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OVH is the largest not the best French host. They're a budget host that vastly oversells. OVH has no such reputation for responsiveness, their "fair" prices are

by aroch 13y ago

OVH is the largest not the best French host. They're a budget host that vastly oversells. OVH has no such reputation for responsiveness, their "fair" prices are based on many fold overselling their network and holding onto and charging the same for hardware that's ten years old. They recycle disks even when they're about to die. They overload racks and cause power issues (Your whole rack rebooted? Sorry, one of the servers on it drew enough power under load to flip a breaker) . They randomly reboot servers as part of their DDoS protection. They think sending UDP packets is nefarious and will wipe your server for it.

kayoone 13y ago
You are a customer or where is that info coming from ?
- aroch 13y ago
  A customer of many years, with at one point many servers with them. Now I only have a few to service some French customers.
- slaman 13y ago
  I've had some SLA annoyances from them and setup fees have been expensive, but overall their dedicated servers have provided me with pretty fantastic value when I was running them. I'm a Canadian and I've been considering grabbing a box here from them, www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/offers.xml the pricing is ridiculously low. You wouldn't get 10TB, but if you mirror the disks for 50$ a month you have a reliable 2TB of disk space in a datacenter much closer (for most) and 4 cores on 32GB of ram would give you a nice gaming server or a pretty powerful database. Their VPS product (if they still do that anymore) would most likely be oversold. They are a massive operation that competes aggressively on price.
  - aroch 13y ago
    They run the Kimsufi line, which is massively oversold (close to 40 "100mbps" clients per real 100Mbps). Their EG and HG server series is also way oversold if you've ever attempted to use the network to its fullest. Plus Oles, the CEO of OVH, goes on tirades against his customers every few months.

by aroch 13y ago

kayoone 13y ago

You are a customer or where is that info coming from ?

aroch 13y ago
A customer of many years, with at one point many servers with them. Now I only have a few to service some French customers.
slaman 13y ago
I've had some SLA annoyances from them and setup fees have been expensive, but overall their dedicated servers have provided me with pretty fantastic value when I was running them. I'm a Canadian and I've been considering grabbing a box here from them, www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/offers.xml the pricing is ridiculously low. You wouldn't get 10TB, but if you mirror the disks for 50$ a month you have a reliable 2TB of disk space in a datacenter much closer (for most) and 4 cores on 32GB of ram would give you a nice gaming server or a pretty powerful database. Their VPS product (if they still do that anymore) would most likely be oversold. They are a massive operation that competes aggressively on price.
- aroch 13y ago
  They run the Kimsufi line, which is massively oversold (close to 40 "100mbps" clients per real 100Mbps). Their EG and HG server series is also way oversold if you've ever attempted to use the network to its fullest. Plus Oles, the CEO of OVH, goes on tirades against his customers every few months.