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I also found out that the vps in localzone is currently the only product by OVH not under status monitoring by OVH: the public cloud in local zones is monitored under public cloud, vps should be monitored under bare metal cloud but those in local zones are not. So your are ending up in a desert there.
where i find the refund ticket
OVH is a labyrinth
I never had to do a refund ticket before, so I do not know. Maybe search for site:ovhcloud.com "claims request".
So true.
support ticket is way to request refund
Hm, are those vps really just lxc containers?
Well since they removed installation fee refund are not that easy anymore they are checking for eligibility now
Well they gave me a refund for the VPS-2 with the Haswell CPU, as soon as I said they should have put that on the website, since it´s misleading, took about 5 minutes, back to my good and old Epyc with 4vcpu and 4GB of ram
I thought the Haswell thing was just what they expose the vCpu as from the hypervisor, but the actual CPU is more recent than that.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4501688/#Comment_4501688
Yuck! With 400 or 500 Mb/s I'm really OK, but that hypervisor? Just yuck!
Btw., does anyone know whether ISO-installs are supported?
Based on what I saw so far, my preliminary summary is this:
All in all doesn't look very tasty to me, although I had some interest and hopes for Marseille, CZ and CH.
Thanks in particular to @Neoon and @OhJohn.
No, not supported.
I'm also not really sure if that is a real MS hypervisor (like hyper v) or fake. The errors I'm seeing on that broken VIE hypervisor look for a layman in virtualization like me really like some lxc fucked up, but who knows what OVH is doing there....
Yepp.
CZ and CH are ok, Marseille is really not what anyone dreamed of. At the moment Marseille is a "Paris with extra latency" location.
I don't think they use Hyper V.
I have a vague memory that i read once that Yabs reports Windows when the VM has some integration with a Windows guest activated or something ?
Also don't think it's Hyper-V. And atm I do not get why I get those Kernel errors from the Host, I always thought that would be more isolated if you do not use a halfway solution like lxc. (Also those are typical lxc errors).
Maybe they have their own internal hypervisor development based on sth. else?
Wonders will never cease.
After I renamed the vps on the broken hypervisor in VIE into hypervisor-is-dead the support department finally contacted me again. Unfortunately I've just ordered a replacement as I did not had any positive signs from them or any communications since days.
Now I bet they will refuse the requested refund as "everything is working now". Lol.
I currently have a VPS-3 in GRA with OVH, but found the single core performance pretty poor (YABS gave a score around 900). Out of curiosity I decided to spin up an instance in Dublin Ireland Local Zone, and pretty impressive single core and io:
I think OVH uses Openstack nova for their hypervisor
Thank you for showing that those public cloud instances do not have that heavy i/o throttling that those vps-in-localzone do have. But than again: the price for your instance per month would be ~14 times the vps-1-in-localzone price...
Edit: wait: if I read the ovh pages about public cloud correctly: do they have unmetered bw on those machines? With 10gps? I thought that one you have (be-X) would be capped to 1gps?
Yep, definately not worth the price premium!
That caught my attention as well after looking at the benchmarks - order screen states 1000Mbit/s...maybe thats the gauranteed minumum? Seems unlikely though - my second thought was someone forgot to turn on throttling
Cockpit reports that it's Openstack.
I'm not an expert at all but according to Wikipedia, it seems that Nova "interfaces" with the hypervisor, which is usually KVM but can also be Xen, Hyper-V etc.
Another local zone one from the pretty useless Marseille class. Why are they are engaged in local IX if everything is backhauled through Washington/Oregon, Virginia, Dallas or even BHS instead?
Are the localzone VPSs still being routed through the bigger datacentres?
Some yes, some not (and - yeah, as always - also depends on the route.): you get good apples (e.g. PRG/MAD), somewhat good (e.g. VIE/ZRH/BRU/AMS) and bad ones, e.g. MRS. MRS is practically Paris plus extra latency (even for a route to Marseille) as eveything seems to go via Paris.
(above list is for Europe, right now I'm testing NA and everything is normally a bit worse over there, just try to guess the location of the above nws test)
As those local zones are pretty fresh (I mean the real public cloud local zones, not the vps in local zones that are even fresher) this might improve in the future. Also don't know if e.g. public cloud has better connections/routes as well or just better pipes.
Well, all I know is that performance of the 6 CORE VPS2 was 4-5x slower, cpu wise, than the 4 core AMD Epyc. But due to the extra 20Gb of space and 12GB of ram, the VPS-2 and others on this new 2026 line should be fine for those who need extra memory in their setup.
VPS-1 - Locale SPAIN
These are monthly right? You paid for one month to test?
You can choose different billing cycles.
There may be a limitation only on the fio/yabs test. I don't know if it's possible.
When I test fio test for 4k and yabs, like others did, it is very slow.
But In real app, when testing redis benchmark, there is no performance degradation at all in aof/bg save which need fsync performance. The same goes for RabbitMQ Quorum Queue.
Does anyone have issues with connecting to external mail ports?
For example, telnet smtp.gmail.com 587 can't connect from my Brussels VPS, while I have no problems with my Gravelines VPS.
I have no firewalls installed and iptables is completely open.
OVH claims that they don't block anything.
Checked and confirmed, cannot telnet to 587 from Brussels but can from Gravelines.
I think all the mail ports are closed on localzones, e.g. 25 as well.
Thanks for confirming! I've had to reopen tickets multiple times.
Oooo kurwa and it's cheap 🙊
Thanks