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.
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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