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$15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

#11

Post by shimon_e »

mileswu wrote: post #4
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.

Unlike OVH, server4you use nasty 5400rpm hard drives on their low end. I actually am waiting for someone to come out with a low end server with a small SSD drive. I need performance not storage.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by mikeevans »

yannickmahe wrote: post #7
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.

This blog lists the latest cheap options available: http://www.lowendbox.com/

I don't think I've ever seen a dedicated option on there.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by bitcartel »

tcwc wrote: post #6
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.

http://www.hetzner.de/ are pretty good price/performance wise .

Hetzner also offer a Dutch auction for servers: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by tlack »

shimon_e wrote: post #11
mileswu wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Unlike OVH, server4you use nasty 5400rpm hard drives on their low end. I actually am waiting for someone to come out with a low end server with a small SSD drive. I need performance not storage.

RAMnode has been pretty good for very fast mid-range SSD VPSes (watch their Twitter; they have 30% off specials all the time). SoftLayer also supports SSDs but they aren't low end, for the most part. I'm a happy customer of both but an employee/beneficiary of neither.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by citricsquid »

I used OVH for about a year and had no problems (had no need for the server any more).

The only issue I did have (and might be worth considering) was probably to be expected: they seem to be very on top of network issues and won't hesitate to terminate your server if something is suspicious. I was running a game server (Call of Duty 1) that had a bug that allowed someone to maliciously redirect packets to someone else (not a spectacular amount, but enough that when they did it with ~10 servers it would cause problems for the victim) and because we were part of an attack the server was shut down and they wouldn't return it to me without agreement that we'd wipe the "infected" server -- even though it wasn't infected, it was a software bug that we could resolve if we had server access.

Definitely worth using for unimportant things, but definitely not worth risking it on production.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by froseph »

mikeevans wrote: post #12
yannickmahe wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This blog lists the latest cheap options available: http://www.lowendbox.com/

I don't think I've ever seen a dedicated option on there.

They post them from time to time, but you're right, they primarily list VPS hosting.

http://www.lowendbox.com/tag/dedicated-server/

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by samarudge »

lifeguard wrote: post #14

You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic, but this is a great price for a dev server. Put ISPconfig on it if you want a free control panel: http://www.ispconfig.org/

I'm not sure, it's 5TB/month @ 100Mb/s then 10Mb/s after that. You'd probably struggle to use 5TB bandwidth on a server that small

https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml#bandwidt...

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by spindritf »

lifeguard wrote: post #14

You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic, but this is a great price for a dev server. Put ISPconfig on it if you want a free control panel: http://www.ispconfig.org/

> You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic

What do you mean? It comes with 5TB of network traffic, and they don't charge for additional traffic, merely limit your speed:

>> The server is connected at 100Mbps. The bandwidth is 100Mbps guaranteed up to 5TB of monthly traffic. Beyond 5TB of monthly traffic, the bandwidth is 10Mbps guaranteed.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by EwanToo »

I'm happy running an OVH / Kimsufi server, costs me £25 a month + VAT from the UK site, it works brilliantly.

Support is essentially non-existant, it's at best "Don't call us unless the box is power dead". But for the price, that's fine, if it dies or starts showing a hardware fault, I'll cancel that one and order a replacement.

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