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... / Unmanaged VPS from $10 per year / OpenVZ / Unmetered Bandwidth / DDoS Protection / IPv6
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I like the names of the different plans 
. The Ellipsis web site is rather hard to read and doesn't work at all without googleapis enabled. The entry level plans are potentially attractive, but after that, OVH's own VPS plans (2016 version) seem hard to beat. I've been somewhat fascinated by them for the past day or so since they are almost too good to be true. But I haven't tried one yet.
. The Ellipsis web site is rather hard to read and doesn't work at all without googleapis enabled. The entry level plans are potentially attractive, but after that, OVH's own VPS plans (2016 version) seem hard to beat. I've been somewhat fascinated by them for the past day or so since they are almost too good to be true. But I haven't tried one yet.
The site is a placeholder although I'm not in much of a hurry to replace it. I'm not a web designer and didn't even realize that 'googleapis' was requirement to view the site--is that a hassle? (I'm not fussy about such things).
These offers are OpenVZ with larger HDD and inexpensive RAM/IP upgrades if you need more resources without getting superfluous, whereas OVH's new vps line seems to be KVM and SSD with 1 IP. Max 40GB disk for $13.49 on their part vs. 100GB at $10.00 here with way more cores. Different markets. Their plans are for KVMists and dd fetishists, but not everyone really 'needs' SSD. I would imagine there is still a market for the 'slower but larger allocations' tradeoff that is HDD. I can even throw in a free platitude for the technocrats to glare at such as 'slow and steady wins the race'.
At any rate, the nodes hosting these offers are mostly full. There are only a few openings left, a small handful of IPs, so this isn't some kind of super sale with high expectations or anything. I don't plan on acquiring any more OVZ nodes either, this is only to fill a bit of empty space.
I don't know if that's entirely true. I think it would depend on preferences and/or needs. I wasn't even aware that ovh.ca had added a new KVM line, though, so thanks for bringing that up. Last time I looked (a few days ago) they were still doing OVZ... so I guess I'm not even competing with them now?
These offers are OpenVZ with larger HDD and inexpensive RAM/IP upgrades if you need more resources without getting superfluous, whereas OVH's new vps line seems to be KVM and SSD with 1 IP. Max 40GB disk for $13.49 on their part vs. 100GB at $10.00 here with way more cores. Different markets. Their plans are for KVMists and dd fetishists, but not everyone really 'needs' SSD. I would imagine there is still a market for the 'slower but larger allocations' tradeoff that is HDD. I can even throw in a free platitude for the technocrats to glare at such as 'slow and steady wins the race'.
At any rate, the nodes hosting these offers are mostly full. There are only a few openings left, a small handful of IPs, so this isn't some kind of super sale with high expectations or anything. I don't plan on acquiring any more OVZ nodes either, this is only to fill a bit of empty space.
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That's a reasonable point about the larger HDD space in your plans vs OVH. OVH's new KVM line has been available in France for a few months, while the US/CA site still had the OpenVZ plans, but for the past month or so it had a popup saying that the new plans were coming. So I think they actually went up quite recently, like in the past week or so.
I had one of their old OpenVZ plans for a while last year and it performed ok, but rebooted several times in the couple months I had it, which seemed lame. My review of it is here: https://vpsboard.com/topic/4147-ovh-1gb-ddos-protected-vps-quebec/
I'm told it was OpenVZ slabbed under VMWare, which may have affected its reliability. So I like to hope the new stuff doesn't crash as often, but as mentioned, that's still unknown. I keep twitching to buy one of those plans just to try it out, but I don't have a use for it and have too many VPS as it is, so I'm resisting. I'm also resisting scaleway.com (3 euro/month dedicated ARM server) but it's billed hourly so I might give it a try for a day or two.
Yes I have Googleapis adblocked for privacy reasons, and turned it off temporarily when I couldn't read your site at all without it. I think it's best to use old-fashioned HTML/CSS unless there's a really compelling reason to use any scripts, especially transcluded ones.
I had one of their old OpenVZ plans for a while last year and it performed ok, but rebooted several times in the couple months I had it, which seemed lame. My review of it is here: https://vpsboard.com/topic/4147-ovh-1gb-ddos-protected-vps-quebec/
I'm told it was OpenVZ slabbed under VMWare, which may have affected its reliability. So I like to hope the new stuff doesn't crash as often, but as mentioned, that's still unknown. I keep twitching to buy one of those plans just to try it out, but I don't have a use for it and have too many VPS as it is, so I'm resisting. I'm also resisting scaleway.com (3 euro/month dedicated ARM server) but it's billed hourly so I might give it a try for a day or two.
Yes I have Googleapis adblocked for privacy reasons, and turned it off temporarily when I couldn't read your site at all without it. I think it's best to use old-fashioned HTML/CSS unless there's a really compelling reason to use any scripts, especially transcluded ones.
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I've removed the googleapis script. Easy enough to host the same file locally. Hadn't realized that transcluding it would be a privacy concern for some, but can see how it might be now that I think about it. Guess I've never consciously attempted to situate myself in 'hide from Google' mode (it's too late for me!) so the thought hadn't crossed my mind. In my experience there are much worse actors than Google when it comes to privacy violations, so maybe I just haven't had the privilege of having to worry about them yet.
Gonna grab me one of those KVM plans.
Gonna grab me one of those KVM plans.
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I'm sorry, but the dreadful colour randomization script will remain for now. Hopefully not only in shades of grey. I take no part in any of the controversies and cultural debates surrounding the true ownership of rainbows either, for what it's worth.
I got one, no complaints yet.
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