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$15 Dedicated servers from OVH
- azrealus 14y agoDo you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.
- staunch 14y agoShameless plug time! My own company, Uptano, is doing something kind of neat with dedicated servers. We're letting you rent dedicated hardware and then launch multiple virtual servers on them. https://uptano.com https://uptano.com We're not trying to be the absolute cheapest, just trying to be the company we wished to exist.
- wensheng 14y agoAre you OpenVZ only? Can I deploy my own Xen VPS on it.
- canterburry 14y agoVery interesting. Question: Do all my 8 VSs have to reside on the same host? If the host goes down, it will take all my VSs with it. Any way of getting the same number of VSs but distributed across hosts?
- staunch 14y agoIf the hardware goes down, so do the servers (just like EC2), but they can be brought back up on new hardware rather quickly. You can of course setup redundancy by creating multiple servers on different hardware nodes.
- slig 14y agoReally cool. I've just put my email address in the newsletter. Hope to need your service soon.
- IbJacked 14y agoI've been keeping my eye on Uptano, they've come a long way since I played with the initial beta. I really like the idea of having a dedicated box and being able to allocate VMs within it.
- chsonnu 14y agoHi, what is the benefit of your offerings vs installing openvz on a managed host?
- staunch 14y agoIt's far easier to manage than doing it manually. We're also making it easier to do high level things with your servers that aren't trivial to do manually.
- lifeguard 14y agoI have never heard of an ISP limiting customers to running any number VPSs on a dedicated server.
- staunch 14y agoHeh. That's one way to look at it, I suppose. Virtual servers on Uptano are managed via the web interface and each includes a public IP address. Most ISPs do limit IPs per server. Also, our limits are higher than pretty much anyone needs per server.
- lifeguard 14y agoWhy do you limit IPv6 addresses? Just kidding! Yes, IPv4 addys are in short supply.
- mileswu 14y agoAlthough I've never tried them, there's http://www.server4you.com/root-server/ http://www.server4you.com/root-server/ that is relatively good value for money, but still a little more expensive. I don't know how their support/reliability is. I actually use OVH on some older Kimsufi plans. I'm kinda disappointed actually with these new plans as they got rid of the Core i5/i7 processors which were a bargain for the amount of CPU power you got for the money.
- shimon_e 14y agoUnlike OVH, server4you use nasty 5400rpm hard drives on their low end. I actually am waiting for someone to come out with a low end server with a small SSD drive. I need performance not storage.
- tlack 14y agoRAMnode has been pretty good for very fast mid-range SSD VPSes (watch their Twitter; they have 30% off specials all the time). SoftLayer also supports SSDs but they aren't low end, for the most part. I'm a happy customer of both but an employee/beneficiary of neither.
- shimon_e 14y agoIf I'm going to considerably pay more, I am still better paying OVH more. I'm thinking of getting this bad boy: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/eg_64g_ssd.xml http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/eg_64g_ssd.xml
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- tcwc 14y agohttp://www.hetzner.de/ http://www.hetzner.de/ are pretty good price/performance wise .
- bitcartel 14y agoHetzner also offer a Dutch auction for servers: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market https://robot.your-server.de/order/market
- petercooper 14y agoHetzner are awesome, especially if you want high specs. Had no problems with them so far, although most of my important stuff is still on Linode.
- Karunamon 14y agoAnother vote for Hetzner, really their pricing makes anything stateside seem almost extortionate. You have to ask yourself if the extra 250ms ping from the States is worth it though. Game servers are right out.
- yannickmahe 14y agoThis blog lists the latest cheap options available: http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/
- shimon_e 14y agoI am interesting in 1) a provider with comparable features in Asia and 2) another with comparable price on the west coast of the United States. That is until OVH roll out their west coast data centre in the coming years. BTW, I'm thinking of webnx's special deals as the best on the west coast. Competitive on the high end. No where near as cheap on the low end.
- wazoox 14y agoAlso in France, online.net has very similar offers. I have 3 "dedibox" online.net servers and I'm very happy with them. The uptime is great, and the bandwidth is astounding.
