Black Friday from $20/year! Taiwan - California - Amsterdam | ASIA/CHINA Optimized | KVM | SSD

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edited November 2020 in Offers

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All of our Virtual Server packages include the following fantastic features:
24/7 Support
7 Day Money Back Guarantee
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
Instant Setup
Asia Server Location: Taipei, Taiwan (ASIA/CHINA Optimized)
EU Servers Location: Wormer, Netherlands
US Servers Location: San Jose, California (ASIA Optimized)
100% SSD Storage
AES-NI Enabled
KVM Virtualization
Virtualizor Control Panel
Custom OS ISO Available
DDoS Protection
Enterprise Hardware

TW Network: NTT, China Mobile International, HiNet, peering in TPIX and TWIX
US Network: China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Telia, NTT, GTT NLayer, HE and Cogent
EU Network: AMX-IX, HE.NET, RETN, Core-Backbone and NTT Communications

Network Test
Taipei, Taiwan: 103.131.189.27 / 2403:cfc0:1004:0000:0000:0000:056e:3edd
San Jose US: sj-test.softshellhosting.com
Wormer NL: ams-test.softshellhosting.com


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Taiwan - Taipei

KVM-SSD-1GB-BF2020 - $30/year - Buy Now
CPU: 1 Core
RAM: 1 GB ECC
Disk Space: 20 GB SSD
200 GB @ 1 Gbps
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet
Custom OS ISO Available
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

KVM-SSD-2GB-BF2020 - $50/year - Buy Now
CPU: 2 Core
RAM: 2 GB ECC
Disk Space: 40 GB SSD
350 GB @ 1 Gbps
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet
Custom OS ISO Available
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

KVM-SSD-3GB-BF2020 - $70/year - Buy Now
CPU: 3 Core
RAM: 3 GB ECC
Disk Space: 40 GB SSD
500 GB @ 1 Gbps
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet
Custom OS ISO Available
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

USA/EU

KVM-SSD-1GB-BF2020 - $7/quart or $20/year - Buy US | Buy EU
CPU: 1 Core
RAM: 1 GB ECC
Disk Space: 20 GB SSD
2000 GB @ 1 Gbps (connection speed is limited to 50Mbit when bandwidth exceeded)
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet (EU ONLY)
DDoS Protection (In-House) Included
Custom OS ISO Available
Location USA: San Jose, California
Location EU: Wormer, Netherlands

KVM-SSD-2GB-BF2020 - $10/quart or $30/year - Buy US | Buy EU
CPU: 2 Core
RAM: 2 GB ECC
Disk Space: 40 GB SSD
4000 GB @ 1 Gbps (connection speed is limited to 100Mbit when bandwidth exceeded)
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet (EU ONLY)
DDoS Protection (In-House) Included
Custom OS ISO Available
Location USA: San Jose, California
Location EU: Wormer, Netherlands

KVM-SSD-3GB-BF2020 - $13/quart or $40/year - Buy US | Buy EU
CPU: 3 Core
RAM: 3 GB ECC
Disk Space: 60 GB SSD
6000 GB @ 1 Gbps (connection speed is limited to 100Mbit when bandwidth exceeded)
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet (EU ONLY)
DDoS Protection (In-House) Included
Custom OS ISO Available
Location USA: San Jose, California
Location EU: Wormer, Netherlands

KVM-SSD-4GB-BF2020 - $16/quart or $50/year - Buy US | Buy EU
CPU: 4 Core
RAM: 4 GB ECC
Disk Space: 80 GB SSD
8000 GB @ 1 Gbps (connection speed is limited to 100Mbit when bandwidth exceeded)
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
DDoS Protection 10+ Gbps(In-House) Included
Custom OS ISO Available
Location USA: San Jose, California
Location EU: Wormer, Netherlands

KVM-SSD-5GB-BF2020 - $19/quart or $60/year - Buy US | Buy EU
CPU: 5 Core
RAM: 5 GB ECC
Disk Space: 100 GB SSD
10000 GB @ 1 Gbps (connection speed is limited to 100Mbit when bandwidth exceeded)
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet (EU ONLY)
DDoS Protection (In-House) Included
Custom OS ISO Available
Location USA: San Jose, California
Location EU: Wormer, Netherlands

KVM-SSD-6GB-BF2020 - $21/quart or $70/year - Buy US | Buy EU
CPU: 6 Core
RAM: 6 GB ECC
Disk Space: 120 GB SSD
12000 GB @ 1 Gbps (connection speed is limited to 100Mbit when bandwidth exceeded)
Dedicated IPv4: 1x
Dedicated IPv6: /64 Subnet (EU ONLY)
DDoS Protection (In-House) Included
Custom OS ISO Available
Location USA: San Jose, California
Location EU: Wormer, Netherlands


Common FAQ

Q: Is your Taipain Taiwan locaiton optimized for China/Asia?
A: Yes we offer great peering on our Premium netowrk to China and other parts of Asia!

