OVH VPS Servers

donb

Hi everyone!

I've been trying to seek information on the specs of the server on which VPS servers are built and sold by OVH. However, the sales team somehow keeps telling me that they can't disclose the sought information.

Is this something which is confidential or absurd? I really don't see a reason for not disclosing this info as such. We see many hosts openly claiming that their VPS servers are built on Intel Xeon E XXXX or AMD Ryzen 7 Servers.

Secondly, I tried running a benchmarking script on one of the OVH VPS servers and this is what it reads CPU Model as:

CPU Model : Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)

What does this mean? Xeon? Core i5? i7? i9? I'm , maybe, slightly a noob here.

Please advise.

CalmDown

It can be one of these models: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/42174/products-formerly-haswell.html

donb

@CalmDown said:
It can be one of these models: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/42174/products-formerly-haswell.html

Celeron too?
https://prnt.sc/ofb9NMyWmboG

CyberneticTitan

No guarantees == flexibility. They can use old Haswell, Skylake, what have you to sell one product.

However their VPS LE does make claims on EPYC, but again they have some flexibility if they wanted to put you on an Zen 2 based platform even if they have Zen 3/4 nodes.

Haswell is a microarchitecture, so you could be using any one of these CPUs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Server_processors

CalmDown

Well, nobody will tell you exactly which CPU is being used (maybe OVH can answer on it), but usually, those are E5 models, you might find +/- model by gb score, but it will not be precise plus time waisting...

donb

@CalmDown said:
Well, nobody will tell you exactly which CPU is being used (maybe OVH can answer on it), but usually, those are E5 models, you might find +/- model by gb score, but it will not be precise plus time waisting...

Hosts normally do, don't they?

@CyberneticTitan said:
No guarantees == flexibility. They can use old Haswell, Skylake, what have you to sell one product.

However their VPS LE does make claims on EPYC, but again they have some flexibility if they wanted to put you on an Zen 2 based platform even if they have Zen 3/4 nodes.

Haswell is a microarchitecture, so you could be using any one of these CPUs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Server_processors

Thanks. Possibly the reason why they're quite cheap & affordable.

khnielsen

Its most likely due to scale - A smaller vendor that knows all their machines are a certain hardware spec will have no trouble advertising it, OVH that runs maybe 50.000 hypervisors (Just a guess), HV's thats been setup over multiple years have no way of providing you data on what hardware you end up getting as the options are too wide.
Thats also why they look more at advertising for performance metrics rather than a specific hardware stack

remy

What you need to know:
If you need good CPU performance, you need the LE range
The other range doesn't perform very well. Sufficient for many uses, though.

And as explained above, because of the scale, I think it's complicated to guarantee a particular CPU model.