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by simple1 4209 days ago
OVH prices are so amazing, I wonder if they must be running at a loss. I use them to run Aberoth (http://www.aberoth.com), and I always keep my eye out for a better deal, but nothing comes close for high RAM servers. They also seem to be continuously sold out: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers.xml, so there is clearly a huge market for these cheap servers. I wonder why no one else seems to be able to compete close to their price point.
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geoka9 4209 days ago
Don't forget about OVH's lowest tier offering: kimsufi. I'm using a server since August and so far haven't had any problems whatsoever.
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revelation 4209 days ago
Been using their <$5/month Atom server for quite some time now. Zero problems, and I've had months pushing 500GiB of traffic, getting full 100Mbit pretty much all the time.
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koralatov 4209 days ago
Same here. Some months I barely use it, but it's just so cheap and the performance is just so good that I can't let myself let it expire.
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geoka9 4209 days ago
Their cheapest Atom seems to be $7? It also looks like the cheapest one they have in their Canadian data center is a $21 Core i3 (which is still a very good deal, with 2 cores/8 GB RAM/1 TB HDD/unlimited traffic).
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corobo 4209 days ago
There was an offer on within the last year or so that took them down to crazy low prices. It apparently caused a lot of customer churn which is why they now do setup fees :(

Never had a problem with their service, but their pricing is all over the place

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X-Istence 4209 days ago
I am on their Core i3 offering with 8 GB of RAM with 2 2TB drives, with unlimited traffic. It has been absolutely rock-solid.
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linuxydave 4209 days ago
The only issue I've had with OVH and Kimsufi servers was that any incoming or outgoing SSH connections would also terminate on the first connection attempt. Always. Mac, Linux, Windows - it didn't matter. I've never had this issue with any other host.

I got so annoyed with it that I created a simple bash script that would attempt to connect, pipe the results to /dev/null and then connect again. Always failed on the first attempt, always worked the second. Their support weren't able to help me either.

The only upside was that it forced me to add decent connection error-handling to my scripts.

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