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I see the guy as the Father of VPS, pioneer of cheap VPS and fancy sites. :) I have been a customer since 2011: I know exactly why I have no confidence in OVH :) The fact is users may specify performance and reliability objectives in fine detail and any hosting company or data center...

2GB RAM $0 USD Unlimited uptime Unlimited downtime Unlimited packet loss

2GB RAM $0 USD http://instantcloud.io/

I don't trust OnApp but if "many bugs" is the criteria OVH and others beloved providers using OpenStack or CloudStack would be banned from the lists as well. Too bad the remaining VPS companies are Rus Foster's copycats, some posing as innovators. :)

Resource contention.

To be fair I think Quadranet (InfraCloud) deserves mention -- probably on the top of any list of inexpensive "true" cloud providers. :)

Agreed. :) Fortune 500: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle CDN: Akamai SMB: Rackspace Startup: Amazon Developer: Linode Consumer: Apple, Google For the record, I think VMware vSphere is the best virtualization solution and Azure the best "public cloud".

In France, I think Scaleway VPS is more attractive because its data center infrastructure is much better than OVH's facilities. Also it should be noted OVH may host over 80 VPS per node.

I'm not comfortable calling commodity a service sold by a bunch of me too companies but I certainly agree with your reasoning. :) Even though many people here still believe in product/service differentiation, I believe what really matters is the company be seen as distinct from all others.

Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:57:53 +0000 From: Scaleway <[email protected]> ... The VC1 preview is now finished, the new VC1 cloud servers have now reached General Availibility and can be used to scale out to thousands of...

From the study (PDF,40p) " ... we realized that because there is less control over the environment we cannot assume that every instance tested is identical at start up, over time and per location. This causes great uncertainty about the capability to process workloads consistently."

LOL Frankly ... I couldn't agree more. You won :) Great post!

I would say it is a characteristic of mature markets. Definitely not commodity. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_titanium_production This is a list of countries by titanium production in 2010–2013 based on USGS figures. The production figures are for titanium...

What is a 'Commodity' A commodity is a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other commodities of the same type. Commodities are most often used as inputs in the production of other goods or services. The quality of a given commodity may differ slightly, but it is...

I don't think hosting is a commodity 1. The production of a commodity conforms to standards 2. Commodity doesn't imply low quality nor low price Respectfully, I insist that Hosting is a lemon market :(

No penalty for violating anything. :) You want 2+ nameservers because route is the most frequent point of failure. BTW a server may be "down" for a cache nameserver and "up" for a client application running elsewhere.

1. "just one server" violates RFC 2. Nameserver uptime doesn't matter

(CEST -> UTC+2) 05/04/2016 15:40 - The de27 Virtual Server has been started successfully . 05/04/2016 15:38 - The de27 Virtual Server has been shutdown successfully. 05/04/2016 15:29 - The de27 Virtual Server has not been shutdown successfully . Command...

:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync Frankfurt: 940 MB/s London: 30 MB/s Elapsed time deploying DE VPS: 7 minutes Command: AddVirtualMachineSmartVMWare Status: Completed Context: DE...

Someone thinking to order an unmanaged cheap vps/dedicated without knowing how much computer resources are needed ... I could anticipate that this would be just a minor problem.  Ignorance is indeed bliss :)