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This I don't understand, there's a million cheaper VPS providers. I can understand choosing DO cause it's hip and they have great tutorials, but price? Nope.

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They hit a balance of price, simplicity and I'm sure they will be there tomorrow though.

That and as a user of 12 different LowEndBox-style providers, DigitalOcean is only marginally more expensive, with way less downtime, faster support response, an easy to use API, integrations with everything, and even planned maintenance windows which are clearly communicated.

Most of the lower priced options are run on a more shoestring budget and get uptime measured in the 98s. Also, I find a lot more noisy neighbors with many LEB-style providers.

Perhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive.

https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml

OVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel.

Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.

Huh, I haven't had this issue on any of their brands. They tend to catch and fix most issues before I become aware on the dedicated machines I have with them.

FYI OVH is a key contributor to OpenStack, they've made quite a few contributions to Ceph, sponsored LetsEncrypt, and host most game servers (and even Wikileaks!).

Adding to this, I once bought their hosted container service, and when I contacted them they told me they no longer supported this product. How?! Why was I able to order it in the first place?!

I am a long time user of OVH. I don't care about fancy UI; I have hardly used it to get anything done except pay bills. I just wish they open a data center in India. That's the reason I was looking at DO; they have a DC in Bangalore.

1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left.

OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.

Bandwidth and power are too expensive in most of Asia, OVH's business model is founded on building DCs next to cheap, plentiful power, then peering at the surrounding IXes for bandwidth. Most of the local IXes in Asia do not have local incumbent carriers participating, and those incumbents want hellish rates to peer.

Routing in Asia will remain crappy due to these peering problems, and volume wholesalers will be few and far between so long as power is spendy.

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