Q: What does China/Asia optimized mean(San Jose, US)?
A: We use multiple Tier 1 providers such as China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Telia, NTT, GTT NLayer, HE and Cogent.

Q: Do you offer ddos Protection?
A: Yes, all our hosting plans come with DDoS Protection included(excluding Taiwan) into the price. Our inhouse DDoS Mitigation can filter Attacks up to 500+ Gbps.

Q: Do you block any ports?
A: We block the most common ports used for DDoS and SPAM abuse. For mor information please visit our website

Q: Can I Install a Custom OS ISO Available?
A: Yes, you can upload your Custom OS ISO Available inside the Virtualizor control panel.

Q: Does SoftShellWeb have any reviews?
A: Yes! You can find plenty of SoftShellWeb reviews on LowEndSpirit inside our past offer discussions.

Q: Are there any hidden charges?
A: No! Not with us, there are no hidden charges with any of SoftShellWeb's services or products.

Q: Where are the servers located?
A: The servers are located in Wormer, Netherlands and San Jose, California.

Q: Is SoftShellWeb a reseller?
A: No, SoftShellWeb is not a reseller. We own all of our equipment and constantly expanding our capacities.

Q: Do you offer a money back guarantee?
A: Yes, we offer a 7 day money back gurantee on our Special Plans. Try us 100% Risk Free!

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A: Yes this is fine as long as it is legal within the EU and USA.

Q: Do you have an affiliate program?
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A: Please open a support ticket, our staff will manually review your order.


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Comments

  • Typo? lol The Taiwan VPS BW so mini. :/

    KVM-SSD-2GB-BF2020 - Disk Space: 40 GB SSD
    KVM-SSD-3GB-BF2020 - Disk Space: 20 GB SSD

    In every democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
    ~Alexis de Tocqueville

  • @hide1hide said:
    Typo? lol The Taiwan VPS BW so mini. :/

    KVM-SSD-2GB-BF2020 - Disk Space: 40 GB SSD
    KVM-SSD-3GB-BF2020 - Disk Space: 20 GB SSD

    Even highly oversold networks have less than 1TB bandwidth per VPS in Taiwan, and the second part is just a copy paste error.

  • SoftShellWebSoftShellWeb Hosting Provider

    @hide1hide @AC_Fan

    Hi,

    Sorry about the typo, has been fixed!

    Our bandwidth is not oversold and we do not wish to saturate our network, that way all our clients can experience an equal quality network. Our Taiwan location offers an optimized route to China, with low latency! :)

  • edited November 2020

    San Jose location is truly China optimized. RTT from all three carriers are under 200ms.

    Worldwide traceroute: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/28283003/

    Too bad there's no IPv6.

    ServerFactory aff best VPS; HostBrr aff best storage.

  • purchased. is I/O limited?

    I/O Speed(1st run) : 138 MB/s
    I/O Speed(2nd run) : 103 MB/s
    I/O Speed(3rd run) : 110 MB/s
    Average I/O speed : 117.0 MB/s

  • @kyaky said:
    purchased. is I/O limited?

    I/O Speed(1st run) : 138 MB/s
    I/O Speed(2nd run) : 103 MB/s
    I/O Speed(3rd run) : 110 MB/s
    Average I/O speed : 117.0 MB/s

    Can you post the full benchmark? I'd like to see the CPU and bandwidth situation.

    ServerFactory aff best VPS; HostBrr aff best storage.

  • @SoftShellWeb Didn't mean to imply you are overselling, I just know of a few providers in that region with highly oversold networks, that still offer less than 1TB bandwidth. So, somebody who is trying to offer quality will obviously have less bandwidth.

