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= {{Icon24|sitemap}} Introduction =
= {{Icon24|sitemap}} Introduction =
I have personally been using OVH for my hosting for some time now. While they are not necessarily known for their stellar support, if you know what you are doing you can accomplish a lot with OVH. One of the cheaper options at OVH, if you cannot afford or do not need an entire dedicated server all to yourself, is the OVH VPS SSD. With the lowest tier offering starting at around $4USD a month, they are very affordable to grab one to play around with for a bit. So for the sake of science, I purchased one of the first tier (VPS SSD 1) and gave it a go. This is what followed, a complete re-installation of the OS.
I have personally been using OVH for my hosting for some time now. While they are not necessarily known for their stellar support, if you know what you are doing you can accomplish a lot with OVH. One of the cheaper options at OVH, if you cannot afford or do not need an entire dedicated server all to yourself, is the OVH VPS SSD. With the lowest tier offering starting at around $4USD a month, they are very affordable to grab one to play around with for a bit. So for the sake of science, I purchased one of the first tier (VPS SSD 1) and gave it a go. This is what followed, a complete re-installation of the OS.
'''DISCLAIMER:''' Despite being a decent host, they have some very '''very''' bad practices for default OS installs (for example putting their own SSH keys into the root accounts {{mono|authorized_keys}}). And well, call me paranoid, but I don't trust an OS that I did not install.
{{Note|You can find a detailed comparison of a few VPS providers including OVH [//github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison here]}}
{{Note|You can find a detailed comparison of a few VPS providers including OVH [//github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison here]}}
== {{Icon|notebook}} OVH VPS Terms & Conditions ==
== {{Icon|notebook}} OVH VPS Terms & Conditions ==
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* '''Ordered''': Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:37 PM
* '''Ordered''': Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:37 PM
* '''Received''': Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:48 PM
* '''Received''': Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:48 PM
== {{Icon|notebook}} VPS Information ==
Before I scrapped their installation of Arch Linux I took a look around at the VPS installation a bit.
{{Console|1=dmidecode -s system-product-name && dmidecode -s chassis-manufacturer}}<br/>
{{Console|1=OpenStack Nova|2=QEMU|prompt=false}}
This was a nice surprise, good on them for using OpenStack.
{{Console|1=uname -a}}<br/>
{{Console|1=Linux XXX.vps.ovh.ca 4.11.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 5 18:23:08 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux|prompt=false}}
Doesn't get any more current than that for an Arch install as that is the current kernel as of writing this.
{{Console|1=cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg {{!}} grep vmlinuz}}<br/>
{{Console|1=linux/boot/vmlinuz-linux root{{=}}UUID{{=}}52d0c25c-2e4e-473b-81eb-56b46711a793 rw  console{{=}}tty0 console{{=}}ttyS0,115200 quiet|prompt=false}}
Looks like extra entries to the kernel options on boot, if I had to guess I would say it is probably for the included KVM support. Making a note of this for later.
{{Console|1=cat /etc/systemd/network/eth0-dhcp.network}}<br/>
{{Console|1={{MagentaBold|[Match]}}<br/>{{Magenta|Name{{=}}}}eth0<br/><br/>{{MagentaBold|[Network]}}<br/>{{Magenta|DHCP{{=}}}}yes<br/><br/>{{MagentaBold|[DHCP]}}<br/>{{Magenta|UseMTU{{=}}}}true|prompt=false}}
This is a nice change from the sometimes complicated network configuration of my dedicated. Nice and simple.
For pure curiosity I took a look at how far away I was in the datacenter from my dedicated server.
{{Console|1=ping dark.kyau.net}}<br/>
{{Console|1=PING dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167) 56(84) bytes of data.<br/>64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq{{=}}1 ttl{{=}}58 time{{=}}0.490 ms<br/>64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq{{=}}2 ttl{{=}}58 time{{=}}0.668 ms<br/>64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq{{=}}3 ttl{{=}}58 time{{=}}0.700 ms<br/>64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq{{=}}4 ttl{{=}}58 time{{=}}0.658 ms<br/>--- dark.kyau.net ping statistics ---<br/>4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3032ms<br/>rtt min/avg/max/mdev {{=}} 0.490/0.629/0.700/0.081 ms|prompt=false}}


