You get what you pay for. Nothing wrong with a 5400 RPM drive with those specs for hosting a personal website, backup, VPN etc.
I've had 100% uptime over the last 3 months (externally monitored), used terabytes of bandwidth, and get 20ms ping over the Channel. You can't beat that on price.
OVH's network is one of the most overly sold of any large multinational host (At one point they had ~40Gbps fiber between their DCs but, of HG servers alone, had sold over 2Tbps of bandwidth). Their volume network has horrible contention and they don't even try to make it worthwhile -- 'best effort bandwidth' is basically what residential bandwidth is.
At one point I had ~5K of servers with them and in any given week one of them would require some work. My org had paid for the best SLA (<2 hour) and we'd often have to wait a day to hear back what the problem is and another day, at least, to get things replaced.
OVH's general business plan is to expand customer base quickly, then take the time to actually build out the network to fit their pre-growth size.
Hetzner is a little better on supportbut they have some annoying policies (See the DDoS thread from yesterday), I do like their automation though. I'm now mostly in Leaseweb and a couple CN-datacenters with my own peering mix
Well, I should have realized OVH's prices were too good to be true :)
>> My org had paid for the best SLA (<2 hour) and we'd often have to wait a day to hear back what the problem is and another day, at least, to get things replaced.
Ouch. That's really unacceptable, especially when you've paid for supposedly top notch support!
>> Hetzner is a little better on supportbut they have some annoying policies (See the DDoS thread from yesterday), I do like their automation though. I'm now mostly in Leaseweb and a couple CN-datacenters with my own peering mix
Hmm.. I haven't seen the DDoS thread.
But do you think Hetzner should be avoided, or did you just find Leaseweb that much better? Hetzner's dedicated servers look like good value for money, assuming there are no hidden problems like with OVH.
Hetzner is a budget host, as such their lower end offers should be carefully evaluated. Hetzner has a habit of shutting down servers if they're DDoSed rather than deal with the DDoS unless you're on a higher tier of service and SLA. Hetzner is, all around, a good host. Leaseweb better suits my needs though (I have a rack in .NL and .US)
Previous OVH customer and now current Hetzner customer here. I've been impressed with Hetzner's internal tools (Robot) and their support has been quick (had a faulty server, had it replaced inside of an hour).