  • Node: ca-ssd.softshellhosting.com

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2020-11-20                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Thu Nov 26 20:09:28 CST 2020
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2430L v2 @ 2.40GHz
    CPU cores  : 2 @ 2394.230 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM        : 1.8 GiB
    Swap       : 2.0 GiB
    Disk       : 39.3 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 21.87 MB/s    (5.4k) | 236.85 MB/s   (3.7k)
    Write      | 21.89 MB/s    (5.4k) | 238.09 MB/s   (3.7k)
    Total      | 43.76 MB/s   (10.9k) | 474.95 MB/s   (7.4k)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 798.93 MB/s   (1.5k) | 819.69 MB/s    (800)
    Write      | 841.38 MB/s   (1.6k) | 874.28 MB/s    (853)
    Total      | 1.64 GB/s     (3.2k) | 1.69 GB/s     (1.6k)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 545 Mbits/sec   | 677 Mbits/sec
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 541 Mbits/sec   | 622 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 583 Mbits/sec   | 552 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 630 Mbits/sec   | 756 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | busy
    
    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 273
    Multi Core      | 444
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5003366
    
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    In every democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
    ~Alexis de Tocqueville

  • edited November 2020

    @yoursunny said:

    @kyaky said:
    purchased. is I/O limited?

    I/O Speed(1st run) : 138 MB/s
    I/O Speed(2nd run) : 103 MB/s
    I/O Speed(3rd run) : 110 MB/s
    Average I/O speed : 117.0 MB/s

    Can you post the full benchmark? I'd like to see the CPU and bandwidth situation.

    I can tell you, i got 5 Chinese guys tested. South of CHina CM is ok. CU CT are close to "not usable".

    Kernel : 3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64
    TCP CC : cubic
    Virtualization : KVM
    Organization : AS9678 HostingInside LTD.
    Location : Singapore / SG
    Region : Singapore

    I/O Speed(1st run) : 138 MB/s
    I/O Speed(2nd run) : 103 MB/s
    I/O Speed(3rd run) : 110 MB/s

    Average I/O speed : 117.0 MB/s

    Node Name Upload Speed Download Speed Latency
    Speedtest.net 265.30 Mbps 543.49 Mbps 57.38 ms
    Beijing CU 34.69 Mbps 287.25 Mbps 196.49 ms
    Shanghai CT 0.81 Mbps 693.16 Mbps 103.06 ms
    Shanghai CU 104.65 Mbps 127.36 Mbps 134.20 ms
    Shenzhen CU 3.72 Mbps 133.63 Mbps 258.48 ms
    Shenzhen CM 541.26 Mbps 957.54 Mbps 36.12 ms
    Hongkong CN 792.69 Mbps 813.03 Mbps 23.57 ms
    Singapore SG 430.85 Mbps 848.23 Mbps 57.13 ms
    Tokyo JP 57.40 Mbps 488.55 Mbps 32.47 ms

  • I guess about 20 VM already sold the IO in taiwan node dropped from 110mb/s to 60mb

    ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

    Yet-Another-Bench-Script

    v2020-11-20

    https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

    ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

    Thu Nov 26 07:36:21 EST 2020

    Basic System Information:

    Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz
    CPU cores : 1 @ 2693.508 MHz
    AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM : 991.0 MiB
    Swap : 1024.0 MiB
    Disk : 19.6 GiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

    Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 39.77 MB/s (9.9k) 64.58 MB/s (1.0k)
    Write 39.85 MB/s (9.9k) 64.95 MB/s (1.0k)
    Total 79.63 MB/s (19.9k) 129.53 MB/s (2.0k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 65.55 MB/s (128) 69.17 MB/s (67)
    Write 68.92 MB/s (134) 73.77 MB/s (72)
    Total 134.47 MB/s (262) 142.94 MB/s (139)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 306 Mbits/sec | 115 Mbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 237 Mbits/sec | 164 Mbits/sec

  • @kyaky said: taiwan node dropped from 110m

    What do you expect if everyone's running benchmarks like there's no tomorrow? I'm quite sure the I/O will improve again.

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  • edited November 2020

    @Brueggus said:

    @kyaky said: taiwan node dropped from 110m

    What do you expect if everyone's running benchmarks like there's no tomorrow? I'm quite sure the I/O will improve again.

    doesn't matter, I was the first 5 got the vps and it was 130mb/s the network was slow.

    it's a no raid or raid 1 SSD node. That's what I'm saying.

  • @kyaky said:
    I can tell you, i got 5 Chinese guys tested. South of CHina CM is ok. CU CT are close to "not usable".

