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I guess it depends what you do with it, and whether your use case even lets you notice a few minutes of network flap or not.
@singsing it was hours in our case, not a few minutes
Oh yeah, I remember I did notice one longer outage.
OVH BHS VPS 2016
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/3347570
It's ok I think, it feels fast. Better than their old Vz nodes for sure.
They've got a pretty rock solid network over there.. Definitely an option.
With 41 outages over a week that no one takes care about.
I use monitoring tool. No downtimes detected.
You don't seem to understand that the old (OpenVZ) VPSes and the new (KVM) ones are completely different. The new ones use the same infrastructure as RunAbove, which has been extremely reliable.
The whole reason for the drastically changed offerings is because the old ones weren't up to par and they knew it. You ought to give them some credit for trying to fix things.
From my point of view, Customer pays, they don't care. It's their responsibility to deliver good service, not their Customers.
If 'old Openvz' platform went downhill like this, any of their platforms can go downhill the same way, and they may ignore it the same way. They are simply not trustworthy for anything in production for me.
BTW: Told about CA location. May be Europe locations has a bad uptime.
Updating to add that I just signed up for VPS SSD 2. While several notches up price-wise from their old OpenVZ, it seems to be quite zippy. Absolutely no comparison in terms of performance. Too early to report on connection drop issues, but there's reason to be optimistic for now.
We have a few enterprise servers in their North American location (BHS) for candian accessibility, 100% uptime over the last 16 months. I'd say they are pretty rock solid.
I'm pretty sure the network of their enterprise servers is managed a bit differently than their budget OpenVZ.
If you want to have a solid, cheap OVH VPS, runabove.com is still the way to go.
Any justification to that? The new VPS-SSD are based on the same tech and not any less solid than Runabove (arguable more as they come with SLA), also they are unmetered.
As another difference, on some RunAbove instances I saw quite a bit of CPU contention with other customers (the "st" value in top), and nearly always zero at VPS-SSD.
The only pro I can think of for the OVH VPS SSD is unlimited traffic (vs 1TB on runabove) and maybe their SLA, but since it's the same technology, runabove should be pretty stable aswell.
Can't say bad things about the uptime on runabove aswell:
Mkay,
Actually Runabove is 10 Gbps, people get 2-5 Gbit in iperf.
Not necessarily, only depending on how bad it is (some nodes were worse than others), although you can delete and recreate the VPS until you land on a lightly loaded node.
Also I believe you can control the VPS-SSD IPs in api.ovh.com regarding firewall/antiDDoS, and at Runabove you can only request those things via tickets.
So it's not that Runabove is hands down better, more a case of "pick one or another depending on what you need".
I signed up yesterday with OVH for one of their 2016 VPSes; I really like it
Is it possible to downgrade ?
Not that I am aware, due to the fact its not OpenVZ, so downgrades of a disk/file system is not an automated task (Which is what OVH rely on to keep costs low)
Benchmark for the OVH VPS SSD 2016 located in Gravelines:
Network traceroutes when the firewall has been set to permanent mitigation (traceroute from DigitalOcean NL to the OVH VPS):
Before (traceroute):
After (traceroute):
Clearly a pretty big difference with the firewall turned off and on (but that's expected xD)
Speedtests (from FreeVPS Bench):
Before:
After:
No noticeable changes/differences here with the speedtests.
ioping tests (3x)
CPU Information:
UnixBench (via serverbear, link below):
ServerBear.com benchmark: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2015/09/05/JsoQf3jep7ISpwq8
Is it possible to order additional IPs (Failover IPs)?
No - it says they aren't available for 2016 vpses
Your be able to order/use Fail-over IP's/Subnets with them soon however.
Since @joodle forgot a geekbench (more detailed) here it is
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/3370533
I'm probably going to purchase the $8.99/month OVH VPS Cloud 2016 later this week...do the regular 2016 SSD ones (that start at $3.49) have an SLA too?
Nothing on the site says there is, very much doubt there is any, as there not using a HA environment on the standard one's.
Apparently the new OVH lines are going to replace their RunAbove equivalents. They've already limited new RA accounts and at some point they're going to transition existing users over too (maybe once the 2016 line is rolled out worldwide?). The RunAbove brand will be "repositioned" for short-term Labs stuff.
I wonder how this will affect VPS providers out of OVH, the price vs resource point is good, even if you are not a fan of OVH it's likely better to go direct than around.
At least for now, while they are populating the new service and the advertised resources seem to be dedicated for the most part.