I don’t know if renting a dedicated server goes against the point of selfhosting but whatever.
Everyone seems to recommend hetzner on reddit because they are cheaper, but OVH seems to be much cheaper that hetzner for low end servers, especially the Kimsufi and So You Start ranges.

This is the server I was looking at with OVH:
CPU : Intel Xeon D1520 - 4c/8t - 2.2 GHz/2.6 GHz
Memory : 32 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage : 4 x 2 TB HDD SATA Soft RAID
Public bandwidth : 250 Mbps
Price: £26.66 per month.

hetzner seems to start a lot higher with specs, but I don’t need 64GB of ram and a 1Gb/s internet connection, The instance I am posting this from is the lowest spec kimsufi possible with an intel atom and 4GB of RAM and that is running lemmy and mastodon fine.

Is there something else bad about OVH that I am missing? (other than the flammable servers)

  • ilco@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Ive bin using oneprovider (Frans /Amsterdam) for a while now. They somtimes got some decent dedi server for like any where between 10/16 euros a month (1tb HD. 4gig ram is usely like 10to12 euro month . Kinda depends on what you want. But they are nice servers space wise.

  • MatrixFox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    You can always start with the Oracle always free tier if you’re ok with a bit less than you are looking at.

    • 4 cores (ARM)
    • 24 GB RAM
    • 50 GB boot + 200 GB block storage

    plus more stuff

    Not really sure how they offer all this for free tbh

    • Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      wtf i was thinking you were kidding, a vps with 24gb ram for free??

      The huge downside it’s that it’s from Oracle, but at that price…

      I think they hope someone misconfigures their VM and BOOM, huge bill incoming!

      • NebulaBC@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Not exactly. The always free tier just cuts you off if you try to go over your limits. It won’t let you allocate stuff that it doesn’t allow. I don’t really understand how they can offer so much for free, but my consensus has mostly been “It’s arm, and they probably spy a bit”. Which some people are alright with, some people aren’t. You can technically strip the OCI Agent from your VPS if you care about that second bit.

  • Stardenver@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What do you need it for? Using just HDD this server will be kinda slow. If this is just about storage, I’d recommend getting a good VPS from Hetzner, Netcup or php-friends and extend storage using a Hetzner Storage Box. 1TB for just 3,xx EUR or 5TB for around 12 EUR.

    As a benefit you’ll not have to deal with failing drives and you do easy backups using snapshots.

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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      1 year ago

      I would recommend storing pict-rs images and db backups on B2, much cheaper at only $5/TB.

      Pict-rs has configuration options for using B2, and you cna use a script or a Kubernetes operator to automate backups to B2.

      Edit: nvm, it appears that storage boxes are cheaper. Not sure how they’re managing to do that.

    • Mallias@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I second this! I have been with Hetzner for a couple of years now, pretty happy overall. You could get a decent setup for around 20-25 EUR/m. For 25 you could get a 5TB storage box with a 4core/8GB/160GB SSD VPS, which, IMHO is a decent deal.

      As for latency, which I saw you asked about, I have a VPS in their Falkenstein DC and I get 35-40ms from Greece (on a Gigabit FTTH, normalised for LAN latency)