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OVH Mumbai datacenter
Since OVH Mumbai datacenter is available on its speedtest site (https://bom.proof.ovh.net/) ,any idea/guesses when we will be actually able to buy VPS/dedicated server from OVH Mumbai DC?
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Mumbai DC will be available in:
- which month/quarter?36 votes
- March itself13.89%
- April11.11%
- After April, but within 2nd quarter22.22%
- After 2nd quarter52.78%
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The Mumbai site has been around for about 6 months now, IPs have been reachable for 2(ish) months. It is on VMS - http://vms.status-ovhcloud.com/index_ynm1.html
It was also mentioned in OVHs recent YouTube video so to be honest, could be anytime now. My guess is their ancient deployment system is struggling to handle a new site, which is what is taking time, but who knows, this is OVH.
To start with, only the ADV-1 [30% lifetime discount was mentioned in the original video, it was then taken down and re-uploaded with no mention of a discount], no setup fees and no commitment will be available within Mumbai -
Since India is a cost sensitive market, they should start with low-cost kimsufi (like $5.99 with atom&4GB RAM) and similar other dedicated servers (upto $25/month) along with the VPS.
I believe starting with higher value servers/VPS will not be a good strategy.
Anyway, looking forward to see what they offer initially with fingers crossed
No chance. Unless they have owned hangar-sized DCs like in France and Canada, there won't be KS1 (like there are none in all other current DCs than those). There is no way they can justify spending limited rented space on the low-end servers, not to mention paying to ship a ton of the long-outdated hardware overseas.
Cheapest VPS plan might be available, with the same bandwidth constraint like SG/AU currently has.
People will rush to buy one or two if $0.97 recurring returns, which is admittedly only feasible during Black Friday or New Year's sale.
Mail i got from OVH
Dear Valued Customer,
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new state-of-the-art data centre in 🇮🇳 India (Mumbai).
To celebrate the launch of our new data centre, we are offering an exclusive promotional deal to our customers as a token of thank you and trusting in us so far!
For a limited time, you can take advantage of our special launch offer for Advance-1 dedicated server- https://www.ovhcloud.com/asia/bare-metal/advance/adv-1/
Specifications of the server are the following;
Processor- Intel Xeon-E 2386G - 6c/12t - 3.5GHz/4.7GHz
Memory-32GB DDR4 ECC 3200MHz
Storage- 2× 4TB HDD SATA Soft RAID or 2× 512GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID
Public bandwidth- 1Gbit/s - Limited traffic 25TB
Data Centre location- India, Mumbai
Pricing- Original price 85 euro Exclusive offer for now- 55 per month ex. taxes
Commitment- No COMMITMENT and NO SET-UP FEES! A discount of 55 euros applies LIFETIME!!
ETA of server delivery- yet to be confirmed
The offer is only valid for the first 800 servers reserved, so please be quick in getting your reservations in! This deal won’t last long!!
Next steps:
If you are interested, let me know the QTY of servers required.
I will get it reserved for you!!
And their India site is colocation like the rest of APAC so standardised racks, Kimsufi Atoms use specialised chassis. They don’t even get deployed to BHS anymore, they’re never going to be put in new DCs considering how old they are.
I was expecting to buy something under $25 from OVH India DC for myself reason being that I now have 3 servers-
a)An Indian VPS ~$6/month(most importantly for getting an Indian IP address)
b)Kimsufi-$5.99/month
c) An openvz VPS in US with 12GB RAM & 4 VCPU-$5/month(purchased this less than a month ago but will need to continue using this or some better server from now onwards for some ML related stuff )
So the 3 together cost me approx $20/month ($17net+around $3 if I add the GST, CC and Paypal charges). If OVH would have offered something like https://us.ovh.com/us/order/dedicated/?configure=1&v=2&ecorange#/dedicated/configure?selection=~(datacenters~(~)~invoiceName~'KS-16) in Indian DC, I would have surely gone for it.(Even if OVH introduces a bandwidth capping of 10TB) . Now that this dosen't seem likely, I will have to continue using 3 different servers in 3 different continents. Cost is a very important factor for me(as well as for most Indians) while deciding to buy something.
