OVH is giving out about 10000 dedicated servers in their new US DC for free!

sspy

Sorry, we have reached the limit of available servers for today. Please try again tomorrow!

William

@vahe said: This is interesting. Ping to 8.8.8.8 is ~100ms, but to 8.8.4.4 is 2ms. Does this mean the closest google dns server would be in the same datacenter?

No, but near it.

StableVDS

@vahe, NO, do a traceroute and you will see where it is located.

vahe

1 - 2 mtl-2-6k.qc.ca (178.32.135.66) 1.912 ms * * 3 google-public-dns-b.google.com (8.8.4.4) 2.155 ms 2.163 ms 2.162 ms

lbft

@gsrdgrdghd said: Judging by their current Kimsufi prices i'd say around 30-40€/month.

@Chronic said: 49.99 € I think.

http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6191

The pricing to America will be $79/month, or $69/month if paid annually. Europeans will pay the same as a SP Mini 2012 in France - €49.99/£44.99 (edit: +VAT where applicable).

There are no Kimsufi servers in Beauharnois - people who had the alpha servers (4GB Atoms) should have had theirs shut off by now and those servers will be used for free trials. They want to position themselves as somehow 'premium' - I can't see how they're going to pull it off, especially since they didn't seem to have worked out all the kinks in their network as of a couple of weeks ago when I had one of these 16GB freebies.

But mostly I'm grumpy because I wanted a Kimsufi in Canada :P

MrDOS

I think Google has some of their stuff awfully close to whatever datacentre iWeb keeps their stuff in.

@sspy: Yeah, that's pretty much par for the course. All the offers OVH has been doing like this run out within 3-4 seconds of the start of the offer.

tux

@lbft said: Europeans will pay the same as a SP Mini 2012 in France - €49.99/£44.99.

In Finland this price is 61,50 € (incl. VAT 23 %).

lbft

@vahe said: 1 - 2 mtl-2-6k.qc.ca (178.32.135.66) 1.912 ms * * 3 google-public-dns-b.google.com (8.8.4.4) 2.155 ms 2.163 ms 2.162 ms

mtl = Montreal, where OVH has networking equipment in an existing datacentre (because there's nothing in Beauharnois itself for them to connect to.) The code they use for datacentre the servers are in is "bhs". Google Maps says it's only ~40 km by road, hence the low pings.

@tux said: In Finland this price is 61,50 € (incl. VAT 23 %).

Yeah, I should've made clear that price was excluding tax (which is how OVH show it where they're not required to include it, the misleading buggers). I forgot because I'm outside the EU (so no VAT) but I have to pay OVH in Euros.

Taz

Meh, Datashack and FDC is still cheaper then OVH than I guess.

lele0108

$70 for a OVH?

Nah, I rahter stick to DataShack, VolumeDrive and ServerStadium.

jarland

Brace for impact. It may be imperfect, but even without the kimsufi line I think OVH is going to really stir the pot in North America. Good old fashioned competition, but on quite the massive scale. We'll all see a significant shift in the market from this over the next two years I predict.

fly

unless they fix up the network, i still see ds/vd/joe's as king in the low end dedi market in the US

serverbear

A few people we kind enough to run some benchmarks (thanks @ElliotJ & @fly):

http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/08/01/anJEBcKP4BVvBO1D

Benchmark Run: Wed Aug 01 2012 15:22:33 - 15:50:47
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       81392110.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                    15119.4 MWIPS (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                              13766.7 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks       1267980.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          369268.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       3455112.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                             6077354.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                1368449.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                              52880.7 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                  19978.8 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   2752.2 lpm   (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                        9976444.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   81392110.0   6974.5
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0      15119.4   2749.0
Execl Throughput                                 43.0      13766.7   3201.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0    1267980.9   3202.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     369268.2   2231.2
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    3455112.4   5957.1
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    6077354.7   4885.3
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0    1368449.3   3421.1
Process Creation                                126.0      52880.7   4196.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4      19978.8   4712.0
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       2752.2   4587.0
System Call Overhead                          15000.0    9976444.8   6651.0
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                        4153.2

ioping -c 10
request=1 time=0.5 ms
request=2 time=0.3 ms
request=3 time=0.3 ms
request=4 time=0.3 ms
request=5 time=0.5 ms
request=6 time=3.1 ms
request=7 time=17.7 ms
request=8 time=82.4 ms
request=9 time=0.7 ms
request=10 time=0.5 ms

10 requests completed in 9106.9 ms, 94 iops, 0.4 mb/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync
7.0015 s, 153 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
7.74331 s, 139 MB/s