- maximegarcia 14y agoFrench IT situation : a 4-cores, 8Gb RAM & RAID dedicated server for 30€/month. OVH competes with Online (former Dédibox, by Iliad (Free)) and the prices goes low... http://online.net/fr/serveur-dedie http://online.net/fr/serveur-dedie Welcome to France, IT paradise.
- drubio 14y agoUsing PhoenixNAP.com/SecuredServers.com in Arizona for a few months now. Pretty stable so far for a sub-$100 dedicated with 2-drives/Software RAID-1 & 8GB of RAM. Limestonenetworks is also good in Texas, but starter servers are over-$100 for a similar 2-drive/RAID-1/8GB RAM box.
- thegyppo 14y agoBeen using DataShack lately: https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/ https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/ I pay roughly $78 a month for this: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/28/NkHEVWXUAKwf4USF http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/28/NkHEVWXUAKwf4USF
- hackerboos 14y agohttp://www.hetzner.de/en/ http://www.hetzner.de/en/
- shimon_e 14y agoProud OVH customer both in Europe and Canada. Very happy with their hard service and amazed with their tools. With their control panel you can deploy a new dedicate server in under an hour with a custom setup preloaded with your SSH keys. Provided they have stock of the server. They suck in the support/soft service department, but frankly if you know what you are doing, you don't need it with OVH. They have pretty much automated everything. If there is a hardware fault they are on it before you even know. Just a few days ago 24 servers failed due to cooling issues. They sent an army of 8 nerds to handle the issue: http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=3736 http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=3736 Resolved in 40 minutes.
- scoopr 14y agoI've had a kimsufi/ovh dedicated for a few years now. I switched when I was comparing various vps prices, and was annoyed by the small disk (and ram) sizes provided for the cheaper plans. I'm on a plan that isn't available anymore, but it was sub-20eur/month, and the hardware seems to be P4 3ghz, with 2GB ram and 200GB disk. And the performance has been plenty for me. Then the kimsufi brand was a bit more separated from the normal ovh offering. The kimsufi was branded a bit more on the do-it-yourself side, with no support apart from hardware failures. It seems they've now merged the kimsufi brand back to the main ovh site. And I have been a fairly happy customer. I think I've had a couple of short network outages, but nothing alarming. My uptime is at 732 days.
- rb2k_ 14y agoAnd just in case somebody isn't comfortable using the french website, the irish one has the same offers: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml (the german one is strangely enough more expensive)
- dbuxton 14y agoTheir prices do seem to bounce around a bit, even for countries that use the same currency. There's an issue in that (as I understand it) in Germany you have a quote VAT inclusive prices but in Ireland you can leave off VAT for goods aimed at businesses. (The same is true in the UK). Even taking that into account there's about a 20% price bump from Ireland to Germany, though!
- webjunkie 14y agoIf you buy as a company Germany actually seems to be the cheapest as you don't have to consider VAT in any countries. Or am I missing something?
- imrehg 14y agoLooks like only Canadian / US / Irish customers can sign up for this one.... (Edit): the French site seem to take everyone, and has lower VAT percentage
- lifeguard 14y agoYou will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic, but this is a great price for a dev server. Put ISPconfig on it if you want a free control panel: http://www.ispconfig.org/ http://www.ispconfig.org/
- samarudge 14y agoI'm not sure, it's 5TB/month @ 100Mb/s then 10Mb/s after that. You'd probably struggle to use 5TB bandwidth on a server that small https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml#bandwidth https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml#bandwidt...
- spindritf 14y ago> You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic What do you mean? It comes with 5TB of network traffic, and they don't charge for additional traffic, merely limit your speed: >> The server is connected at 100Mbps. The bandwidth is 100Mbps guaranteed up to 5TB of monthly traffic. Beyond 5TB of monthly traffic, the bandwidth is 10Mbps guaranteed.
- lifeguard 14y ago"100Mbps guaranteed" is a little suspect given that is the theoretical maximum speed of fast ethernet. Maybe they have gigabit but I doubt it. I am also very suspicious because the uplink speed for the fast ethernet switch the server is on can not support "100Mbps guaranteed" for every port on the switch simultaneously.
