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)

  • Stardenver
    4•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•1 year ago

      undefined> Hetzner Storage Box

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

      • Stardenver
        4•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.

    • Mallias
      2•1 year ago

      I second this! I have been with Hetzner for a couple of years now, pretty happy overall. You could get a decent setup for around 20-25 EUR/m. For 25 you could get a 5TB storage box with a 4core/8GB/160GB SSD VPS, which, IMHO is a decent deal.

      As for latency, which I saw you asked about, I have a VPS in their Falkenstein DC and I get 35-40ms from Greece (on a Gigabit FTTH, normalised for LAN latency)

    • ThomasOP
      1•1 year ago

      Offsite backup storage, selfhosted stuff (lemmy, mastodon, gitlab, etc) and some data processing. I was going to run ZFS on it so I could easily back my PC up to and and the other way with syncoid. I don’t think I get access to the ZFS pool (if that’s what they are using) with the storage box. Looks like good value though.

      EDIT:
      It’s the RAM that is interesting to me, I have a little VPS with a local provider but it’s only got 1GB of ram. I would like to have a always on machine with a lot of RAM so I could run a lot of containers and maybe VMs.

    • Justin
      1•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.