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Re: OVH pricing at Montreal datacenter is... insane?

The advantage we have in Canada is that infringement has to be at the very least clearly demonstrated before anything can be taken down.

Isohunt however is in a very grey area since, while they don't host the files listed in the Torrents, they do make it very easy for someone to retrieve these files by making available the torrent file itself, or in the case of The Pirate Bay, a magnet link.

Then again, so does Google. For example, Google "Skyfall Torrent", and many Torrent links show up, the first one being...

Isohunt.
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Except boingboing.net is a .net address, which is managed by Verisign, which is a US company. That puts all of boingboing under US jurisdiction, inasmuch as a DMCA takedown to Verisign can get boingboing.net suspended.

They could move to a different domain, but this is just an example of how you can't really escape the US' grasp quite so simply.
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Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org

if this, if that, when it's this, when it's that..

Listen anyone can go after your domain instead of your site and where it's being served from. That even happened to Jon Newton over at p2pnet.net w/ godaddy during his lawsuit and when someone tried to take over his domain on BS.

There are possibilities for everything.

Teksavvy could go after you for libel and/or defamation and do the same thing to you here, instead of using a DMCA.

DMCA, in Canada, is the least of your worries.

Best not to have anything online if everything scares you away.

Looks like it's launched. Their English sites now have all the packages:

»www.ovh.com/ca/en/dedicated-servers/
»www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/

Also they're having an "end of the world" sale, 50% of the first month.
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Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org

I still can't get over those prices for the amount of base hardware in those systems. Their base amount of RAM and HDD space is well above the industry standard. Only specials/sales from other competitor get you into the same ballpark.

If anyone hasn't bought a server from OVH yet right now is looking like a good time to try it out.

They have a 50% off deal for the first month.

»www.ovh.com/us/apocalypse-deal/

Do we still have to provide proof of address?

Hehe : OVH cannot be held responsible if the end of the world be posponed.

Good one!

Good offer as well, leaves time for migration at reasonable cost.

In regards to the ssh public key that the admins use to get into the machine in times of support, I suppose the answer is to move the file elsewhere, and move it back when you need their support? Any other ways?

BTW, just got a promo email from them for Kimsufi servers in Beauharnois. 119 Euros per year (just cost me 157.35 CAD) for intel Atom 1.8ghz, 4gb ram, 2tb storage, 100mbps/5tb transfer per month (unmeterred after 5tb, speed is throttled to 10mbps). That's 13.11$/month for a VPS!!

»www.kimsufi.com/fr/bons_plans/index.xml

That's not a VPS. It's a dedicated server.

Are these prices USD or CAN?

If you order from ovh.com/ca/en (or ovh.com/ca/fr) then CAD, if you order from ovh.com/us, then it's USD.

Actually, I was looking on that website and nowhere I could find the Aton D425 base kimsufi server. Looks like it's only on their european website. On top of the 119 Euros/year offer, I wasn't charged any sales taxes..

ovh.ie does have an Atom D425 model with lower specs than the special-offer, but it's not available at BHS.

ovh.ca (or the US one) do not have any KS models that low (starts at an i3).

The special offer (with the Atom D425) is available at the BHS datacenter, but only from the France site.

OVH's pricing is great, but their offerings are a huge mess. It doesn't make sense that they have so many different websites that have different offers. The cheapest deal in the Canadian datacenter is only available on the France site, for example.

OVH should have one single website globally, where you select your country (for currency/language), with ALL offers available on the one site, dependent only on datacenter availability...
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Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org

Nevermind when your on ovh.ie, and the manager is in french even though you set it to english (witch actually doesnt work)

also at .ie because the atom ks boxes arent available

Agreed. They could learn a thing or two from SoftLayer here. A first time visitor to their websites I left more confused than before I went to them. I don't believe that is the object of an website trying to sell your a service.

I'm seeing terrible performance sending data from OVH to TSI at peak time. There's nothing too strange in the traceroute/mtr and I've opened a ticket with OVH and they started to look into it. I'm still trying to get the issue escalated at TSI but so far it's been stuck in first level support for a few days while they try and confirm it.

And by terrible, i mean 3-5Mbit/sec, off-peak it seems to be fine. It's also pretty much amazing to all my other users/customers off different ISPs (Rogers, Comcast, Start). For TSI/OVH the path is going through TorIX.

OVH peers directly at Torix, and they have a weather map here:
»weathermap.ovh.net/usa

That may help you decide where the bottleneck is.

TSI has been having performance issues at peak time in general, are you sure this is related to OVH rather than a TSI problem?

The issue at last report was that Bell was traffic-limiting TSI's AHSSPI links, causing them to become congested.

EDIT: OVH does seem to have congestion on some links, though. They've overloaded their Newark to Ashburn link, and their Palo Alto to KDDI link.
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Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org

being that I don't manage OVH or TSI's network, I have no real idea where the issue is. It's why I've escalated the issue to OVH and am trying to escalate it to TSI.

And ya, the weathermap doesn't show saturation at all.

You can get this at BHS

»www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kim···tion.xml

That's still a european site, so doesn't really change much... It's still the situation of a sale at the North American datacenter that is only available on the European sites...
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Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org