- citricsquid 14y agoI used OVH for about a year and had no problems (had no need for the server any more). The only issue I did have (and might be worth considering) was probably to be expected: they seem to be very on top of network issues and won't hesitate to terminate your server if something is suspicious. I was running a game server (Call of Duty 1) that had a bug that allowed someone to maliciously redirect packets to someone else (not a spectacular amount, but enough that when they did it with ~10 servers it would cause problems for the victim) and because we were part of an attack the server was shut down and they wouldn't return it to me without agreement that we'd wipe the "infected" server -- even though it wasn't infected, it was a software bug that we could resolve if we had server access. Definitely worth using for unimportant things, but definitely not worth risking it on production.
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- codexon 14y agoThat's contrary to what we experienced. We had a UDP flood from an OVH server, and they said they contacted the customer to fix this issue. I checked the IP and it was still running a splash page. A couple days later we were attacked again by the same IP. After reporting this to OVH again they finally took the server down.
- EwanToo 14y agoI'm happy running an OVH / Kimsufi server, costs me £25 a month + VAT from the UK site, it works brilliantly. Support is essentially non-existant, it's at best "Don't call us unless the box is power dead". But for the price, that's fine, if it dies or starts showing a hardware fault, I'll cancel that one and order a replacement.
- joelthelion 14y agoI have one of these: http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/dedibox-sc http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/dedibox-sc which are pretty nice as well. I think the CPU is slightly better than the OVH atoms.
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- not_that_noob 14y agoOn a related note, what's a good place to host a high-bandwidth server? We want to host a backend for gaming, with video interspersed.
- lacksconfidence 14y agoi dunno if its still true, but at one time imgur was hosted with http://www.100tb.com/ http://www.100tb.com/ if my memory serves. Cant hurt to look at what other high-bandwidth applications use.
- Father 14y agohttp://digicube.fr/rapidserveurs http://digicube.fr/rapidserveurs 1gbps with unlimited traffic start at 25e. I've been hosting an irc server with them now for just under a year; and it's been down once for 2 hours due to a power failure. Downside is everything is in French.
- devicenull 14y agoWe do a lot of game/video hosting. http://www.constant.com http://www.constant.com One thing to check is that some of the budget hosts will oversell their networking in such a way where your port links at one speed, but you're unlikely to ever see that speed for long periods of time.
- charliesome 14y agohttp://interserver.net http://interserver.net $40 per month for an Atom based server (which is surprisingly capable). They have an advertised traffic quota, but in my experience they don't check how much traffic you've used. I used to run a file host on boxes from Interserver - I used to push about 60TB per month over 3 boxes.
- virtuallynathan 14y agoShameless plug: we are about to launch http://bandwidth.io http://bandwidth.io, specializing in high-bandwidth dedicated server hosting.
- nachteilig 14y agoI host a few personal sites with them (and have apparently been paying more from the German site), and it's been fine.
- dsl 14y agoFYI, all OVH servers have a backdoor preinstalled on them. You'll want to: echo "" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 rm -rf /usr/local/rtm echo "" > /etc/crontab killall -9 rtm We used OVH for some testing/dev boxes and ended up adding OVH specific puppet configs to clean up the box. Edit: Oh and on Windows you need to hit up Add/Remove programs and uninstall 'Corp SSH'
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- maximegarcia 14y agoThis for maintenance reporting. How do the hell they know if one of your HD has died ? It's not mandatory. And the ssh key added enforces the source IP address of requests.
- tptacek 14y agoOne way would be to publish a HTTP/JSON API for fetching a specific set of stats from a server given an authorization key, provide a reference implementation, and allow customers to build their own if they're not comfortable with that. Root SSH logins don't seem like a particularly good solution for this problem.
- martinced 14y agoJust as several users here: I have two dedicated Kimsufi (a word play on "qui me suffit" meaning: "which is enough for me") since years. One of them reached a 4 digits uptime (then there has been some modification on the bay and it got rebooted). Paying about 20 Euros / month or so. At one point I was considering finding a dedicated server in the U.S. but I was surprised: apparently the prices weren't that competitive compared to OVH (I was looking for a full dedicated box, not a shared one nor instances).
