OVH OVH new datacenters in Sydney, Singapore & Poland

OVH SGP

Speedtest seems slow :/

SoftRaid 1

 

Not the best for install time.

 

Syncing files from CA to SGP.

 

Singapore network is pretty bad, Linode is constantly having issues with it

 

I hope it will improve in the coming months.

 

I had a linode on SG during one year and had to move it since got tired of network issues. Last time I had to report those issues myself and then, they updated SG network status page. I got tired of being a SG monitor

 

My SG Live Server.







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New Offerings: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/all_servers.xml?dc=sgp

I wanted that "Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 - 4c/8t - 3.8GHz" for so many months on SG but now it has low RAM.

 

The UK prices are now out for a few more servers. Bit of a bump in monthly over established EU prices.

Must be the cost of power/rates in the UK, and similar if not equal pricing to Germany.

The discovery one is not a bad price, £64.98+vat with 2x480SSD, only 250Mbps - I've not really pushed past this according to the network graphs in linode/nixstats.

A more direct comparison might be the SP-32( no EG30+ avail ).
UK, 79.99+vat @ 20%,
France, £59.99. + vat @ 20%.
i.e. £24 minimum bump for a 'UK' location, on-base machines!

So the plus I see in the UK:
Marginally less latency. - 80% of my traffic is UK & 50% of that south of Birmingham. But as mentioned before a hop to GRA from UK pops can't be that much...
A possibly cleaner IP range. - I send via AWS so moot.
Different staff. - Same company philosophy I imagine.
It's UK based. - Whatever that means given we're still in Europe. I have no legal req to host in the UK, only Europe, for now.

Anything else?

Cost wise it's still very tempting, going from a 24Gb linode + a few satellites is a good saving.

Whilst I know I'm on a single parent/shared node at Linode, I do know they are watching the physical host.
3x##-32 servers in GRA running Galera/HA gives me redundancy, for less to equal monthly spend I have with linode, but more headaches in setup

I think the only feature I'd miss is the snapshot, and it's one I've never actually had to use. I tend to snapshot before updates; just in case. Having a daily then 3 and one week old is reassuring too.

TL;DR So more ££ for LDN vs GRA...choices choices.

 

My current plan I got last August 2017.

versus it new package and price.

Yay increased $56 USD and decrease bandwidth.

 

I expect more OVH price increases in the future.
They have invested E400 million, and have opened new centers around the world.

That are being built even faster as mushrooms.
And of course that has to be earned back.

 

Yes and even renewing it now still has the old price.

 

I never actually had them in the UK, all mine were in France.