In case anyone is interested, thought I’d share the sale here.
SoYouStart is running a special on their GAME-1 and GAME-2 boxes in their BHS (Beauharmonois, Canada) and GRA (Gravelines, France) DCs. The 30% off discount is recurring. I’ll say that again, the 30% off discount is recurring! This is the first time I’ve ever seen OVH do a recurring discount on any of their products (not counting kimsufi flash sales), so this is pretty neat.
I had a GAME-1 in BHS for roughly 6 months for running game servers for a small community. Was paying $50/mo at the time. Didn’t have any major issues, but ultimately migrated everything over to Choopa for better network/hardware. This sale convinced me to buy a GAME-2 to set up some secondary servers and possibly branch out some more. Shame I let all my IPs go when I cancelled the server, but the one-time IP fees are hard to get upset about.
Nope, they’d be fine with that. The only thing that makes these servers a “game server” is more targeted ddos protection for certain games and the high-clocked i7 processors. Ultimately they don’t care what you’re running as long as it’s legal
Yeah, that’s true. One strategy might be to install proxmox, set up one big kvm, and use your included ftp space for snapshots. If shit hits the fan and you need a new drive, just reinstall proxmox and restore your latest snapshot. You’d be back up and running in no time.
Oh hay, You got to install the os with the web console? Cause if that is the case then that is real lame because web consoles are not accessible due to the fact that they are images.
Close to mine – 10983 hours though looks like my drive got quite a bit more wear (down to 44 for wear leveling count), but is a nice enterprise Samsung SSD so I’m not worried.
Yep, can only install OS via their control panel, no IPMI or anything like that unfortunately. They have a good selection of images and you’re able to customize the partitioning to you liking, though.
The problem is that most companies I have experience with so far code their web console as an image which is not accessible to screenreading technology or use the html5 canvus. Very annoying for me. It wouldn’t be a problem if actual text was present.
Now not all of the control panel is a problem. For example, in Hetzner, I can easily make an order, arrange projects, and modify settings and pay. But I can’t use the web command line thing because it’s like a giant interactive image.
. Probably would knock $10 or so bucks off of it.
