s dd: sequential write speed 1st run: 142.10 MiB/s 2nd run: 102.04 MiB/s 3rd run: 102.04 MiB/s average: 115.39 MiB/s IPv4 speedtests your IPv4: 209.126.0.xxxx Cachefly CDN: 23.29 MiB/s Leaseweb (NL): 10.75 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 13.82 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 0.12 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 8.22 MiB/s No IPv6 connectivity detected -------------------------------------------------
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## # # Yet-Another-Bench-Script # # v2020-02-10 # # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script # # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## # Tue Apr 7 16:30:39 CEST 2020 Basic System Information: --------------------------------- Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz CPU cores : 4 @ 2199.998 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled RAM : 7.8G Swap : 2.0G Disk : 196G fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50): --------------------------------- Block Size | 4kb (IOPS) | 64kb (IOPS) ------ | --- ---- | ---- ---- Read | 5.30 MB/s (1.3k) | 65.04 MB/s (1.0k) Write | 5.32 MB/s (1.3k) | 65.43 MB/s (1.0k) Total | 10.62 MB/s (2.6k) | 130.47 MB/s (2.0k) | | Block Size | 512kb (IOPS) | 1mb (IOPS) ------ | ----- ---- | --- ---- Read | 629.74 MB/s (1.2k) | 586.07 MB/s (572) Write | 663.20 MB/s (1.2k) | 625.10 MB/s (610) Total | 1.29 GB/s (2.5k) | 1.21 GB/s (1.1k) iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): --------------------------------- Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | | | Bouygues Telecom | Paris, FR (10G) | 179 Mbits/sec | 191 Mbits/sec Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 183 Mbits/sec | 190 Mbits/sec WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | busy | 191 Mbits/sec wilhelm.tel | Hamburg, DE (10G) | 176 Mbits/sec | 191 Mbits/sec Biznet | Bogor, Indonesia (1G) | 161 Mbits/sec | 90.1 Mbits/sec Hostkey | Moscow, RU (1G) | 177 Mbits/sec | 137 Mbits/sec Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 187 Mbits/sec | 197 Mbits/sec Performing IPv4 iperf3 send test to Airstream Communications (Attempt #1 of 10).Performing IPv4 iperf3 recv test from Airstream Communications (Attempt #1 of 10Airstream Communications | Eau Claire, WI, US (10G) | 192 Mbits/sec | 199 Mbits/sec Hurricane Electric | Fremont, CA, US (10G) | 189 Mbits/sec | 197 Mbits/sec Performing Geekbench 5 benchmark test. This may take a couple minutes to completGeekbench 5 Benchmark Test: --------------------------------- Test | Value | Single Core | 616 Multi Core | 2298 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1712798