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by jonas21 1924 days ago
On the other hand, just about every month, there's a story on HN saying why are you wasting your money on AWS when OVH is so much cheaper (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24966028).

And well, I guess this is one of the reasons.
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ev1 1924 days ago
If you choose to run 100% of your workload on a single EC2 VM in us-east-chaos-monkey and put nothing in S3, only local mounted block storage that also disappears when you reboot your on-demand EC2, that is on you.
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kuschku 1924 days ago
2 OVH dedicated servers in different countries are still cheaper than one AWS instance.

e.g. I've got servers at OVH SBG-2, Hetzner's Falckenstein, and Online.net's AMS datacenters — the total of which is still almost a magnitude less than the same cost on AWS or GCP (granted, that's including traffic)

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ev1 1924 days ago
Pretty much. Use 5% of the money you saved moving your workload from AWS to OVH to support failover, DR, and backups. You can probably buy like five or six machines of equivalent spec or more.
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tmikaeld 1923 days ago
Not only that, but the OVH load balancer (API gateway) is enormously much cheaper at 2TB of traffic than AWS and they don't charge for the amount of requests.
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dvfjsdhgfv 1924 days ago
No, it doesn't work like this. I have several bare-metal (with Heztner, I use OVH for DNS), it's been over 10 years already. I know that if I only rent one machine in one location, I'm asking for trouble. Based on my experience, I would say that every 2-6 years something dies in a server. A disk, a controller, a fan, you name it. It's rare to have servers running for longer than 7 years without any issues, and they're outdated by that time anyway so they need to be migrated to a new machine.

So, as a bare minimum, you rent at least two different machines at two different locations for each project and make offsite backups. It's still way less expensive than AWS.

If I don't need a powerful server and just need to spin some instances for testing or small projects, I use Hetzner Cloud, it's ridiculously cheap.

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kazen44 1924 days ago
how so? using OVH and their bare metal servers doesn't absolve you from doing your own due dilligence.

As said earlier, their cloud service is unaffected.

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