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I have used all of them to cut cost. I run some several personal side project all them and I can say that vultr.com is the best among these provider considering

I have used all of them to cut cost. I run some several personal side project all them and I can say that vultr.com is the best among these provider considering price per computation power. 1. OVH: OVH is great, cheap and very reliable. I have used a $3.49 instances there. The only thing with them is a very complicated control panel to use. But the disk space is kind of expensive to get extra space. 2. DO: DO is the worst I have used. They are lock my account forever and I'm unable to get any data out. The issue is I have tried to create two account that using same credit card. I tried this to take advantage of their free $5 credit. It's my fault I know. But at least they should merge the account, not suspending me. 3. Scaleway: Scaleway is great but not very consistent, sometime they seems very fast. But then suddenly the instance is not reachable for a short amount of time(30-60seconds). It happens several times a week. Doing anything there will require shutdown servers which may take more than 10 mins. Such as shutting down server to create snapshot. 4. Vultr is the best among these. Its offer great, consistent performance(CPU plus network). I used them to run monitoring agent which fetch thousand of websites to monitor them without any issue. Their control panel is the best too.

markvdb 10y ago
"OVH" and "great" in one sentence. Good the roulette ended up in good spots for you, like it did for me for some time. They can be rather cost effective for private toy projects. But. I can confidently say I would seriously consider quitting my job if forced to use OVH in a work context. Linode on the other hand actually do things like respond to support requests, often in a helpful way even.
developer2 10y ago
Re #2, anyone who tries to abuse a company for a lousy $5 deserves what they get. It looks to them like a stolen credit card being used fraudulently. For $5, you're not worth 10 minutes of a customer service rep's time trying to determine whether you are a fraud risk.
- wdb 10y ago
  Clearly, OVH has enough time to do this.
dylz 10y ago
You're complaining about digitalocean because you tried to defraud them and that's somehow their fault?
wdb 10y ago
I wonder if anyone even tried to get a OVH box. I did and they asked for "proof of address" and my ID. Scaleway, Linode and DO didn't ask for it. OVH would have been interesting, if they didn't had this requirement. In my opinion it's a NO GO because of this.

markvdb 10y ago

"OVH" and "great" in one sentence. Good the roulette ended up in good spots for you, like it did for me for some time. They can be rather cost effective for private toy projects. But. I can confidently say I would seriously consider quitting my job if forced to use OVH in a work context. Linode on the other hand actually do things like respond to support requests, often in a helpful way even.

developer2 10y ago

Re #2, anyone who tries to abuse a company for a lousy $5 deserves what they get. It looks to them like a stolen credit card being used fraudulently. For $5, you're not worth 10 minutes of a customer service rep's time trying to determine whether you are a fraud risk.

wdb 10y ago
Clearly, OVH has enough time to do this.

dylz 10y ago

You're complaining about digitalocean because you tried to defraud them and that's somehow their fault?

wdb 10y ago

I wonder if anyone even tried to get a OVH box. I did and they asked for "proof of address" and my ID. Scaleway, Linode and DO didn't ask for it. OVH would have been interesting, if they didn't had this requirement. In my opinion it's a NO GO because of this.