On an unrelated note, why on earth doesn't OVH have reoccurring billing. Every month I have to click on their email link and make sure that my server billing gets processed? It's so strange...
That's no real increase and just fair. At the moment servers in the UK were cheap compared to paying in Eur (if you can pay in both). Although I don't really understand why they price in £ anyway. They could just base it on € and convert the other currencies every month. With the current weak € this would be nice for nearly everyone else.
As a Swiss, we are used to these moves (due the Swiss Franc). Often, companies are taking these external events to increase their prices (or fire people). Oddly when it is at the customer advantage, the prices never follow the curve down...
I gotta ask, because this looks like such a great deal on their website for a VPS...anyone use them? They're the only VPS i've seen that doesn't charge at all for bandwidth according to this its unliminted bandwidth <a href="https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-cloud.xml" rel="nofollow">https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-cloud.xml</a><p>Are they any good? I was thinking of picking this up here in North America, since they got data centers in Canada (should be good enough for my purposes)<p>Edit: For clarity, my wife makes homemade dream catchers and soy candles, so I was hoping to migrate her away from Etsy to a custom rolled store, and I was thinking of hosting it on a VPS since shared hosting seems so...sketchy.
Maybe this price increase is related to the decline of the pound or it is to offset the increased costs caused by the Snooper's Charter. Because I can't remember that there was a price increase after the 2008 Pound crash and compared to the Euro the Pound is where it was around 2011 before it started to rise against the Euro.
It does seem this was done to bring GBP/USD pricing back to parity with EUR/USD and is only an issue if you resided in the UK and need to spend GBP.<p>The SP-32 server was 48.99 GBP which is 60.65 USD via ovh.co.uk while the same server could be ordered for 69.99 EUR or 72.57 USD via ovh.ie.
something doesn't add up here...<p>today the euro is at a 10 year low against the dollar, and the pound against the euro is roughly the same as it was in 2013