OVH Starter Virtual Private Server - £0.81/Month (No contract required) @ OVHCloud

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1 vCore
2 gigs of ram
20 gigs of ssd storage
100 Mbit/s

VAT added at checkout (20%)

Locations available all over the world including London. Can be billed monthly, quarterly or yearly. You can cancel at any time. Only valid for new customers for the first 12 months.

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Edited by Enmatt, 25 April 2023

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Solee
25th Apr
81p a month for a VPS.. I don't even need one but at this price I think it's rude not too.
Enmatt Author
25th Apr
My thought exactly
Rakesh_Bollampally
26th Apr
For anyone here with AWS knowledge, (one) t4g.small is free until Dec 2023. I'm running one at $0.02 (for storage) per day. FYI, t4gs are ARM not x86

Do they publish their POPs anywhere? I need to run a VPN server in India (edited)
Rakesh_Bollampally
26th Apr
Never mind... found the locations while trying to create one. Only locations in AP are Singapore and Australia.

Anyway, good deal for what it's worth
eldaras
26th Apr
A few free options:
- AWS has a 1 year free tier that allows to run a small instance - aws.amazon.com/free/
- MS Azure is similar to AWS (1 year free) azure.microsoft.com/en-…es/
- GCP: similar as AWS, but it remains free after 1 year - cloud.google.com/free
- Oracle Cloud: By far the best free offering at the moment (with no expiry) - oracle.com/clo…ee/
-- 2 AMD compute instances (1vcpu and 1GB ram each) and up to 4 arm vcpus and 24gb of RAM, 10TB of outbound data

The drawback of Oracle Cloud is that if they terminate accounts with running instances which are idle most of the time (so it's important to have a good backup strategy!) (edited)
LoveTV
27th Apr
Does oracle have a VPS compute like this thread offers? I would like to create my free openvpn, I did it awhile back using OVH which wasn't too bad for a VPN that I could control. 👌
Smithers37
26th Apr
Incredible deal OP. That’s a good spec at a low price. I bought 2. There’s a max of 10 per customer. Not a great choice of images but that’s ok.
OliverDickins
27th Apr
You can install a lot of other distributions btw, if you boot it to recovery mode and use Qemu. I used to run VyOS on these to tail back a load of cheap public IP's to my home server running in my house. (edited)
mailboxmessage
26th Apr
How do you rate OHV services and offers in general?

Asking for a non-techno floppy-disk user, interested in the stockmarket.
Enmatt Author
26th Apr
OVH are very reliable and competitively priced. Only bad thing I can think of is that they had a data centre burn down a few years back.
pgodlewa
26th Apr
I got one few weeks back and mainly use it as a wireguard VPN server to stream HBO Max. It works quite well - miles better than any cheap lowendbox provider.
FairyDave
26th Apr
That sounds amazing, do you have any guides you can share to get this working?
ShamblesX
25th Apr
+VAT
Enmatt Author
25th Apr
Thanks, I’ll update it. Still a bargain.
Szabster
26th Apr
Why not just get an oracle always free tier? Comparable specs
bigpappa
26th Apr
Link thanks.
Lee_Bolding
27th Apr
Just signed up for 10 of these, which is around £10/month

I use them for isolated pre-production environments for developing/testing web apps - much better value than DigitalOcean Droplets - or even App Platform, for the same purpose

I only need to cancel 2 droplets to make this worthwhile - and I get 10 more powerful environments as a result

What’s not to like here?
DealHunterHaHa
26th Apr
Is this product plant based?
pawciog
25th Apr
Wonder if will be powerful enough to run a freepbx on it just to try it..
Noeldude
25th Apr
Anyone got an idea of what to use this for?
petermartin99
25th Apr
Plex server? Connect it to onedrive using rclone and it will work fine with an amazon firestick/google chrome tv. It will struggle to transcode, but you shouldn't need transcoding with the firestick/google
Gavin01
26th Apr
Doesn't say about a data limit ? And most server providers block plex....

But yeah I don't need one either but I'll try it. (edited)
petermartin99
26th Apr
I've just set plex up on mine and it works fine. Just have to forward port 32400 in iptables.
Josu
26th Apr
Any traffic limits ? Want to run wireguard on it
nutley
26th Apr
Anyone know how this compares to something like Oracles free tier?
shALKE
26th Apr
Oracle you get 1GB and 1vCore
bigpappa
26th Apr
What's good long term IE not cheap introductory pricing then increasing it and for email for your own domain?
bigpappa
26th Apr
Very low usage requirements, only static page and about 20-30 emails a year.
i8thepie
26th Apr
Could you use skystream pucks multi room in different locations with this if you connected both pucks to the VPS? Somehow.
nade-
26th Apr
Might be a stretch, but are there anything with min 2 core spec for WooCommerce sites?
Gh00st
26th Apr
Fantastic offer but no option to choose Windows for the obvious reasons
LinaBell
26th Apr
difficult to run windows for this specification.
HazzerPB
26th Apr
77% off for first 12 months, then goes back to rrp
Enmatt Author
26th Apr
As stated in the description
iNSPECTA
26th Apr
So, as a newbie to this kind of thing... How would I be best to set this up? Can it be changed later, does it really matter?

It's not something I've played with before but the kind of thing I like to learn about.

TIA
Smithers37
26th Apr
What is it you’re trying to achieve? Difficult to suggest anything without knowing that first. But if it helps, you would set this up and choose an image (e.g Debian). You would then access it via SSH (use Putty or command prompt / terminal).
Gavin01
26th Apr
could also use it as cheap ftp or seedbox
DealHunterHaHa
26th Apr
maybe a random number generator
Gavin01
26th Apr
anyway to connect via a gui rather than telnet etc,,,,

im not that good,

i can connect commanyt line with putty but cant use vnc viewer (edited)
Gavin01
26th Apr
How to Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 20.04 | DigitalOcean

ive been following that guide but i have a feelingfwhere it keeps saying local host i should be putting some thing else,.
jay.williams
26th Apr
Is it possible to get 4gb memory for £1.62 instead?
lordfakeclothes
27th Apr
Might be worthwhile to run this for a plex media server with a gdrive mounted via rclone
gdl
27th Apr
Interesting. I've got a VPS on Cloudways (Vultr) hosting a wordpress site, could these replace this for me? It costs a lot more but is a managed platform, I'm not especially techie.
OliverDickins
27th Apr
I used Vultr personally because they looked after their IP space from mail spam. So you can email their support to have them open up TCP/25 outbound for you.

However, OVH, not such luck. All ports are open outbound by default and they do nothing to protect people from abusing their IP space, so they always appear on blacklists by ASN number - so the whole space is usually blocked by spam filters.

With that in mind, I've always found OVH to be reliable (albeit that fire they had which did affect my stuff), so as long as you don't want to send emails from the thing - you'll be good.
CFC2011
27th Apr
That's cracking value, one of the best deals I've seen from a reputable company. My friend was with OVH before and mentioned they asked for ID when setting up an account, is that still a thing?

I've tempted to give them a try, I've been with DO and Linode for a while - but this offer is a lot more competitive.
Enmatt Author
27th Apr
Didn’t ask me for ID. I know some providers ask for ID if the customer orders a lot of dedicated servers with a high value in case you don’t pay.
David_Private
28th Apr
No doubt thaley will whack the prices up after a while
Gavin01
30th Apr
anyone managed to get gui working so you can vpn in? for us no techie windows users?
Gavin01
6th May
no one got a gui to work?
Enmatt Author
6th May
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