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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 shimon_e »

tlack wrote: post #15
shimon_e wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If I'm going to considerably pay more, I am still better paying OVH more. I'm thinking of getting this bad boy: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/eg_64g_ssd.xml

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by wazoox »

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.

Also in France, online.net has very similar offers. I have 3 "dedibox" online.net servers and I'm very happy with them. The uptime is great, and the bandwidth is astounding.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by lacksconfidence »

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.

i dunno if its still true, but at one time imgur was hosted with http://www.100tb.com/ if my memory serves. Cant hurt to look at what other high-bandwidth applications use.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by [deleted] »

citricsquid wrote: post #16

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 els…

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Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by wensheng »

staunch wrote: post #3
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.

Are you OpenVZ only? Can I deploy my own Xen VPS on it.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by dsl »

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'

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Post by staunch »

wensheng wrote: post #27
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.

Are you OpenVZ only? Can I deploy my own Xen VPS on it.

OpenVZ for now, but Xen support is coming.
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