New VPS plans from OVH

 

I'm an OVH client for years since I was put in front of a DDoS attack and the local providers were unable to manage it.

 

Yesterday I was browsing their website and I saw that my VPS options are no more. Instead it was a complete new offer. So, I sent them a message and the reply was:

 

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Customer Support.

Our new VPS product catalog was just launched today. We no longer have SSD or Cloud. We have a new offer which is updated to the current market interests/needs.

Please use the following link for more information on our ranges: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/vps/compare/

I ordered a VPS Comfort (4vCore 8GB RAM) because one of my VPS has the same configuration except the storage part (100GB vs 160GB NVME) and the connection speed (100Mbps vs 1Gbps). It took them around 1 hour to provision the VPS and after that I was able to do some tests:

 

	VPS vps2020-comfort-4-8-160	VPS 2016 Cloud 3	VPS 2016 SSD 3
configuration	4vCore-8G-160GB NVME	4vCore-8G-100GB	2vCore-8GB-80GB
virtualization	KVM	KVM	KVM
OS	Ubuntu 18.04	Ubuntu 16.04	Ubuntu 16.04
PHP performance script	1.21 sec PHP 7.2.24 FPM*	1.15 sec PHP 7.0.4 FPM*	1.62 sec PHP 7.0.4 FPM*
** upload speed	652Mbps	62Mbps	94Mbps
** download speed	633Mbps	94Mbps	98Mbps
price (EUR w/o VAT)	20	31	13

* average values
** using default options speedtest-cli

 

Even if initially I thought that this is a Cloud VPS rebranding, as soon as I tested with dd I saw some pretty unexpected results:

 

VPS vps2020-comfort-4-8-160

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.img bs=8k count=10k oflag=dsync
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
83886080 bytes (84 MB, 80 MiB) copied, 8.19431 s, 10.2 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.70499 s, 630 MB/s

 

VPS 2016 Cloud 3

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.img bs=8k count=10k oflag=dsync
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
83886080 bytes (84 MB, 80 MiB) copied, 57.1326 s, 1.5 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 6.18912 s, 173 MB/s

 

VPS 2016 SSD 3

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.img bs=8k count=10k oflag=dsync
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
83886080 bytes (84 MB, 80 MiB) copied, 15.5695 s, 5.4 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 3.89382 s, 276 MB/s

 

The 1Gbps connection is useful even if during normal use I wasn't able to saturate it. It only goes full when I run the external back-ups.

 

OVH brings an update of their VPS plans with a very competitive price which can bring up to 35% savings for the same vCore and RAM setup.