Introduction

So I had an old laptop that I was using as Homelab, but last week I sent it back home so my younger brother could use it with for his school. So I required to have a server which I could have used as homelap but I don’t want to spent a lot on it, so began searching for such options and came across Netcup. So today I will share my 4 months journey with Netcup server.

Why Netcup

Well we had a lot of providers in market but the primary reason I went with Netcup is due to its good reputation in reddit community and the affordabilty, I was not planing to put in a lot of money for hobby projects. But still the other options are there like Hetzner was closed alternative to Netcup in terms of pricing. Then Digital Ocean a very well praised name in developers community, there VPS statrts at $4/month as well.

Uptime

I have never noticed very big downtimes in last 4 months though, recently they terminated my server and the reason was that they experienced so mining activities on it, and they took it down without any notice or backup window, that’s why its good for experimental project but not a project with real users. I had requested a ticket and there is some delay but its already been more than 7+ days and I haven’t got the server back up running. So its not a big deal as I don’t mind waiting for it since its only have experimental services only. Apart from that in general the server have good uptime and the only problem is they terminate/stop the server withot any prior notice in case of suspicious activies detected by them. Apart from that I will rate it very good its value for money.

That’s all from my side its just a review that I wanted to share about netcup.