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OVH 1GB ddos protected VPS, Quebec

willie

Active Member
Seems to be an new product of theirs: http://www.ovh.com/us/vps/

Purpose of this review is mostly to alert people to its existence.  I'm not going to do detailed tests or anything like that.

I got the $2.99 "classic" vps, which I set up with 32 bit Debian 7.  Purpose was for some testing on a box at same location as my OVH dedicated server that I've had for a while.

Setup took a few minutes.  They accepted payment with a direct credit card, while with my dedi I had to use a Paypal payment form though they didn't require actual use of a Paypal account.  I don't know if that means OVH in general now accepts cc's, or just for these VPS's, or what.  I renewed my dedi for a 6 month block late last year, so maybe something has changed since then.

An interesting feature with these VPS is you can order and configure using an API.  I didn't try that.  I don't know how you're supposed to prepay if you order that way either.

OVH doesn't require or even allow you to cancel servers when you're done with them.  You just don't renew, and (at least in the case of a dedi that I let expire) you get a few automated reminder emails, then they suspend the server but you can re-activate it for a few days by paying the bill, and then they wipe it and reassign it to someone else.  This is kind of nice for a test vps like this, which I don't plan to renew once I'm done testing, since I have the dedi  at OVH and lots of vps's elsewhere.

It's not anywhere in the info blurb, but the box claims (per /proc/cpuinfo) to have an AMD processor, and since the network interface is /dev/venet0 that sounds like it's running OpenVZ.  The host node apparently doesn't have the NFS modules loaded, so I wasn't able to mount an NFS server that I'd been planning to test.

The box feels pretty snappy and some chatter on the OVH forum indicates that it's using some kind of SAN rather than a local disk.  I haven't run any benchmarks other than "openssl speed rsa1024" which did 8696 in 10 seconds, pretty good for a 32 bit setup (64 bit rsa is usually much faster on the same hardware).

Of course the main "benchmark" for a supposedly ddos protected vps is to actually ddos it and see what happens, and I'm not about to try that ;-)

Overall this seems like a pretty good value even as a pure VPS, given that it's at a pretty big provider with a huge network.  The DDOS protection makes it really an attractive offer for those needing such things. 
 
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WebSearchingPro

VPS Peddler
Verified Provider
DDoS Protection... could mean anything.
I'm assuming its included with the DDoS VAC2 that they are using for their dedicated offering. Yes, they offer VAC in their Canada datacenter.

OVH has had VPS for a fairly long time, however the quality has been poor compared to most low end offerings as well as the unability to keep up with their Kimsufi line price wise.

2. OVH - Our anti-DDoS solutions / How does OVH fight against DDoS
 

TruvisT

Server Management Specialist
Verified Provider

Dylan

Active Member
Pro-tip: you can enable permanent DDoS mitigation (the "Anti-DDoS PRO" that Kimsufi and SYS servers don't even get) in the IP address section of the new CP. The basic reactive Anti-DDoS works plenty well, but permanent means it doesn't take a few seconds to kick in if you get DDoSed.
 

willie

Active Member
I haven't paid close attention but I think this VPS has rebooted at least twice since I got it less than a month ago.  Today I got an OVH robo-email saying their monitoring had detected downtime, but the other time I didn't hear anything.  It's kind of interesting that they have notifications at all though.  Is there some way openvz to see when the reboots were?

Neither of my OVH dedis have had any downtime at all.  I cancelled one after about 1 year of uptime, and still have the other one, which, wow, I just checked its uptime and it's 1 year today:

 03:14:13 up 365 days,  3:21,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.09
 
 

dcdan

New Member
Verified Provider
I haven't paid close attention but I think this VPS has rebooted at least twice since I got it less than a month ago.  Today I got an OVH robo-email saying their monitoring had detected downtime, but the other time I didn't hear anything.  It's kind of interesting that they have notifications at all though.  Is there some way openvz to see when the reboots were?
'last' command will show you all reboots (among other things)
 

HalfEatenPie

The Irrational One
Retired Staff
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This is all I really have to say about my OVH 1GB VM.  

In comparison to one of my dedis.

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texteditor

Premium Buffalo-based Hosting
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This is all I really have to say about my OVH 1GB VM.  

In comparison to one of my dedis.

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You get any particular reason why? pushing out the 12th re-write of their in-house management console rebooted the node?

Still, for $3 a month for 10+ TB b/w and OVH's DDoS protection I bet 2-3 of them in different locations would make a usable "poor man's imitation cloudflare"

Curious to see reviews of their cheaper VMWare offerings too
 

HalfEatenPie

The Irrational One
Retired Staff
You get any particular reason why? pushing out the 12th re-write of their in-house management console rebooted the node?


Still, for $3 a month for 10+ TB b/w and OVH's DDoS protection I bet 2-3 of them in different locations would make a usable "poor man's imitation cloudflare"


Curious to see reviews of their cheaper VMWare offerings too
The dedicated servers are restarts organized by me.

For the VPS, your guess is as good as mine.  Although the most recent restart (on Thursday, 15th) was a planned VM restart (I sent the restart command). 
 

willie

Active Member
'last' command will show you all reboots (among other things)
Thanks.  I see reboots on May 11 and May 15.  I wonder what was going on.  My vps is going to expire in a few days.  I might toss $3 just to keep it another month and see how well it holds up.
 

willie

Active Member
Well, I renewed it another month, I got a renewal notice saying expiring today (I had gotten confused and thought I had a few days left), renewed, and during the renewal process saw a status indicator saying the vps had already expired.  It looks like it was shut down and restarted, whether because of the expiration or some other reason.  It reports that it's been up for 14 hours, when I just renewed it a few minutes ago. 

After I renewed I got an email confirmation receipt with a url to click that allows seeing the invoice, which has my personal info (name/address, server, etc) though not my credit card number.  I don't have to log in to see that.  The email was sent over an unencrypted connection.  Thanks OVH.

When my old dedi expired (I let it expire on purpose) I got multiple emails saying it would be suspended for a week on expiration, and then wiped if I didn't renew.  I didn't get anything like that for the vps.  Not a big issue, but it's a difference.

HalfEatenPie, these things are slabbed inside VMware containers, so it's possible that your vps and mine are in the same physical node but they only restarted the VMware?  They also have "cloud" vps's where you get a vmware instance to yourself, that are a lot more expensive.  I wonder if they're more reliable.  I have to say this openvz instance rebooting 2x or 3x in one month isn't ok if the vps is running any real services (mine isn't).
 
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