I live right near OVH in Quebec, most of the data center was retro-fitted inside an abandoned factory. It's also apparently the biggest data center in the world and features it's own hydro-electricity station (although I'm not sure if that still holds true). Amazon AWS is moving in there too. They have a little youtube clip of the project!
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
#82I've been messing around with Scaleway lately and found out a few interesting things. Scaleway is part of the Iliad family of companies, which you probably haven't heard about if you're outside of Europe. This includes Online, a networking provider and Scaleway's parent, and Free, which is a huge French ISP with a fairly hackery internal culture. Online makes their network map public: http://map.online.net/ Based on…
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Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#83I 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…
You're complaining about digitalocean because you tried to defraud them and that's somehow their fault?
Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#84I 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.
lol. You really unloaded both barrels above
Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#85I 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.
...maybe the billing problem was on DO's end?
Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#86Scaleway is shit, I use it since the closed beta (I live in France) and even if they are good to host simple websites with no big trafic their service is very disappointing.
First they surfed on the ARM bare metal hype for a while and then changed everything to sell x64 VPS. They lack a lot of features as they don't provide backup system or even snapshots.
Their staff think of themselves as fucking gods and do not give a shit about customers request. They have been out of order many times and don't communicate at all about it.
You are definitely just a running billfold in their eyes, never spend money for them.
Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#87Scaleway is shit, I use it since the closed beta (I live in France) and even if they are good to host simple websites with no big trafic their service is very disappointing. First they surfed on the ARM bare metal hype for a while and then changed everything to sell x64 VPS. They lack a lot of features as they don't provide backup system or even snapshots. Their staff think of themselves as fucking gods and do not gi…
By "changed everything to sell x64 VPS" I guess you mean "Added VPS offerings alongside their bare metal ARM servers"?
I have snapshots of my Scaleway servers sitting there right now. I've also never experienced any downtime (6 months and counting).
I'm not saying anecdotes are completely without merit, but they don't pair well with rhetoric.
Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#88I've been messing around with Scaleway lately and found out a few interesting things. Scaleway is part of the Iliad family of companies, which you probably haven't heard about if you're outside of Europe. This includes Online, a networking provider and Scaleway's parent, and Free, which is a huge French ISP with a fairly hackery internal culture. Online makes their network map public: http://map.online.net/ Based on…
I didn't know Online was related to Free! I used their insanely cheap €2-per-month mobile plan when I lived in France for 6 months last year. Amazing value, they seem very popular for DSL too (though I didn't use that). Back in Germany now everything seems so damn expensive. The internet, the mobile plans, the electricity...
Anyway, thanks for doing this digging, it's interesting. Scaleway has its shortcomings but I find it to be one big fascinating experiment.
Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#89Scaleway is shit, I use it since the closed beta (I live in France) and even if they are good to host simple websites with no big trafic their service is very disappointing. First they surfed on the ARM bare metal hype for a while and then changed everything to sell x64 VPS. They lack a lot of features as they don't provide backup system or even snapshots. Their staff think of themselves as fucking gods and do not gi…
By "changed everything to sell x64 VPS" I guess you mean "Added VPS offerings alongside their bare metal ARM servers"? I have snapshots of my Scaleway servers sitting there right now. I've also never experienced any downtime (6 months and counting). I'm not saying anecdotes are completely without merit, but they don't pair well with rhetoric.
Their business plan was using the revolutionary ARM CPUs to make cheap offers with real hardware. That was clear, that's what they sold us in the beginning.
Know they are stuck with it because of their lack of knowledge: the C1 server doesn't even support IPV6!
Stop kidding about "snapshots". They don't offer snapshots at all. Period. You should shutdown your server through the fucking dashboard before you can click the snapshot button. Snapshot is an instant backup made on a running server, otherwise it's useless.
Tell me what you want but I know what I've seen for 3 years with them. Now I and my company are running DO servers, which is way better for the price.
Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway
#90after seeing the announcement about vultr in another thread, I took a closer look at ipv6 support and it looks like DO and scaleway do not provide a proper /64 for IPv6 -- or even a /112, which means you can't use openvpn.
Why do you mean by "proper"? I have a /64 with DO.