[rickyday]

21824777 - Your order was paid on 04/08/2013 a 18:26:38
Any news about that?

I definitely need my server from 01/10/2013...

End of September is the latest update.

Only a few days to go! (hopefully)

[Torque]

21824777 - Your order was paid on 04/08/2013 a 18:26:38
Any news about that?

I definitely need my server from 01/10/2013...

[pcoventry]

Enjoy your posting rights suspension tomorrow when the UK staff is online.

Lol says you with banned under your name. I never got one. You clearly did

[pcoventry]

Ignore pcoventry......He is just piping up because his other brother, RapidsSeeds, trolled today........ Welcome to the world of The Chuckle Brothers!! To me, to you, to me, to you.

Sorry I missed this.. Made me laugh.

[pcoventry]

There is talk of it going to £22.50 but not sure if that's correct.

[Vmlweb]

Is the PRO option still rising to £30?

[pcoventry]

I've just had my 4G delivered and the invoice I got was for the £10.79 I paid. Just to let you know

[Andy]

The server will always be the same price, unless Oles updates the agreement for such things as DDoS protection.

[Myatu]

Will the £2.50 ex VAT 2G's renew at the old price or new?

New site is a little ugly.

+1 x 2

P.S.: Detailed page for KS 2G and 4G shows it comes with VT Virtualisation. Oink, oink.

[Kacotet]

Will the £2.50 ex VAT 2G's renew at the old price or new?

New site is a little ugly.

[Andy]

Who could have known that price wouldn't stay forever?

[pcoventry]

£4.01 now - this should have the title changed

[Andy]

Ignore pcoventry......He is just piping up because his other brother, RapidsSeeds, trolled today........ Welcome to the world of The Chuckle Brothers!! To me, to you, to me, to you.

Genuinely lol'd!

[LawsHosting]

Ignore pcoventry......He is just piping up because his other brother, RapidsSeeds, trolled today........ Welcome to the world of The Chuckle Brothers!! To me, to you, to me, to you.

[AndrewNylon]

a ratarded child who has to quote his CPU number like his willy is small.

and probably is

Enjoy your posting rights suspension tomorrow when the UK staff is online.

[Jasgriff]

a ratarded child who has to quote his CPU number like his willy is small.

and probably is

That's interesting as his spelling and grammar are better than yours.

[pcoventry]

a ratarded child who has to quote his CPU number like his willy is small.

and probably is

[Jasgriff]

Lol and nice one

Thanks for letting us know

[rickyday]

Patiently waited for mine, thank you very much

Congratulations! Enjoy it!

Thank you for not moaning like a little child!
Thank you for acting like a grown up!

[Jedi]

Patiently waited for mine, thank you very much

root@patientlywaitedwithoutmoaning:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz

[J@mes]

I did the same.

But instead of the refund I got a server.

I got a refund on my PayPal and the server I paid for with my card the minute I heard about the PayPal issue, didn't explain well haha

[rickyday]

I know id like to order 3 sometime this year hopefully

[imagineers]

I ordered on my card the minute they said they canceled all paypal orders thankfully got my server within three days, got a refund soon after from paypal anyway, I guess i was the lucky one

I did the same.

But instead of the refund I got a server.

[J@mes]

I ordered on my card the minute they said they canceled all paypal orders thankfully got my server within three days, got a refund soon after from paypal anyway, I guess i was the lucky one

[benjamin]

Did anybody else get a "payment cancelled" "payment could not be validated" and never got a refund? Edit: Turns out it did get refunded but PayPal didn't bother to send me an email saying that.

Same happened to me. I believe it's because the payment never left "pending" status and therefore wasn't "refunded", it was just refused by them.

[Arran]

Did anybody else get a "payment cancelled" "payment could not be validated" and never got a refund? Edit: Turns out it did get refunded but PayPal didn't bother to send me an email saying that.

[rickyday]

ehehe sorry I mean 26 of july and 30 of july

I was getting ready to call you Marty McFly!

[rickyday]

Order Number: 21534469
Date: 31-07-2013 12:30:36

still waiting

All good things come to those who wait.

