[StudentStuff]

DigitalOcean and Linode are currently the same price, what $5 buys you on DO gets you the same specs on Linode.

Hetzner is not a reasonable choice for servers IMO, its akin to hosting in a datahole in Dallas, expect mixed bandwidth quality and questionable policies when issues arise. Comparatively, OVH looks stable.

Scaleway doesn't take abuse reports seriously FYI, these attacks are still primarily coming from IPs announced by their ASN, over a year after this article was written: https://badpackets.net/ongoing-large-scale-sip-attack-campai...

[pdimitar]

> Hetzner is not a reasonable choice for servers IMO, its akin to hosting in a datahole in Dallas, expect mixed bandwidth quality and questionable policies when issues arise.

Really surprised to hear that, can you please elaborate? I only heard good things about them up until now...

> Comparatively, OVH looks stable.

What kind of stable do you mean? Bandwidth, latency, average I/O ops, CPU load?

[StudentStuff]

Hetzner has had peering and jitter issues for years, in the past they would nullroute your server's IP for minor DOSes: https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/6fwphr/hetzner_i...

Hetzner does pay lip service to improving their network, but its akin to ColoCrossing, the internal network infrastructure is not amazing due to budget constraints, and the peering situation isn't apt to improve as its essentially money and politics that created it.

> What kind of stable do you mean (referring to OVH)? Bandwidth, latency, average I/O ops, CPU load?

I am referring to bandwidth, latency & jitter when comparing OVH to others. One thing OVH has nailed is keeping jitter minimal, and there has been significant optimizations for routes in their newer datacenters as time has gone on.

Mature OVH locations already have fairly good peering, to the point that many time sensitive workloads that can't be fronted/cached choose OVH in certain regions.

Its really sad to see Google Cloud and AWS flunking on this front, the lack of internal IPv6 support to the VM kills mobile performance, adding tens of milliseconds of latency and incurring a stateful connection in cellular carriers CGNAT (which gets killed after ~100 seconds), reducing performance and breaking long term open connections. Sending a packet over IPv6 to a cellphone is often faster than using push messaging on iOS or Android.

OVH Latency Optimizations: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2873074#Commen...

[pdimitar]

Quite interesting and informative.

Thanks a lot! Changed my perspective.