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I opened two tabs to relax tonight: Hacker News and Lichess. This was the top HN thread, and Lichess is having issues because of the fire. I didn't know what

by ericra 6y ago

I opened two tabs to relax tonight: Hacker News and Lichess. This was the top HN thread, and Lichess is having issues because of the fire. I didn't know what OVH was before 10 minutes ago, but this seems really impactful. I hope everyone there is safe and that the immediate disaster gets resolved quickly.

sofixa 6y ago
Look them up, they're one of the biggest hosting providers in the world ( especially in France), and due to cheap prices are especially pop-up with smaller scale stuff.
- Macha 6y ago
  Yeah, they scale down to their kimsufi line which used to have quite powerful dedicated servers for the price of basic VPSes from other providers. e.g. They have a 4core, 16gb ram server for $22/mo which is 25% of what my preferred provider, Linode, charges. Now, it comes with older consumer hardware (that one is a sandy bridge i5), and about as much support as the price tag suggests, as well as a dated management interface, but when I used to run a modded minecraft server as a college student, which needed excessive amounts of RAM and could be easily upset by load spikes on other clients, then it was a no-brainer, even if I would expect the modern-ish Xeons Linode uses to win on a core for core basis.
  - ev1 6y ago
    Dated? They're probably the only place that isn't $comedy "bare metal cloud" pricing that not only has an API for their $5/m servers but also the panel is a reasonably modern SPA that implements that API and uses OAuth for login
    - Macha 6y ago
      Has it been replaced since I last used it in ~2016? This is not the interface I had to use at all. This is the interface they had when I used them last: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-J_DO_FS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-J_DO_FS0
      - ev1 6y ago
        Yeah this is not at all what you use now. It's an Angular SPA. It is still a mess of separate accounts, but you can use email addr to log in instead of random-numbers generated handle. The OVHCloud US is completely separated for legal purposes, from what I remember. No account sharing, different staff, OVH EU cannot help you at all with US accounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2G6TkKg0gQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2G6TkKg0gQ
      - littlestymaar 6y ago
        Yes it changed. It was replaced by a more modern version a few years ago (but the transition was painful, as not everything was implemented in the new version when they started to deploy it).
        ev1 6y ago
        for me, at times you'd not bother trying to remember your NIC-handle and just curl the API instead out of laziness

by ericra 6y ago

sofixa 6y ago

Look them up, they're one of the biggest hosting providers in the world ( especially in France), and due to cheap prices are especially pop-up with smaller scale stuff.

Macha 6y ago
Yeah, they scale down to their kimsufi line which used to have quite powerful dedicated servers for the price of basic VPSes from other providers. e.g. They have a 4core, 16gb ram server for $22/mo which is 25% of what my preferred provider, Linode, charges. Now, it comes with older consumer hardware (that one is a sandy bridge i5), and about as much support as the price tag suggests, as well as a dated management interface, but when I used to run a modded minecraft server as a college student, which needed excessive amounts of RAM and could be easily upset by load spikes on other clients, then it was a no-brainer, even if I would expect the modern-ish Xeons Linode uses to win on a core for core basis.
- ev1 6y ago
  Dated? They're probably the only place that isn't $comedy "bare metal cloud" pricing that not only has an API for their $5/m servers but also the panel is a reasonably modern SPA that implements that API and uses OAuth for login
  - Macha 6y ago
    Has it been replaced since I last used it in ~2016? This is not the interface I had to use at all. This is the interface they had when I used them last: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-J_DO_FS0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-J_DO_FS0
    - ev1 6y ago
      Yeah this is not at all what you use now. It's an Angular SPA. It is still a mess of separate accounts, but you can use email addr to log in instead of random-numbers generated handle. The OVHCloud US is completely separated for legal purposes, from what I remember. No account sharing, different staff, OVH EU cannot help you at all with US accounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2G6TkKg0gQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2G6TkKg0gQ
    - littlestymaar 6y ago
      Yes it changed. It was replaced by a more modern version a few years ago (but the transition was painful, as not everything was implemented in the new version when they started to deploy it).
      - ev1 6y ago
        for me, at times you'd not bother trying to remember your NIC-handle and just curl the API instead out of laziness