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Because they asked and they gave? Why turn it away if it's a grant.
I'm sure they make money, but making money isn't quite as big of a concern when you got $500M free or next to free.
Francisco
@Francisco can you please share a link where someone states that ovh get grants from its governemt?
There was PR releases over the years about it. When they started the Candian DC they got $140M then and with the now 'global expansion' is where the $500M came from.
Francisco
Wow that much in grants holy hell why would the government invest so
highlyin a company like that?During those first loans everyone and their dog was getting VC cash for things just because everyone wants to get into the market and try to cash out big. DO has $280M or so in VC/loans, OVH has mountains, most of silicon valley is purely VC. I mean, twitter hasn't ever posted a profit but people keep dumping cash into it.
Francisco
Ponzi scheme ongoing and it will burst eventually for somebody ^-^
Though the answer may be more selfish in reality, the ideal answer would be to encourage rapid economical growth in a market that they believe they need more of.
@Francisco tese links are about a 160 Mlions syndacated Loan (privates funds and banks) of some years ago, While in your post you told about 500 Milions from govt last years.
And the $370M on one and $190M in another?
The govt was involved in some of it, I can't see the banks loaning that much money without some sort of federal aid.
Even still, that's $500M in loans/etc, no matter who gave it that's a lot of play around money.
Francisco
Thanks for sharing, got one!
2xCPU 2xRAM 25xSSD / 500xBW / Voxility filtering addon just for $14.70 annually, recurring.
Great deal, @VirMach!
First VPS which I buy just for price, don't have a project for it yet, guilty! %)
And so it begins...
And they still can not improve their support.
Damn, again nothing in EU :-(
Here's more recent investment news from OVH:
https://www.ovh.com/us/news/cp2368.ovh_partners_with_kkr_and_towerbrook_for_further_global_expansion
OVH are growing like wildflower. (I hadn't fully appreciated to what extent.)
This is a useful summary of how they have developed (through 2014):
https://www.ovh.com/us/about-us/timeline.xml
Why do you spew so much false information? We are primarily colocation services, and we have been pushing that more and more the past year. Maybe 5 years ago is was 50/50 between colocation and dedicated servers but now its more 70/30 in favor of colocation with that number continuing to climb.
Maybe I am, but when I was there I only knew of 2 colocation customers, yourself and I. I guess servermania maybe, but they kept spewing that they had their own suite/room/whatever. The only other host I've run into that has colocated with you was on vpsboard (orange something?) and they moved to NYC I think.
Everyone else was renting. I knew of a few RTO people but they deadpooled before they paid off.
That's awesome that it's climbing though, always easier on the support staff.
Francisco
@Francisco, Our buffalo facility is nearing 250 SOLD cabinets. Not every client of ours is in the hosting industry or is on WebHostingTalk. Our core client base is medical, financial, manufacturing, and other medium to large business' in the corporate world.
You can tour the facility on Google to take a look.
Glad to hear you guys are doing well. One of these days when I come up to Manhatten you guys should randomly take a trip over for drinking. I'd say I should take a trip over to Buffalo, but the buzz would be long gone before I got that far
Be careful before ordering one of the specials. I ordered the SSD KVM and took the risk of the no refund policy. It can't run one tab of Chrome or IE without the CPU maxing out and freezing RDP. They won't refund as expected. I'm not optimistic they will resolve the issues either.
Probably wait a week until everyone else has finished installing their system, should reduce stress on the nodes.
I sure hope so. I haven't been able to do shit with it today. Am I in the wrong to do a charge back if they don't resolve it within a few days?
Most people here say : I don't need support or I don't need CP thing is that in particular situations like when the same guys who praised Aruba had been charged more than their regular 1 eur they did want both a decent CP to see either in which DC they where, to have their inquiries being replied and so on.
Same goes to some ISPs like offline and SYS .
As for kimsufi I believe they recently deployed some sort of mobile CP ( yeah maybe they end up making it when they do their DC #25 ) which I use CP to restart something like .... a server that would not allow me to ssh because of high load or use support to request to have a disk being replaced.
Sorry for the rant .
Yes, due to you agreeing to the no refunds clause.
Was it a
No REFUNDS no matter whatclause? How about if VPS is unaccessible for a month?I did order a KVM and it's working alright, does feel a bit sluggish probably with all that dd/bench.sh going around.
Thats why you buy with paypal
I am not saying here that they did not provide me good support. But:
1st:
Even though they are a budget provider, they must answer to billing inquiries.
2nd:
Their control panel should work, because recently been giving me nginx errors.
I know many budget providers that do have good support too like Nocix, even though their hardware might not be top notch.
So is that too much to ask ?
Well if you will test the disk speed, don't be surprised that it doesn't look like a RAID 10 set up, usually that's at 400MB/s max. But it might be that everyone is setting up and Windows puts a stress on the network. Give it some time, your paying less then $2/month at the most..
They will answer your tickets, just give it some time for them, it's a sale and they get busy.
By the way, they now have more 256MB OVZ VPS if you want them...
This is where more money than customers from here
I just want to address the no refunds & limited support for this special.
Yes, it means that we will not provide any major support and will not refund you no matter how much you complain. However, it doesn't mean we will just ignore you. If there's a concern with performance, feel free to open a ticket with some information so we can assist you. Rest assured that these nodes are being filled evenly. There just appears to be a combination of (1) large quantities of orders at once (2) limited to a group of servers in one location (3) with a lot of updates and benchmark going on. We have tried to phase out no support and refunds from LET/LEB, but this offer was posted for a different website for a specific event, where low pricing was very important to them.
The numbers for this special were very restricted to fill most servers halfway. There was 750 quantity listed for the OVZ-2 special but this was done in error and will be corrected.
Just to be completely transparent: most of our customers that find us through special offers don't benefit us monetarily but they do spread the word about our company, which is beneficial to us. We still appreciate them and will usually treat them the same as other customers. In this specific instance we can afford to go this low because the packages come with limited support (so we're technically not treating them the same in this instance.)
Rest assured, though, that the majority of our revenue is not from special offers. We're doing just fine. Don't let the low prices distract you.
This is definitely not running anywhere close to what's expected. I assume that everyone who signed up is running everything I mentioned above, but it would be helpful to know which node in a technical support ticket so we can assist you.
We do have systems in place to ensure this doesn't happen but we also have a system in place to reduce false positives, which may be more lenient on everyone right now.
Which package did you order? I don't believe there's any reports of overloading CPU due to these specials. I can confirm that at this time none of the Los Angeles KVM are anywhere close to being overloaded in terms of CPU.
You might just actually be running out of processing power. I would recommend a reboot or opening a support ticket, however, as you should be able to run a browser.
I always encourage people to open a dispute if they truly believe they have been wronged, but do also warn them of the possible consequences. Usually the experience becomes much worse if there's a dispute. In this instance I would just recommend contacting our technical support team to resolve the problem.
I do want to ensure that all our VPS nodes are RAID 10. Some are better than others as we do use different configurations (4 and 8 disk, different drives and controllers.)
Just a tip: it might be easier to open a dispute with PayPal but it's probably easier to win a dispute with your card company, assuming you're actually in the wrong (not reading terms, buyer remorse, no refund policies, etc.)
If you're actually getting scammed, then PayPal might be better overall.