OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”

Post by patrickg_zill » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 1:26 AM UTC

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It's a distinction without a difference though. If you use 1TB of data on Amazon or on OVH, and one service costs you $x and the other costs you 20% of $x you've got the same service for less money.

Your cheap OVH bandwidth is paid for by overcharging less intensive users. Since Amazon charges exactly what you use, it’s a great deal if you’re below average, and a bad deal if you’re above average.

Post by rifung » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 2:04 AM UTC

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We run a chunk on OVH too. It is over 100X cheaper than AWS. We have had some issues though. OVH had two major outages in the last two years. Our strategy has been to build a more robust distributed architecture and use these issues to be "antifragile," which improves our product while as still saving money. Over time I expect OVH to become more solid as they mature.

You should get some boxes from other EU vendors as well. Don't put all your eggs in the same basket. Unless your work load is very unpredictable I don't see why people use AWS, "serverless" and platform lockin.

Post by myth_buster » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

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Yet :) Microsoft was famous for doing the same thing: http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html > There is all the more reason for startups to write Web-based software now, because writing desktop software has become a lot less fun. If you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS. And if you manage to write something that takes off, you may find…

Yeah, the notion that Microsoft is now the safe, cuddly tech company is mindblowing. They fucked so, so many people over: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Private

  Spyglass, which licensed its browser to Microsoft in return for a percentage 
  of each sale; Microsoft turned the browser into Internet Explorer and bundled 
  it with Windows, giving it away to gain market share but effectively 
  destroying any chance of Spyglass making money from the deal they had signed 
  with Microsoft; Spyglass sued for deception and won a $8 million settlement.

Post by e12e » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 2:27 AM UTC

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AWS bandwidth costs are obscene. They compete on price so well on most other fronts, but for some reason they just completely overcharge on bandwidth. It makes using them without a CDN cost prohibitive and drives a lot of use cases away from them.

>for some reason they just completely overcharge on bandwidth People say this about AWS/GCP/Azure. They are so willing to compete on cost on everything else that it seems odd like this would be true, so I have a different theory: OVH/etc are all able to massively oversell bandwidth. Most customers do not use it. This is fine, and not anything I think they're doing wrong! But the "Big 3" are all about automatically sc…

Post by Widdershin » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 2:45 AM UTC

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$ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|wc -c 16 $ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|gzip -|wc -c 36

So..8tb vs 4tb? If paying for bw.. Seems reasonable?