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Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by kureikain »

I have used all of them to cut cost. I run some several personal side project all them and I can say that vultr.com is the best among these provider considering price per computation power.

1. OVH: OVH is great, cheap and very reliable. I have used a $3.49 instances there. The only thing with them is a very complicated control panel to use. But the disk space is kind of expensive to get extra space.

2. DO: DO is the worst I have used. They are lock my account forever and I'm unable to get any data out. The issue is I have tried to create two account that using same credit card. I tried this to take advantage of their free $5 credit. It's my fault I know. But at least they should merge the account, not suspending me.

3. Scaleway: Scaleway is great but not very consistent, sometime they seems very fast. But then suddenly the instance is not reachable for a short amount of time(30-60seconds). It happens several times a week. Doing anything there will require shutdown servers which may take more than 10 mins. Such as shutting down server to create snapshot.

4. Vultr is the best among these. Its offer great, consistent performance(CPU plus network). I used them to run monitoring agent which fetch thousand of websites to monitor them without any issue. Their control panel is the best too.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

#72

Post by fapjacks »

mwcampbell wrote: post #63
XERQ wrote: post #27

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc., which is a bootstrapped SSD-based hosting provider for startups that I've been working on since 2011. Some of our clients have posted benchmarks showing great performance, such as 800MB/s+ throughput and 292K IOPS: https://lowendbox.com/blog/ssdnodes-high-ram-ssd-vps-startin... Direct link to the benchmark: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw Special pricing for startups: https://ww…

Interesting. Why did you choose OpenVZ? OpenVZ makes me think of fly-by-night, oversold VPS providers that are barely even adequate for a personal site. Another concern is that with OpenVZ, any Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability can be used to escape the virtual server. So I hope you stay on top of kernel security updates. But of course, that requires the host to be rebooted.

Dingdingding!

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

#74

Post by nik736 »

increment_i wrote: post #44
peterwwillis wrote: post #10

What's the target market for this "showdown" ? Hopefully not an online business, as all of these providers are the cloud hosting equivalent of shared servers from the early 00's. I've used DO and Linode and both have serious reliability problems that you have to engineer around yourself, and I can't imagine the other providers are any more robust. Linode was too pricy for what they provided back when I tried them, to…

I was literally just about to launch a consumer facing app on Digital Ocean this month...was I being incredibly naive?

Just make sure you are not relying on one droplet and you are good to go.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

#75

Post by markvdb »

kureikain wrote: post #71

I have used all of them to cut cost. I run some several personal side project all them and I can say that vultr.com is the best among these provider considering price per computation power. 1. OVH: OVH is great, cheap and very reliable. I have used a $3.49 instances there. The only thing with them is a very complicated control panel to use. But the disk space is kind of expensive to get extra space. 2. DO: DO is the…

"OVH" and "great" in one sentence. Good the roulette ended up in good spots for you, like it did for me for some time. They can be rather cost effective for private toy projects.

But. I can confidently say I would seriously consider quitting my job if forced to use OVH in a work context.

Linode on the other hand actually do things like respond to support requests, often in a helpful way even.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

#77

Post by XERQ »

mwcampbell wrote: post #63
XERQ wrote: post #27

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc., which is a bootstrapped SSD-based hosting provider for startups that I've been working on since 2011. Some of our clients have posted benchmarks showing great performance, such as 800MB/s+ throughput and 292K IOPS: https://lowendbox.com/blog/ssdnodes-high-ram-ssd-vps-startin... Direct link to the benchmark: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw Special pricing for startups: https://ww…

Interesting. Why did you choose OpenVZ? OpenVZ makes me think of fly-by-night, oversold VPS providers that are barely even adequate for a personal site. Another concern is that with OpenVZ, any Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability can be used to escape the virtual server. So I hope you stay on top of kernel security updates. But of course, that requires the host to be rebooted.

Hey there, those are great questions! First to answer your security questions. We're using KernelCare, which is like Ksplice. It keeps all our host kernels updated with no reboots needed.

OpenVZ, when used properly, provides us with massive performance gains along with the flexibility of "live scaling." Since we're providing containers, our customers can scale up to a larger plan with zero downtime. Their RAM and disk resources are available immediately after choosing the next package (additional cores require a reboot).

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

#78

Post by developer2 »

kureikain wrote: post #71

I have used all of them to cut cost. I run some several personal side project all them and I can say that vultr.com is the best among these provider considering price per computation power. 1. OVH: OVH is great, cheap and very reliable. I have used a $3.49 instances there. The only thing with them is a very complicated control panel to use. But the disk space is kind of expensive to get extra space. 2. DO: DO is the…

Re #2, anyone who tries to abuse a company for a lousy $5 deserves what they get. It looks to them like a stolen credit card being used fraudulently. For $5, you're not worth 10 minutes of a customer service rep's time trying to determine whether you are a fraud risk.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

#79

Post by developer2 »

simplehuman wrote: post #23

I love DO but they deleted all my backups and servers because of a billing problem with just 15 day notice. Ever since I make sure to do backups outside DO.

"Just" 15 day notice? Really? 15 days is quite generous for a delinquent who is getting free service because they can't manage to pay a bill on time.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

#80

Post by mrmondo »

fapjacks wrote: post #73
mrmondo wrote: post #70

Alongside others, I've been using a combination of Vultr and Ramnode and I've found both fantastic, especially Vultr.

Yes, I've been a consumer of Ramnode for years and have had nothing but good to say.

Not just their performance and uptime but how good is their support right? (if you've even had to use it)
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