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Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by aroch »

yoha wrote: post #30

OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH. They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees…

OVH is the largest not the best French host. They're a budget host that vastly oversells. OVH has no such reputation for responsiveness, their "fair" prices are based on many fold overselling their network and holding onto and charging the same for hardware that's ten years old. They recycle disks even when they're about to die. They overload racks and cause power issues (Your whole rack rebooted? Sorry, one of the servers on it drew enough power under load to flip a breaker) . They randomly reboot servers as part of their DDoS protection. They think sending UDP packets is nefarious and will wipe your server for it.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by martius »

yoha wrote: post #30

OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH. They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees…

OVH is probably the biggest, but it's unfair to say they are the best: they are a low-cost hosting company and provide a minimal support, unless you pay the price.

Moreover, OVH sometimes take quite stupid commercial decisions without notice. For instance, two months ago, they decided to put on hold any dedicated server command without notice... during more than 5 weeks.

Why did they do that? Because OVH's CEO became angry at customers ordering upgraded servers instead of renewing the leasing of their older ones.

As of Free, they bully and racket network peers which need to send traffic over their network as much as they can. (See how slow is youtube over the Free network, for instance...)

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by DomreiRoam »

Aoyagi wrote: post #3

I can't seem to find their privacy policy and ToS document is in French. I think I'll pass. In fact, the only mention of privacy I found is "respect for privacy" in data security.

For the privacy part they should conform at minimum to European and French privacy law. French privacy Law offers some protection and the CNIL seems to enforce the law.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by kayoone »

aroch wrote: post #61
yoha wrote: post #30

OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH. They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees…

OVH is the largest not the best French host. They're a budget host that vastly oversells. OVH has no such reputation for responsiveness, their "fair" prices are based on many fold overselling their network and holding onto and charging the same for hardware that's ten years old. They recycle disks even when they're about to die. They overload racks and cause power issues (Your whole rack rebooted? Sorry, one of the s…

You are a customer or where is that info coming from ?

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by dewey »

tmikaeld wrote: post #36
dewey wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive" Have you ever dealt with their support? - I for myself am quite happy with my service (Dedicated server) so far (because I rarely had to deal with the support) but I've heard a few horror stories where some of their biggest UK customers basically got kicked out even though they stayed within the TOS and the terms they signed the contract for, o…

Do you have links to these "stories"?

Or that one: http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?6555-bandwidth-VPS-pCI...

Where they basically looked at their customers and said "look, you are one of our 30% top customers in bandwidth usage, you'll have to pay from now on." Even though they (Or the company I used) were using their top of the line servers which are exactly offered for bandwidth intensive services like the ones mentioned in their forum post. So it's not really a solid company if you want to work with them long term or build a business on top of their service.

The company I'm referring to is now running their own network on their own hardware in a carrier neutral facility.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by balladeer »

gabriel34 wrote: post #60

For backups Backblaze is even cheaper, but I could see the advantage in using it as data storage and duplicating to my computer as needed. Probably cheaper than buying and managing my own hard drives; definitely safer. Does anyone know how fast is the download from their servers?

Earlier when I used to see people mentioning BackBlaze and not CrashPlan I used to be pissed in a way,but after I used its (BB's) native app for a month (on trial) I could see the difference.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by dbecker »

Are there really people who are turned off by dropbox prices?

I would take notice if someone made a dropbox with a valuable additional feature, or a dropbox that worked better (recognizing that already dropbox works very smoothly).

But price seems like a nonstarter.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by drdaeman »

dbecker wrote: post #67

Are there really people who are turned off by dropbox prices? I would take notice if someone made a dropbox with a valuable additional feature, or a dropbox that worked better (recognizing that already dropbox works very smoothly). But price seems like a nonstarter.

I'd use Dropbox as write-once-read-occasionally personal junk archival storage, but they don't offer anything in that area.

This service does, and for an astonishingly great price. 10TiB for 10€, and they even promised something about internal 3x storage redundancy. I'm unzipping my wallet right after I run basic checks with free account.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by nodata »

dbecker wrote: post #67

Are there really people who are turned off by dropbox prices? I would take notice if someone made a dropbox with a valuable additional feature, or a dropbox that worked better (recognizing that already dropbox works very smoothly). But price seems like a nonstarter.

Every personal user I know doesn't upgrade to the next tier because of the price.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by nodata »

drdaeman wrote: post #50
agumonkey wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure if that will help, but here's my understanding: "Le Client s'engage à régler directement à l'auteur de la réclamation toute somme que celui ci exigerait d’OVH." If an author ask compensation to OVH, you (OVH Client) pay the author directly the wanted amount.

Ah, right. Thank you. Seems this part is about copyright violations. Sounds reasonable to me then.

It doesn't sound reasonable to me - how do they find the violations?
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