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Can't really go into details, but I've got plenty of servers at OVH. It's cheap and works, when it works. When it doesn't it doesn't. Don't expect issues to be resolved swiftly or them reacting to your trouble at all. Latest ticket opened today. Average disk I/O is under 1 MB/s for sequential disk read and disk I/O flat lines for tens of seconds every now and then.

If you find this acceptable, no problem. But for some use cases this just won't do. - Disk I/O IOPS & latency really does make difference between many vendors. UpCloud got free trial, try it. You might like it or not. You won't lose anything. - I've gotta be honest. Some of the OVH instances are performing great for the price. But others are as described above.

Not sure if this is helpful, but here's some output from one of their 4 USD/month servers:

  root@localhost:~# lscpu
  Architecture:          x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
  CPU(s):                1
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0
  Thread(s) per core:    1
  Core(s) per socket:    1
  Socket(s):             1
  NUMA node(s):          1
  Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
  CPU family:            6
  Model:                 2
  Model name:            QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.1.2
  Stepping:              3
  CPU MHz:               1899.998
  BogoMIPS:              3799.99
  Hypervisor vendor:     KVM
  Virtualization type:   full
  L1d cache:             32K
  L1i cache:             32K
  L2 cache:              4096K
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0
  Flags:                 fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm rep_good nopl pni cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm abm

  root@localhost:~# sudo lshw -short
  H/W path      Device      Class      Description
  ================================================
                            system     Bochs
  /0                        bus        Motherboard
  /0/0                      memory     96KiB BIOS
  /0/401                    processor  QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.1.2
  /0/1000                   memory     512MiB System Memory
  /0/1000/0                 memory     512MiB DIMM RAM
  /0/100                    bridge     440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma]
  /0/100/1                  bridge     82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
  /0/100/1.1                storage    82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
  /0/100/1.2                bus        82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II]
  /0/100/1.2/1  usb1        bus        UHCI Host Controller
  /0/100/1.3                bridge     82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
  /0/100/2                  display    GD 5446
  /0/100/3      ens3        network    Virtio network device
  /0/100/4                  storage    Virtio block device
  /0/100/5                  generic    Virtio memory balloon
  /0/1          scsi1       storage
  /0/1/0.0.0    /dev/cdrom  disk       DVD reader

The RAM is ECC, according to the "dmidecode -t memory" command.

  root@localhost:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
  16384+0 records in
  16384+0 records out
  1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 12.5635 s, 85.5 MB/s

On the same machine... When deleted got in a weird flow... Was forced to login again and it tried to come back to the machine original URL after it was deleted and gave me a 404.