Introduction

The 1€ VPS Category always pops up in the corners of the internet. Usually ran by shady off-shore companies, with crammed servers and low speeds. Does Skrime finally break the pattern? Keep reading to find out!

About Skrime

Skrime seems to be operating since 2019 and so far, the reviews seem positive. Scarce, but positive. They were recently added to LowEndBox, and there are threads about them on LowEndTalk, so I guess that adds to their legitimacy.

Specs & Price

The deal they’re running right now(or at least when i rented the server: 02 Mar 2026) is 0,99€ for IPv6-only and 1,49€ for the same specs +1 IPv4 address. I opted in for the last one for compatibility. At those prices, they offer 1GB of RAM, 10GB of storage on NVME SSDs using RAID 1, and they use Intel XEON E5-2697s. The most important thing? 10Gbps Shared ports with Unlimited usage. Fair Use policy applies, whatever that may mean. I couldn’t find any reports of users complaining about being banned, and for the price, again, I’m surprised!

Set Up Process

The setup process is surprising seamless, If you let aside the fact that their page is in German, so Google Translate will be your friend. Snappy pages, Instant redirects and the payment options are plentiful. About that snappy loading part, well, I can’t even say it about the big dogs in the space!

Even if you randomly asked me one day to name as many payment options as I could think, I don’t think I could name that many.

Benchmarks

The moment I’m sure you’ve been waiting for. The benchmarks!

Starting strong with the benchmark from bench.sh , we get results going as far as 3-4Gbps, with wide fluctuations when it comes to intercontinental traffic:

First run of Benchmark results using bench.sh on the KVM

Here’s a second run:

Second run of Benchmark results using bench.sh on the KVM

Also, here are the results from YABS. Note that I ran this one a couple of hours later. I don’t know if that also has to do with the difference, but I’m amazed regardless.

~# wget -qO- yabs.sh | bash
Prepended http:// to 'yabs.sh'
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-04-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #


Mon Mar  2 21:12:26 CET 2026


Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2297.306 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 967.9 MiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 9.8 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.57+deb13-cloud-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online


IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Tom Gewiese
ASN        : AS215365 Tom Gewiese
Host       : Threatoff
Location   : Frankfurt am Main, Hesse (HE)
Country    : Germany


fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 92.43 MB/s   (23.1k) | 725.00 MB/s  (11.3k)
Write      | 92.67 MB/s   (23.1k) | 728.82 MB/s  (11.3k)
Total      | 185.11 MB/s  (46.2k) | 1.45 GB/s    (22.7k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.00 GB/s     (1.9k) | 1.04 GB/s     (1.0k)
Write      | 1.06 GB/s     (2.0k) | 1.11 GB/s     (1.0k)
Total      | 2.06 GB/s     (4.0k) | 2.15 GB/s     (2.1k)


iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 4.63 Gbits/sec  | 2.90 Gbits/sec  | 25.2 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 5.31 Gbits/sec  | 6.59 Gbits/sec  | 3.48 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 2.03 Gbits/sec  | 471 Mbits/sec   | 93.4 ms        
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 957 Mbits/sec   | 895 Mbits/sec   | 161 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.12 Gbits/sec  | 324 Mbits/sec   | 145 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 2.04 Gbits/sec  | 2.82 Gbits/sec  | 80.2 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 694 Mbits/sec   | 160 Mbits/sec   | 187 ms         


iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 4.03 Gbits/sec  | 3.04 Gbits/sec  | 28.7 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 4.92 Gbits/sec  | 5.88 Gbits/sec  | 3.50 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 2.01 Gbits/sec  | 1.54 Gbits/sec  | 93.2 ms        
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 1.29 Gbits/sec  | 1.38 Gbits/sec  | --             
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.16 Gbits/sec  | 559 Mbits/sec   | 145 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.99 Gbits/sec  | 2.91 Gbits/sec  | 80.3 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 790 Mbits/sec   | 403 Mbits/sec   | 187 ms         


Geekbench test failed and low memory was detected. Add at least 1GB of SWAP or use GB4 instead (higher compatibility with low memory systems).


YABS completed in 10 min 35 sec

Another one for good measure, with 1gig SWAP this time, which allowed GeekBench to run. Thus, we also get more info on the CPU’s performance, which are, to be blunt, quite bad for modern standards, but expected, as those XEONs are getting old. This doesn’t mean the server is unusable, but it’s something to keep in mind. Also, let’s not forget that 1GB of RAM is not enough for GeekBench, which usually takes up 1.3GB at it’s peak. So it’s likely that since it resorts to SWAP, the results are affected.

~# wget -qO- yabs.sh | bash
Prepended http:// to 'yabs.sh'
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-04-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #


Mon Mar  2 21:27:29 CET 2026


Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2297.306 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 967.9 MiB
Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
Disk       : 9.8 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel     : 6.12.57+deb13-cloud-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online


IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Tom Gewiese
ASN        : AS215365 Tom Gewiese
Host       : Threatoff
Location   : Frankfurt am Main, Hesse (HE)
Country    : Germany


fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 92.36 MB/s   (23.0k) | 684.88 MB/s  (10.7k)
Write      | 92.60 MB/s   (23.1k) | 688.49 MB/s  (10.7k)
Total      | 184.97 MB/s  (46.2k) | 1.37 GB/s    (21.4k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 946.21 MB/s   (1.8k) | 1.06 GB/s     (1.0k)
Write      | 996.49 MB/s   (1.9k) | 1.13 GB/s     (1.1k)
Total      | 1.94 GB/s     (3.7k) | 2.19 GB/s     (2.1k)


iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 4.35 Gbits/sec  | 2.64 Gbits/sec  | 27.9 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 5.02 Gbits/sec  | 5.94 Gbits/sec  | 3.49 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.96 Gbits/sec  | 448 Mbits/sec   | 93.3 ms        
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 900 Mbits/sec   | 995 Mbits/sec   | 161 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.28 Gbits/sec  | 259 Mbits/sec   | 145 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.52 Gbits/sec  | 2.70 Gbits/sec  | 80.3 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 463 Mbits/sec   | 210 Mbits/sec   | 187 ms         


iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 2.95 Gbits/sec  | 1.89 Gbits/sec  | 26.0 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 5.36 Gbits/sec  | 5.92 Gbits/sec  | 3.48 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.85 Gbits/sec  | 1.62 Gbits/sec  | 93.2 ms        
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 1.13 Gbits/sec  | 784 Mbits/sec   | 161 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.18 Gbits/sec  | 706 Mbits/sec   | 145 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 2.07 Gbits/sec  | 2.81 Gbits/sec  | 80.3 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 978 Mbits/sec   | 714 Mbits/sec   | 187 ms         


Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 745                           
Multi Core      | 582                           
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16832948


YABS completed in 23 min 21 sec

Final Thoughts

As far as I can tell, they do deliver on their promises and have an intuitive UI(besides the lack of English). Will they simply disappear one day? Will they cram their servers with users? Who knows. They claim to have started in 2019, which is reassuring, but I wouldn’t put anything that can’t afford some downtime and quick transfer elsewhere if everything goes south, especially due to the price. Backups people! That being said, i don’t think 1€-1.5€ is that big of a risk. I can’t seem to find any competition with 10gig ports, especially without a plethora of negative reviews and with users reporting such network speeds, even at some higher price-points.