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Anyone have experience with OVH's VPS [1]? The prices seem to be close to Hetzner, cheaper than DigitalOcean but how is the reliability?

[1]: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/vps/


AndroTux
Personally, I've used two services hosted by OVH. Both of them regularly (about once a month) posted on social media that they're sorry their service is temporarily unavailable, because OVH has a cooling issue/had a faulty hard/OVH S3 storage was down/etc.

Might just have been bad luck, but personally, I can't recommend OVH. I'd go with Hetzner any day of the week.

lossolo
Perhaps they were simply unlucky, or using that claim to cover for their own mismanagement. I just checked one of my OVH machines, it's been up for 313 days with 100% service uptime, only rebooted for an OS upgrade.

While I love and regularly use Hetzner’s cloud and dedicated servers for many things, it’s unfortunately not yet on the same scale as OVH in terms of product offering. But I hope that changes over time.

AndroTux
Sure, it's possible that they were just unlucky or not quite honest, but often they backed it up with links to the OVH status page. Regardless, that's why I prefaced it with personal experience.

I'm curious, though: Do you have monitoring set up for your OVH machine? Because I've noticed that very often, disruption may just be short and not necessarily noticeable unless you happen to use the service at the time. But for something critical (or a website for your business), this is still a problem.

One of the services I used was Migadu. I migrated away from them after three months because they were just constantly unavailable for short periods of time. It was really annoying. Looking at their status page, you can see disruptions quite often. Of course, I can't say whether that's OVH's fault, or Migadu's, or a mix of both:

https://status.migadu.com/

Edit: The other service I used was masto.host. Just checked his social media account, and the last incident was two months ago: https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/114350904325778343 - If you scroll down on his profile, you'll see more posts like this, quite frequently.

lossolo
We serve a high volume of requests per second on certain OVH servers for a specific service, with continuous monitoring enabled. While their network didn’t maintain flawless uptime every second of the year, it achieved approximately 99.999% availability based on our observations, which is enough for us. However, we don't rely on their fully managed cloud services (databases, data platform, their containers etc), but we use their LBs, network services etc and as to servers we prefer solutions that are closer to bare metal. So we can’t speak for all of their services, only the ones we’ve used and have experience with.
I've been using them for several years now, the cheap ones anyway 1 core 2GB of RAM mostly

They provide some DDOS protection and also I remember when there was a fire at a datacenter/downtime they refunded me for the down time that was nice

My stuff is basic though personal sites either Apache/PHP or NGINX/NodeJS

tester756
I've been using cheap Linux OVH VPSes to host various .NET apps and I really recommend them.

I love the payments simplicity and transparency.

rtsil
I had a cheap VPS (kimsufi) with them for over 10 years and I don't remember a single downtime notification. Before that, I had another for 5 or so years and I received two notifications, but each time it was to tell me the problem has been fixed.
remram
Kimsufi is dedicated, not VPS
Well, except for the time their datacenter caught on fire I haven't had any problems.
lossolo
Yes, I'm currently hosting my private domain's email infrastructure using their VPS offering. I've also used their services for commercial purposes and have been using various of their products for almost 20 years.
My current uptime is 448 days on a VLE-4 running Debian. The only way I'd be happier is if they let me easily run Gentoo like my old EC2 server did.

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