[Gllug] anyone used ovh.co.uk for hosting

[Paul Lee]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Paul Lee wrote:
>> Jason Clifford wrote:
>>
>>> These days racking a server in a decent colo centre tends to cost about
>>> £60 per Amp. 
>> ...in London. ovh.co.uk seem to be Paris based. Nevertheless still seems 
>> a loss leader, as although data centre costs are lower in Europe, they 
>> can't be *that* low.
> 
> dedibox have something that isnt far off that price mark - and I know
> people who have dozens of machines there - although they do intensive
> hosting ( someone mentioned 4 machines in a 1U case ). Although, I dont
> think that really makes a diff. You get the drive space, you get the b/w
> and you get a 2Ghz Via'something CPU with a bit of ram.

Looking at one of the pics one of the boxes pictured looks remarkably 
similar to a couple of Via boxes I have, which are 1U but only half 
depth enabling you to run two servers per U.

Also very low power density. Also I've seen boxes with up to four mini 
m/b's in a single 1U case, so its all possible I suppose.

OK going by pics on a website is a bit silly, it might be motherboards 
laid out on newspaper for all we know (joke!).

However, obviously the support is going to be limited and if the box 
fails they will perhaps only offer to reformat ala 1&1.

I wouldn't use them for any heavy duty/serious hosting, but for a 
monitoring box or backup MX / DNS then why not?


Paul

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