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Someone already pointed out that DO's selling point are SSD drives.

Yet Linode's non-SSD drives seem to beat Digital Ocean's SSD drives "in just about every area and not by a small margin" (http://irj972.co.uk/articles/VPS-disk-perf-cont)

I don't know anything about OVH's performance - all I'm saying is that having SSD drives doesn't necessarily mean superb performance - there are other factors involved.

Those tests smell fishy. If they use classic disks then typical average seek time is 8ms. Yet they measured 0,2ms which is ridiculous. My guess is that they used small virtual disks and measured page cache of the underlying host. 128MB limit for random read tests is also horribly wrong to make any conclusion.

For me there's two things that make OVH interesting: IPv6 and DDOS mitigation. It really depends on what you want to do though.

OVH might barely hit 40MB/s in the cheaper plans. Not comparable at all.