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New OVH "PS" lineup... and it sucks
5 EUR/mo (5.97 with tax) for a Celeron CPU with 500 GB disk
11 EUR/mo (13.14 with tax) for Atom/4G/1TB
And the funniest part, these "goodies" are for the French residents only.
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I wonder what PS stands for
Hmm, seems to have a setup fee.. 10.99 €
@awson I think they forgot an O in there.
What exactly is OVH trying to accomplish here?
Could have sworn when I read the note about going forward they were against setup fees as it will prevent growth??
For what it's worth I probably would have signed up to that atom deal considering 4GB ram and 1TB drive, if not for it being exclusive to France and the setup fee.
UK ordering coming "soon"
The servers are basically VERY interesting in terms of hardware, options and prices and you have to be able to find the offer of your dreams in a couple of clicks, without any hassle. We hope to have everything finished by the end of next week.
Octave
http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7627
@DomainBop
Sounds exciting.. I hope they leave the setup fees with the french, lol.
How about this "PS" compared to Online.net's 9.99?
I think this is still very good and perhaps still unsustainable.
100 mbps for 6 Eur/mo is very little, if we consider the power I use at home for a month it is some 2 Eur for one of my low end boxes which is not even 64 Bit (Via C7) and has only 1 GB ram because that is max that the board supports. Add to this the fixed IPs, free maintenance, bigger disk, that is great.
If this line was here before the doomed "dedi for 3" stuff, everyone would have been excited.
We will see how the customers will be treated though, that is their real problem, even for free, I will not use something from a company that despises me and being a customer is considered a privilege under threat to be revoked at any time for criteria such as country of origin or payment method AFTER the money were taken.
"For French residents only" is not legal under EU rules. They'll have to open it to EU residents at least.
I get the feeling the prices are going to be higher for their lower ranges, but they'll still be 'OVH cheap' in the mid to high ranges. They've hinted they're bringing out more pre-defined spec higher end offers.
I am not sure it will be a good idea to force them to do that as they will be even more abnoxious and will try to invent even more excuses to deny service to non-fr ppl.
that was the case already with kimsufi, in the beginning and for a long while.
Back in the 2007/2008, OVH boss Octave Klaba was occasionally explaining in the forum that he wanted to avoid the opportunistic crowd of p2p'ers.
For different reasons, he preferred back then, to deal with the "historic customers" (clients historiques): France and french-speaking spinoffs: Québec (notice: Québec, not Canada), Belgium, Switzerland, northern Africa, etc.
Then he put together geolocated subsidiaries. Reasons are ease of payment processing, legalities, and marketing.
not sure. A business is free to sell their products to whoever they want. Or said otherwise, to reject payment as they want. It's done all the time by paranoïd little VPS business who refuse to process payment when CC geodata doesn't match buyers provided geodata. (yet mismatching datasets isn't proof of fraud and in fact can be a safety and privacy safeguard for the customer).
that was expected. Maybe only a temporary test, but OVH explained on their forums that they needed a way to consolidate their business in the low-cost range, because too many cheap boxes had too short lease times.
Not in the EU, we've already had this discussion. A business in the EU cannot reject a customer from another country in the EU, based on just the country itself. Of course they can reject individual orders based on some criteria, but they cannot say "we don't accept customers from other EU countries".
Not that i think it's right or i like it, but this is the EU regulations...
The EU now wants to regulate how much water we use to flush the toilet...
Glad I got my 2.99 n2800 when I did. Whilst these are good value, they are not as good value as what was previously offered. Still cheaper than online.net though I suppose.
Strange I can't find a 1.2Ghz single core Celeron anywhere. I remember they used to do Celeron 847's previously. I wonder if that's what they'll start with.
@sc754 where are you trying to find it?
Wiki list of Celerons and also google, best I've found is a mobile processor or a very old socket 478 one. I doubt they'd use either of these :S
@sc754 i doubt this is any new hardware they'd buy for the lowest plan. It's probably several years old hardware, from cancellations.
I'd get the atom 4g over the via from online net at any time of day and night.
I also doubt you'll need much more CPU power than a Celeron that will do... idle? backups?
For one the atom has 1 TB disks. That is twice the space for only 1 Eur more.
While Atom has no VT, it has a lot more power and can do well Xen. The only issue with it is the 1 IPv6 only that kimsufi gets... However, there are ways to get over that.
If they do offer those Celeron 847's again, I might switch over so long as it performs ok. Looks like its better than an n2800 (at least according to passmark), I wonder how it would perform in a serverbear benchmark.
Celeron is cool, it is cheaper than online.net via and has better cpu and better traffic as it looks from benchmarks. OVH still wins over online.net on price.
@MaoUnique : I think their premium line up could be better ValueForMoney as it sounds from the email above.
also people should recall (unless they are borned very recently) that the web has been running for years on boxes similar to the 5€ kimsufi celeron.
Many people to pull a heavy php/python/ruby & sql machinery because it's the trend, yet they serve what: a little blog?
It's the Celeron 220. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron 220 - LE80557RE014512.html
@rm_ said:
Oh, well i wont switch then. Looks pretty average
I ran my little blogs on Atom N2800 for a long time, just install a proper web server (Lighttpd), turn on PHP caching (XCache), and it flies. And certainly feels much better than some VPS with "1 virtual core on Xeon CPU" where you share it with dozens of other people.
For just a "disk over the network" the celeron 220 should be OK.
Btw do i correctly understand that these are limited to one per person?