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The machine has 24 GB of RAM, which is nowhere near that cheap in most places.

by christina97 2y ago

dewey 2y ago
KS-A (https://eco.ovhcloud.com/de/ https://eco.ovhcloud.com/de/): 64GB RAM, 480GB SSD, ~5USD/month
- zx8080 2y ago
  I would not trust OVH anything which not ephemeral, as there were couple of quite interesting incidents [0] in the last years. 0 - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire-france-data-center/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
  - dewey 2y ago
    This is a bit alarmist. They are one of the biggest web hosts in the world, whole companies run on their servers and cloud without issues. Accidents happen and you always need to have backups, ideally in another DC.
    - zx8080 2y ago
      No, it's not. They burned down two DCs, by the way. I advise to read analysis first as it shows utter blatant negligence when planning their DCs to reduce cooling costs, note the air tonnel effect "EcoRoom" design (at least the two DCs that burned down, but not limited to them), and operational issues like firefighters inability to turn off the AC, so they just stand there watching the firestorm. Nice place! Host your servers, sure! It's the most catastrophic DC fire ever.
- SahAssar 2y ago
  Wow, pairing a 9 year old processor with 64GB ram and 100Mbps. What are common use-cases that require much ram but not processing power, disk space or a higher bandwidth?
  - dewey 2y ago
    That is their "budget" ("eco") line so the target is people on a budget or hobbyists so that's why you sometimes get odd or old hardware.
    - SahAssar 2y ago
      Sure, was just a bit surprised by the amount of ram, but I'm guessing they just had old ram from older high-end servers and put it to use. Seems it was also just sold out, maybe because of your comment.
- TiredOfLife 2y ago
  Yes, the sku that has a stock of 2 every couple of months.
crtasm 2y ago
Do you need anywhere near that much to run nextcloud?
- to3k 2y ago
  Of course not but you can run way more stuff on this server in parallel to nextcloud
- TiredOfLife 2y ago
  Nextcloud is not exactly known for being fast and not needing lots of memory.

The machine has 24 GB of RAM, which is nowhere near that cheap in most places.

dewey 2y ago

KS-A (https://eco.ovhcloud.com/de/ https://eco.ovhcloud.com/de/): 64GB RAM, 480GB SSD, ~5USD/month

zx8080 2y ago
I would not trust OVH anything which not ephemeral, as there were couple of quite interesting incidents [0] in the last years. 0 - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire-france-data-center/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
- dewey 2y ago
  This is a bit alarmist. They are one of the biggest web hosts in the world, whole companies run on their servers and cloud without issues. Accidents happen and you always need to have backups, ideally in another DC.
  - zx8080 2y ago
    No, it's not. They burned down two DCs, by the way. I advise to read analysis first as it shows utter blatant negligence when planning their DCs to reduce cooling costs, note the air tonnel effect "EcoRoom" design (at least the two DCs that burned down, but not limited to them), and operational issues like firefighters inability to turn off the AC, so they just stand there watching the firestorm. Nice place! Host your servers, sure! It's the most catastrophic DC fire ever.
SahAssar 2y ago
Wow, pairing a 9 year old processor with 64GB ram and 100Mbps. What are common use-cases that require much ram but not processing power, disk space or a higher bandwidth?
- dewey 2y ago
  That is their "budget" ("eco") line so the target is people on a budget or hobbyists so that's why you sometimes get odd or old hardware.
  - SahAssar 2y ago
    Sure, was just a bit surprised by the amount of ram, but I'm guessing they just had old ram from older high-end servers and put it to use. Seems it was also just sold out, maybe because of your comment.
TiredOfLife 2y ago
Yes, the sku that has a stock of 2 every couple of months.

crtasm 2y ago

Do you need anywhere near that much to run nextcloud?

to3k 2y ago
Of course not but you can run way more stuff on this server in parallel to nextcloud
TiredOfLife 2y ago
Nextcloud is not exactly known for being fast and not needing lots of memory.