OVH VPS adds new regions in Europe and the US

JohnnySac · February 5

@OhJohn said:
Is anyone here still running localzone vps by OVH? If yes, can you check the date of the last automatic daily backup?

For all local zones, atm (Feb. 5th) I see a date somewhere end of January...., e.g. 28th or 29th. Seems pretty broken or do they do automatic backups only weekly and not daily as with their normal vps line?

(See this both in US and EU with localzone vps)

I see the last automatic backup of a localzone I have was on 31 January 2026 08:13. I can't remember if it's supposed to be daily or not but I think it usually is daily.

OhJohn · February 6

Ok, one vps lz in Vienna still down the other one reachable but totally overloaded hypervisor/node. Steal at 10% to 30% in idle state and this is a current yabs:

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Fri Feb  6 08:35:52 UTC 2026


Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
CPU cores  : 4 @ 3245.122 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 7.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 72.6 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kernel     : 6.8.0-100-generic
VM Type    : MICROSOFT
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : OVH SAS
ASN        : AS16276 OVH SAS
Host       : OVHcloud - Austria
Location   : Vienna, Vienna (9)
Country    : Austria

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 20.63 MB/s    (5.1k) | 133.79 MB/s   (2.0k)
Write      | 20.63 MB/s    (5.1k) | 134.50 MB/s   (2.1k)
Total      | 41.27 MB/s   (10.3k) | 268.29 MB/s   (4.1k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 287.85 MB/s    (562) | 184.52 MB/s    (180)
Write      | 303.14 MB/s    (592) | 196.81 MB/s    (192)
Total      | 590.99 MB/s   (1.1k) | 381.33 MB/s    (372)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 309 Mbits/sec   | 97.4 Mbits/sec  | 29.3 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 391 Mbits/sec   | 182 Mbits/sec   | 22.4 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 218 Mbits/sec   | 117 Mbits/sec   | 113 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 332 Mbits/sec   | 99.3 Mbits/sec  | 184 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 177 Mbits/sec   | 48.5 Mbits/sec  | 163 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 359 Mbits/sec   | 126 Mbits/sec   | 115 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | 63.8 Mbits/sec  | --

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 350 Mbits/sec   | 64.8 Mbits/sec  | 36.6 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 342 Mbits/sec   | 117 Mbits/sec   | 24.3 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 70.5 Mbits/sec  | 49.3 Mbits/sec  | 231 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | busy            | 50.6 Mbits/sec  | 215 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 247 Mbits/sec   | 72.8 Mbits/sec  | --
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 367 Mbits/sec   | 91.3 Mbits/sec  | 134 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 303 Mbits/sec   | 28.4 Mbits/sec  | 252 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1110
Multi Core      | 1774
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16445264

YABS completed in 22 min 34 sec

Incoming speed also dismissal. Not stable and useable for production plus management tools not working from ovh dashboard (restart into rescue takes like 6 hours if it does complete etc). Updating packages also takes like 30 minutes instead of 30 sec.

Plus (and this is a current prob with all localzone vps): daily automatic backups stopped working a week ago.

@OVHcloud @ninzo59 you really have to look into this product line (localzone vps), this is not beta state, it's alpha state.

OhJohn · February 6

I finally got the ticket escalated to a different support rep (not the one anymore with those 0% quality I had last year and that grabbed the ticket again). There is hope.

Btw: anyone that has a vps in localzone, check the automatic daily backups by OVH. Those are stuck since January 28th/29th in US and EU localzones.

gemini90 · February 6

Yeah, the panel shows "Automated backup: Disabled" for my CH VPS in Local Zone. The Automated backup" tab shows an Order link, and last restoration point is Jan 29.

OhJohn · February 6

FINALLY!!

OVH support (translated): "there seems to be a general problem with the Hypervisor in all LZ vps - our tech team is analyzing the problem.

@emgh they finally admit that sth. is deeply flawed with LZ vps hypervisor. Maybe there is hope that they will fix this until 2027. Do you still have the MAD one?

emgh · February 6

@OhJohn said: @emgh they finally admit that sth. is deeply flawed with LZ vps hypervisor. Maybe there is hope that they will fix this until 2027. Do you still have the MAD one?

lmao that's funny

yeah for LZ I have madrid and prague currently

concept · February 17

I just noticed that OVH added Roubaix. It's probably not much different than Gravelines.

OhJohn · February 17

@concept said: I just noticed that OVH added Roubaix. It's probably not much different than Gravelines.

