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Big5 1mo ago

Six months on a NAT IPv4-only VPS · General Discussion

Paris here. Hetzner has no datacenter in France so my latency to Falkenstein is acceptable but not great. For banking APIs latency matters less but for anything real-time this is annoying. OVH has Paris presence but their NAT plans are worse, only 10 ports.

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Big5 9mo ago

Does anyone still build their own three-phase distro? · Datacenter Talk

Thread's been dead a year and a half, but I never got an answer.

ana_mad said:
Made test order for Socomec parts from industrial supplier
— which Socomec model? Still running that Barcelona distro? Curious if the insurer ever came back with anything useful.

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Big5 11mo ago

Contabo '24/7 support' took four days · General Discussion

Hetzner has Helsinki and Nuremberg. For EU it's fine, for Asia you want something local. I use OVHcloud Gravelines for EU and Contabo Singapore for APAC. Different providers for different regions, obvious really.

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Big5 1y ago

Should I prepay OVHcloud 3 years to save €100? · General Discussion

They can raise on new services, new options, new regions. Your base plan is locked. But read the conditions particulieres. There is a clause about "evolution des prestations" that lets them migrate you to "equivalent or superior" hardware. Equivalent is subjective.

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Big5 1y ago

Should I prepay OVHcloud 3 years to save €100? · General Discussion

haroldgsm said:
Your €4.20 becomes €7 again with 30 days notice

OVHcloud is French. French consumer law on prepaid services is strict. They cannot just void multi-year contracts with 30 days notice if you are an individual customer. Business accounts, different story. Check if your account...

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Big5 1y ago

OVH Strasbourg fire aftermath, still affecting supply · Dedicated Servers

Following this thread closely. We had 12 dedis with OVH in Roubaix, not Strasbourg, but it made us audit everything. Moved 6 to Hetzner Ashburn for US-facing stuff. The rest stay in GRA.

One thing nobody mentions: OVHcloud's billing portal during the fire. Couldn't even see which servers were affec...