[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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[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would recommend storing pict-rs images and db backups on B2, much cheaper at only $5/TB.

Pict-rs has configuration options for using B2, and you cna use a script or a Kubernetes operator to automate backups to B2.

Edit: nvm, it appears that storage boxes are cheaper. Not sure how they're managing to do that.

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