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Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://

Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml

thejosh 8y ago
OVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel. Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.
- StudentStuff 8y ago
  Huh, I haven't had this issue on any of their brands. They tend to catch and fix most issues before I become aware on the dedicated machines I have with them. FYI OVH is a key contributor to OpenStack, they've made quite a few contributions to Ceph, sponsored LetsEncrypt, and host most game servers (and even Wikileaks!).
- c16 8y ago
  Adding to this, I once bought their hosted container service, and when I contacted them they told me they no longer supported this product. How?! Why was I able to order it in the first place?!
subbu 8y ago
I am a long time user of OVH. I don't care about fancy UI; I have hardly used it to get anything done except pay bills. I just wish they open a data center in India. That's the reason I was looking at DO; they have a DC in Bangalore.
- 1996 8y ago
  1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left. OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.
  - StudentStuff 8y ago
    Bandwidth and power are too expensive in most of Asia, OVH's business model is founded on building DCs next to cheap, plentiful power, then peering at the surrounding IXes for bandwidth. Most of the local IXes in Asia do not have local incumbent carriers participating, and those incumbents want hellish rates to peer. Routing in Asia will remain crappy due to these peering problems, and volume wholesalers will be few and far between so long as power is spendy.

thejosh 8y ago

OVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel. Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.

StudentStuff 8y ago
Huh, I haven't had this issue on any of their brands. They tend to catch and fix most issues before I become aware on the dedicated machines I have with them. FYI OVH is a key contributor to OpenStack, they've made quite a few contributions to Ceph, sponsored LetsEncrypt, and host most game servers (and even Wikileaks!).
c16 8y ago
Adding to this, I once bought their hosted container service, and when I contacted them they told me they no longer supported this product. How?! Why was I able to order it in the first place?!

subbu 8y ago

I am a long time user of OVH. I don't care about fancy UI; I have hardly used it to get anything done except pay bills. I just wish they open a data center in India. That's the reason I was looking at DO; they have a DC in Bangalore.

1996 8y ago
1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left. OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.
- StudentStuff 8y ago
  Bandwidth and power are too expensive in most of Asia, OVH's business model is founded on building DCs next to cheap, plentiful power, then peering at the surrounding IXes for bandwidth. Most of the local IXes in Asia do not have local incumbent carriers participating, and those incumbents want hellish rates to peer. Routing in Asia will remain crappy due to these peering problems, and volume wholesalers will be few and far between so long as power is spendy.