- shimon_e 14y agoOVH have a data centre in Canada now. You can email them to get the i3 Kimsufi server there.
- zalew 14y ago> this cheap offering is only available in their home country which is France. not true. http://www.ovh.pl/serwery_dedykowane/kimsufi.xml http://www.ovh.pl/serwery_dedykowane/kimsufi.xml https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml etc. They operate from France, but have offices in Poland and all over Europe. there are no admins in here though AFAIK, every support request is just forwarded to France.
- wut42 14y agoI'm french and I've been using low-cost offers from OVH (Kimsufi) or Illiad (Online.net) since a couple of years. I just have ONE objection: If you plan to do something professional with them, just, don't. For them, every client is dispensable (even if you rent 200 servers or more). They won't hesitate a single second to delete your server if they have a small problem with you (for example, getting DDoS'd). OVH have shutdowned servers from a small association who was offering hosting, on the basis that the server made 3 DNS request to some "weird" server in Poland, for example. So, it's okay for personal stuff, and, backup everything- your data is definitely not safe on their servers.
- codexon 14y agoHow do you order from online.net? It keeps on saying: Erreur : Vous ne pouvez accéder à cette page tant que la console est en phase de beta.
- quicksilver03 14y agoYou have to be a French resident (so probably an IP address geo-located in France) and pay by direct debit to a French bank account.
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- GreySyntax 14y agoI make strange DNS and connection requests constantly and have never had an issue with OVH, I think there's more to the story than that
- wut42 14y agoI searched a lot but couldn't find the story anymore— if I recall, it was the association Toile-Libre who suffered from that. I remember others example too, i'll try to find the stories and post them here.
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- w1ntermute 14y agoI remember reading that OVH is very popular in the Scene[0], for running topsites and the like. The reliability and bandwidth must be pretty good for them to be used by the Scene. 0:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene
- aes256 14y agoOVH are most certainly not popular with the scene! That said, OVH is extremely popular with those involved in piracy more broadly, and their servers are used extensively as seedboxes.
- w1ntermute 14y agoMy bad, maybe I got the popular seedbox hosts confused with the popular topsite hosts. For some reason, I seem to remember OVH being mentioned in a scene notice. It might've been when they busted a topsite for leaking releases to a seedbox used by a private torrent site uploader.
- aes256 14y agoYep, if OVH were referred to it would only have been in a negative context, e.g. outing a P2L (Pay to Leech) site or someone seeding files to torrent trackers.
- jonemo 14y agoOVH have similar offers in many countries as mentioned by others here already, e.g. on their Irish site or their Polish site. I signed up through their German www.isgenug.de brand (which now simply redirects to their main web page) about six months ago and got a EUR12/mo deal which isn't available anymore. The server is fine, but administrating the account is a pain. I thought I'd be able to get access to a server within a day or so of registering and paying. Oh was I wrong. Before even charging my credit card they requested an officially stamped/signed proof of address (issued by the town I reside in in Germany), a scan of my credit card (!), and a scan of my German national ID card. They were friendly enough to let me substitute my passport since I don't have an ID card. I was travelling at that time and had to have the proof of address mailed to me, so it took over a week. Ironically, all that jazz was required because I was travelling - apparently signing up for a server with a German credit card from a non-German IP is "suspicious". Two weeks after signing up I finally had access to the server. Stupid me thought they would make it easy to stay their customer. Instead, I have to enter my credit card details into their Web0.9 backend system once every month (or once every year if paying annually). To make sure I don' forget I receive a reminder email once every day for the last 14 days of every month. The only alternative is to set up a recurrent wire transfer to them and then cross you fingers that it always gets booked correctly on their end. I see that many others here report on having an account with them. Am I the only one who finds it so difficult to give them my money? I'm really happy with the server (I use it to compute meshes from worldwide elevation data sets for our geographical iPhone case creator on http://www.printablegeography.com/creator http://www.printablegeography.com/creator) but giving them money is just waaay too hard. edit: typo
- lgeek 14y agoI've had similar problems ordering a server this weekend. I've used the UK site to order on Friday evening a server which was supposed to be available in 24hrs. One hour later, I received an email confirming my payment has been received. I kept wondering what's taking so long, only to receive an email on Monday morning saying "Unfortunately, we only provide services to Republic of Ireland or UK customers at the moment" and asking for "a copy of your ID (passport, driving licence)" and "a proof of address (utility bill)" to be sent over email(!!). I am in the UK, but they can bugger off.
