Note these are atom based.<p>But I bet nginx could still crank out static files from them.<p>Translation: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&&act=url&u=http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=89592" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...</a><p><pre><code> We have 3 servers in the KS series:
KS-2G ATOM powered with 2G of RAM, 500GB, 100Mbps 2.99e/mois.
KS-4G 4GB of RAM, 2x500GB software raid 9.99e/mois
KS-16G Core i5 with 16G, VT and 2x1TB 19.99e/mois
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3 euros is $4 USD and 20 euros is $26.50 USD<p>They are also on the UK site:<p><a href="http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</a><p>That $26.50 server is currently $40 in the US (CA)<p><a href="http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/kimsufi2.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/kimsufi2.xml</a><p>The real deal here IMHO is the i5 for $26.50, that cpu can run laps around the atom and can run in "turbo" mode near 3.5ghz all day.
DC photos can be found at <a href="https://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-1/" rel="nofollow">https://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-1/</a>. It doesn't get any cheaper than that.<p>I'm guessing they buy mini-itx boards from China by the container load.
This company requires extremely invasive amounts of personal information - going as far as to ask for your drivers' license and a home utility bill.<p>They also just got severely owned the other week. So you can trust that the extreme invasion of privacy won't get straight to the wrong people.<p><a href="http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=5070&PHPSESSID=d2344fbaf05bddbe375071d4ec197f41" rel="nofollow">http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=5070&PHPSESSID=d2344fba...</a>
By the price of two coffees you get a server connected to internet.<p>When I started with this, the price of a server was the salary of an adult of medium class working during one year (and you got it without connection to internet, neither hosting facilities)...<p>I wish the price of technology at home (devices, connections, etc), could go down the same way for everybody.
Can't just signup right away, they require:<p>Proof of ID:<p><pre><code> ID card
Driving Licence
Passport
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Proof of address:<p><pre><code> Utility bill (Gas, electricity, phone)
Bank statement
Official correspondence</code></pre>
I am using the US version of their dedicated server to run URL unshortening API service <a href="http://api.unshort.me/api.html" rel="nofollow">http://api.unshort.me/api.html</a> . The web stack is Nginx + Python (Flask) + Couchbase. So far, I haven't notice any issue with their server.
I use <a href="http://bigv.io/" rel="nofollow">http://bigv.io/</a> - much better and local to me. There is only a few beers difference between €2.99 and £12 a month...<p>They are VMs but they perform better than a dedicated Atom from my testing.
OVH is <i>much less expensive</i> than Amazon EC2... Someone said in a HN discussion earlier this week that he was not able to find providers significantly cheaper than Amazon. Well OVH proves this is possible.<p>This OVH dedicated server is comparable to an Amazon EC2 Standard small (m1.small) instance. Taking an Amazon reserved instance, "heavy utilization" (to minimize cost), and in their less expensive region, with a 1-year term, the upfront payment is $169 plus $0.014 per hour, which amounts to $24.30 per month.<p>Compare this to OVH is only 3€, that is $4.00 per month... 1/6th the price! And OVH has 500GB storage vs 160GB for Amazon!
Next to this, it is a little unfortunate that just two days ago OVH announced on their forum (<a href="http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=5070" rel="nofollow">http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=5070</a>) that an attacker had gained control of a system administrator's account, and used that to gain access to a VPN account of one of the firm's backoffice staff. That again was used to get the <i>personal data of customers</i> in Europe and from a hosting firm in Canada.<p>Well, at least they are being open about this, but from the forum it seems the security incident is still open.
Hmm, that's all nice, but what about securing my data against snooping? I'm wondering specifically how I would prevent people from snooping data while in transit (MITM) and prevent someone with physical access to the hard drive from reading my bits? To simplify the question, assume I just want to store and retrieve plain files. Bonus points if I can also safely share them in some way (i.e. share one file without also giving up security on the rest).
You might want to consider if you want to go to OVH, because they recently had a security breach.<p><a href="http://status.ovh.com/?do=details&id=5070&PHPSESSID=f988fc8bbe16944daf564c6dabbcdc58" rel="nofollow">http://status.ovh.com/?do=details&id=5070&PHPSESSID=f988fc8b...</a>
Page from the UK site with full specs and prices in £ <a href="https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml" rel="nofollow">https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</a>
Another interesting use may be for an always-on BitTorrent Sync node. I have a Raspberry Pi for this purpose, but the 500 GB of storage space is much better than the 16 GB SD card I currently have.
I wonder what price is shown to US, UK and French customers?<p>German customers have to pay €3.99 for KS2G. The German price should be 1 cent cheaper, and not 1 Euro more expensive, as French VAT is 19.6% while German VAT is 19%.<p>See <a href="http://www.ovh.de/dedicated_server/isgenug.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.ovh.de/dedicated_server/isgenug.xml</a> if this is possible outside Germany. You can not see ovh.com inside Germany, as ovh.com is redirected to ovh.de.
No doubt the new rates for their dedicated servers are in response to hetzner's new rates. ISPs seem to have this unfortunate ability to retain ridiculous profit margins indefinitely.<p>I guess the tactic is quite simple: Be extortionate while you have market share. Undercut your opponents when it starts being threatened.<p>Not that I'm complaining when stuff like this happens, I like OVH, sometimes.
In case anyone tries this: I called customer service (via Skype) to find out when I could expect my server to be online, and was told that OVH has temporarily discontinued Kimsufi sales to the US. The rep confirmed that it is a temporary ban, but had no information on when it might be lifted.<p>So I guess it <i>was</i> too good to be true.
FWIW I switched the company I interned at in Paris to using OVH and was very pleased with their website and tech support. The server we ordered was available quickly, their tools were easy to use yet very powerful. I also cut costs while getting a better server than from that company's previous provider...
I ordered mine very quickly when it said I would get it within 24 hours. However it's now been days and no dice.<p>They sent me the IP of the server but it's stuck on "installing OS". Quite honestly I really assumed the installing process would be automated.<p>Has anyone got there server yet? (or are you still waiting?)
Could someone explain to me why a business would enter the hosting industry with minimum operating margins? My guess is that OVH plans to offer more premium servers, for greater margins, after it acquires customers.<p>Increase profit margins with upgrades. The more premium the server, the higher the profit margin.
I wonder how one of these Atom powered servers compares to a free EC2 T1-micro instance. This is kind of apples and oranges , since this is a dedicated server, but I'm not sure if you'd really get a lot more out of them.
Has anyone else tried purchasing a server from the US? The require you to send proof of id, but I haven't received a response from the yet (I sent it 2 days ago).
This is perfect. I have a $4 VPS in the States that is crapping out with 50% packet loss in the evenings... and that only has 500GB tranny, 20GB disk and 256 MiB RAM.
Not sure who they're targeting with this. Small guys will go with AWS as it's not worth the risk of using an untested provider to save a few dollars, big guys will likely build their own datacenter/on-premise compute grid.