Finally

The magic triangle is complete again. Wonderful.

(if you think about failover ips, this is actually important news)

NushairAlvi · February 17

Why is the UK not available??

OhJohn · February 17

@NushairAlvi

ERI is a classical oos location for OVH - more demand than stock. Same with dedicated servers.

It's also an uptime and reliability king DC in OVH world...

Arirang · February 17

@NushairAlvi said:
Why is the UK not available??

Currently UK in stock.

OhJohn · February 17

@Arirang said: Currently UK in stock.

Hm you are right, checking OVH EU atm, I see stock for all vps sizes in Erith.

@NushairAlvi where have you seen the United Kingdom DC (ERI) to be oos?

concept · February 17

For the longest time, ERI was always out of stock and lately its been back in stock.

@OhJohn said:
Finally

The magic triangle is complete again. Wonderful.

(if you think about failover ips, this is actually important news)

The Great French Triangle.

@OhJohn said:
It's also an uptime and reliability king DC in OVH world...

Is it actually?

Blandest · February 17

"anyone that has a vps in localzone" what is the significance/meaning of a localzone/lz?

mans_xd · February 17

@Blandest said:
what is the significance/meaning of a localzone/lz?

according to @emgh it's mean downtime and no support

OhJohn · February 17

@mans_xd said: according to @emgh it's mean downtime and no support

And I second that.

vps lz = not production ready.

OhJohn · February 18

The only thing that is able to bring down the massive steal at the lz vie is a high (>80%) iowait.

Arirang · February 18

@OhJohn said:
The only thing that is able to bring down the massive steal at the lz vie is a high (>80%) iowait.

Maybe it's a node-specific problem? A few of my VMs in the US show no CPU steal or I/O wait. The hypervisor itself hasn't had any downtime, though I haven't checked the network level yet.

OhJohn · February 18

@Arirang yes, it's only Vienna. All other lz locations in EU or US do not have the problem.

But Vienna is fucked up beyond control since the beginning. And yes, it's the host node.

20% to 30% steal on idling vps with zero load. iowait up to 100% on all vcpu in a gb test.

Yabs cannot write test report to disk, etc. pp.

You might want to believe that they use c1vhosting for NAS from Vie hostnode to Italy...

concept · February 20

I was reading one of their press releases from 2025 and saw this.
"In 2026, OVHcloud will open new Local Zones in cities including Bogota, Tallinn and Johannesburg."

https://us.ovhcloud.com/press/press-releases/2025/ovhcloud-expands-its-global-footprint-to-44-data-centers-with-the-opening-of-its-first-facility-in-italy

It will be interesting to see what the performance will be like for those locations.

OhJohn · February 21

@concept

But that is public cloud lz, not vps-1 lz. Atm only a small fraction of lz have those vps-1 as well.

gemini90 · February 21

OVH VPS price increase:

VPS-1: $4.9 -> $7.6
VPS-1 Local Zone: $6 --> $8.5

(exclude VAT)

Effective from April 1.

concept · February 21

I haven't received the email about price increase.

Brend4n · February 21

I go the email as well, here it is for those who have not received.

concept · February 21

How many people are going to move to another provider?
I currently have 39 vpses with them lol. Time to cancel some idlers.

Akira3 · February 22

@gemini90 said:
OVH VPS price increase:

VPS-1: $4.9 -> $7.6
VPS-1 Local Zone: $6 --> $8.5

(exclude VAT)

Effective from April 1.

I confirm that my My VPS-1 Local Zone has also been affected by the price increase.

OhJohn · February 23

@addey said: That's interesting, my VPS is using a different CPU it seems.

Processor : AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
CPU cores : 4 @ 3245.122 MHz

@addey do you still have that one? Is that a localzone one in Prague or one of those unicorns in the normal LIM DC in Germany?

zrj766 · February 23

I haven't received a price increase notification email from OVH yet, but I did receive a price increase email from Hetzner.😭

OhJohn · February 23

@zrj766 said: I haven't received a price increase notification email from OVH yet, but I did receive a price increase email from Hetzner.😭

same boat.

OhJohn · February 23

Anyone here that has a localzone vps-1 with a AMD EPYC Genoa CPU and 3245 MHz cpu speed*?

Could you please share your current iowait and steal (e.g. via top) vs your own load (sys/usr)? Thank you.

*) and not the normal 3095 MHz that you normally see in localzone vps-1.

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