If its any consolation you are not alone

[nickb]

Order Number: 21534469
Date: 31-07-2013 12:30:36

still waiting

[Mike08]

Are you from back to the future?

ehehe sorry I mean 26 of july and 30 of july

[LawsHosting]

Wow, people still waiting for servers! My PSU blew on PC last Tuesday, and just got it replaced this evening, thought I'd check here, and thought the backlog would be clear by now!

[Jasgriff]

Lol its possible that he is referring to the 2012 Kimi range?

[rickyday]

I order my server in the 26Oct at 00:30 and they gave it to my today, after 19 days,
In the time that I order the server it was 1 to 72hours setup time, and next day they change to 1 to 10 days, anyway they took double of the time, that is very bad for a big company like ovh. And the ridicules thing, was few friends that order in the 30 of OcT they did get it before me.
But in the end I got it.
Hope you all get the servers quick.

Mike

Are you from back to the future?

[Mike08]

I order my server in the 26Oct at 00:30 and they gave it to my today, after 19 days,
In the time that I order the server it was 1 to 72hours setup time, and next day they change to 1 to 10 days, anyway they took double of the time, that is very bad for a big company like ovh. And the ridicules thing, was few friends that order in the 30 of OcT they did get it before me.
But in the end I got it.
Hope you all get the servers quick.

Mike

[Torque]

Hi Torque,

Welcome to the forum....



There is the latest on the servers.

Thanks, actually this is something I would like to know before order or few days after.
Now, it's clear for me.
5 weeks is way too long, but still I just want to test that server, its only 3 quids, I don't complain about dates anymore.

[Jasgriff]

Hi Torque,

Welcome to the forum....

All we can say so far:

- We had 15 000 orders for Kimsufi servers in the first 10 days of the new offer

- These orders will be delivered from now on within 5 weeks, we don't know where your order number is in the queue, so I'm afraid we cannot give any ETA

- We stopped taking new orders for the KS 2G, because we have not enough CPU. We are waiting for a confirmation from Intel about delivery time. When it's confirmed orders will be available again

If you can't wait up to 5 weeks and want your order to be cancelled, please send an email to customersupport@ovh.co.uk with your order number

There is the latest on the servers.

[Torque]

Nice.
I wanted to ask for status of my order:
21824777 - Your order was paid on 04/08/2013 a 18:26:38

... but I've just noticed that people are waiting from previous month oO.

I've called OVH 05/08/2013 about ETA and realized that it can take up to 10 days, but why OVH did not said that there is such a big late and give ETA like one month or so?

[rickyday]

Ill take 3 of these!

Oh perhaps not ;/

Is it end of Sept OVH will allow more orders for the 2G?

[roger198]

CC21477705 this is mine and still not done yet so we are all waiting but from what I have been told it could still be weeks fella
Cheers

Can you please check the status of order number below


CC21478985 2013-07-26 11:40:04

As you can see this was ordered on the 26th and I still haven't got it.

Many thanks

Gav

[gbell]

Can you please check the status of order number below


CC21478985 2013-07-26 11:40:04

As you can see this was ordered on the 26th and I still haven't got it.

Many thanks

Gav

[Jasgriff]

This is the reason i got a KS4G, it's cheaper what i've paid for livedrive, and their 10k upload speed is not good for anything, so got a DS to store my data there as a backup

I use Knowhow cloud £90 5 years 1TB but I think its run on Livedrive.

I want to use one of my servers to access my films via xbmc while at home and away. Hopefully this will do the trick.

[szisti]

Well once the rush has gone I might get one. I can get 100GB of drive space on Google for £3.60 a month. But google can look at what you have put there and have been known to use pics in adverts etc

a 500GB DS is much better value to use as an alternative to drive storage! (and it's private!)

This is the reason i got a KS4G, it's cheaper what i've paid for livedrive, and their 10k upload speed is not good for anything, so got a DS to store my data there as a backup

[pcoventry]

Well once the rush has gone I might get one. I can get 100GB of drive space on Google for £3.60 a month. But google can look at what you have put there and have been known to use pics in adverts etc

a 500GB DS is much better value to use as an alternative to drive storage! (and it's private!)

