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$15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.

http://www.hetzner.de/ are pretty good price/performance wise .

Hetzner are awesome, especially if you want high specs. Had no problems with them so far, although most of my important stuff is still on Linode.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.

French IT situation : a 4-cores, 8Gb RAM & RAID dedicated server for 30€/month.

OVH competes with Online (former Dédibox, by Iliad (Free)) and the prices goes low... http://online.net/fr/serveur-dedie

Welcome to France, IT paradise.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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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…

That's contrary to what we experienced.

We had a UDP flood from an OVH server, and they said they contacted the customer to fix this issue. I checked the IP and it was still running a splash page.

A couple days later we were attacked again by the same IP. After reporting this to OVH again they finally took the server down.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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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.

Very interesting. Question: Do all my 8 VSs have to reside on the same host? If the host goes down, it will take all my VSs with it. Any way of getting the same number of VSs but distributed across hosts?

If the hardware goes down, so do the servers (just like EC2), but they can be brought back up on new hardware rather quickly.

You can of course setup redundancy by creating multiple servers on different hardware nodes.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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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.

One way would be to publish a HTTP/JSON API for fetching a specific set of stats from a server given an authorization key, provide a reference implementation, and allow customers to build their own if they're not comfortable with that.

Root SSH logins don't seem like a particularly good solution for this problem.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.

Using PhoenixNAP.com/SecuredServers.com in Arizona for a few months now. Pretty stable so far for a sub-$100 dedicated with 2-drives/Software RAID-1 & 8GB of RAM.

Limestonenetworks is also good in Texas, but starter servers are over-$100 for a similar 2-drive/RAID-1/8GB RAM box.

Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH

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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'

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