I don’t want to say anything against their efforts because competition in a market is always great, but their product pricing and setup is just laughable.
Example: 4vCPU 16GB RAM Instance
Stackit(Scharz/Lidl): 120€/month, 4 locations
AWS: 110€/month, with saving plan: 60€/month, 30+ locations
OVH: 70€/month, 16+ locations
Hetzner: 7-12€/month, 5 locations
For who is the pricing designed?
Super big companies where management is dumb enough to buy that crap? “We have to host there because our companies CEO knows their CEO” situations?
There are a ton of other EU companies that get the job done a lot better.
It’s not as bad as it seems in my quick little research. They don’t have the scale of the other BIG cloud providers, so I could understand why it could be more expensive, but apparently for compute-optimized loads, they are the cheapest (of the big ones).
Their storage is also apparently the cheapest compared to other BIG providers.
If they are going for a higher service level and featureset than the cheapest clouds, then that also explains the price.
Anyways, think this one example doesnt paint the picture properly (according to quick research, so I may be wrong, lemme know if u know i am).
My company, when I arrived, had everything with Rogers. Rogers… Suuuuuucks. Its supposedly for enterprise level customers, the big ones, but you literally pay 3 times more for 5 times less hardware specs, a 4cpu 4gb Linux vps server with slow Io drives will cost you around $300.
SLA? OVH claims 99.5%, iirc. The Rogers SLA I have here is basically"is it down? Go fuck yourself"
Add to that about weekly to Monthly Rogers outages that can last anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
I got one single $350 server at OVH and it has 80% of memory of all the 30 servers at Rogers. Couple that with (in personal experience) no downtime in 10 years that I’ve had servers there, I’d say OVH is vastly superior to Rogers
Yet half of Canada and their mother still goes with Rogers because enterprise levels! They say so on the page! They even have huge building called Rogers arena, they must be grrrrreat!
I don’t want to say anything against their efforts because competition in a market is always great, but their product pricing and setup is just laughable.
Example: 4vCPU 16GB RAM Instance
For who is the pricing designed? Super big companies where management is dumb enough to buy that crap? “We have to host there because our companies CEO knows their CEO” situations?
There are a ton of other EU companies that get the job done a lot better.
It’s not as bad as it seems in my quick little research. They don’t have the scale of the other BIG cloud providers, so I could understand why it could be more expensive, but apparently for compute-optimized loads, they are the cheapest (of the big ones).
Their storage is also apparently the cheapest compared to other BIG providers.
If they are going for a higher service level and featureset than the cheapest clouds, then that also explains the price.
Anyways, think this one example doesnt paint the picture properly (according to quick research, so I may be wrong, lemme know if u know i am).
It all depends on how you sell it.
My company, when I arrived, had everything with Rogers. Rogers… Suuuuuucks. Its supposedly for enterprise level customers, the big ones, but you literally pay 3 times more for 5 times less hardware specs, a 4cpu 4gb Linux vps server with slow Io drives will cost you around $300.
SLA? OVH claims 99.5%, iirc. The Rogers SLA I have here is basically"is it down? Go fuck yourself"
Add to that about weekly to Monthly Rogers outages that can last anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
I got one single $350 server at OVH and it has 80% of memory of all the 30 servers at Rogers. Couple that with (in personal experience) no downtime in 10 years that I’ve had servers there, I’d say OVH is vastly superior to Rogers
Yet half of Canada and their mother still goes with Rogers because enterprise levels! They say so on the page! They even have huge building called Rogers arena, they must be grrrrreat!