[rickyday]

There better be 3 x Kimi 2G servers available on payday (15th) this month for me, otherwise im never helping any of you greedy biatches again!

lol

[spid3r1987]

ya bunch of greedy sods! ya purchased them all!!!
went to buy one...none left!! DAMN YOU!!!!! :P

[Thelen]

Be patient, the orders will all be filled over the next weeks/month.

[ctype_alnum]

17:21 on day ten, still nothing. I suppose there is still time though right? :P

[szisti]

I waited 8 days to get an email saying "Unfortunately, this payment could not be validated." don't know why considering I use the same payment method for my existing server. Maybe it's because y'all buying too many.

I've ordered an SP and KS over the weekend with the same paypal account
The KS got cancelled, and took them 3 days to email me about it, while the money was back in my account on Monday

But based on what all you wrote .. it will take a while to get the server

[Arran]

I waited 8 days to get an email saying "Unfortunately, this payment could not be validated." don't know why considering I use the same payment method for my existing server. Maybe it's because y'all buying too many.

[JamesH]

Today is day 10 (or 12 if you count since ordering) for me so hoping its going to be later, doubt it though.

Same..

ive ordered x3 Mini SP's and x3 kimsufis aint got any of them so far...

Ordered around 26th/27th

[ctype_alnum]

Today is day 10 (or 12 if you count since ordering) for me so hoping its going to be later, doubt it though.

[JamieKG]

ouch mine was on the 29th i paid for it

order number was in the 2151277X

Ouch indeed mine was 2148467X so I'm hopefully going to get it very soon I wonder how its choose

[ebony]

I paid for mine on the 26th too!

ouch mine was on the 29th i paid for it

order number was in the 2151277X

[gjm]

I paid for mine on the 26th too!

[JamieKG]

i got my 2g today paid for it the end of July.

still waiting on my 16g

I paid for mine on the 26th of July so I hope I get mine soon

[ebony]

i got my 2g today paid for it the end of July.

still waiting on my 16g

[benjamin]

The second order I made, that never got past pending on PayPal was cancelled by OVH. Just sent a ticket off about the order I made on the 26th asking whether to expect the server or not, the payment has been marked as complete for around 9 days and the server actually appears under "orders in progress".

[johnnyf]

I had to cancel mine when I realised you couldnt buy additional fail over IPs on this new range.

Its a shame as the 16Gb would have really suited my needs for virtualisation.

[ctype_alnum]

I ordered mine on the 26

[cartwright118]

My server was delivered today, 06/08 and was ordered 26/07. Should mean many more of you will start getting them

[linuxthefish]

Hmm seems sourgrapes there dude sure you wasnt one of the offenders?

What offenders? I just bought a server using the paypal option, what's wrong with that?

[ebony]

KS 2G are on the site as sold out now and not taken anymore new orders :O

they still taking for the 4g and the 16g

[RikT]

How is it not their fault for rejecting paypal? A chance to pay with card or at least a warning would be nice, time to wait another 30 days...

Hmm seems sourgrapes there dude sure you wasnt one of the offenders?

[linuxthefish]

1. They have rejected all PayPal (not there fault)
2. If you phone they are VERY overloaded because of the overwhelming number of orders they where not anticipating (lucky them, hope they do well)

If you have any worries phone them or post on the forum

How is it not their fault for rejecting paypal? A chance to pay with card or at least a warning would be nice, time to wait another 30 days...

[J@mes]

Is there any updates yet when it will be ready. This is now the 10th day and still no communication what so ever.

1. They have rejected all PayPal (not there fault)
2. If you phone they are VERY overloaded because of the overwhelming number of orders they where not anticipating (lucky them, hope they do well)

If you have any worries phone them or post on the forum

[dodster]

Is there any updates yet when it will be ready. This is now the 10th day and still no communication what so ever.

[ebony]

No, the Contract has been changed to read that you are limited to 3 "Kimi's 2013 style"

~Trap

ya support said this to me in the end a lot better

or though why would i pay 8.99 that i can can get a lot cheaper (but the ip's) they are not worth it in my eyes.

