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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by api on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:56PM (#14493480)
OVH has absurdly low prices on both. If you have a baseline load take a look. Their enterprise offerings are pretty rock solid and they have multiple data centers with direct fiber backplane interconnects.

IMHO the big cloud providers only make sense if you have a highly elastic load or if you are making extensive use of their as-a-service higher level offerings. If you're running baseline load bare metal destroys them.

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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by eropple on Monday June 05, 2017 @10:51PM (#14494340)
I used to use OVH on occasion, but I was really disappointed with their North American-based tech support. Didn't seem particularly plugged-in and English proficiency was shaky. (At this point I'm in AWS because I don't really care about low-point performance and would rather spike up when needed.)
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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by TheDrizzle43 on Monday June 05, 2017 @10:14PM (#14494175)
Unfortunately OVH doesn't have any data centers in the US although they seem to be working on them.
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Re:Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft... by api on Monday June 05, 2017 @10:36PM (#14494274)
Montreal has low pings to the US.
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