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by ryanlol 2338 days ago
How is Linode “much cheaper than OVH”? Their margins are probably way higher.
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Linode's origin is as a VPS provider. OVH's is as a dedicated server provider. OVH's top server is twice the cost of Linode's and their cheapest is 5x the price (10 vs ~50).
Cheapest OVH dedi I see is the KS-1 for 3.99eur, which is less than the cheapest Linode VPS. OVH also doesn’t try to nickel-and-dime you by charging for data transfer.

I wouldn’t recommend the cheapest Kimsufi offerings though, something like the SYS-WS-1 goes for $33 and is easily comparable with Linode offerings priced at multiple times that.

OVH has a VPS product that’s far cheaper than what Linode offers, but I can’t speak to the quality of that offering.

Comparing prices for bare metal with prices for shared infrastructure is pretty much useless though.
Why is that?