Review: OVH Minicloud

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Posted by WWS2010, 06-27-2011, 11:22 AM
Recently i played around with OVH's minicloud. Have to say that i'm impressed! The OVH clouds are on prepaid basis, this means you have to buy €10 cloud credit. After that you will get access to the cloud manager where you can create cloud servers. These things aren't very flexible hardware wise; You always get 8GHZ shared CPU and 5GB disk space. The only variable thing is the RAM which can scale from 256MB to 2084MB. What is flexible is the OS choice; Debian 5.0 64 bits Debian 5.0 32 bits Java OVH Framework Ruby OVH Framework Ubuntu server 9.10 64 bits CentOS Release 5.4 (final) Ubuntu server 10.04 Ubuntu server 10.04 Jboss Ubuntu server 10.04 Glassfish Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 with X2go MySQL Server PPT Server FreeBSD 8.3 (beta) These are all setup with a couple of clicks. I like the MySQL and PPT clouds. These are a sort of 'managed' clouds. You can configure them from your cloud manager, very easy. Besides these 2 i installed a CentOS cloud. It was ready within minutes and ready to go. Did i mention these things are super cheap? €0.01 per hour for the 256MB server. Thats right; 1 cent per hour. And when you pause them, you don't pay anything. You can create a maximum of 99 cloud servers. The performance is good. I was able to download with 5.75 MB/s. CPUinfo showed 4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz cpu's that make the 8GHZ promised shared CPU. <> A nice and good working product from OVH. Very handy when testing or developing. Or as mini MySQL of PPT server when you are in need for VPN. What else can i say? Got 10 euro left? Buy some cloud credit from OVH and see for yourself Last edited by WWS2010; 06-27-2011 at 11:25 AM.
Posted by dotHostel, 06-27-2011, 12:01 PM
Thanks for the review. I would like to see the benchmark results and disk I/O throughput. /subscribed Last edited by dotHostel; 06-27-2011 at 12:05 PM.
Posted by WWS2010, 06-27-2011, 12:20 PM
Can't seem to edit the OP. The results are below. This is tested on the 256MB RAM cloud.
Posted by dotHostel, 06-27-2011, 12:27 PM
Please what benchmark version are you running?
Posted by WWS2010, 06-27-2011, 12:34 PM
The one listed in http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=924581
Posted by dotHostel, 06-27-2011, 12:37 PM
Thanks. The performance seems it is not that good.
Posted by WWS2010, 06-27-2011, 03:53 PM
True. But i didn't expect the performance to be top notch for 1 cent per hour When working on the terminal, the cloud responded quickly to commands so i find it acceptable.
Posted by dotHostel, 06-27-2011, 04:12 PM
1 cent per hour => ~ $10+ USD / month for a 5GB HD 256MB RAM VPS. I think it is not expensive but not cheap either. At this price point is not hard to find VPS with better specs and performance. Last edited by dotHostel; 06-27-2011 at 04:15 PM.
Posted by Techy, 06-27-2011, 04:42 PM
unmanaged of course...managed you'd have to up the budget.
Posted by Thelen, 06-27-2011, 08:46 PM
For a service that is (infinitely) scalable *and* cloud based? Go check what vps.net and co charge for cloud servers...
Posted by dotHostel, 06-27-2011, 08:59 PM
Did you read the OP post?
Posted by MikeTrike, 06-27-2011, 09:04 PM
He did not say 1 cent per hour, he said €0.01 (euro). € 0.01 = 0.01428 U.S. dollars 10 US dollars = 7.0028 euros 30 days: 30 x €0.01 = roughly €7.20 euro (7.20 euros = 10.2816 US dollars). So $10/mo is a pretty spot on estimate. If you average it out over the course of a year it's closer to $10.42~ per month. But that's assuming that exchange rates never change. EDIT: Scratch that, he did mention 1 cent. But still if it's euro my point stands.
Posted by Thelen, 06-27-2011, 09:10 PM
Yes? I don't understand your question
Posted by MikeTrike, 06-27-2011, 09:39 PM
That needs to be converted to USD from Euro still.
Posted by Soroush, 06-29-2011, 06:04 AM
What about bandwidth charges?
Posted by dotHostel, 06-29-2011, 06:18 AM
Bandwidth is unmetered.
Posted by boskone, 06-29-2011, 06:42 AM
0.01 / 1c per hour is kinda typical now for a 256MB cloud machine... (even a decent one)
Posted by WWS2010, 07-07-2011, 08:12 AM
To clear things up, it is in euro yes! I havent found a provider that doesn't charge you at all (not even a storage fee) when your server is powered off. Typically i only need my cloud for a couple of hours a day (lets say max 5 hours) which makes it 0.05 / day. That is the most important thing why i use these OVH clouds, when not needed... it doesn't cost anything.

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