Also, dedicated server with 16GB RAM and relatively cheaper CPU would have surely been bought in large numbers by Indians if priced under $20/month. I think OVH did not consider the GDP per capita and population of India while deciding introductory offers because if an Indian has to pay 55euro ,i.e., ~ $59, he will prefer going to India providers like leapswitch or everdata which currently provide similar server at similar pricing (just cheaper CPU) instead of buying from OVH.
For example,instead of making $9/server profit on 20 $59 servers(totalling to $180), OVH should think of making a profit of $2.5/server on 80 $25 servers, totals to $200 (which is very much possible considering the populating of India as compared to Singapore or Australia ), which will result in higher overall profit and also better word of mouth publicity
You have too much imaginary thinking..
That's not gonna possible as bandwidth pricing in India and other most of Asian countries are costly.
And it has nothing to do with GDP.
And $59 for 25TB is very cheap. Even the $80 monthly pricing is cheap.
$80 = Rs. 6539 (approx)
You can't find that pricing for that much bandwidth easily even with other Indian providers.
For example Leapswitch's lowest dedi in Mumbai DC cost you Rs. 8000 and that comes with 2TB bandwidth monthly.
Yes 55$ + tax is cheap comparing current providers. Without setup fees and lifetime discount is something good to think about this. But as i don't need Dedicated boxes and I prefer their cloud solutions, didn't respond to their email.
@BingoBongo LeapSwitch is a lot cheaper in terms of bandwidth if you contact them with your specific requirements. The products listed on their site are mostly placeholder and the listings at checkout are completely wrong last time I checked.
We do intend to fix this but our focus has always been selling to partners in bulk.
Anyone knows where to find a pre-order link for this?
This was sent to me by their inside sales account manager for India. Will check with them. If you want i can share his email id and you can contact them directly.
Smokeping,
https://bom1-ynm1.smokeping.ovh.net/smokeping?target=APAC.AS131269
Hm, this is still a bit of a joke, isn't it:
https://bom1-ynm1.smokeping.ovh.net/smokeping?target=APAC.AS16509-ap-south-1
Finally got a dedicated server from leapswitch. Here is the https://bench.monster/ benchmark and India speedtest
curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -in
result-
After my earlier post in this thread, due to some error in leapswitch pricing page, I ended up buying the above server (which is not listed listed in any of their pricing pages). Disk is 240GB SSD+ 4TB HDD. Bandwidth 10TB.
What is an appropriate price for the server?
Also, requesting those who will buy the OVH 85 euro dedicated server to post their results for the above benchmark in this thread
OVH Mumbai offer is finally live.
But those traceroutes to aws Mumbai are still as bad as quoted above.
OVH Mumbai to AWS Mumbai: 175ms
Leapswitch Mumbai to AWS Mumbai: 2.6ms
Who wins?
@OVH_APAC : do we get a mailing list for ynm network problems/optimizations again?
You would think after having this same problem with every location rollout in the past 10 years they would optimize routing (especially local routing) before selling lol.
@MikeA that's why I'm pestering them already with these posts (and to warn others).
But with Singapore they had that special mailing list and were reacting to reports there.
So I at least hope they will do sth. like this again with Mumbai.
Looks like OVH Singapore is better to AWS Mumbai than OVH Mumbai. I just deployed a Vultr Mumbai instance and got 1.5ms to AWS Mumbai.
Here you go:
and as seen below they still have a long way to go with the network. A lot of destinations in Asia seem to be routed via US or Europe:
Why OVH charging only 7% GST?
I thought it's 18% GST for Hosting business.
How much do you charging @leapswitch ?
We charge 18.
Quite impressive, but above my budget. Currently okay with the leapswitch server. Hoping to get something within my budget in OVH Mumbai this black friday
Hello LET community, thank you all for your interest. An official post will follow about the launch but in the meantime we are monitoring all of your feedbacks and feel free to PM us as well issues that you encounter with supporting details that may require our attention. Look forward to your valuable inputs.
@OVH_APAC please get a direct peering with AWS in Mumbai the way you do in SIN (in SIN you do it via Equinix Exchange).
AWS and you are both present at DE-CIX Mumbai. Please try to connect there (and maybe upgrade your port there).
The current route via Tata (OVH Mumbai to AWS Mumbai 170ms, while OVH SIN to AWS Mumbai is ~70ms) is unbearable.
For other feedback regarding Mumbai: ordering process went smooth, server delivered in about 10 minutes.
Is that 1Gbps unlimited for India ? Looks interesting.