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RE: OVH vs Vultr: Who can replay a steem node faster and cheaper?
The big problem is that OVH has an unreliable network.
It's not immediate, but many witnesses including myself, @klye, and quite a few others had to move off of OVH because their network deteriorates within a month of buying a server.
What seems to happen is:
- you buy a server from them
- 1 month later your server is still in the same area, except now their routers/switches are failing, and they've also loaded another 1000 customers onto the same server as you
- 2 months later, the routers and switches haven't been replaced, there's probably 10,000 customers on the same physical server as you, and now you're missing blocks!
- you buy another OVH server to get around it
- turns out your "new" server got placed in the same area, now you're missing blocks again.
- you complain to OVH support, waiting a week only to get a response in French telling you that this is your fault, and that they are a budget provider and you shouldn't expect a reliable network (yes I have had a response like that before)
I happily use them for my normal web projects, irc bouncer, file server etc. - but never for witnesses. I've even stopped using them as my backup witness because I'd start missing blocks the second I flip to my backup.
These days I host my primary with @privex (you can pay with crypto, inc. STEEM), and backup with a certain US dedicated provider.
Yep. OVH is fine if you're only expected to hit a block once every few days or something... But under load you'll find that their network has it's fair share of hiccups and outages which is the last thing you want if you have STEEM blocks to create.
Oh, I did not consider that.. it was a freshly installed server so that is probably why it was so fast. This doesnt take away the fact that Vultr was slow AF tho.
I am looking forward to @privex launching their own control panel, I like to install and play about with my servers a lot and I wouldnt want to be bothering you all the time with it. But I will deff hire your services when I can create and destroy servers on the panel.
I have complete trust on your abilities as a dev.
I've used OVH for years, from dedicated servers, to their very cheap VPS. Can't recall any service outages, and on the dedicated servers, any DDoS attack was successfully handled, whilst on other providers I would have trouble with DDoS. Is your statement based off one server of theirs? Make sure the specs you're renting are sufficient for what you are planning to do, don't just go for the cheapest VPS, especially if running a node.
@someguy123 @klye I guess you are talking about VPS. What about their dedicated servers?