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by gingerlime 3826 days ago
What kind of VPSs are you guys using with OVH? I had a look at OVH, but to be honest got really confused with too many options to choose from... (not to mention I wasn't sure which site I should sign up to, the .com / .co.uk - is this based on the VPS location in any way?).

Linode clearly wins on simplicity and clarity. I guess under the current circumstances, I'd be willing to compromise simplicity for better availability though.
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StanAngeloff 3826 days ago
(I work in IT as well. Not affiliated with Linode / OVH)

Linode wins on simplicity, agreed. We are in the same boat, OVH has too many offerings. We are looking at their VPS SSD plans [1]. Last thing we want is to be offline again. As such we are also looking for anti-DDoS which is included in the plans. I intent on spinning up a few nodes to try them out first.

[1] https://www.ovh.ie/vps/vps-ssd.xml

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cpqq 3826 days ago
Whoever has the most transit wins the mitigation game. You need to take in that traffic, then process it with a shitload of power.

OVH has 3 large datacenter PoPs to absorb attacks and do just that, then push the traffic clean back to your server.

They may blow at support and response times, but once I have a dedicated server from them, their Manager is intuitive enough to get going.

Add the fact I can get 64G server on a brand new E5 chassis with 255 free IPs for VPS of my own, and I've been moving more and more sites there as hosts get arbitrarily hit.

Piss off some competitor or skiddie and you get tested. It's ridiculous, but sadly DDoS mitigation is becoming a must.

Good time to leave being a SysAdmin in cloud and go back to web design full time as I watch a lack of best practices and SPOF take over.

Finally, I backup everything to 2 off-site locations and hope for the best.

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pmontra 3826 days ago
All OVH servers are in the same data centers regardless which country's domain you buy from.

They have 3 data centers in France and one in Canada, east coast. Status and network map at https://www.ovh.co.uk/community/status/

About the options, I don't know. They updated their products on Q4 2015 and I still didn't have to buy another VPS from them so I didn't investigate.

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