OVH is down along with its status page

Re:OVH is down along with its status page by curiousgal on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:08AM (#28849919)

Does anyone have an alternative for a hobbyist VPS provider (around 5€/month) ? OVH keeps reducing their offering and bumping their prices. Plus they dropped support for Arch images.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by janmo on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:38AM (#28850130)

I can recommend https://www.scaleway.com/en/ I have been using it for severa. years, never had an outage.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by dlkmp on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:13AM (#28849943)

I use hetzner, their smallest VPS is around 2,xx Euro. Has been very reliable for me in the last couple of years. I'm not sure whether they support arch, though.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by rawoke083600 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:02AM (#28850274)

And the "nicest" UX from all the companies for their cloud-ui-interface.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by draugadrotten on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:16AM (#28849974)

You can often find deals on https://lowendbox.com/

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by jeroenhd on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:26AM (#28850864)

I'm using cheap Contabo servers and they've been surprisingly reliable for the price they ask. Their €5 offering (excluding VAT) comes with 4 cores, 8GiB of RAM and either 50GiB of NVME storage or 200GiB "ssd" storage. That's a lot better than anything I can find elsewhere.

The only problem I've found is that unlike most VPS providers, they don't seem to do gigabit speeds in their cheaper tiers. I'm content with the 100mbit offering (which is 200mbit if you sign up these days, I think) so that's not a problem for my use case.

If you only run very basic stuff (basically a raspberry pi in the cloud) then Oracle offers two VPS servers for free (not "free for a year", "free with a purchase", actually "free forever", which was a huge surprise to me). You get very little in terms of performance but for a website or small project that should be sufficient.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by doublerabbit on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:41AM (#28850150)

https://www.edis.at/en

They have many locations and I used their VPS for a long while before I moved to colocation. Had no issues apart from when I accidentally deleted /etc/.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by reactor on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:52AM (#28851457)

https://www.ssdnodes.com/

Quite attractive pricing and been an user for about 2+ yrs, never faced any issue so far, probably luck me?

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by PixyMisa on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:18AM (#28851717)

I've been using SSDNodes for some stuff for the past year. Had an issue with my VPS in Dallas, contacted support, they fixed it right away - response in a few minutes, fixed within half an hour.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by notRobot on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:18AM (#28850377)

They appear to support Arch? https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/compare/

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by Jach on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:32AM (#28851304)

Click through to actually ordering, and when you select your OS, you're given a choice of only Fedora/Centos/Debian/Ubuntu/Windows Server. When I was looking for a host that supported Gentoo I found similar false advertising from them (and many others), they don't actually do it. In theory some of them will give you a recovery shell so you can then bootstrap whatever distro you want, but once you do that you're in very unsupported territory.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by Palmik on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:28AM (#28853406)

I use archlinux on OVH, so in this case the advertising is certainly not completely false.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by stillblue on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:12AM (#28849940)

Linode and Digital Ocean are pretty good.

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Re:OVH is down along with its status page by adevx on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:14AM (#28849960)

Good experience with Hetzner Cloud, they support Arch. Only EU data centers though.

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