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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 iSnow »

alyandon wrote: post #84

I rent a dedicated server from OVH in their Canada data center. For $79/month I get the following: 1) 100mbit connection 2) Core i3-2130 w/16 GB ram 3) 2x1TB sata configured as software raid-1 To be blunt, $79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity. I'm more than willing to put up with an occasional network problem (hurricane Sandy disrupted some of their peering) and a management porta…

>$79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity

Well I dunno... Europe has some really cheap (and reliable) server hosters, for instance:

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4

49€ purchases you:

- i7-2600 Quadcore - 16 GB RAM - 2 x 3 TB SATA (Software-RAID 1) - 100 Mbit

I think the US/Canadian prices are simply inflated.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by derrida »

dsl wrote: post #29

FYI, all OVH servers have a backdoor preinstalled on them. You'll want to: echo "" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 rm -rf /usr/local/rtm echo "" > /etc/crontab killall -9 rtm We used OVH for some testing/dev boxes and ended up adding OVH specific puppet configs to clean up the box. Edit: Oh and on Windows you need to hit up Add/Remove programs and uninstall 'Corp SSH'

Ah yes, the "Systèmes d'exploitation".

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by virtuallynathan »

not_that_noob wrote: post #23

On a related note, what's a good place to host a high-bandwidth server? We want to host a backend for gaming, with video interspersed.

Shameless plug: we are about to launch http://bandwidth.io, specializing in high-bandwidth dedicated server hosting.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by johnpowell »

I use OVH for a rutorrent and PLEX server. I have the 8G one for 40 bucks a month. It is the seedbox for six users and runs PLEX so everyone can stream to their phones or computer or AppleTV.

It has mostly replaced cable tv for everyone that uses it.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by quicksilver03 »

codexon wrote: post #51
wut42 wrote: post #40

I'm french and I've been using low-cost offers from OVH (Kimsufi) or Illiad (Online.net) since a couple of years. I just have ONE objection: If you plan to do something professional with them, just, don't. For them, every client is dispensable (even if you rent 200 servers or more). They won't hesitate a single second to delete your server if they have a small problem with you (for example, getting DDoS'd). OVH have…

How do you order from online.net? It keeps on saying: Erreur : Vous ne pouvez accéder à cette page tant que la console est en phase de beta.

You have to be a French resident (so probably an IP address geo-located in France) and pay by direct debit to a French bank account.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by SwellJoe »

ck2 wrote: post #80

I hope 2013 brings $99 dedicated with hardware raid (you can pay that for software raid now). But atom for a server? Yuck. I'd rather have a real server cpu under virtual xen instead.

You must be doing some task that I've never used my servers for if you consider a dedicated Atom somehow vastly inferior to a virtualized "real CPU". My servers are never CPU bound. They are disk, memory, and I/O bound, in that order. I couldn't possibly overwork the CPU on any machine I have...web service is simply not a CPU-intensive task.

Besides that, Atom CPUs are quite fast for many kinds of tasks...sometimes faster than a virtualized "real CPU" for server workloads, like serving websites, databases, and email. My servers at Amazon often have "sluggish" periods throughout the day, despite them being quite low-load systems; it seems to be because the other servers on the same CPU are working harder. Shared resources can be a curse, though I usually don't mind.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by catwell »

maximegarcia wrote: post #39
dsl wrote: post #29

FYI, all OVH servers have a backdoor preinstalled on them. You'll want to: echo "" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 rm -rf /usr/local/rtm echo "" > /etc/crontab killall -9 rtm We used OVH for some testing/dev boxes and ended up adding OVH specific puppet configs to clean up the box. Edit: Oh and on Windows you need to hit up Add/Remove programs and uninstall 'Corp SSH'

This for maintenance reporting. How do the hell they know if one of your HD has died ? It's not mandatory. And the ssh key added enforces the source IP address of requests.

No. This is so their technicians can easily log into your servers and solve problems if you need them too. Lots of their customers are newbies so they sell technical help as a service.

It is documented here: http://help.ovh.co.uk/InstallOvhKey and http://help.ovh.co.uk/Intervention as well as the way to disable this "backdoor". Note that there is more information available if you switch to the French language...

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by staunch »

lifeguard wrote: post #99
staunch wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have never heard of an ISP limiting customers to running any number VPSs on a dedicated server.

Heh. That's one way to look at it, I suppose.

Virtual servers on Uptano are managed via the web interface and each includes a public IP address. Most ISPs do limit IPs per server. Also, our limits are higher than pretty much anyone needs per server.

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