    Organization : AS9678 HostingInside LTD.
    Location : Singapore / SG
    Region : Singapore

    AS9678 is Taipei location. BGP routing table indicates they only peer with China Mobile. It's unsurprising that it's unusable from China Unicom and China Telecom.

    @hide1hide said:
    Node: ca-ssd.softshellhosting.com

    Single Core     | 273
    Multi Core      | 444
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5003366
    

    This is the San Jose location benchmark I'm looking for. The CPU score is much worse than SmartHost Los Angeles I currently use. Not worth it for 10ms lower RTT.

    ServerFactory aff best VPS; HostBrr aff best storage.

  • SoftShellWebSoftShellWeb Hosting Provider

    @kyaky said:

    @Brueggus said:

    @kyaky said: taiwan node dropped from 110m

    What do you expect if everyone's running benchmarks like there's no tomorrow? I'm quite sure the I/O will improve again.

    doesn't matter, I was the first 5 got the vps and it was 130mb/s the network was slow.

    it's a no raid or raid 1 SSD node. That's what I'm saying.

    The I/O is set to fair share and the server node is 8x SSD(Samsung Datacenter grade) in raid 10, however it seems that a lot of users are doing bench tests, which is slowing down the performance.

  • SoftShellWebSoftShellWeb Hosting Provider

    @yoursunny said:

    @hide1hide said:
    Node: ca-ssd.softshellhosting.com

    Single Core     | 273
    Multi Core      | 444
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5003366
    

    This is the San Jose location benchmark I'm looking for. The CPU score is much worse than SmartHost Los Angeles I currently use. Not worth it for 10ms lower RTT.

    We have different server nodes with different CPU's if you require a higher clock speed please open a ticket and we will migrate your service to a different server node.

  • So the China Optimized is basically a marketing thing? I nearly paid until I saw this.

  • SoftShellWebSoftShellWeb Hosting Provider

    @Kiwi84 said:
    So the China Optimized is basically a marketing thing? I nearly paid until I saw this.

    You can check it out here, very low latency: http://ping.pe/103.131.189.27

  • @Kiwi84 said:
    So the China Optimized is basically a marketing thing? I nearly paid until I saw this.

    CMIIW, usually China Optimized means have direct peering with China carrier.

  • @Kiwi84 said:
    So the China Optimized is basically a marketing thing? I nearly paid until I saw this.

    You can consider the San Jose location. It peers with China Telecom and China Mobile, according to BGP.
    See measurements above: https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/46500/#Comment_46500

    Taipei location only peers with China Mobile. It's good for personal VPN, but not good for websites unless you have GeoDNS and use it as replica.

    I used to have GeoDNS (dnspod international), but I don't bother with that anymore, because all my Chinese pages are from 2006-2010 and there are significantly fewer readers.

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  • @SoftShellWeb said: We have different server nodes with different CPU's if you require a higher clock speed please open a ticket and we will migrate your service to a different server node.

    Dear sir,

    migrate is free? :)

    In every democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
    ~Alexis de Tocqueville

  • SoftShellWebSoftShellWeb Hosting Provider

    @hide1hide said:

    @SoftShellWeb said: We have different server nodes with different CPU's if you require a higher clock speed please open a ticket and we will migrate your service to a different server node.

    Dear sir,

    migrate is free? :)

    Sure, just drop us a ticket :)

  • @SoftShellWeb said: Sure, just drop us a ticket

    Ticket #882401, thank you for your help. =)

    In every democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
    ~Alexis de Tocqueville

  • SoftShellWebSoftShellWeb Hosting Provider

    @hide1hide said:

    @SoftShellWeb said: Sure, just drop us a ticket

    Ticket #882401, thank you for your help. =)

    Done :)

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  • Just curious, where is your office located? On your website it says London, UK, but on the pictures I see non-UK power outlets...

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  • I'm going to take a wild guess based on public data and those power outlets: Slovenia B) ?

  • SoftShellWebSoftShellWeb Hosting Provider

    @Freek
    Slovenia, on the sunny side of the Alps!

    @lesbitso
    Bingo! B)

  • @SoftShellWeb said:
    @Freek
    Slovenia, on the sunny side of the Alps!

    @lesbitso
    Bingo! B)

    Okay I'm confused. Why does it say London if I click address on your website and why are you a registered business in the UK if you are based in Slovenia?

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