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[Question] OVH vs hetzner for a cheap dedicated server (lemmy.douwes.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've just checked and the lowest price is € 38,91, or am I in the wrong section?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you're in the wrong section. You are looking at dedicated servers, and they are talking about VPS'. You can find them at https://www.hetzner.com/cloud, /u/Mallias was speaking about the CPX31 (under "Shared vCPU (x86)")

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