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I think they have multiple pieces of infrastructure like that to keep them separate for either tax or management purposes. Creates a cluster*#!@ for users and them as now they have to keep up multiple frontends. Maybe this was a result of acquisitions that never fully integrated or whatever.
I tried to see how far along I was able to go buy a server for £. Created an account but it never gave me an option to pick the US..., was hardcoded for UK only.
It's almost like they are trying to be fair while really skirting taxes for people in US/Canada regions. 20% is not a small chunk of change.
Any chance anyone has a YABS output for these servers?
Ask and ye shall receive...
France
Ok, my barely spinning chunks of metal are worse that I thought. Ulp.
For comparison, the KS-LE-1 which is currently around £15.77 inc VAT after exchange rate (so about £17 after the price rises) has this GB5:
My SYS-BF-3 Server - Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 - 64GB DDR4 ECC 1600MHz - 2x 4To HDD SATA Soft RAID $40/m
Also seems slow a bit..haven't done YABS lately since I am running stuff on it.
Will probably let it lapse soon though in favor of this SSD.
I just discovered OVH has a hidden fee for transferring an IPv4 block from the legacy SoYouStart control panel to the Ovhcloud control panel. $12 USD one-time fee for a
/30block. Not sure if that is a fixed rate per block or based on the size of the block, but Ovh support confirmed the hidden fee as an "account transfer" fee even though I'm keeping the IP within my account, simply moving it from my SoYouStart server to my new "Eco" SoYouStart server.This is one more Ovh price increase that I think is hidden, in addition to their new $2/mo per IP address fee. I could not find this fee documented anywhere, just a surprise message during transfer to a new SyS server.
Makes me wonder if Ovh may get greedy and decide to sunset the SoYouStart panel (and Kimsufi panel) while asking customers to transfer their services to the Ovhcloud panel, and hit everyone with "account transfer" fees.
I can't even get as far as that transfer fee screen, previous step hits this error message
I'm hoping the panel migration still happens this year, it would make things easier and cheaper. Although $12 for /30 isn't bad assuming the grandfathered rates remain intact
I think they are behind schedule based on SYS customers not receiving any IP price increase email yet. There is also this roadmap item which suggests some change to additional IPs is coming soon
I got the same error. Got around it by using https://ca.api.soyoustart.com/console/ and looking up my ovhcloud customer id. It is either on an invoice pdf, or ask support for it. Ends in
-ovhand starts with 2 letters.Auth on https://ca.api.soyoustart.com/console/ and generate a migration token, https://ca.api.soyoustart.com/console/#/ip/{ip}/migrationToken~POST
Ip is the block- a single IP address or a block with the slash.
customerId is your ovhcloud account customer id. Get the code, paste in your ovhcloud panel when doing a "Transfer IP from SyS", then the "transfer fee" appears.
Guessing the IPv4 rate should remain intact, not sure though. Here's what support told me,
Assuming
normal ratemeans current rate? 🤷At least for now, someone may want to consider this hidden fee when upgrading to a new SoYouStart and wanting to bring IPs over.
Their support answers in the most possible cryptic way. Almost like reading government legalese papers. lol
Hmmm
Isn't that disk speed like a SATA speed ? They advertise NVMe though ? Am I missing something ?
In my servers they are https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/93188/intel-ssd-dc-p3520-series-450gb-2-5in-pcie-3-0-x4-3d1-mlc.html so not going to win any races against modern NVMe drives, but they are regardless quality server-grade NVMe drives
Looks like they are from the Intel SSD DC P3520 Series
They do an NVMe and a HDD version; same price, NVMe is 2x450G, HDD is 2x2TB (or, it turns out, 4TB).
I got greedy on storage; I can live with the lower speed
Great specs, cheap server.
It appears that mine can achieve an upload speed of 611 MBit/s.
We migrated from last year's offer, KS-LE.
Followup to this
Im just gonna wait and see
@miu
you got an answer?
I now see this at the bottom of the sale / server list page:
Does the excluding renewal just refer to other already owned services not being eligible?
I think the bottom seems clear though that the offer is valid for the life of the service.
That's how I read it, yes - that first bit they're just clarifying you can't apply the promo to an existing server renewal (quite reasonably).
Still waiting for a reply after sending them some documents
Im waiting now since 6 days. Ive send them all requested documents for verification. Are 6 days normal?
Sometimes, yes it takes over a week
Sorry to bump but has anyone gotten a renewal invoice yet to see what amount it renews for?
May I ask you what the name of the dashboard shown in the image is? Seems great.
HetrixTools Server Monitor
Well I can now see the 2 servers I got on a renewal invoice and they are not the discounted price.
However I signed up for 6 months and during signup it showed this:
Im gonna contact support.
I changed renewal date a couple of times and the automatic prorata invoices/charges did respect the discounted price. However it is different than what I am used to with OVH black friday sales where the price is discounted directly - instead the invoice shows the full price and a separate flash sale discount. Fingers crossed this discount lasts beyond the 6 month commitment
I think the above renewal page from @analog might drop to the discounted price at a later stage of the checkout process
Oh okay thats good to know. I didn't actually finish off the renewal yet as it's not due but I noticed it when I got the invoice. I will post back later to confirm what happens.