OVH and Dedibox, the server story …

As some of you know, I have been with OVH for almost 2 years now. I’ve tried most of their services, from normal website hosting, to domain names and dns servers, to full on dedicated servers, running either Fedora Linux or Windows Server 2003. I’ve generally been a fan of OVH, they always seem to offer great deal, good hardware, good connections, and reasonable prices …

Back in the days of SillyProject I had a top spec quad core server running flat out with about 50 games servers, web, email, radio, you name it, it ran it and never missed a beat. Once SillyProject came to an end (that’s a story for another day…), I downgraded to a cheaper Pentium 4 server on a 100 Mb connection, but found that a bit slow, so I went up a notch to a Core 2 Duo based server on a gigabit connection. That server was more or less perfect for what I was doing, being quick and having lots of space. I used it for hosting my own websites and some of my friends ones too, along with my streaming radio, a few small games servers and for downloading torrents, as it’s quicker than downloading them directly from home, lol.

But, anyway … cutting a long story short, the other month OVH changed their offers, and brought in this stupid new system. I guess they got sick of all the abuse their servers were getting, and they’ve now brought in a whole load of new security checks and stuff. The worst part is the new server offers though, with this different level of service bollocks, Platinum and Diamond and all that. Basically, it’s an excuse to double the price of the server you want, quite literally, as all you seem to get is a few extra IP addresses. They say you get better support and what not with it, but I’m very sceptical of that, their support is poor at the best of times, especially if you’re on Windows, where they couldn’t care less …

Anyway, enough ranting, as I’m sure you’re not interested, lol. In the end I decided to try out Dedibox, another french hosting company, who brought out a new range of pro servers just before OVH brought out their gay new offers. Dedibox’s pro server works out alot cheaper than OVH, as they only have one level of service, and their Windows licence is half the price too, and you get Server 2008 for that, not Server 2003! For the same hardware spec server at OVH, with the Diamond package, it is quite literally double the price of the Dedibox one! Not to mention that the Dedibox one has two gigabit connections, not just one like the OVH one. How OVH justify the price of that Diamond package is beyond me. Getting a new server from OVH was out of the question, and keeping my old Core 2 Duo one was out of the question too, as it was costing me more than the new Dedibox offer, which was twice the spec! So that’s how I ended up at Dedibox, and I must say, so far, touch wood, fingers crossed, and what not, I’ve had no problems at all, everything works like a dream! The specs of my Dedibox Pro server are quite impressive for the price, being an Intel Xeon Quad Core X3350 (4 x 2.66 Ghz), 8 Gb DDR2 ECC (Error Correction), dual 1Tb hard drives, dual gigabit connections and Windows Server 2008 Standard 64 Bit. So, there you go …

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