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why would someone use OVH for cloud storage when they can use S3? OVH is only good for dedicated servers.

no_wizard 9y ago
Amazon has outages too. Remember when AWS was down for mor than half a day not that long ago? https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
codewithcheese 9y ago
Because it is much much cheaper.
clon 9y ago
OVH PCS $0.0112/month/GB AWS S3 $0.0245/month/GB Less than half the price, if you are willing to believe they are comparable products. Actually pretty great performance they offer as well for taking encrypted backups etc. But I think your comment is still generally fair in terms of the quality of the rest of their offerings. I would also add one more strong point for OVH - kick-ass DDoS protection. S3 has had it's own (catastrophic) issues as well. The failure mode for PCS so far has been more irritating, however - it will fail you every 1000'th request or so.
- candiodari 9y ago
  Also data transfer pricing is somewhere between 10% and 20% of the Amazon price. That's not 10% off. That's 90% off. https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
- vincentkriek 9y ago
  I am not that into the whole data storage world but for backupping my NAS I looked into Backblaze which is a lot cheaper than both at $0.005/month/GB.
  - tmikaeld 9y ago
    Backblaze is not built to handle thousands of concurrent connections towards specific content, while both OVH and S3 are.
  - votepaunchy 9y ago
    Amazon S3's Glacier storage tier is even cheaper at $0.004/GB/month.
    - dx034 9y ago
      And OVH's archive is $0.0023/GB/month. Although I guess that with archive storage, transfer and access costs could be a significant part of the bill. But OVH's business model is to be cheaper than AWS so I guess they'll end up below the AWS price.
    - gerenuk 9y ago
      Have a look at wasabi.
    - extra88 9y ago
      You also need to factor in Glacier retrieval fees and AWS's data transfer fees. Also watch out for extra fees for early deletion.
- dx034 9y ago
  And add traffic costs to that. $1.1c/GB is a fraction of AWS which makes it attractive for objects that are requested frequently.
  - clon 9y ago
    That x 1000

Amazon has outages too. Remember when AWS was down for mor than half a day not that long ago? https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/

codewithcheese 9y ago

Because it is much much cheaper.

clon 9y ago

OVH PCS $0.0112/month/GB AWS S3 $0.0245/month/GB Less than half the price, if you are willing to believe they are comparable products. Actually pretty great performance they offer as well for taking encrypted backups etc. But I think your comment is still generally fair in terms of the quality of the rest of their offerings. I would also add one more strong point for OVH - kick-ass DDoS protection. S3 has had it's own (catastrophic) issues as well. The failure mode for PCS so far has been more irritating, however - it will fail you every 1000'th request or so.

candiodari 9y ago
Also data transfer pricing is somewhere between 10% and 20% of the Amazon price. That's not 10% off. That's 90% off. https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
vincentkriek 9y ago
I am not that into the whole data storage world but for backupping my NAS I looked into Backblaze which is a lot cheaper than both at $0.005/month/GB.
- tmikaeld 9y ago
  Backblaze is not built to handle thousands of concurrent connections towards specific content, while both OVH and S3 are.
- votepaunchy 9y ago
  Amazon S3's Glacier storage tier is even cheaper at $0.004/GB/month.
  - dx034 9y ago
    And OVH's archive is $0.0023/GB/month. Although I guess that with archive storage, transfer and access costs could be a significant part of the bill. But OVH's business model is to be cheaper than AWS so I guess they'll end up below the AWS price.
  - gerenuk 9y ago
    Have a look at wasabi.
  - extra88 9y ago
    You also need to factor in Glacier retrieval fees and AWS's data transfer fees. Also watch out for extra fees for early deletion.
dx034 9y ago
And add traffic costs to that. $1.1c/GB is a fraction of AWS which makes it attractive for objects that are requested frequently.
- clon 9y ago
  That x 1000