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$15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by staunch »

azrealus wrote: post #2

Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.

Shameless plug time! My own company, Uptano, is doing something kind of neat with dedicated servers. We're letting you rent dedicated hardware and then launch multiple virtual servers on them.

https://uptano.com

We're not trying to be the absolute cheapest, just trying to be the company we wished to exist.

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Post by mileswu »

azrealus wrote: post #2

Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.

Although I've never tried them, there's http://www.server4you.com/root-server/ that is relatively good value for money, but still a little more expensive. I don't know how their support/reliability is.

I actually use OVH on some older Kimsufi plans. I'm kinda disappointed actually with these new plans as they got rid of the Core i5/i7 processors which were a bargain for the amount of CPU power you got for the money.

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Post by shimon_e »

Proud OVH customer both in Europe and Canada. Very happy with their hard service and amazed with their tools. With their control panel you can deploy a new dedicate server in under an hour with a custom setup preloaded with your SSH keys. Provided they have stock of the server.

They suck in the support/soft service department, but frankly if you know what you are doing, you don't need it with OVH. They have pretty much automated everything. If there is a hardware fault they are on it before you even know.

Just a few days ago 24 servers failed due to cooling issues. They sent an army of 8 nerds to handle the issue: http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=3736 Resolved in 40 minutes.

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Post by shimon_e »

azrealus wrote: post #2

Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.

I am interesting in 1) a provider with comparable features in Asia and 2) another with comparable price on the west coast of the United States. That is until OVH roll out their west coast data centre in the coming years.

BTW, I'm thinking of webnx's special deals as the best on the west coast. Competitive on the high end. No where near as cheap on the low end.

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Post by scoopr »

I've had a kimsufi/ovh dedicated for a few years now. I switched when I was comparing various vps prices, and was annoyed by the small disk (and ram) sizes provided for the cheaper plans.

I'm on a plan that isn't available anymore, but it was sub-20eur/month, and the hardware seems to be P4 3ghz, with 2GB ram and 200GB disk. And the performance has been plenty for me.

Then the kimsufi brand was a bit more separated from the normal ovh offering. The kimsufi was branded a bit more on the do-it-yourself side, with no support apart from hardware failures. It seems they've now merged the kimsufi brand back to the main ovh site.

And I have been a fairly happy customer. I think I've had a couple of short network outages, but nothing alarming. My uptime is at 732 days.

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