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09-21-2013, 11:13 AM #126WHT Addict
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so ovh not offer anymore dedicated server ?
Thanks.
Nobie
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09-21-2013, 11:20 AM #127Web Hosting Master
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09-21-2013, 06:03 PM #128WHT Addict
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09-21-2013, 06:54 PM #129Web Hosting Master
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I'm sure that most of us in the industry saw this coming. They were likely willing to take a loss at first just to gain a large client base and figured they would figure out profitability later.
Even if they bought extremely shotty/cheap hardware, an i5 is still going to cost ~$500 to build. At $49/month, without even taking into considering support, bandwidth, power, it's taking them 10 months to make their money back. So when a client purchases it, uses it for 2 months, and then doesn't renew, they're out $420 and stuck with a server they can't resell because they already launched a new product for the same price or cheaper.
The problem with the low-end/budget market is that most of those clients buy servers for a month or two, abuse the **** out of them, and then dump them for another provider. So, as OVH admits, their turnover rate is too high and they can't get rid of their older hardware.
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09-21-2013, 07:13 PM #130Web Hosting Master
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09-21-2013, 10:47 PM #131Hello World
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Hetzner have recently lowered there setup fee as well it seems, Just at the right time for them
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09-22-2013, 04:25 AM #132WHT Addict
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Hetzner has lowered the setup fee on their EX8 / EX10 servers and completely removed it from the EX6 / EX6S servers. They are planning to launch newer versions of these models in the next few months and I suspect that they want to clear up their inventory of the current models. When the newer servers launch, then they will have a higher setup fee. They may continue selling the older models without a setup fee through their auction site and the customers can choose to go with slightly older hardware without paying a setup fee or get the latest hardware by paying a setup fee.
I think this model discourages churn and Hetzner will not face the problems that OVH is currently facing.
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09-22-2013, 10:00 AM #133Newbie
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09-22-2013, 12:35 PM #134Always there
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Good marketing skills if you believe they spend millions on the platform.
You have to take into consideration listprice vs price paid. An expansion worth millions in listprice can be done 70%/80% cheaper then list with good negotiation skills (1) so an expansion worth 5 million dollar in network equipment might cost them 1 million to 1.5 million (2) and this 1.5 million can be 3/4th financed using EU structural funds (basically a grant) and 1/4th by borrowing from the bank (obligation if you want EU funds), so a network investment worth 5 million basically can be realized with a 375 000,- loan if planned well.
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09-22-2013, 03:45 PM #135Web Hosting Evangelist
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I wonder what the heck the are going to talk about at their "summit" in two weeks if they are still not taking any orders.
http://www.ovh.com/fr/summit2013/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFD8uoTndAo
Maybe this is just all a plan to build up anticipation before a new rollout?
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09-22-2013, 04:05 PM #136Quality Web Hosting Matters
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09-22-2013, 06:43 PM #137Temporarily Suspended
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guys
ovh really in a big trouble
i will tell you my story with them
i have i5 and two of e3-1245
and after a two months my sites is downing every time
and when i opened a support ticket and ask them what is wrong with network those technical support ask me to do a MTR TEST from my local to my server and i get bad Result ( alot of packet loss ) and i give it to them after hours he told me i'm under attack and i did not get this idea Because i dont have any Enemy so i ordered a new server from hetzner and move my site away from them to hetzner and everything is good i did not get any problems with network and my sites is up
i dont know what is Happens to them but this is really strange
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09-22-2013, 06:46 PM #138
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09-22-2013, 06:51 PM #139Temporarily Suspended
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09-22-2013, 06:54 PM #140
Hard to say what it was then, but I doubt it was their network. Otherwise you would have seen an uproar in the forums if their network was having issues.
If you don't have csf installed on your new server, check it out. I just installed it on my server today. It's free and very easy to install via ssh.
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09-22-2013, 06:55 PM #141Web Hosting Master
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CSF Install: http://configserver.com/free/csf/install.txt
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09-22-2013, 07:02 PM #142Temporarily Suspended
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09-22-2013, 07:45 PM #143The Linux Specialist
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09-22-2013, 08:14 PM #144Temporarily Suspended
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09-23-2013, 01:40 AM #145Web Hosting Evangelist
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I don't understand people who go with OVH who need managed servers.
That is clearly not what they are there for and definitely not their forte.
If you know what you are doing, they are a great value, if not find one of the recommended VPS providers where someone else always has your root.
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09-23-2013, 10:08 AM #146Aspiring Evangelist
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Bought a backup server last month from OVH and setup time was listed as a few hours. However, the setup took over a week. It was not a problem for me but OVH used to be really fast to deliver new servers. It seems the changing of the bandwidth and pricing models every few months is stressing out OVH.
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09-23-2013, 10:22 AM #147You broke the internet!!
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09-24-2013, 04:07 AM #148Web Hosting Evangelist
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OVH US KS 1&2 no longer showing up as "sold out."
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09-24-2013, 04:27 AM #149Web Hosting Master
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09-24-2013, 06:09 AM #150Temporarily Suspended
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Sorry, what is MTR TEST stand for ?
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