Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

Post by omnimus » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 4:47 PM UTC

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You cant imagine it yet big chunk of the independent internet runs on small vps servers. There isnt much difference between DO and OVH, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode... not sure why DO would be better. I mean its US company doing marketing right. Thats the difference. Plus ovh/hetzner have only EU locations. I think small bussinesses like smaller simple providers instead of bigclouds. Its different philosophy if you are afr…

I can think of a lot of big differences. For one you can get much larger machines at OVH and Hetzner with fancy storage configurations for your database if desired (e.g. Optane for your indices, magnetic drives for your transaction log, and raided SSDs for the tables) They also don't charge for bandwidth, although some of those other providers have a generous free bandwidth and cheap overage.

Post by omnimus » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 4:48 PM UTC

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You cant imagine it yet big chunk of the independent internet runs on small vps servers. There isnt much difference between DO and OVH, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode... not sure why DO would be better. I mean its US company doing marketing right. Thats the difference. Plus ovh/hetzner have only EU locations. I think small bussinesses like smaller simple providers instead of bigclouds. Its different philosophy if you are afr…

OVH has at least one large North American datacenter in Beauharnois, located just south of Montreal. I've used them before for cheap dedicated servers. They may have others.

Post by BadBadJellyBean » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

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I am literally in SBG2 so that has been fun. Turns out, our disaster recovery plan is pretty good. Datacenter burned down and I still was up 4 hours later in another data center with zero data loss. Good times.

And how's SBG1 doing?

Post by tecleandor » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

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OVH is one of the largest providers in the world. They run a sub brand for personal use (bare metal for $5/m, hardware replacements in 30 min or less usually). ..and they do support all of those things you just listed, not just API-backed bare metal.

Is that a typo? I only see OVH bare metal starting at >$50. How could a provider offer a bare metal server for $5?

Post by Mauricebranagh » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 4:56 PM UTC

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IMHO, the part they had no plan for was being unable to just require their employees to come in anyway...

The more insecure your workers, the easier it is to get them to come in, regardless of what the supposed rules may or may not be. Fast Fashion for example often employs workers in more or less sweatshop conditions close to the customers (this makes commercial sense, if you make the hot new items in Bangladesh you either need to expensively air freight them to customers or they're going to take weeks to arrive after t…