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

submitted 1 year ago by thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.uk to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] Stardenver@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] peregus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

undefined> Hetzner Storage Box

How is the speed of the storage box? How do you connect to your VPS? Samba?

[-] Stardenver@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I am using cifs. There may be some ups and downs, depending on decryption, filesize and stuff, but in general I can pretty much use the full Gbit connection. The lowest transfer I can remember was 58 or 59 MB/s when I transfered a lot of small files.

[-] peregus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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