Hacker News Reader

Comment by iolothebard | Hacker News Reader

Wow, I haven't done dedicated hosting in a long time, the prices are insane there!

https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/enterprise/2014-MG-...

Thanks for posting :-)

I've been looking for provider possibilities for my next failed startup. I'm not sure how they can deliver for that price but who am I to complain!

View on HN

100% worth it. I have monitoring/notification set up on my infrastructure, and have had two hardware failures since becoming an OVH customer a few years ago. OVH techs in the datacenter were on the scene before I got downtime notifications. Their techs must deal with this kind of thing all night, every night, because they seem to have this process of replacing hardware down to a science. This as opposed to my other dedicated providers, who basically don't give a shit, for the same hardware at the same price. OVH is an excellent budget investment!

I think the reason they can offer it so cheap is a combination of scale, cheap electricity, and tax breaks. iWeb is also in Quebec, so I figured there must be some tax break. Lo and behold there is one heck of a tax break:

http://www.investquebec.com/quebec/en/financial-products/smb...

Basically the Quebec government pays 24% of your company's wages, up to $83,333 per employee!

It's actually even better than that because there's also a national program that pays up to 35% of R&D salaries: http://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/ontario-tax-credits-for-soft.... There are hundreds of smaller special programs that can pay even more (and they often stack).

Hmmm... now if there were a place to start a business...

Whops, I think you got a downvote. Tiny buttons...

If you don't need the latest hardware and enterprisey features, give soyoustart.com a look. It's an OVH company on same network with same DDOS protection that uses the 'OVH' brand recycled servers. About half the cost.

And if you don't need any support or server hardware, give kimsufi a look.

I do not work for OVH, but am so impressed by their automation and value in this field I refuse to use anyone else.

I am just wondering how can one know about such sites. I always thought the DO is one of the cheapest.

Did you recently start looking at hosting? Have a look at:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2 (and most of the rest of the site).

"...for my next failed startup." Thanks for helping me give my sinuses a nice coffee rinse :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com