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Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by wiether »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #21
peterangular wrote: post #4

As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.

I'm using OVH for downloads from PortableApps.com as their un-metered VPS was one of the better and affordable options. Haven't noticed any issues (knock wood). Is there something else I should look at?

First, thanks for PortableApps!

Still use it as soon as I'm forced to use a Windows computer.

Otherwise, as long as you make sure that no billing issue can arise from your side (like an expired card...), you should be fine.

Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by ge96 »

peterangular wrote: post #4

As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.

I'm pro OVH granted I've not used Hetzner before and only used DO briefly. I too remember the burn but they gave credit. I like the emails saying "your service is under DDOS attack".

Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by hinkley »

utopiah wrote: post #16
peterangular wrote: post #4

As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.

> They never had any major downtime for me One of my server was lost to a fire so... That being said, only happen one and I had no data on it so I didn't mind. I switched to Hetzner too.

How many data centers have had a server room burn to the ground?

We had a halon system in an on-prem data center twice the size of my bedroom. We had to knock out a wall because the volume was too small for the smallest cooling system we could get installed in the building. That was 20 years ago, and we had to do it for insurance reasons. In the United States, which I know you Europeans like to make fun of for being sooo amusingly Neanderthal.

What the absolute fuck, OVH.

Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by jon-wood »

peterangular wrote: post #4

As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.

I rent a dedicated server from OVH for various self hosted services and for the price I really can't complain. If there's been any outages they happened at times when I wasn't interacting with it so I didn't notice. I'm not entirely sure I'd trust a server that mattered to them but for what I'm doing they're fine.

Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by jon-wood »

m132 wrote: post #33

Man, the spam this issue has been getting since getting posted here though... GitHub has literally become Facebook with code hosting

A lot of it looks like people trying to be helpful but it must be infuriating handling issues for a big project like this. I'm going to guess that the infrastructure team for Pandas don't actually need random men on the internet informing them that such obscure hosting options as Vercel and Netlify exist.

Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by everfrustrated »

hinkley wrote: post #34
utopiah wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They never had any major downtime for me One of my server was lost to a fire so... That being said, only happen one and I had no data on it so I didn't mind. I switched to Hetzner too.

How many data centers have had a server room burn to the ground? We had a halon system in an on-prem data center twice the size of my bedroom. We had to knock out a wall because the volume was too small for the smallest cooling system we could get installed in the building. That was 20 years ago, and we had to do it for insurance reasons. In the United States, which I know you Europeans like to make fun of for being…

I think the OVH datacenter was also built of wood and right next to another "independent" datacenter which also burned down when the fire spread.

OVH is about cheap, not quality.

Like hetzner they come from the vps/hosting end of the market which is all about cutting corners, packing vms, overselling, etc. Very much the cowboy end of the market.

Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by everfrustrated »

alephnerd wrote: post #24
Taek wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't Hetzner strongly associated with OVH? I thought they were under the same umbrella.

Nope. OVH Groupe is a separate VPS (and an extremely large one) based in France and Poland. They are backed by Xavier Niels (one of the powers behind Macron's throne) [edit: this is WRONG, confused with Scaleway and Klaba's past affiliation with 42]. Hetzner is a smaller VPS and colo in Germany, but provides a better experience for hobbyists. HN idealist types will probably like Hetzner more than OVH Groupe's more en…

>Even French-turned-American tech companies like Datadog have tried to maintain a presence in France

While started by two French founders, Datadog was always an American company. It was only post IPO they started hiring in France (for more than local sales roles).

Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

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Post by quesera »

Taek wrote: post #19
peterangular wrote: post #4

As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.

Isn't Hetzner strongly associated with OVH? I thought they were under the same umbrella.

OVH operates three hosting brands:

OVH, SYS (So You Start), and KimSufi. It's a bit confusing!

IIRC they bring the newest hardware into OVH and push it down the line to SYS and KS as it ages.

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