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I gotta ask, because this looks like such a great deal on their website for a VPS...anyone use them? They're the only VPS i've seen that doesn't charge at all for bandwidth according to this its unliminted bandwidth https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-cloud.xml

Are they any good? I was thinking of picking this up here in North America, since they got data centers in Canada (should be good enough for my purposes)

Edit: For clarity, my wife makes homemade dream catchers and soy candles, so I was hoping to migrate her away from Etsy to a custom rolled store, and I was thinking of hosting it on a VPS since shared hosting seems so...sketchy.

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I used to use OVH and most of the time their stuff works but when it doesn't there is very little chance of their tech support figuring out what the problem is and fixing it. They basically deny anything is on their side and you really have to move to a different VPS/Dedicated server or whatever instead of the issue actually being resolved. I use a dedicated server from a place in FL now that is a small shop but I get a real person(with a brain) when something goes wrong and they actually take me seriously and fix their stuff.

Fundamentally, if you use their backup service as well for critical services is that at least reliable? Rackspace was.....lackluster.

You missed your chance to spam the link to the store, it's Christmas time!

Also looking at your profile, be aware that email address is not shown unless you put it in the 'about' section yourself.

Got it, didn't realize that, fixed! Thank you.

I sure did ha! Her esty store does very well for what its worth, its getting to the point where its actually going to be worth taking the time to take it to the next level. I'll see if anyone else has more comments on using this service, do some research, and go from there. What I really need to do at this point is just link the owned domain of her shop to her etsy page as a stop gap for ease of use. I'm gonan down that now....:)

I use their cheapest SSD VPS to host few domains (mainly to avoid the hassle of installing php cms in a dedicated hosting environment where you don't have a full control over PHP configuration.) So far I can't complain about anything, I do have a fairly low traffic though.

I have been using their Cloud RAM product for a while now and haven't had any issues.

For what its worth, would you be comfortable elaborating how long you have used them and what kind of things you deploy there?

I host my personal email and web programming projects on it and have been doing so for four months. I've ordered two different Cloud RAM servers and haven't had any issues with either of them. In the Summer of 2015 I used their old VPS Cloud lineup which was not reliable and is no longer available to be ordered.

Cool cool. I'll certainly keep looking into them thank you. Do you find that their routing is pretty robust speed wise?

I'm able to saturate the 100 mbit port with incoming traffic, I'm sure I'd be able to do a full 100 mbit out as well but I haven't tested that with the VPSes. I really like the OVH professional products because you can enable the DDoS protection 24/7 and some of the sites I'd potentially be interested in hosting would be "high risk" for DDoS.

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