[Trapper]

...got 3 of the old kimsufi's does that mean the new ones i just ordered (to replace the old ones) will stop me getting the new ones...

No, the Contract has been changed to read that you are limited to 3 "Kimi's 2013 style"

~Trap

[ebony]

av got 3 of the old kimsufi's does that mean the new ones i just ordered (to replace the old ones) will stop me getting the new ones. i put the older in but does not show in invoices or Orders in progress.

[roger198]

Whats going on with these orders is beyond me, I ordered 2 of the new ks range servers and also an sp one so far I have an sp and new ks waiting to go through, the other ks one they have returned the money back to my card ,,or is the problem as ovh have not said yes to taking the money as 6 days is too long !!.
They emailed me yesterday to say it was all ok and just waiting for the servers to come in. the out EU would not come into it as i am in UK and my other 3 ks servers are the old range so not affected. would it not be better to just change the price etc of our current servers to the new ones ie- ks2 and ks i5 16 gig and just let us keep the ips we have already and bring the new rules in as it seems stupid to have to reload everything when the old range is virtually the same, as most of us just want some new ks.s as beta testers and upgrade to a sp so we can add ips etc etc also would be better for ovh too with all the new orders, ok some old basic ks ones may be better or worse than the the new 2.49 jobs but it swings and roundabouts for the basic ks2 range.

Regards

[rutoro]

In that case, if they only allow KS for EU, they could've check the country IP upon ordering, therefore display a message. I know many use VPNs/etc, and GeoTracking isn't foolproof, but I'm sure what I suggested would've lessen the workload.

According to LowEndBox, they added the EU exclusion to the fine print a day after making the packages available (along with a bunch of changes to the cores), etc. I was excited, so I ordered the same day as the announcement. If the change was made, it would have been nice of OVH notified me the reason for canceling, but oh well.

At least I am moving to the UK shortly and can order then.

[LawsHosting]

Today I called OVH regarding the status of my canceled order for a new KS server. I ordered through OVH.IE, since I live in the US.

In that case, if they only allow KS for EU, they could've check the country IP upon ordering, therefore display a message. I know many use VPNs/etc, and GeoTracking isn't foolproof, but I'm sure what I suggested would've lessen the workload.

[rutoro]

Hi all,

Today I called OVH regarding the status of my canceled order for a new KS server. I ordered through OVH.IE, since I live in the US. OVH mentioned that they canceled my order (without notification) because I live outside of the EU and they are not selling new KS servers to those outside the EU. The representative mentioned this may be a temporary thing until the backlog is clear.

Just posting this in case someone wonders why their invoice is canceled

Best,
Zach

[ReidWeb]

Image goes here

It's been showing that since 4:46am on the 25th.

Good luck

My order's been similiar to that since saturday the 27th, it seems they took payment from my bank but i haven't actually got that page you have yet; asked OVH about it and they said

Order Insert Order number here is still in check status and should be processed shortly. Please be aware that deliveries may take up to 10 days.

[raxxeh]

The mSP order is showing completed for the subscription and datacentre, Setup and operating system is "to do".

The KS order shows none of this progress and simply shows "We manually check your payment" at the bottom of the order details with no progress like the MSP.

I'll let you all know once I get them.

It's been showing that since 4:46am on the 25th.

Good luck

[bushybaker]

The mSP order is showing completed for the subscription and datacentre, Setup and operating system is "to do".

The KS order shows none of this progress and simply shows "We manually check your payment" at the bottom of the order details with no progress like the MSP.

I'll let you all know once I get them.

[raxxeh]

I placed an order today for the mSP and that's looking like it will be ready soon.

People are still waiting for their mSP's after ordering on the 25th.

[bushybaker]

Hi, wondering if you can check my order, order no is 21513071 i'm not sure if the payment had a problem or if i'm just in the queue like most people.

order placed 29/07 for the 16G

I placed an order today for the mSP and that's looking like it will be ready soon.

[Mark1978]

Thanks marks.

