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You get what you pay for. Oh, and by the way, this isn't the most affordable VPS. CloudAtCost's cheapest plan is $1.00/month, and in USD, VPS Classic/OVH is aro
by tomphoolery 13y ago
You get what you pay for. Oh, and by the way, this isn't the most affordable VPS. CloudAtCost's cheapest plan is $1.00/month, and in USD, VPS Classic/OVH is around $2.75, give or take (http://www.cloudatcost.com/ http://www.cloudatcost.com/). (current exchange: https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%82%AC1.99+in+us+dollars&oq=%E2%82%AC1.99+in+us+dollars&aqs=chrome..69i57.2691j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%82%AC1.99+in+us+dollars&...)
However, you do get what you pay for. I'm a CloudAtCost customer, paid for their $35 one-time fee because I figured it would be nice to not have to worry about yet another recurring payment (however small) for stupid things like having a Linux machine to test new apps on and run my IRC bouncer. When they had some downtime, they did alert us but I didn't find out my server had failed to power back on until I opened my laptop one day and couldn't connect to IRC. Given their impossibly-low prices[1] and lack of history in our community, I'm probably always gonna be a little paranoid that my server is just going to die one day and there's nothing I'll be able to do about it.
That said, I think OVH is in a similar boat. Crappy customer service, but low prices, so my advice for anyone wanting to take a gamble on this is to definitely NOT host anything important on these low-cost VPS services. They're really best for staging and light internal use, and they're not to be trusted with the architecture of your whole company.
[1]: CloudAtCost is essentially a big Canadian ISP's server hosting brand. Basically, their parent company owns the datacenter they're hosting you in, so the service they're offering is practically cost-free to them. If this is true, the money they get from you must be 100% profit, or they wouldn't be able to keep themselves in business. (http://www.cloudatcost.com/aboutus.php http://www.cloudatcost.com/aboutus.php) Go ask a record label owner sometime about how profit margins on the fraction of a dollar, even when new sales come in every day, work out for his bottom line ;)