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They finally confirmed that the ports are indeed blocked and will not be unblocked for the time being. Very sad.
Wow that is sad. Is that for all localzone VPSs?
Not sure since I only have a VPS in Brussels. Maybe OhJohn can check?
This was OVH's response (which felt abruptly short, given that it took them days to figure this out and took me multiple tickets, live chats and many words trying to convince them of their own blocking policy):
Hello Niels,
I have an update. Unfortunately, the port is indeed blocked in the local zone, and it won’t be changed for the time being.
Thank you for your understanding.
Thanks for the information. Yeah I just tried on a NY local zone one and indeed all the mail ports are blocked. I was testing it out for possible production use but between the hard disk throttle and now seeing mail ports are blocked I can see this won't be a good fit for me.
If you need NA VPS and you need email ports open. You can choose following location.
North America (US - West - Hillsboro)
North America (US - East - Vinthill)
North America (Canada - East - Beauharnois)
Those are not local zone VPS.
I remember trying to host an email server on OVH years ago. Their IPs were blacklisted the last time I tried.
But honestly, it makes sense to block Port 25 by default on a VPS the way it's done on home ISPs. In fact, I added a core router largely to block SMTP (and terminate L2TP).
In the early 2000s, sending spam involved infecting Windows PCs since Windows was poorly secured and cloud computing was nonexistent. Today, you let LEB/LET, find a no-name host, buy a whole bunch of VPSes and send spam.
I even had a customer buy 51 VPSes to send spam, despite our SMTP policy. They promised to not send spam, but I got abuse complaints anyways. I had to terminate them.
Yeah, it's more frustrating however that I can't even connect my Laravel app to a MXroute mailbox. All mails would go through their servers so it wouldn't even affect OVH's IP reputation.
Also no documentation at all about this Local Zone limitation and no way to have it unblocked
storage speed of vps-1 in local zones was upgraded. anyone else can comfirm?
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
@laythe nice find, will test, wait a moment.
Edit: hm, cannot confirm for old localzone vps. Not even a reboot gets you more than 1k iops on 4k
@laythe is that a newly ordered lz vps? Which localzone?
It was ordered about a week or two ago, in amsterdam.
Checked in amsterdam (ordered like 4 or 6 weeks ago, when lz vps started): can confirm if you do a reboot. 7.5k iops on 4k read or write.
But so far I don't see this in MRS, not even with a reboot. Haven't checked the other local zones yet.
You are an absolute hero. Almost bought another one in MRS
Althought I suspect other regions will get this upgrade at some point in the near future as well.
MRS is just Paris plus added latency networkwise. Would not recommend.
Rechecked again a few hours later - now all localzones in Europe(MAD,MRS,ZRH,VIE,AMS,BRU), even MRS, have the new iops caps at 7.5k for 4k.
They seem to have implemented/rolled out that today, at least for MRS. Haven't checked in the last days though.
Btw new iops caps are live in US localzones as well.
Hm, finally Marseille is at least usable to cut 20ms to 25ms on OVH Asia locations as routes between Asia and MRS do not take the extra scenic route via Paris anymore.
So while useless for France, it becomes a nice hop for Asia routes (as should have been expected w/ Marseille as mayor sea cable hub).
MTR plz.
You got a test IP brother?
You can look ovh test ip via their smokeping site.
is it just me or has milan always been there as a non-localzone?
Thank you, just ordered one. In the ordering process, it is shown as "Milan (lz)" (so probably as localzone) but then OVH has Milan listed under ECO as well as a new DC location (so far with no products). I think they probably build & open soon a DC there.
Ah, and the pricing is non-localzone. Nice. Still hoping for AMD Genoa CPU.
Edit: ah, ok I think I found the reason: LZ VPS have only VPS-1 model but Milan has different sizes (VPS-1, VPS-2 etc) - they probably can only show that as non-localzone in their website.
Ok, VPS has a non-localzone IP in Milan, at .least it is not the same CLASS-B all the other lz have.
Will report about CPU soon.
Edit: no, no AMD:
model name : Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)
cpu MHz : 3099.998
Ok, IP geofeed is not updated yet and showing RBX as location.
Lot's of routes from Italy still circle via MRS-->SBG into OVH Milan but some local peering in Italy already works.
Still looks like they plan a bigger presence in Milan, also with dedis coming probably. It does not seem like a localzone as e.g. Prague or Amsterdam.
yabs OVH VPS-1 Milan (non-localzone):
So this is normal OVH VPS-1 (non-localzone) fare. Btw the first time I had a >1000 single core gb6 with a normal VPS-1, but those won't stay I assume.
I am testing it on Middle East and it it even worse than Marseille. Hope this improves soon.
Their Local Zone I/O improved.
US and EU have almost the same result like below.
VPS-1 (Italy - Milan)
Speedtest
https://x.com/olesovhcom/status/1983974325691756786
Why the hell do they still use X?
Did a NWS test on their VPS-2 Milan
SG 190ms ugh, backhaul deluxe.