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OVH Unveils Low End VPS Line
OVH finally launched their 2013 line of VPS's in 3 flavors: Classic, Low Latency, and Cloud
http://www.ovh.ie/vps/
The low end VPS is €4.99
Burst RAM has been replaced with "vRam"
vRAM (or Virtual Memory) consists of the VPS RAM, completed by additional SSD memory offered through the virtualisation layer.
More effective than SWAP, it allows more flexibility to manage the occasional excesses of VPS dedicated RAM and thus offer an effective solution for managing light casual bursts (RAM saturation and overflow).
Cloud includes an extra 4GB SSD RAM
and for the VPS Cloud only :
4 GB of SSD in addition to your RAM for VPS Cloud ranges, i.e:
vRAM (viewed by the server) = RAM + 4 GB RAM SSD
Examples:
If you choose a VPS Cloud with 2 GB of RAM, your server will have 2 GB of RAM and 2 + 4 GB of vRAM,
Virtualization type:
For these 3 VPS ranges, OVH uses long mastered and proven virtualisation solutions.
Classic and Low Latency ranges run inside OpenVZ, which in turn runs on VMware. This solution allows complete isolation, while providing the best performance guarantees.
VPS Cloud, meanwhile, runs directly on VMware: only one virtualisation layer between your virtual machine and our clusters. 100% VMware: the best virtualisation solution that exists today, giving you unparalleled robustness.
Comments
Eh, doesn't look that impressive.
They simply prefer selling dedicated servers. The VPS line is just for completeness.
They posted on their Twitter the coupon 'VPS0313' to get "Classic 3" (the 2GB plan) for the price of the "Classic 2" 1GB plan if you pay for a whole year.
Either way, not particularly impressive considering the cost of an mKS 2G.
Hong Kong can be interesting. Especially with APNIC IPs. But sadly not in their "classic" packet.
This is almost the same as the Kimsufi VDS they offered.
Uh oh, they have VPSs in San Jose...
Sure, as soon as they develop their own operating system that knows how to interpret "burst" and doesn't screw up memory allocations without swap.
Burst is fine but I don't think I'd go around bragging about it lol
What they mean is that they use SSD for the host's swap
Perhaps I misread it. I wonder if its actually allocated as swap. If its somehow burst memory allocated separately (man that sounds like quite the task) I'd be pretty skeptical of how it scales.
Edit: Really confused here. vRAM = RAM, vRAM = SSD, therefore RAM = SSD? Surely not...
Thanks /sarcasm/ for making me wonder too. :P
VPS details arrived 4 hours later.
test time...
looks like it:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 512 19 492 0 0 12
-/+ buffers/cache: 7 504
Swap: 128 0 128
MemTotal: 524288 kB
MemFree: 504072 kB
Cached: 12620 kB
Active: 14372 kB
Inactive: 3004 kB
Active(anon): 2272 kB
Inactive(anon): 2484 kB
Active(file): 12100 kB
Inactive(file): 520 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 131072 kB
SwapFree: 131072 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 4756 kB
Shmem: 2624 kB
Slab: 2832 kB
SReclaimable: 1420 kB
SUnreclaim: 1412 kB
who needs E5's when you can get 4284's. :P
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 2
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4284
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 3000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc unfair_spinlock pni cx16 x2apic popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legacy extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw
bogomips : 6000.00
TLB size : 1536 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
CPU model : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4284
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3000.000 MHz
Total amount of ram : 512 MB
Total amount of swap : 128 MB
System uptime : 23 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 76.1MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 10.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 5.98MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3.32MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 50.9MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 1.52MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 3.60MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 4.27MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 4.07MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 14.6MB/s
I/O speed : 73.0 MB/s
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.088 s, 96.8 MB/s
10 requests completed in 9009.9 ms, 1178 iops, 4.6 mb/s
10 requests completed in 9007.0 ms, 1763 iops, 6.9 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.5/0.6/0.6/0.0 ms
verdict: OVH loyalty points +1, OVH's new budget VPS: yawn.
So I'm guessing the key here is that the node's swap is set to SSD. Which makes me wonder if they're aware that OpenVZ container swap actually uses RAM. My interpretation of their wording is you get X dedicated RAM and you can burst up to Y, but when you get into Y it's SSD. That seems, to me, to be what they're saying. But unless they've built their own fork of OpenVZ or performed some serious acrobatics that they should be praised for, all they really mean is that after X customers then the rest get SSD as RAM and the node goes to hell
I suppose the other option is that it's just confusing that they even reference it under the OpenVZ offerings and it may not be relevant to those at all.
On a related note, does anyone know if their .ie site gets flagged as fraud if you use a US credit card to purchase from it? I've had issues before with my Visa and Internet.bs, and while I want a mKS 2G, I don't want to have to deal with the billing issues I had with Internet.bs.
I've heard about US citizens using ovh.ie, you should just try.
I use ovh.ie and use my debit card from the US. It works fine. The first time it declined and had to call my bank to let them know it was me purchasing stuff from france. They took down the block and its fine now!
That's the whole problem, I had that issue with Internet.bs and Visa did a poor job of resolving it, so I'm a bit wary of international merchants now.
It depends on your card issuer and spending patterns (i.e. whether you regularly make international purchases). I've never had a problem with OVH.ie, Internet.bs or even VPS Networks (who use a South African card processor). The only place I regularly purchase from that I've had a problem with fraud alerts being triggered is IntoVPS because they use a Romanian card processor. I asked my bank to white list them and I haven't had a problem since then.
If you're from the US and purchase from OVH.ie OVH will require you to submit address/identity proof when you make your first purchase so they can verify that you're exempt from VAT.
Does running openvz on vmware qualify as serious acrobatics?
Whenever buying from a site based in another country, it's always a safe bet to call up your credit card issuer and give them a heads up that you're planning to make a purchase on for on . Trust me - it's WAY easier doing that then having the charge get flagged/held/declined by the fraud department and trying to have it released.
Fail
Testing ip_tables/iptable_filter...OK
Testing ipt_LOG...OK
Testing ipt_multiport/xt_multiport...OK
Testing ipt_REJECT...OK
Testing ipt_state/xt_state...OK
Testing ipt_limit/xt_limit...OK
Testing ipt_recent...FAILED [Error: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.] - Required for PORTFLOOD and PORTKNOCKING features
Testing xt_connlimit...FAILED [Error: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.] - Required for CONNLIMIT feature
Testing ipt_owner/xt_owner...OK
Testing iptable_nat/ipt_REDIRECT...FAILED [Error: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.] - Required for MESSENGER feature
Testing iptable_nat/ipt_DNAT...OK
TOTAL INCL. VAT €6.14
I'll try for 1 month