= {{Icon24|sitemap}} Rescue Mode =
= {{Icon24|sitemap}} Rescue Mode =

Revision as of 18:18, 24 July 2017

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Icon Introduction

I have personally been using OVH for my hosting for some time now. While they are not necessarily known for their stellar support, if you know what you are doing you can accomplish a lot with OVH. One of the cheaper options at OVH, if you cannot afford or do not need an entire dedicated server all to yourself, is the OVH VPS SSD. With the lowest tier offering starting at around $4USD a month, they are very affordable to grab one to play around with for a bit. So for the sake of science, I purchased one of the first tier (VPS SSD 1) and gave it a go. This is what followed, a complete re-installation of the OS.

IconYou can find a detailed comparison of a few VPS providers including OVH here

Icon OVH VPS Terms & Conditions

After looking through their terms and conditions for the VPS only two things jump out at me in particular.

"OVH reserves the right to limit, filter, suspend or restrict features and protocols (such as IRC or peer to peer file sharing) of the Virtual Private Server to ensure the security of their infrastructure."

This doesn't seem too bad. From the sound of it, if you cripple their network running IRC or p2p based things they reserve the right to firewall you. I can understand that, not like you want to attract script kiddies and DDoS.

"OVH will guarantee a bandwidth of up to 100 Mbps (one hundred megabits per second) as long as the traffic of the bandwidth does not exceed the pre-defined set monthly volume of 10TB (ten terabytes). This monthly volume includes both internal OVH traffic and traffic outside of the OVH network. When the monthly traffic volume exceeds the set monthly volume, the bandwidth of the Virtual Private Server will be limited to 1 Mbps until the next monthly renewal date."

If the monthly transfer limit was not so high I would say this would be a serious deal-breaker. However, given most months I have a hard time hitting even 1TB on my dedicated server I have from them, I do not think this is as serious as it looks unless your planning to run some seriously bandwidth intense tasks.

Icon Setup Time

Setup time for the VPS was not bad but not amazing either. I would say about average for OVH (don't let their 120s activate images on the website fool you).

  • Ordered: Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:37 PM
  • Received: Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:48 PM

Icon VPS Information

Before I scrapped their installation of Arch Linux I took a look around at the VPS installation a bit.

# dmidecode -s system-product-name && dmidecode -s chassis-manufacturer


OpenStack Nova
QEMU

This was a nice surprise, good on them for using OpenStack.

# uname -a


Linux XXX.vps.ovh.ca 4.11.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 5 18:23:08 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Doesn't get any more current than that for an Arch install as that is the current kernel as of writing this.

# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep vmlinuz


linux/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=52d0c25c-2e4e-473b-81eb-56b46711a793 rw console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 quiet

Looks like extra entries to the kernel options on boot, if I had to guess I would say it is probably for the included KVM support. Making a note of this for later.

# cat /etc/systemd/network/eth0-dhcp.network


[Match]
Name=eth0

[Network]
DHCP=yes

[DHCP]
UseMTU=true

This is a nice change from the sometimes complicated network configuration of my dedicated. Nice and simple.

For pure curiosity I took a look at how far away I was in the datacenter from my dedicated server.

# ping dark.kyau.net


PING dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=0.490 ms
64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=0.668 ms
64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=0.700 ms
64 bytes from dark.kyau.net (198.245.62.167): icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=0.658 ms
--- dark.kyau.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3032ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.490/0.629/0.700/0.081 ms

Icon Rescue Mode

First in order to install Arch Linux from scratch we need to get the VPS netbooted into the OVH Rescue Mode.

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