OVH OVH dedicated servers

You get SSDs with OVH... so what is the issue? Why do you need RAID?

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You say you want to switch to OVH, why? Determine why you want to switch and choose the server or cloud service that meets your needs.

 

Hi Jimmy,

I want to change to OVH because I can get a better server than the 2 linode vps I'm using.
I'm concerned about the performance. Linode has SSD raid10 but I don't know if a dedicated server with SSD raid 1 will have the same or less performance than Linode.
How can I find out that? Is any way I can compare disk I/O between Linode and OVH?

 

I'm not sure how you can test that out without purchasing a server to test it. I'm not sure it's going to be such a huge difference... I could be wrong.

I believe with Linode you're sharing resources. With OVH you're not.

 

I can buy the dedicated server for one week in order to test it. I hope @eva2000 can recommend a method to compare performance.

 

Just run this command on both server

 

IMO there are a lot of other things to consider than just the SSD performance. Price, dedicated resources, CPUs, etc.

 

Linode just tells how many cores the VPS has and the speed. There are no details like the processor model

 

Because if the SSD disk fails I'll lose all data. However with RAID 1 and two disks one of them can fail and data will be safe

 

That should have been "hardware raid" not just raid as per your question. You do get raid with the servers, software raid. I meant to ask why you specifically needed hardware raid.

 

Sorry, I was referring to hardware raid mostly because in case of any power failure or anything else the data will be preserved. I just want to be sure the data will be safe and I don't mind to pay a bit more for that. However I've been reading some articles and they say raid hard on SSD disks doesn't worth because it could even decrease the disks performance but I'd like somebody else to confirm this.

I'm particularly interested in one of these 3 dedicated servers (same processor and memory but different disk config):
Intel Xeon E5E5-1630v3 4/8t. 3.7 / 3.8 GHz 64 GB RAM DDR4 ECC 2133 MHz
1) 2 x 2 TB + 2x480GB SSD RAID HARD
2) 2 x 2 TB + 2x480GB SSD RAID SOFT
3) 3x600GB SAS RAID HARD + Cache 80GB SSD

I don't feel comfortable to buy one of them each month in order to compare their performance so I'd like to make a good decision before buy any of them.

 

Check out their site for details on software vs. hardware raid and then make your decision.

 

If you want great performance and great reliability.
Then choose this:

 

Do you suggest this config just because I can use raid 5?

 

I suggest that Plan as it is the same CPU you have above and it's Hardware Raid 10.

 

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Question of the OVH consuming folks, has OVH improved a jot ( compared to interweb hearsay ) on

• reliability?
• support?

I'm pushing a linode 24gb vm at the moment for one site and whilst it's mostly fine... I actually do like the vps world of snapshotting and cloning.

 

OVH offers support?

As for reliability, as long as their backbone isn't cut - which has happened twice - they're very reliable.