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Netcup vs OVH vps for long term project.
Im planning on doing a long-term project, and i am looking for a good vps provider to serve this. I cannot really decide on ovh vs netcup. Here is my short list of thoughts :
Ovh
-More expensive, less flexible, less performance, support non existent, cannot scale over 16gb ram and 160gb ssd on a vps, the cpu cores are ok, but kinda slow, not able to upload downloaded snapshots to restore even when you pay extra for snapshot service
+Reputable company, ddos protection, hopefully stable long-term, unmetered bandwidth without the xTB / day limit netcup has, vm-x enabled
Netcup
-Hard contracts, maybe less reputable, ddos protection pretty much useless, bandwidth somewhat limited, vm-x disabled
+Cheaper, can scale for ALOT more performance, ram and disk compared to ovh if needed in future, faster but shitty support, faster CP, snapshots can be pulled and upped
The fact that Netcup RS1000 out performs VLE-16 in cpu performance is kinda insane. 4 cores vs 16, for 25% of the price. I am not sure how far this project will scale or how long it will need to be up and stable, but a few years atleast.
Give me your pros and cons on what you would do in this situation, please.
Comments
Honestly if you want a compromise - I would recommend HetznerCloud.
It's more flexible and has more performance benefits than OVH, while not as cost-effective as Netcup, but it's definitely easily scalable and rock-solid in terms of online hours.
+1 for hetzner cloud. atleast try it since its hourly billing
Hetzner cloud is not a option.
If your project is just starting up. Then avoid contracts, because you don't know what your future needs will be, or when your project will come to an end.
Otherwise, we'd need to know a lot more about your project to be able to advise you on one rather than the other.
I tend to prefer OVH for production, notably for the quality of DDOS protection.
But apart from that, both are pretty good.
And you can use netcup without a yearly contract. It's just more expensive
i am using netcup but anti ddos is not too good for large sites or even a small game server. its easily leaked and becomes not responsive and timeout. but not for more then 5 mintues while protection kicks in.
I've been with Netcup for about a month now I think.
Honestly, great experience. Their support seems to have some freedom to handle cases on a case-by-case basis instead of simply following protocol. When they asked me to verify myself, I submitted another document than the one requested, and asked if that was good enough (the documents asked for would have been a much larger hassle to get for me personally).
In basically no time, support told me they have forwarded my request to the department in charge, and not long after at all, I had my VPS set up and ready to be used.
I also had a contract question, that look a little longer, but, they responded very detailed and even provided examples.
Those two requests was both during my set up and getting to know the platform, since then, I haven't had the need to contact them for anything.
Superb experience thus far.
I don't know what your project is, for me personally, I just want their Anti DDoS to make sure one attacked client dosen't take down their whole network. I protect my stuff with Cloudflare.
Depending on your project the OVH DDoS protection is much better than netcup's one. However netcup performance is better in my experience in NVMe or CPU speed.
I used both of them, they have stronger and weaker points.
Since you may want/need some kind of redundancy/backup for long term projects, simply create your two VPS at OVH and Netcup, replicate your data and choose as primary whatever feels better according to your real workload. Both will do a good job.
Netcup is "less reputable"??
Thank you all for all your feedback.
I ended up going for netcup, so i can scale performance and storage without getting hammered to hard with running cost. If the day comes that i actually need decent ddos protection, i can move the entire thing over to ovh or other provider with better protection.
netcup is definitely better than OVH. I find ovh is only good for their unlimited bandwidth.
I purchased a dedicated server from OVH and a VPS from Netcup. Based on your description, I think you could consider the Netcup VPS and pair it with CloudFlare for protection.