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)

  • Thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.ukOP
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    1 year ago

    How is the latency with Hetzner? my OVH server has some incredibly low latency even though it is in a different country.

    EDIT: Even on the auction the prices are still a lot higher than OVH, does anything lower spec ever come up on the auction? And I would use RAID anyway, probably backup the server back to my PC as well.

      • Thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.ukOP
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        1 year ago

        I’m sure whatever hetzners speed is will be miles better than OVH either way, I was more thinking about ping times. My OVH server in france has a ping of 4ms to london which is pretty good. And the better one I was looking at is actually in london.
        Really the choice for me will come down to price, Ignoring support and internet speed, I seem to get basically the same server for £26/month with OVH and about £50 with hetzner. this is just a hobby for me and £24 per month more is quite a bit more money.