Using OVH's horrible volume network, backed by their crap support with their servers built from a lot of QC-rejected procs on 5400RPM drives.
I've had 100% uptime over the last 3 months (externally monitored), used terabytes of bandwidth, and get 20ms ping over the Channel. You can't beat that on price.
Do you think Hetzner is better than OVH, by the way?
At one point I had ~5K of servers with them and in any given week one of them would require some work. My org had paid for the best SLA (<2 hour) and we'd often have to wait a day to hear back what the problem is and another day, at least, to get things replaced.
OVH's general business plan is to expand customer base quickly, then take the time to actually build out the network to fit their pre-growth size.
Hetzner is a little better on supportbut they have some annoying policies (See the DDoS thread from yesterday), I do like their automation though. I'm now mostly in Leaseweb and a couple CN-datacenters with my own peering mix
>> My org had paid for the best SLA (<2 hour) and we'd often have to wait a day to hear back what the problem is and another day, at least, to get things replaced.
Ouch. That's really unacceptable, especially when you've paid for supposedly top notch support!
>> Hetzner is a little better on supportbut they have some annoying policies (See the DDoS thread from yesterday), I do like their automation though. I'm now mostly in Leaseweb and a couple CN-datacenters with my own peering mix
Hmm.. I haven't seen the DDoS thread.
But do you think Hetzner should be avoided, or did you just find Leaseweb that much better? Hetzner's dedicated servers look like good value for money, assuming there are no hidden problems like with OVH.