Isn't OVH a budget hoster, especially compared to AWS? Are you compensating that somewhat on the engineering and high-availability side?
I work for a consultancy company that helps other companies set up cloud infrastructure and secure it. We have a lot of customers on a lot of different platforms, from all-in on AWS, Azure and GCP to smaller local cloud providers, and it's interesting to see the market evolve.
It's true that using some of the smaller cloud providers can save you about half, but you might need an experienced engineer to come up with solutions and an extra machine here and there to ensure availability, so the one-on-one cost is not that clear-cut. Lots of smaller companies go all in on e.g. AWS, but then their eggs are locked into one expensive basket, especially if you build your product on AWS-specific services that can't be moved easily elsewhere.
Hopsworks has a platform with a high-availability database (RonDB), a highly available distributed file system (HopsFS) and the services are also redundant. Hopsworks even supports failover to another region. So the software is very reliable. But given that, OVH is a proper cloud vendor and not only a budget hoster, so it has fault tolerant services as well. We use other European companies for budget hosting of our development systems.
> Isn't OVH a budget hoster, especially compared to AWS? Are you compensating that somewhat on the engineering and high-availability side?
The OVH control panel is probably the worst I've experienced out of all clouds. Random failures (resources not showing up), crashes, white pages, things not working or a lack of features that are considered "basic". It's also extremely slow.
I'd say at least 25% of my requests on it fail.
I recently had a cloud database completely freeze and lock up (including the replicas), no restart function is provided, so had to make a ticket to get it restarted.
Unfortunately certain European companies don't do business with companies that use non-European cloud services, which doesn't leave you with much choice if you're looking for an alternative to AWS.
I work for a consultancy company that helps other companies set up cloud infrastructure and secure it. We have a lot of customers on a lot of different platforms, from all-in on AWS, Azure and GCP to smaller local cloud providers, and it's interesting to see the market evolve.
It's true that using some of the smaller cloud providers can save you about half, but you might need an experienced engineer to come up with solutions and an extra machine here and there to ensure availability, so the one-on-one cost is not that clear-cut. Lots of smaller companies go all in on e.g. AWS, but then their eggs are locked into one expensive basket, especially if you build your product on AWS-specific services that can't be moved easily elsewhere.