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Originally Posted by Spudstr
Ovh is not the end-all/king of everything so please get off your high horse, they do a great job yes but they are not the total solution. IIRC they wont even sell a server to someone in the states and their policy was no one could resell their service either.
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Well, this is about the bottom line, since the rest is all chinese for me. All I know is:
1. none of my B2B customers have even uttered a breath since I switched to OVH. Hell, I don't think they even noticed. And I have 16 million daily B2B hits. When shit slows down (like it did in mid-Jan when I tried their cloud setup), I heard about it, so my customers are not simply not alert.
2. Google - my site has dropped from an average 4 second load time to 1.1 second load time since I switched.
3. My B2B traffic went up from 5mill to 8 mill in July last year because of some changes I made. In Dec when I moved to OVH, and I shit you not, it jumped to 12 mill almost from the day I switched DNS over to the new server. WTF that was all about I've no idea (my code tracking hits).
4. My bandwidth was a steady 4.3 Mbs at the switch at my old host. When I switched it dropped to a steady 1.1 Mbs at the switch. Ehm, same traffic, actually nearly 4million hits more per day yet nearly 4x less bandwidth. WTF that all about?
5. I can now frikken *do* shit with my stuff. I need geo-ips, they give them to me, I need a virtual bay of 4 servers (3 diff DCs), they give that to me.
I couldn't give a rat about connectivity if me, in my office sees a massive, massive drop in headaches following a DC move. I've maxed out my ADSL line on download tests with every single US host I've been with, only to find they were only ever rectified whenever I moaned. Guaranteed every single one went back to <50% speed in under 6 months.
Of course, OVH isn't for everyone, I'm just letting people know they are frikken good and a lot better a ISP than I have ever known in my life. If your customers get lousy speeds with them, they are not for you. I also heard by their mailing lists, they are building a DC in the US... *cough*
Freedom of choice is what it's all about.