OVH SSD VPS
OVH SSD VPS
from 3.00 € HT monthly
Pros
- Good performance
- Good pricing for KVM VPS
- Good networking
Cons
- Very slow support
OVH is the leader in France about web hosting and cloud services. I’m currently their customer since 2013. Here is my review about their SSD VPS offer.
OVH company overview
OVH is the most known web hosting provider in France. They recently started selling cloud services such as compute, database, kubernetes, …
They have a lot of datacenters in Europe and worldwide, and claim to own 20 Tbps private optical fiber.
More information is available on their website.
OVH VPS overview
Nowadays, OVH is selling VPS server hosted with KVM technology and rely on OpenStack technology.
They have at this time 5 VPS offers: Starter, Value, Essential, Comfort, Elite.
CPU is clocked at 2.4 GHz. There is no way to know exactly the CPU used on the host, but it is maybe Intel® Xeon® E5-2630v3 or similar CPU.
There is no VPS plan specialized for IOPS intensive usage, but their public cloud offer seems to have specially some compute plan for IOPS intensive usage.
SSD VPS offers
OVH SSD VPS Starter
- 1 vCore (at 2.4 GHz as I see on mine)
- 2 GB RAM
- 20 Go SSD storage
- 100 Mbps networking
OVH SSD VPS Value
- 1 vCore
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 Go SSD storage
- 250 Mbps networking
OVH SSD VPS Essential
- 2 vCores
- 4 GB RAM
- 80 Go SSD storage
- 500 Mbps networking
OVH SSD VPS Comfort
- 4 vCores
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 Go SSD storage
- 1 Gbps networking
OVH SSD VPS Elite
This is a kind of customizable VPS offer, you choose how much RAM and storage to need. CPU is locked at 8 vCores.
VPS benchmark
I took a VPS SSD Starter which have 2 GB RAM for this benchmark.
I see that IOPS can go around 175 MB per seconds, which is very good for general purpose.
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2020-09-12 20:00:19 UTC
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Processor: Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 2394.454 MHz
RAM: 1,9Gi
Swap: -
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-cloud-amd64 x86_64
Disks:
sda 20G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3,849 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
6,423 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1,874 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 161.0 us / 1.20 ms / 94.5 ms / 3.29 ms
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 4.27 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.04 GiB, 854 iops, 213.7 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 22.51 MiB/s
2nd run: 65.04 MiB/s
3rd run: 178.34 MiB/s
average: 88.63 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 51.38.34.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 10.77 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 10.93 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 8.98 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.51 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 10.57 MiB/s
No IPv6 connectivity detected
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nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2020-09-12 20:02:53 UTC
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Processor: Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 2394.454 MHz
RAM: 1,9Gi
Swap: -
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-cloud-amd64 x86_64
Disks:
sda 20G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3,918 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
6,258 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1,920 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 197.9 us / 998.4 us / 53.3 ms / 2.26 ms
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 3.96 k requests in 5.00 s, 990.2 MiB, 791 iops, 197.9 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 174.52 MiB/s
2nd run: 179.29 MiB/s
3rd run: 185.01 MiB/s
average: 179.61 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 51.38.34.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 10.99 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 10.33 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 9.28 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 11.51 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 10.94 MiB/s
No IPv6 connectivity detected
-------------------------------------------------Conclusion
OVH is a very good VPS provider, but their support is very slow replying requests. I would recommend OVH only for peoples who doesn’t need support/helpdesk.
