New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by pkirk » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 9:01 AM UTC

For those who do not know: OVH is a cheap French provider, and Kimsufi is the brand for their economic server&service line.

This morning I received the newsletter (I use them for a couple of project) showing this new cloud service called miniCloud: the price starts from 0.01€/hr.

Another news is the lowered price for the lowest server: Celeron D/215/220 now at 14.99€/mo from 19.99€/mo. (I still have a plan, now gone, @ 29.99€/mo)

I linked the .co.uk but there are also .fr .it, etc.

New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)
kimsufi.co.uk

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by cl3m » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 9:40 AM UTC

1 month = 730.484398 hour

730.484398 * 0.01 UK£ = 10.6570369 U.S. dollars

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by pierrefar » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 10:00 AM UTC

So what is Ovh's reputation as a host? Anyone use them? Any problems?

The prices are amazingly cheap, so might be worth trying them just because it won't cost much.

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by gregorym » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 10:10 AM UTC

pierrefar wrote: post #3

So what is Ovh's reputation as a host? Anyone use them? Any problems? The prices are amazingly cheap, so might be worth trying them just because it won't cost much.

They're french. They are very popular here.

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by ptm » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 10:22 AM UTC

Is this for UK customers only ?

https://www.ovh.co.uk/order/mcloud.cgi

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by ned » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 10:40 AM UTC

pierrefar wrote: post #3

So what is Ovh's reputation as a host? Anyone use them? Any problems? The prices are amazingly cheap, so might be worth trying them just because it won't cost much.

I've had dedicated servers, shared hosts and individual domains with them for a few years. I had a hardware failure on a server once, the HD died, they replaced it in a few hours, it was handled pretty efficiently. The price is really low. The connectivity in Europe is good (although my customers are mostly based in France, so I don't have real benchmarks from elsewhere).

Two caveats:

- They have no taste and are really bad a interface design. Their administration tools are notoriously confusing, even after years of using them I'm still blown away at how they manage to make something simple so complicated. The boss (Octave) will post product announcements in the forums, and not in the official newsletter, encouraging a cult following of enthusiats/amateurs (that can be seen as both good or bad I guess…). Don't expect good documentation either.

- support is sub-par. I only contacted them a couple of times, and my carefully worded questions were met by a standardized reply, as if they had only read half of my email.

tl;dr : if you're a good sysadmin and don't need any hand-holding, they are good.

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by ErrantX » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 10:43 AM UTC

gregorym wrote: post #4

pierrefar wrote: post #3

So what is Ovh's reputation as a host? Anyone use them? Any problems? The prices are amazingly cheap, so might be worth trying them just because it won't cost much.

They're french. They are very popular here.

Gandi.net are another French host I recommend.

For small servers they are pretty comparable price wise (more RAM, less CPU) but I prefer their interface :)

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by madflo » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 11:26 AM UTC

pierrefar wrote: post #3

So what is Ovh's reputation as a host? Anyone use them? Any problems? The prices are amazingly cheap, so might be worth trying them just because it won't cost much.

I've been using the MiniCloud service for a few weeks during the beta (the service was then offered) and for a few days as a paying customer.

Well... everything is working pretty smoothly. I'm using their manager to upgrade/downgrade my host's RAM on a daily basis, as I'm using the cloud as a pre-production server for a webapp. The manager UI is quite ugly, to say the least, but sufficient to start/stop and upgrade/downgrade the virtual host.

I did not had to ask for help from the support team so I cannot offer any advice on them.

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by paraschopra » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 11:29 AM UTC

>you can not send emails (you can receive them).

Seems like a deal-killer to me.

Re: New cheap cloud from Kimsufi (Ovh)

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Post by dtf » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 12:15 PM UTC

madflo wrote: post #8

pierrefar wrote: post #3

So what is Ovh's reputation as a host? Anyone use them? Any problems? The prices are amazingly cheap, so might be worth trying them just because it won't cost much.

I've been using the MiniCloud service for a few weeks during the beta (the service was then offered) and for a few days as a paying customer. Well... everything is working pretty smoothly. I'm using their manager to upgrade/downgrade my host's RAM on a daily basis, as I'm using the cloud as a pre-production server for a webapp. The manager UI is quite ugly, to say the least, but sufficient to start/stop and upgrade/d…

I don't quite understand that page. What does 8GHz mean? Would these nodes be suitable for compute-intensive work (eg ray-tracing)?