Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers?

Re:Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers? by CommanderData on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:18AM (#23101424)

OVH. They have a limited number of data centers around the world. Bandwidth is extremely cheap compared with AWS however there's a setup fee with their dedicated range. I haven't looked at their cloud offering.

I'd like to consider them for a project soon using k8s, needing auto node scaling and I'm not too sure what's best to use from their offerings. Maybe k8s on bare metal?

The biggest benefit is pricing, location (close to me), and reliability has been excellent. Scaling would be an issue.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers? by igrekel on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:48AM (#23103598)

We used OVH for bare metal purchases in several of their data centres for over three years now. It is cost effective and was pretty good. We did have issues with how quick it was to fix hardware issues when they arose. What doesn't help is that we were using custom instances and not their stock offering. We may switch to their "enterprise support".

We also host some machines we own in a small local datacenter from a local provider because it is connected to a dedicated connection to a private network.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers? by slawekrewaj on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:45AM (#23103546)

I think dedicated servers are used when you think about performance first. In that case the approach to scaling is probably to just over provision, which works perfectly in a lot of cases.

I would also use OVH for dedicated servers.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers? by ckdarby on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:07AM (#23102505)

Kimsufi if you're looking at OVH already

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