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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 »

chsonnu wrote: post #78
staunch wrote: post #3

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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.

Hi, what is the benefit of your offerings vs installing openvz on a managed host?

It's far easier to manage than doing it manually. We're also making it easier to do high level things with your servers that aren't trivial to do manually.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by sspiff »

SwellJoe wrote: post #108
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 f…

People use servers for things other than hosting websites, and I've seen my fair share of web services that do push the CPU for significant amounts of time.

But sure, for 99% of all websites, CPU is not the issue.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by wut42 »

GreySyntax wrote: post #67
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…

I make strange DNS and connection requests constantly and have never had an issue with OVH, I think there's more to the story than that

I searched a lot but couldn't find the story anymore— if I recall, it was the association Toile-Libre who suffered from that.

I remember others example too, i'll try to find the stories and post them here.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by lifeguard »

staunch wrote: post #110
lifeguard wrote: post #99

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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.

Why do you limit IPv6 addresses? Just kidding! Yes, IPv4 addys are in short supply.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by vertis »

tptacek wrote: post #66
hosay123 wrote: post #64

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It's OK, we all give bad advice sometimes. You clearly just advocated replacing SSH with a custom HTTP server that effectively always requires root, and furthermore to advocate users mess with this root-running code. I don't understand why you can't see this.

Hey, 'nknight, you appear to be hellbanned (starting 3 posts back). It seems to happen randomly to some people; you should just ping 'pg about it. Edit Don't blame you. The hellbanning system Does Not Seem To Work.

I don't understand, from briefly looking at nknight's previous comments, I can't see a reason for that kind of punishment.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by dwj »

rdrake wrote: post #86
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…

That's the English pricing. They recently updated their French page: http://www.ovh.com/ca/fr/serveurs-dedies/ The same server is $49/month + tax now.

Seems to be $39/month for the cheapest one now.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by tptacek »

dllthomas wrote: post #89
tptacek wrote: post #75

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Accidentally revealing server stats because of a bug handling a trivial authentication token is less of a big deal than giving a third party root shell access to your server, is my point.

But a bug in a web-server running as root might lead to privileged execution of arbitrary code. It's certainly true that a bug in the authentication code that incorrectly grants access is of substantially less severity than a leak or abuse of root key/password.

Obviously you have to compare the likelihood of remote code execution in nginx/apache to that of ssh. Nginx is much, much simpler than OpenSSH.

And, obviously, giving a third party remote root SSH access to your server already is a glaring vulnerability.

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