1.1 My Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Recently, I decided again to maintain a VPS for different projects. After some investigation I found an attractive product at netcup GmbH. I wanted an European provider with flexible DNS configuration at reasonable prices.

I looked first for an ARM64 based system but those were sold out. So I chose an x86 based VPS.

The selected product is called VPS 1000 G11 which has following properties:

• Location: Somewhere in Europe. I got Vienna in Austria.
• KVM based virtualization
• 4 vCores (x86)
• 8 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
• 256 GB SSD
• 2.5 Gb/s network connection
• IPv4 address inclusive
• IPv6 /64-Net
• unlimited network traffic

The provisioning of the VPS took only some minutes with a pre-installed Debian OS. Since I am more familiar with Ubuntu I re-installed the server with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.