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Anyone got an instance in New York?
May I take a look at the network benchmark?
Thanks!
Oh, damn, should have read the legend at the vps map before hoping for a vps in those other regions (Africa, South America, etc.), still only public cloud there.
Wouldn't expect to see vps there. Its way too expensive to sell it for that cheap
yepp, unfortunately. But the public cloud virtual instances seem to offer free bw in those local zones, only Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney being restricted. But. e.g. not Rabat (now that is a location where you would expect a lot of routes going via Paris or London).
Latency for BE is pretty much the same as cloudflare, testing to 141.227.137.1 from 2 BE ISP's.
And in numbers?
OVH Smokeping is a great tool to test Global latency and traceroutes https://smokeping.ovh.net/smokeping
It has support for all the localzones
https://lzbru-a.smokeping.ovh.net/smokeping?target=EMEA.AS6774
~80ms from OVH LZ BRS/BE to Belgacom is not really convincing....
@concept yes, thank you for bringing to our attention that they added the local zones to smokeping (I still remember only the OVH DCs from the last time I had a look at the smokeping).
This is from Proximus DSL (BICS is owned by Proximus group), cloudflare gets about 8.5ms:
PING 141.227.137.1 (141.227.137.1) from 81.247.xx.xxx: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=8.954 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=8.829 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=8.831 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=8.939 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=8.877 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=8.963 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=9.143 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=54 time=9.048 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=54 time=8.861 ms
64 bytes from 141.227.137.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=54 time=9.029 ms
--- 141.227.137.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 8.829/8.947/9.143/0.098 ms
Not sure what OVH is pinging but from Proximus to the BICS IP:
PING 80.84.18.24 (80.84.18.24) from 81.247.xx.xxx: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=83.177 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=83.271 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=83.161 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=83.155 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=4 ttl=247 time=83.214 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=5 ttl=247 time=83.115 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=6 ttl=247 time=83.219 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=7 ttl=247 time=83.665 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=8 ttl=247 time=83.272 ms
64 bytes from 80.84.18.24: icmp_seq=9 ttl=247 time=83.080 ms
--- 80.84.18.24 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 83.080/83.233/83.665/0.156 ms
which new locations has good network and not routing back to France?
I think it depends on what you are connecting to.
Not really about what I am connecting to, this is usual OVH thing - quite number of EU locations are routed back to France.
So I just want to confirm.
that's a lot of new locations...
What are these low I/O VPSes good for?
OVH is always going to try to route traffic through its own DCs like RBX or FRA. It's only a small edge node and not like one of their larger DC locations.
@OhJohn Are you using Madrid?
@concept Yes, we all know about OVH. Is that happening for all new locations? Have you tried the new locations for VPS-1?
It is definitely happening in EU localzones.
For US localzones, it routes through one of OVH US location or BHS
@mrclown will be initialized later today.
Here are some measurements for the Iberian peninsula OVH local zone in Madrid:
https://globalping.io/?measurement=JQCJcpjEZMXKCxOo [Spain] (only Ionos being bad, but that is the Arsys DC that never really kicks for Spain)
https://globalping.io/?measurement=K8Ou6vKpPkpftA8c [Portugal] (a small fraction of routes going via London or Paris)
Hm, Marseille is pretty useless, everything routed via Paris, only exception is Tunisia (and maybe Algeria as well). But other locations in France by OVH are better for France, Spain and Italy and also Middle East. Lot's to be improved by OVH in Marseille w/ Marseille being normally a nice hub.
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
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https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Fri Sep 12 03:31:49 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
CPU cores : 4 @ 3095.352 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 7.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 73.7 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-37-cloud-amd64
VM Type : MICROSOFT
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
ISP : OVH SAS
ASN : AS16276 OVH SAS
Host : OVH BV
Location : Amsterdam, North Holland (NH)
Country : The Netherlands
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sdb1):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 2127
Multi Core | 6945
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/13770598
YABS completed in 15 min 30 sec
I happily bought an OVH Netherlands VPS today. I'm very happy with the CPU performance, but the hard drive is very slow, like an HDD. Is there anything wrong with it?
Drive performance looks pretty slow in new locations.
If it had the speeds from the regular VPS servers would be really great.
Just found they dont offer anti-ddos in local zone, well well well
Yes. I hope OVH will replace it with fast SSD nvme in the future.
Those are fast disks (probably even NVMe Raid10), but throttled iops (1k r/w each for vps-1 in localzone), and with 1k iops you will not get faster disk throughput. Read the previous pages of this thread.
Ok, so far I think:
Madrid is ok for Spain.
Amsterdam is ok for Netherlands, but you will have plenty of other options there.
Brussels is good for Belgium but so is RBX and also GRA.
Vienna is good for Hungary and somewhat for Austria. But Vienna also has other interesting options (Alwyzon, Netcup, Edis).
Zurich and Marseille are pretty useless imho, which is a pity for Marseille as this could/should be a good one. But so far the self-owned OVH DCs in France are better than Marseille and SBG is better for Switzerland or Italy than Zurich. Marseille is only good for Tunisia (and probably Algeria, but haven't found a probe there).
PRG is ok for Czech Republic.
This. They are useless for most locations given their additional price and the lack of ddos protection.
Do the regions marked as Local Zones have protection features similar to other regions?
The IPs say that they have automatic ddos protection enabled on them. I would think that in case of DDOS that traffic would be scrubbed at the nearest OVH datacenter.