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Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by andrewaylett »

My browser tells me it won't connect to this server: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY

Qualys gives the site an A, but says of some browsers: "Server negotiated HTTP/2 with blacklisted suite" so I imagine this is the cause of the problems?

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.webstack....

Edit: This was with FF48 on Linux. Restarted Firefox to get v49 and it's working now.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by nik736 »

andrewaylett wrote: post #2

My browser tells me it won't connect to this server: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY Qualys gives the site an A, but says of some browsers: "Server negotiated HTTP/2 with blacklisted suite" so I imagine this is the cause of the problems? https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.webstack.... Edit: This was with FF48 on Linux. Restarted Firefox to get v49 and it's working now.

Someone on Reddit reported the same, I am not really sure what causes it, since it looks good on my end (server), maybe an issue with Firefox itself?

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by detaro »

ranit wrote: post #4

Off-topic. What's up with Frankfurt? 3 of 5 cloud companies compared here have Frankfurt listed as their European data center location.

Location of DE-CIX, primary european internet exchange (according to themselves the one with the largest throughput worldwide, but AFAIK that's disputed)

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Post by ranit »

detaro wrote: post #5
ranit wrote: post #4

Off-topic. What's up with Frankfurt? 3 of 5 cloud companies compared here have Frankfurt listed as their European data center location.

Location of DE-CIX, primary european internet exchange (according to themselves the one with the largest throughput worldwide, but AFAIK that's disputed)

Thanks. This explains.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by fermigier »

I'm glad someone included the two leading French hosting providers in their benchmark. I have ~10 servers hosted by both OVH and Online (not Scaleway yet) and I believe they do a very correct job for a terrific price.

BTW: both have more expensive offerings if you need strongers SLAs. What I don't like with OVH's offering is that they have 3 different brands (OVH, SYS and KS) and you need 3 different accounts, control panels, and even invoicing is not consistent over the three brands (which means more work when doing my accounting every month...).

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by captn3m0 »

nik736 wrote: post #3
andrewaylett wrote: post #2

My browser tells me it won't connect to this server: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY Qualys gives the site an A, but says of some browsers: "Server negotiated HTTP/2 with blacklisted suite" so I imagine this is the cause of the problems? https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.webstack.... Edit: This was with FF48 on Linux. Restarted Firefox to get v49 and it's working now.

Someone on Reddit reported the same, I am not really sure what causes it, since it looks good on my end (server), maybe an issue with Firefox itself?

This thread on Qualys forums might be helpful: https://community.qualys.com/thread/16055

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by peterwwillis »

What's the target market for this "showdown" ? Hopefully not an online business, as all of these providers are the cloud hosting equivalent of shared servers from the early 00's. I've used DO and Linode and both have serious reliability problems that you have to engineer around yourself, and I can't imagine the other providers are any more robust.

Linode was too pricy for what they provided back when I tried them, too. At this point I would only use these providers for a personal website, but I would choose the cheapest, and get an identical second provider and dual host for redundancy.

Even if they were more reliable systems than they are now, the bigger they are the more they attract attacks on their core. Only the giants like Amazon and Google, or more professional (read: expensive) providers have the resources to deal with it.

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