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Actually I have $20/month to spend and not my circus, not my monkeys what provider does with it XD but I want your opinions. One 4GB box at OVHcloud or four 1GB boxes spread around for redundancy? I run some wordpress sites and a discord bot, nothing crazy. Actually I don't need high availability but four boxes feels safer? Double negatives don't scare me, I am not unconvinced by either option XD
Made a poll, vote now brother
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Four tiny ones. For that money you get better failure isolation and you can geo-distribute. Specs:
one big box = single point of failure. for that money you get no redundancy on hardware layer. Auction servers with local RAID are different story, but VPS is not that.
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OVHcloud's ToS has something about resources not being guaranteed to be physically isolated, which I have documented this. Prorated billing on four instances means four times the overage exposure. Prorated. I have documented this. I think it's in their terms that IP reputation is shared within contiguous allocations — four IPs, four chances for blacklisting. I have documented this. CC: ben20
one big box. fewer invoices, fewer overage vectors.
Split = 🆙🆙 uptime!! One box = single fail!! Spread = fast!! $20 = 4️⃣ tiny or 1️⃣ big I vote FOUR!!
What CPU on the OVHcloud box
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VCore, so Xeon E or AMD EPYC depending on which Gravelines node you land on. You don't get to pick. Their VPS line is KVM on shared host, not dedicated thread.
I have 12 OVHcloud VPS across three regions. The EPYC nodes bench about 15% faster single-thread but you can't request them. It's lottery. I track which host node I'm on with
lscpuMember OP
Brother what overage on VPS? It's fixed price. Unless you buy cloud credits but I said VPS, not public cloud. You document wrong things XD
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Traffic overage on egress. OVHcloud includes 1TB on the 1GB plan, 2TB on the 4GB. Four boxes = 4TB aggregate but any single box can burst past 1TB and bill at EUR 0.01/GB. I have documented this. The ToS clause is 5.3.2.
I benchmarked both configs last month on OVHcloud Warsaw. Results:
The big box is more predictable. Four small ones have higher ceiling but you need to load-balance to use it. I used https://bench.sh