- ck2 14y agoI hope 2013 brings $99 dedicated with hardware raid (you can pay that for software raid now). But atom for a server? Yuck. I'd rather have a real server cpu under virtual xen instead.
- SwellJoe 14y agoYou must be doing some task that I've never used my servers for if you consider a dedicated Atom somehow vastly inferior to a virtualized "real CPU". My servers are never CPU bound. They are disk, memory, and I/O bound, in that order. I couldn't possibly overwork the CPU on any machine I have...web service is simply not a CPU-intensive task. Besides that, Atom CPUs are quite fast for many kinds of tasks...sometimes faster than a virtualized "real CPU" for server workloads, like serving websites, databases, and email. My servers at Amazon often have "sluggish" periods throughout the day, despite them being quite low-load systems; it seems to be because the other servers on the same CPU are working harder. Shared resources can be a curse, though I usually don't mind.
- sspiff 14y agoPeople use servers for things other than hosting websites, and I've seen my fair share of web services that do push the CPU for significant amounts of time. But sure, for 99% of all websites, CPU is not the issue.
- ck2 14y agoA cpu less at load is a far more responsive cpu. Atom was designed to be crippled from the start to save power. You must be running smaller, single site servers, possibly with mostly static content? I am willing to bet atom would choke on non-indexed searches, compression/decompression and encryption. The Intel (and now AMD) aes in hardware acceleration for ssl is worth it alone on a real cpu vs atom.
- hippich 14y agohttp://www.kimsufi.com/fr/index.xml http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/index.xml Intel Celeron/Atom 1.2+ GHz 1 Core 64 bits, 500 GB HDD, 100 Mbps, 1 IPv4, /64 IPv6, 5TB traffic (after 5TB - they will slow you down)
- alyandon 14y agoI rent a dedicated server from OVH in their Canada data center. For $79/month I get the following: 1) 100mbit connection 2) Core i3-2130 w/16 GB ram 3) 2x1TB sata configured as software raid-1 To be blunt, $79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity. I'm more than willing to put up with an occasional network problem (hurricane Sandy disrupted some of their peering) and a management portal that is not quite as featureful as I'd like.
- rdrake 14y agoThat's the English pricing. They recently updated their French page: http://www.ovh.com/ca/fr/serveurs-dedies/ http://www.ovh.com/ca/fr/serveurs-dedies/ The same server is $49/month + tax now.
- dwj 14y agoSeems to be $39/month for the cheapest one now.
- iSnow 14y ago>$79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity Well I dunno... Europe has some really cheap (and reliable) server hosters, for instance: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4 49€ purchases you: - i7-2600 Quadcore - 16 GB RAM - 2 x 3 TB SATA (Software-RAID 1) - 100 Mbit I think the US/Canadian prices are simply inflated.
- bufo 14y agoOnline.net (French as well) also has a competitive 10€ pricing: http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie
- johnpowell 14y agoI use OVH for a rutorrent and PLEX server. I have the 8G one for 40 bucks a month. It is the seedbox for six users and runs PLEX so everyone can stream to their phones or computer or AppleTV. It has mostly replaced cable tv for everyone that uses it.
- jayrye 14y agoThis is what I was curious about. You dont have any problems running ruTorrent through them?
- andyhmltn 14y agoCan someone tell me how they manage to make it so cheap? Are the overselling?
- luanfernandes 14y agoUK servers http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml
- shimsham 14y agoThis post is just an ad, right?