OVH Dedicated/VPS Custom Installation

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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 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 authorized_keys). And well, call me paranoid, but I don't trust an OS that I did not install.