OVH may not be as well-known as some of its more consumer-oriented competitors, but don’t be fooled. It’s one of the largest web hosting companies in the world, with more than a million customers and 20 data centres – this outfit even builds and maintains its own servers and network.
The company feels different from the moment you hit the website. What you see first isn’t the latest low-cost deal, or a stock photo of a happy smiling customer – it’s a picture of a Xeon E6 processor and a caption explaining how this Intel beast will speed up your server. There’s so little marketing that it took us a moment to scan the site and find the hosting plans.
This quiet approach is surprising, because OVH has some real value to boast about. The bottom-of-the-range Personal plan is priced from £1.69 ($2.10) a month excluding VAT, and with no billing catches. You don’t have to sign up for three years, and the price doesn’t triple after that – it’s just the standard cost of a one-year plan.
Unsurprisingly, the product has some limits. Notably, you get just one SQL database, with a 200MB size limit and a maximum of 30 simultaneous …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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