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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by omnimus on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:30AM (#26410992)
You cant imagine it yet big chunk of the independent internet runs on small vps servers. There isnt much difference between DO and OVH, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode... not sure why DO would be better. I mean its US company doing marketing right. Thats the difference. Plus ovh/hetzner have only EU locations.

I think small bussinesses like smaller simple providers instead of bigclouds. Its different philosophy if you are afraid of extreme centralisation of internet it makes sense.

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by eloff on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:05AM (#26411312)
I can think of a lot of big differences. For one you can get much larger machines at OVH and Hetzner with fancy storage configurations for your database if desired (e.g. Optane for your indices, magnetic drives for your transaction log, and raided SSDs for the tables)

They also don't charge for bandwidth, although some of those other providers have a generous free bandwidth and cheap overage.

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by mwcampbell on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:18AM (#26411445)
> Optane for your indices

At OVH? If so, their US data centers don't seem to have that option.

Not that I need it. The largest database I run could easily fit in RAM on a reasonably sized dedicated box.

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by eloff on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:02AM (#26411888)
I didn't realize they had US datacenters before now. It's possible that's no longer an option. It was on the largest servers in the Montreal datacenter when I specced that out.
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by extrasolar on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:28PM (#26415101)
they have 2 data centers in the US
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by omnimus on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:47AM (#26413195)
So you are saying they might be even better than DO depinding on requirements.

I didnt know.

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by eloff on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:48PM (#26414583)
Much cheaper and better performance at the high end. Doesn't compete at all at the low-end, except through their budget brand Kimsufi. I don't see them really as targeting the same market.
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by ArchOversight on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:24PM (#26415042)
I rent a server from OVH for $32 a month. It's their So You Start line... doesn't come with fancy enterprise support and the like.

It's a 4 core 8 thread Xeon with 3x 1TB SATA with 32GB of ECC RAM IIRC (E3-SAT-1-32, got it during a sale with a price that is guaranteed as long as I keep renewing it)

The thing is great, I can run a bunch of VM's on it, it runs my websites and email.

Overall to get something comparable elsewhere I would be paying 3 to 4 times as much.

I would consider $50 a month or less low end pricing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by eloff on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:05PM (#26416970)
Yeah, I forgot they also have the so you start brand. It's probably more expensive than the majority of what digital ocean sells, but there is some overlap for sure.
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by sweeneyrod on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:49PM (#26416735)
I don't know about OVH but Hetzner beats DO at the lower end: for $5/month you get 2 CPUs vs 1, 2 GB RAM vs 1, 40 GB disk vs 25 and 20 TB traffic vs 1. They have an even lower-end package for 2.96 Euro/month as well.
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by bleuarff on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:06AM (#26411320)
OVH is not Europe-only, it has datacenters in America, Asia and Australia[1].

[1] https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by Sanzig on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:14AM (#26412038)
OVH has at least one large North American datacenter in Beauharnois, located just south of Montreal. I've used them before for cheap dedicated servers. They may have others.
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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by omnimus on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:48AM (#26413222)
Yes ididnt know and i was generalizing too much.

But i assume they are less known in US.

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Re:Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building by sudosysgen on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:33AM (#26413015)
OVH has a location in Canada, now.
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