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LOL. OVH has turned into the laughing stock of the industry. Its a shame really, I always used to gravitate towards their offerings vs competition because I lik

LOL. OVH has turned into the laughing stock of the industry. Its a shame really, I always used to gravitate towards their offerings vs competition because I liked the fact that they have servers literally everywhere...but what good are servers everywhere when u get a major outage every few months? Perhaps I'd tolerate the constant outages if they were actually any good at communicating. Their status page sucks. They rarely update it properly, and when they do, its hard to find the information you need and that you know relates to your servers.

encryptluks2 5y ago
If you have to deal with a few outages for a 90% cost reduction, then you just make sure you have a plan. I've found OVH to be mostly reliable.
- wg0 5y ago
  Things do happen even with AWS. Minus the fire incident, can't recall any outage. Not the cheapest offering out there but been running many things on it on autopilot. Support is solid too, always had a good experience.
sdevonoes 5y ago
Well, some products/businesses don't need 99.999% uptime and that's fine. Hell, I'm working on a small shop and we had to update some service that is not used constantly by our customers and when I suggested to have a downtime of 5 minutes everybody looked at me as if I were a caveman. The other alternative was to come up with some custom strategy to have two instances of the same service running at the same time and kill one of them when we know the other is healthy. Now, for a service that is constantly used that's a good idea, but for our scenario a 5 min. downtime is fine... we are not Google.
acatton 5y ago
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but historically, Online.net (now rebranded as "Scaleway") has always been the main competitor of OVH in France. They were known for their "Dedibox" when I was younger. OVH kinda won because their VPS pricing was always dirt-cheap compared to the cheap dedicated servers provided by Online.net/Scaleway. Since then OVH VPSes got expensive, and Scaleway started offering cheap VPSes, the prices got aligned. I know a few people who used to be OVH-fanboys and they all migrated to Scaleway and Vultr the last 4 years. But I agree, the competition for unmetered reliable VPSes is getting thinner and thinner… People are even started to consider metered VPS solutions like Vultr… Rasmus Lerdorf (the author of PHP) did an objective non-sponsored comparison[1] in 2019, I'm using IONOS personally, but since then strato.de appeared. (Both are German) I'm thinking about adding another node from them to avoid relying on only one vendor. [1] https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing
- merb 5y ago
  strato and ionos is basically the same company. well the same company group. they probably do not share network/hardware tough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet)

encryptluks2 5y ago

If you have to deal with a few outages for a 90% cost reduction, then you just make sure you have a plan. I've found OVH to be mostly reliable.

wg0 5y ago
Things do happen even with AWS. Minus the fire incident, can't recall any outage. Not the cheapest offering out there but been running many things on it on autopilot. Support is solid too, always had a good experience.

sdevonoes 5y ago

Well, some products/businesses don't need 99.999% uptime and that's fine. Hell, I'm working on a small shop and we had to update some service that is not used constantly by our customers and when I suggested to have a downtime of 5 minutes everybody looked at me as if I were a caveman. The other alternative was to come up with some custom strategy to have two instances of the same service running at the same time and kill one of them when we know the other is healthy. Now, for a service that is constantly used that's a good idea, but for our scenario a 5 min. downtime is fine... we are not Google.

acatton 5y ago

I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but historically, Online.net (now rebranded as "Scaleway") has always been the main competitor of OVH in France. They were known for their "Dedibox" when I was younger. OVH kinda won because their VPS pricing was always dirt-cheap compared to the cheap dedicated servers provided by Online.net/Scaleway. Since then OVH VPSes got expensive, and Scaleway started offering cheap VPSes, the prices got aligned. I know a few people who used to be OVH-fanboys and they all migrated to Scaleway and Vultr the last 4 years. But I agree, the competition for unmetered reliable VPSes is getting thinner and thinner… People are even started to consider metered VPS solutions like Vultr… Rasmus Lerdorf (the author of PHP) did an objective non-sponsored comparison[1] in 2019, I'm using IONOS personally, but since then strato.de appeared. (Both are German) I'm thinking about adding another node from them to avoid relying on only one vendor. [1] https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing

merb 5y ago
strato and ionos is basically the same company. well the same company group. they probably do not share network/hardware tough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Internet)