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Another French budget dedi provider! FirstHeberg
So yesterday I found another French provider which is both budget and not OVH/Online.net or a reseller thereof. This FirstHeberg seems to do everything on their own, which is nice for us.
For those who can't wait, here are the dedicated servers: http://firstheberg.com/dedies/
To test them out I got the cheapest server in stock: http://firstheberg.com/dedies/detail-atom-d525-hdd-2012
When ordering I ran into a little problem, even though they say on their website they accept customers from a lot of countries in Europe, China and the USA, the SMS verification system that needs to verify a phone number only sends to France, Belgium and Autria if my memory serves me well. I got around this limitation by just doing nothing on that order page and navigation to the customer panel, where the invoice was ready to be paid without further ado. Their panel is okay, it proved an rDNS, reinstalls and whatever you might need. As far as I can find they provide a default Windows Server 2008 R2 for free without bitching.
As opposed to the product page I got a single 1TB drive instead of two 500GBs, and I might have DDR2 instead of DDR3, but haven't checked that closely so I could be wrong. They offer a 100mbit line of which a mere 10mbit is guaranteed, but there is a gigabit port, on the serverbear you can find the speeds which range from, out the top of my head, 100KB/s to 45MB/s. Reading their website I think their servers are located in apartments.
I paid one month with paypal, and see what they're further up to.
Comments
Are you from the EU, did you pay your invoice with VAT?
You don't need to submit the order there - once you reach that page it's in finable in your client panel. I paid 15 euro something, so yes I paid taxes on it. (I'm Dutch.)
Yeah I figured out where to find invoices, while I was poking around it created like six or seven orders there, lol. But I am from outside EU, I contacted them asking if I can pay without VAT/TTC.
How do you figure that "their servers are located in apartments"?
Well, have a look at their VPS with unlimited storage starting from EUR4.99
Storage is unlimited, which is exclusivity FirstHeberg!
http://firstheberg.com/vps/
In other words they'd be glad to give you unlimited storage, if not for that pesky technical limit, I mean didn't you know it's impossible to have more than 100GB per separate VPS.
This does not look so great already...
translation:
network is not so great...
http://bgp.he.net/AS197922
What is the disk model?
Also maybe you still got 2x500, but they just set it up as RAID0?
You can check the motherboard model with "dmidecode".
I know you can, but it was late yesterday and I did a quick dmidecode and scrolled past the results. Vaguely I remember seeing DDR2, but can't be sure since it was late. I can't get into the server right now, so I'll have to wait till I get home to check that information.
Sooooo, it looks like I got myself a new dedi now!
I chose http://firstheberg.com/dedies/detail-core-i3-2100-hdd-2012
Thanks @YellowSloth for finding this provider.
Did they remove VAT?
@DomainBop yes in the ticket they asked which server I want and then invoiced me for it w/o VAT.
Hébergez votre propre serveur dédié dans notre datacenter en housing managé.
Gee, so an apartment cooled by natural water from a canal is a datacenter :P
This looks interesting, maybe one day will rival OVH
I doubt anything will rival OVH. 175,000 servers...?
Well, they plan for 1 mil. They may reach that, however, in my view, their problem lies elsewhere.
Where to submit inquiry?
Their website looks like an OVH ripoff
Very true. Although even if they don't look into their already existing problems I don't see their growth slowing. They will have finished construction of their 3 new data centers by 2017. I just shake my head at the enormity of their operation.
Thanks. I got the i3-2100 SSD. They answered the ticket I opened in 10 minutes.
That was the first thing I thought when I saw it.
I personally have no interest in this host.
You say they have no connection with OVH - a Whois on the domain shows several links to OVH including the use of their nameservers.
http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&host=firstheberg.com
and
http://who.is/whois/firstheberg.com
OVH provide domain registration and DNS hosting: http://www.ovh.com/fr/domaines/
Nothing weird about another french company using OVH for this.
Wouldn't OVH be like GoDaddy for France concerning domains?
Nothing weird about another french company using OVH for this.
I'm not a French company and I have 55 domains registered through OVH (they had a sale on .es and .pl last year) :P
Yes. They're the largest French registrar and the 14th largest in the world. Gandi is #2 in France.
FYI FreeHeberg delivered the server 25 minutes after I placed the order. The SSD drive is a OCZ-VERTEX4.
for the benchmark fans:
DC http://www.datacentermap.com/france/valenciennes/firstheberg.html
@DomainBop Looks like you got 16 GB of RAM, even though the plan says 8GB?
FirstHeberg is a former client of OVH. Now they have opened their Datacenter.
I have a server in FirstHeberg with CentOS, and I have a lot of problem.
OpenVZ is not working, problem with the Kernel.
There is RAID 0 works, RAID 1 does not work.
The "Quota" function does not work
@DomainBop i'm curious, what's the motherboard?
They provisioned a server with a SATA II drive by mistake so I opened a ticket and they gave me this server with the extra RAM thrown in 10 minutes later.
MSI B75A-G43
That's... nice of them.
On mine it's MSI MS-7680/H61M-P23.
I would prefer a sata drive of same price, and, of course, wouldnt say no to double memory
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