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Why is this making headlines? It's European, so you suffer the transcontinental latency, and OVH offers superior dedicated servers in either their North American or European Data centers. EU: http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/

NA(Canada): http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/

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Not everyone on HN is from the US. Also, in what way do you view OVH as superior? From a quick glance it appears you get better hardware for less money with Hetzner compared with OVH.

OVH is a french company. Their NA data center is relatively new.

There's no real direct comparison on hardware between the 2 vendors, but there seems to be little exciting about the price point in the OP.

I can't comment why it's on the frontpage. But transatlantic latency is in the eye of the beholder, and when you say "superior servers", you're probably ignoring the prices. The Hetzner server mentioned here costs 59 EUR/month. For that price (or a bit more 54 GBP -> 62 EUR) your .uk link gives:

- A CPU two generations older, without hyperthreading (i7-4770k vs. i5-2400k), with 25% less cache and 10% lower frequency

- Half the memory

- HDDs instead of SSDs

- A 100Mbps connection instead of 1Gbps, and half the guaranteed bandwidth

If you wanted 32GB and the SSDs, at OVH it'd be 83 EUR vs. Hetzner's 59 EUR.

True, OVH is more expensive, (and their backend is downright primitive comapred to Hetzner's Robot UI), but that transatlantic latency just doesn't work for things like gaming servers. >300ms on a good day won't cut it for TF2.

Right, but as I tried to point out too subtly, the latency depends on your location.

You, and the original post of this sub-thread, seem to be assuming that the right way to measure latency is from the US. But this isn't purely an American site, and it's silly to assume that all posters are from the US. There are billions of people who will have lower ping times to Europe than to America.

You should compared to OVH in Canada instead. The Price are roughly the same when you take into account Hetzners 99EUR Setup fees. OVH also gets you a very decent Anti-DDOS for free. No more shutting off due to DDOS attack.

The higher up plans they have recently got a brand new, decent Hardware Raid included as well as the latest Intel DC 3500 SSD.

So I dont understand why these make HN headlines when only 1 week ago OVH US introduce some much better plans and no one cared to mention it.

That depends which continent you're on.

Similarly I wonder why those new easy payment startups make the news, since they're US-only.

err. It's European which means the US government can't do whatever they want with your data.

There seems to be a lot of noise at the moment with people re-evaluating who is in control of their data, this is just another variation of that theme.

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