☁️ Hosting Solutions OVH KS-LE-1

[Tracy]

While supplies last, you can get an actual decent dedicated lower end server for $15 a month from OVH in their KimSufi line on their Black Friday sale (while supplies last).
I grabbed one to play with and am going to compare it to my Contabo server that I pay $6 a month for. The storage capacity is about the same between them but the OVH offering has twice the RAM, with with ES could be handy.

They are not the fastest servers on the planet, but they will do for almost all new sites and even some modest sized ones.


KS-LE-1
FREE SETUP FEES FOR NEW CUSTOMERS ONLY
WITH OR WITHOUT COMMITMENT

Intel Xeon E3-1245v2
4c/8t - 3.4 GHz/3.8 GHz
From 2 x 480 GB SSD SATA Soft RAID to 2 x 960 GB SSD SATA Soft RAID
From 16 GB DDR3 1333 MHz to 32 GB DDR3 1333 MHz
300 Mbps of public bandwidth
$11/month

The $11 offering is their 16GB RAM one, but it is no longer available so you have to select the 32GB for a $4 a month upgrade fee.
If you do not mind spinning platters you can get 2x2TB HDD's for $1 more.

 

[Tracy]

CentMin install on it.

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Total Curl Installer YUM or DNF Time: 107.3408 seconds
Total YUM Time: 63.751749931 seconds
Total YUM or DNF + Source Download Time: 82.4671
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 68.5625
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 386.6875
Download From Github Time: 0.8968
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 228.4013
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 766.1184
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Total Install Time for curl yum + cm install + zip download: 874.3560 seconds
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AlmaLinux 9.5 Teal Serval  5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64
8 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 V2 @ 3.40GHz
1 3377.086 1 3589.035 1 3590.187 1 3591.540 1 3591.543 1 3591.561 1 3591.567 1 3800.000
PHP VERSION: 8.3.14 
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Centmin Mod Version: 140.00beta01.b162
Install Summary Logs: /root/centminlogs/installer_summary_links.log
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[joelr]

These prices are great if you're looking for a standalone VPS

 

[Tracy]

These prices are great if you're looking for a standalone VPS

It's even better because this is a dedicated server (albeit an older one) that you share no resources with anyone else with. You get full use of all the capabilities. The hardware is, as I commented, older, as are the drives. They are systems that they have taken off of their mainline offerings but they are still decent quality and they can make some additional income on them.

 

[Tracy]

Astro What? was moved over to the new KimSufi server tonight. Everything seems to be working well. I know that the backup I ran on it after moving it over seemed to process faster.

 

[Tracy]

I think I can easily live with this so far. It is much better than the VPS (even Hetzner) that I was on.