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OVH prices are so amazing, I wonder if they must be running at a loss. I use them to run Aberoth (http://www.aberoth.com http://www.aberoth.com), and I always k

by simple1 12y ago

OVH prices are so amazing, I wonder if they must be running at a loss. I use them to run Aberoth (http://www.aberoth.com http://www.aberoth.com), and I always keep my eye out for a better deal, but nothing comes close for high RAM servers. They also seem to be continuously sold out: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers.xml http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers.xml, so there is clearly a huge market for these cheap servers. I wonder why no one else seems to be able to compete close to their price point.

geoka9 12y ago
Don't forget about OVH's lowest tier offering: kimsufi. I'm using a server since August and so far haven't had any problems whatsoever.
- revelation 12y ago
  Been using their <$5/month Atom server for quite some time now. Zero problems, and I've had months pushing 500GiB of traffic, getting full 100Mbit pretty much all the time.
  - geoka9 12y ago
    Their cheapest Atom seems to be $7? It also looks like the cheapest one they have in their Canadian data center is a $21 Core i3 (which is still a very good deal, with 2 cores/8 GB RAM/1 TB HDD/unlimited traffic).
    - corobo 12y ago
      There was an offer on within the last year or so that took them down to crazy low prices. It apparently caused a lot of customer churn which is why they now do setup fees :( Never had a problem with their service, but their pricing is all over the place
    - X-Istence 12y ago
      I am on their Core i3 offering with 8 GB of RAM with 2 2TB drives, with unlimited traffic. It has been absolutely rock-solid.
  - koralatov 12y ago
    Same here. Some months I barely use it, but it's just so cheap and the performance is just so good that I can't let myself let it expire.
- linuxydave 12y ago
  The only issue I've had with OVH and Kimsufi servers was that any incoming or outgoing SSH connections would also terminate on the first connection attempt. Always. Mac, Linux, Windows - it didn't matter. I've never had this issue with any other host. I got so annoyed with it that I created a simple bash script that would attempt to connect, pipe the results to /dev/null and then connect again. Always failed on the first attempt, always worked the second. Their support weren't able to help me either. The only upside was that it forced me to add decent connection error-handling to my scripts.

by simple1 12y ago

geoka9 12y ago

Don't forget about OVH's lowest tier offering: kimsufi. I'm using a server since August and so far haven't had any problems whatsoever.

revelation 12y ago
Been using their <$5/month Atom server for quite some time now. Zero problems, and I've had months pushing 500GiB of traffic, getting full 100Mbit pretty much all the time.
- geoka9 12y ago
  Their cheapest Atom seems to be $7? It also looks like the cheapest one they have in their Canadian data center is a $21 Core i3 (which is still a very good deal, with 2 cores/8 GB RAM/1 TB HDD/unlimited traffic).
  - corobo 12y ago
    There was an offer on within the last year or so that took them down to crazy low prices. It apparently caused a lot of customer churn which is why they now do setup fees :( Never had a problem with their service, but their pricing is all over the place
  - X-Istence 12y ago
    I am on their Core i3 offering with 8 GB of RAM with 2 2TB drives, with unlimited traffic. It has been absolutely rock-solid.
- koralatov 12y ago
  Same here. Some months I barely use it, but it's just so cheap and the performance is just so good that I can't let myself let it expire.
linuxydave 12y ago
The only issue I've had with OVH and Kimsufi servers was that any incoming or outgoing SSH connections would also terminate on the first connection attempt. Always. Mac, Linux, Windows - it didn't matter. I've never had this issue with any other host. I got so annoyed with it that I created a simple bash script that would attempt to connect, pipe the results to /dev/null and then connect again. Always failed on the first attempt, always worked the second. Their support weren't able to help me either. The only upside was that it forced me to add decent connection error-handling to my scripts.