Re: Cheapest VPS offer for MuOnline
I understand ofcourse very big issues will have to be handlded directly from ovh.. but i'm lucky 'boy' lol for not having issues =]
im not sure how now OVH became a bad provider, anyways =]
I will tell you how OVH became a cheap provider:
1) They're buying hardware for eg: 5000 euros, with a ROI that would take 24 months to be paid, if you've rented these servers at for example: 250 euros, but instead, they rent it for 80 euros (to subsidize customers, in order to expand the number of customers), Yes, they are "paying" to have you using their services and why is this ? Because, in other services, they'll be earning money "as long" you don't stick only with this subsidized service, otherwise this is a bit of "loss" for them, but of course, not when checking "all the customers".
2) They do not hire enough man-power to handle all issues, so when "too many people have issues", they'll take 5~10 days to provide you with a simple reply, and more days to provide you with a solution for your issue.
3) When they hire man-power, they do not pay enough to have "very skilled" professionals, and due to this, the support and solutions for issues, becomes bad or solved in the wrong way, eg: there are many cases when a HDD broke, and they've replaced the wrong disks and destoyed the disks without even the customer being able to check it beforehand, or even by messing network configurations by configuring wrong cards on customer requests, or by adjusting switch/router vlans improperly to adjust ip routes, while messing other IP routes.
4) So well, they are a "budget", "very cheap provider" and yes the hardware they provide "the specifications" of this hardware, is amazing for the pricing, but this is "all", you cannot expect anything else from it. And if it works, great, because this is the minimum that could be expected for a service you're paying, but when it doesn't, it becomes a big headache, really lol.
5) They do not have enough money to pay for "tier 1" transit providers, so they end up using second hand providers, in order to be able to "fullfill" all the necessary bandwidth for all the customers and the whole network, and the result of this is very bad routing or latency to many countries.
6) The DDoS Protection, well it's great, as long there isn't "too many people" receiving attacks, because this will often cause huge lags or added latency for all people using their "Anti DDoS Pro", this doesn't happens always, but it does sometimes, because OVH literally, have added this protection to ensure customers that "are not" under attack, are still working, during attacks, but people just consider it the opposite, beliving OVH did it on a good will, to keep their services protected always, no, the true is, if the protection works, this is great, but if it's overloaded, as long "most of the customers" keep working, they'll have less complaints, and them the user with these issues can just leave, as for OVH, he really doesn't worth it.
So well, this is how a cheap/budget provider works, there are others like OVH as well, so they aren't alone on this boat, but still people use their money the way they want, and many simply can't pay for anything better, so this is what you have and can use in this case.
Check yourself, the quality of servers in OVH:
They are not even using "server racks", but something else they've built in house to reduce costs, and their servers doesn't even have a proper case, but they're all open as you can see, everything to reduce as much cost as possible and yes, its indeed low quality.
So yes, indeed things are priced due to specific reasons, mainly including equipment branding, assembling, man-power (being specializing or not) and so on, if it's cheap, there's a reason, and yes, you should be thankful, because it works for you and yes, this is the minimum expected for something you're paying...
Ah, and I can't forgot to mention, that sometimes OVH just use "train wagons" to build a datacenter infrastructure, again to reduce more and more the costs:
But well, OVH mission was always to make "hosting services" as much accessible as possible to everyone, although it requires "many strategies" to make this possible, and this of course, reduce a lot the quality of these services... But for poor people or students, its great. For anything else, no its not, mainly when speaking about critical mission environments.
And by last, some of their userbase feedback:
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