We don’t sell/rent dedicated servers, so I will share my true opinion according to my 12 years of experience: The price isn’t related to the quality.
OVH Offers you a $81 dedicated server with truly unlimited 1 Gbps, so OVH is scam as well? We have been dealing with many data centers overs the past 12 years and the expensive ones are mostly the scammers. We tried a Romanian data center who gave us a server that cost 345 EUR and decreased the port from 1 Gbps into 100 Mbps after 3 days saying we’re not allowed to use the “True Unlimited 1 Gbps all over the day”, while we never faced such problems with $81-$200 servers.
We have more than 390 server and they’re all working properly and our decisions are being taken according to the 12 years of experience we have so when I recommended something I am pretty sure it’s not scam. Or otherwise OVH and Online.net are the biggest scammers considering they’re the cheapest. And JFYI, Leaseweb; which is one of the most expensive providers, are the biggest scammers, so how is it possible you consider the server price to decide if it’s scam or not?
So youre just Reselling? Thats what i expected as You dont seem very experienced to run your own Network i see.
Yes it says 1Gbps Unmetered on OVH page. But they also shape Ports after time at 250mbits unlike you pay extra.
Did you ever have a client really needing 1Gbps 24x7? Or 10Gbit? I guess no.
Lets say you are a big company and you have a 100G Port from Cogent for 8500€ a month (+ Transport Costs, which are not included in that.). The more you take the cheaper you get.
Then you may come down to 200/250€ already for the 1G Bandwidth Unmetered alone WITHOUT Making a cent profit. Wheres the money for the server? Well, i guess thats a loss selling this kind of server at 150€/m with truly unmetered unshared.
OVH already has very long ROI (=Return of investment) for their hardware with their cheap prices but 81€ /m with true unmetered, no thats not possible. Not even for them.
Im selling Unmetered fair use too on my Website but guess what, for that one i Shape/rate limit aswell.
The average client uses less then 10TB BW, did you know that? Some are above that , some are well under that. Thats how a provider (that runs a own network obviously) can offer that. So does OVH.
However its ALWAYS shaped/rate-limit at any provider when they see you permanently use that 24x7. Because it would be a LOSS for them.
Most wont admit it though but i say the TRUTH here.
The price i posted above is for UNSHARED, truly unmetered 1Gbit, you can use that 24x7 without getting cut down to 250mbit or something.
NO its not possible at 150€, anyone who believe that is just stupid.
PS: Cogent quotes me transit 10G for 1600€ and 100G for 8500€. For transport costs we have 1000€ for 10G. Cogent is already one of the cheapest.
My offer comes to the truth, i dont lie - neither do i want to ripoff anyone. I myself located in the Cellnex (old KPN) tower in Netherlands pays 125€ for Transport of 1GB + Bandwidth from HE. Thats how we calculate the price above.