FYI, all OVH servers have a backdoor preinstalled on them.<p>You'll want to:<p><pre><code> echo "" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2
rm -rf /usr/local/rtm
echo "" > /etc/crontab
killall -9 rtm
</code></pre>
We used OVH for some testing/dev boxes and ended up adding OVH specific puppet configs to clean up the box.<p>Edit: Oh and on Windows you need to hit up Add/Remove programs and uninstall 'Corp SSH'
I used OVH for about a year and had no problems (had no need for the server any more).<p>The only issue I did have (and might be worth considering) was probably to be expected: they seem to be very on top of network issues and won't hesitate to terminate your server if something is suspicious. I was running a game server (Call of Duty 1) that had a bug that allowed someone to maliciously redirect packets to someone else (not a spectacular amount, but enough that when they did it with ~10 servers it would cause problems for the victim) and because we were part of an attack the server was shut down and they wouldn't return it to me without agreement that we'd wipe the "infected" server -- even though it wasn't infected, it was a software bug that we could resolve if we had server access.<p>Definitely worth using for unimportant things, but definitely not worth risking it on production.
I'm french and I've been using low-cost offers from OVH (Kimsufi) or Illiad (Online.net) since a couple of years.<p>I just have ONE objection: If you plan to do something professional with them, just, don't.<p>For them, every client is dispensable (even if you rent 200 servers or more). They won't hesitate a single second to delete your server if they have a small problem with you (for example, getting DDoS'd).<p>OVH have shutdowned servers from a small association who was offering hosting, on the basis that the server made 3 DNS request to some "weird" server in Poland, for example.<p>So, it's okay for personal stuff, and, backup everything- your data is definitely not safe on their servers.
And just in case somebody isn't comfortable using the french website, the irish one has the same offers:
<a href="http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</a><p>(the german one is strangely enough more expensive)
Proud OVH customer both in Europe and Canada. Very happy with their hard service and amazed with their tools. With their control panel you can deploy a new dedicate server in under an hour with a custom setup preloaded with your SSH keys. Provided they have stock of the server.<p>They suck in the support/soft service department, but frankly if you know what you are doing, you don't need it with OVH. They have pretty much automated everything. If there is a hardware fault they are on it before you even know.<p>Just a few days ago 24 servers failed due to cooling issues. They sent an army of 8 nerds to handle the issue: <a href="http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=3736" rel="nofollow">http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=3736</a> Resolved in 40 minutes.
I've had a kimsufi/ovh dedicated for a few years now. I switched when I was comparing various vps prices, and was annoyed by the small disk (and ram) sizes provided for the cheaper plans.<p>I'm on a plan that isn't available anymore, but it was sub-20eur/month, and the hardware seems to be P4 3ghz, with 2GB ram and 200GB disk. And the performance has been plenty for me.<p>Then the kimsufi brand was a bit more separated from the normal ovh offering. The kimsufi was branded a bit more on the do-it-yourself side, with no support apart from hardware failures. It seems they've now merged the kimsufi brand back to the main ovh site.<p>And I have been a fairly happy customer. I think I've had a couple of short network outages, but nothing alarming. My uptime is at 732 days.
> this cheap offering is only available in their home country which is France.<p>not true. <a href="http://www.ovh.pl/serwery_dedykowane/kimsufi.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.ovh.pl/serwery_dedykowane/kimsufi.xml</a> <a href="https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml" rel="nofollow">https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</a> etc. They operate from France, but have offices in Poland and all over Europe. there are no admins in here though AFAIK, every support request is just forwarded to France.
I have one of these: <a href="http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/dedibox-sc" rel="nofollow">http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/dedibox-sc</a> which are pretty nice as well. I think the CPU is slightly better than the OVH atoms.
I'm happy running an OVH / Kimsufi server, costs me £25 a month + VAT from the UK site, it works brilliantly.<p>Support is essentially non-existant, it's at best "Don't call us unless the box is power dead". But for the price, that's fine, if it dies or starts showing a hardware fault, I'll cancel that one and order a replacement.
I hope 2013 brings $99 dedicated with hardware raid (you can pay that for software raid now).<p>But atom for a server? Yuck. I'd rather have a real server cpu under virtual xen instead.
OVH have similar offers in many countries as mentioned by others here already, e.g. on their Irish site or their Polish site. I signed up through their German www.isgenug.de brand (which now simply redirects to their main web page) about six months ago and got a EUR12/mo deal which isn't available anymore. The server is fine, but administrating the account is a pain.<p>I thought I'd be able to get access to a server within a day or so of registering and paying. Oh was I wrong. Before even charging my credit card they requested an officially stamped/signed proof of address (issued by the town I reside in in Germany), a scan of my credit card (!), and a scan of my German national ID card. They were friendly enough to let me substitute my passport since I don't have an ID card. I was travelling at that time and had to have the proof of address mailed to me, so it took over a week. Ironically, all that jazz was required because I was travelling - apparently signing up for a server with a German credit card from a non-German IP is "suspicious".<p>Two weeks after signing up I finally had access to the server. Stupid me thought they would make it easy to stay their customer. Instead, I have to enter my credit card details into their Web0.9 backend system once every month (or once every year if paying annually). To make sure I don' forget I receive a reminder email once every day for the last 14 days of every month. The only alternative is to set up a recurrent wire transfer to them and then cross you fingers that it always gets booked correctly on their end.<p>I see that many others here report on having an account with them. Am I the only one who finds it so difficult to give them my money? I'm really happy with the server (I use it to compute meshes from worldwide elevation data sets for our geographical iPhone case creator on <a href="http://www.printablegeography.com/creator" rel="nofollow">http://www.printablegeography.com/creator</a>) but giving them money is just waaay too hard.<p>edit: typo
I rent a dedicated server from OVH in their Canada data center. For $79/month I get the following:<p>1) 100mbit connection
2) Core i3-2130 w/16 GB ram
3) 2x1TB sata configured as software raid-1<p>To be blunt, $79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity. I'm more than willing to put up with an occasional network problem (hurricane Sandy disrupted some of their peering) and a management portal that is not quite as featureful as I'd like.
I remember reading that OVH is very popular in the Scene[0], for running topsites and the like. The reliability and bandwidth must be pretty good for them to be used by the Scene.<p>0:<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene" rel="nofollow">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene</a>
You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic, but this is a great price for a dev server.<p>Put ISPconfig on it if you want a free control panel:
<a href="http://www.ispconfig.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ispconfig.org/</a>
I use OVH for a rutorrent and PLEX server. I have the 8G one for 40 bucks a month. It is the seedbox for six users and runs PLEX so everyone can stream to their phones or computer or AppleTV.<p>It has mostly replaced cable tv for everyone that uses it.
Online.net (French as well) also has a competitive 10€ pricing: <a href="http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie" rel="nofollow">http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie</a>
Just as several users here: I have two dedicated Kimsufi (a word play on "qui me suffit" meaning: "which is enough for me") since years. One of them reached a 4 digits uptime (then there has been some modification on the bay and it got rebooted).<p>Paying about 20 Euros / month or so.<p>At one point I was considering finding a dedicated server in the U.S. but I was surprised: apparently the prices weren't that competitive compared to OVH (I was looking for a full dedicated box, not a shared one nor instances).