Cachefly    4.93 MB/s
Linode, Atlanta, GA, USA     7.76 MB/s
Linode, Dallas, TX, USA  7.08 MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP    4.16 MB/s
Linode, London, UK   1.41 MB/s
OVH, Paris, France   2.71 MB/s
SmartDC, Rotterdam, Netherlands  6.21 MB/s
Hetzner, Nuremberg, Germany  9.24 MB/s
iiNet, Perth, WA, Australia  2.34 MB/s
Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL, USA   4.15 MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore     2.25 MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA, USA  5.79 MB/s
Softlayer, San Jose, CA, USA     1.56 MB/s
Softlayer, Washington, DC, USA   5.53 MB/s

fly

network is still fishy, but the cpu is good, and the dd tests are good

serverbear

The tracert is curious actually:

Traceroute (cachefly.cachefly.net): traceroute to cachefly.cachefly.net (205.234.175.175), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  198.245.63.253 (198.245.63.253)  0.588 ms * *
 2  mtl-1-6k.qc.ca (178.32.135.48)  1.878 ms * *
 3  ldn-5-6k.uk.eu (91.121.131.137)  77.701 ms * *
 4  vip1.G-anycast1.cachefly.net (205.234.175.175)  93.591 ms  93.856 ms  93.576 ms

I wouldn't think they'd route this via Europe, the latency would be much higher?

Also a much better connection to SmartDC than their own DC in Paris, trololo.

MrDOS

I forgot to mention – I'm running a Minecraft server on mine now, which would somewhat befoul benchmarks, but if there's anything anyone particularly wants to see results of, I can provide.

jarland

I'd like to consider this system for a vps node (after their launch, obviously), obviously not a huge quantity with the CPU though. Those benchmarks aren't bad. The drives seem pretty good. Surely the routing is the biggest concern that I see.

The real savings is in the memory and drives for the price as I see it. I wonder what they'd charge later to add two drives.

Don't take this post as meaning I'm going to do any of the above, only that I'm open to it ;)

HalfEatenPie

The specs aren't bad. The pricetags are awesome. The network is probably getting worked on (I mean come on, its beta). And its free for a month for OVH to test.

I'd say besides for this being a pretty damn solid marketing strategy, its also a great place to get your server up without too much of a hassle.

Now, one problem this could bring though is more summer hosts :/

Taylor

@HalfEatenPie said: Now, one problem this could bring though is more summer hosts :/

>

A migration every one month :P

lele0108

@HalfEatenPie said: summer hosts

Minecraft Forum's is pretty much flooded with these.

Is sad.

Alex_LiquidHost

@HalfEatenPie said: Now, one problem this could bring though is more summer hosts :/

Comes with 1 IP only

acarrascope

Price still better on OVH CA U$69 for this specs Doubled/Triple DataShack. I give it a try after beta, networking must be in improve process, now pick 9MB to Hetzner Germany not bad at all.

acarrascope

@Alex_LiquidHost @HalfEatenPie Try IP Failover in Manager you have 3 availables.

jarland

Only 1 IP? Virtual host subdomain vps. Do it!

I'm sure they'll allow IP orders. Maybe not yet.

hien

I just finished my FreeBSD & Root on ZFS setup by using OVH's vKVM.

ns4000709# df -h
Filesystem                  Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
zroot                       905G    344M    904G     0%    /
devfs                       1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
zroot/tmp                   904G     36k    904G     0%    /tmp
zroot/usr                   904G    307M    904G     0%    /usr
zroot/usr/home              904G     42k    904G     0%    /usr/home
zroot/usr/ports             904G     32k    904G     0%    /usr/ports
zroot/usr/ports/packages    904G     31k    904G     0%    /usr/ports/packages
zroot/usr/src               904G     31k    904G     0%    /usr/src
zroot/var                   904G    126k    904G     0%    /var
zroot/var/crash             904G     31k    904G     0%    /var/crash
zroot/var/db                904G     89k    904G     0%    /var/db
zroot/var/db/pkg            904G     31k    904G     0%    /var/db/pkg
zroot/var/empty             904G     31k    904G     0%    /var/empty
zroot/var/log               904G     81k    904G     0%    /var/log
zroot/var/mail              904G     31k    904G     0%    /var/mail
zroot/var/run               904G     63k    904G     0%    /var/run
zroot/var/tmp               904G     32k    904G     0%    /var/tmp
ns4000709# gdd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.08804 s, 151 MB/s
ns4000709# gdd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.09988 s, 176 MB/s
ns4000709# gdd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.40787 s, 168 MB/s
ns4000709# 

budingyun

Just getting 1 myself.

[Deleted User]

Woop, I got mine earlier.

Set my alarm, had my information in the forms already before 9am so I could submit it at 9am. First form 'an error had occured' upon submit, luckily I had another tab open ready to go with my information all set in already.

There was only a 4 minute window of opportunity to nab one of these, they went fast.

HalfEatenPie

@MannDude: and for the price tag of free, its pretty rockin'

budingyun

I'm here at 9pm lol. Already start filling captcha at 8.59pm. (-_-)

Jeffrey

Anyone want a VPS on my box?