[marks]

yes, go here and renew for a few days only:

OVH Manager >> Administration >> My invoices >> Align the expiration dates of your services

order will be prorata, you can do it as many times as you need

[elcct]

im in the same boat, my server expires on the 8th and i don't want to renew the server for a whole month...

I think you can choose your server from the panel, then click Invoices, then something like "Align expiration dates", then choose date that suits you for example 15th August, confirm, then select that server and click renew.

[wii89]

My current Kimsufi is up for renewal on the 6th. I don't suppose there's any way to renew that for less than a month? While I wait for the new server?

im in the same boat, my server expires on the 8th and i don't want to renew the server for a whole month...

[Mark1978]

My current Kimsufi is up for renewal on the 6th. I don't suppose there's any way to renew that for less than a month? While I wait for the new server?

[Thelen]

My spies in OVH tell me theres over 10k orders to setup between new KS and mSP lol.

[bloodkil]

They've only just released these servers with these prices in a whole new datacenter in Gravelines, so expect a backlog, i wouldn't be too concerned about it, they told me they hope to have the backlog cleared by the end of the week at the laters

[J@mes]

FBeans i was just on the phone to them, (my server is very late and i need it) and i also asked about the kimsurfi i ordered, all i could get in english was "We're very backlogged"

[FBeans]

When I ordered a new KS16G server, I was expecting it to be ready in 24hours. Now the website shows it will be up to 10 days. Can anyone give me a more accurate estimate of when this new server will be delivered?

My Order number is 21478416 and order date is 26-07-2013 11:07:06

Thanks
Phil

[K.Kode]

Ha Ha!
Yes Oles is sitting there drinking Champagne and eating Caviar he has bought with his 2G order money

Someone gives me salty fish eggs and fizzy wine

[rickyday]

Just imagine what Oles has been spending it on!

Ha Ha!

Yes Oles is sitting there drinking Champagne and eating Caviar he has bought with his 2G order money

[ebony]

WoW! just wow £10 was a great price!

the 16g server you can not change to monthly payments though?

[Neil]

Could you check mine please Neil? Order number is 21486549

I'm sure payment went through but could you just check it to make sure all is ok?

Looks good to me!

[thebennyboy]

Could you check mine please Neil? Order number is 21486549

I'm sure payment went through but could you just check it to make sure all is ok?

[Neil]

Yeah, but the order has been removed from my account and I can't contact support as I don't have a valid service.

Hi

Your order is in a queue and will be delivered later on this week most likely.

[Myatu]

This is a scam, no reply back from support and no payment confirmation even though they have taken the money out of my paypal.

Just imagine what Oles has been spending it on!

[linuxthefish]

Don't be stupid it's not a scam. Standard support runs Monday > Friday.

Oles did say they wouldn't be provisioned until 2 weeks time - approx.

Yeah, but the order has been removed from my account and I can't contact support as I don't have a valid service.

[cartwright118]

This is a scam, no reply back from support and no payment confirmation even though they have taken the money out of my paypal.

Don't be stupid it's not a scam. Standard support runs Monday > Friday.

Oles did say they wouldn't be provisioned until 2 weeks time - approx.

[linuxthefish]

This is a scam, no reply back from support and no payment confirmation even though they have taken the money out of my paypal.

[Thelen]

You're wrong about me being a new customer. I've been with ovh for a year already. I cancelled all of my previous servers but I'm now thinking of ordering these new plans and in case you didn't know, ovh accepts orders from people outside the the EU. Those sites are .com and .ie. My account is verified with them and even had the tax removed on my account since I'm not from the EU.

1yr = new. and yea I know, i was one of the first people to know of ordering from OVH outside of eu, and first to post publicly how to remove VAT :P

[incipient]

pity this wasnt available when the P19s were killed off. Now I have to do another migration.

[Myatu]

ESXi doesn't like to work with NAT, at least not without going through extra steps of creating VMs just for that purpose, which makes it a slow, convoluted system. KVM is much easier to use with NAT (simple iptables rules) and I suspect Xen would be too, though haven't used that in ages. KVM runs on anything that has VT.

But if you just want to run Linux inside the VM, might as well consider OpenVZ or a simple LXC because its lighter on the system. The latter is not 100% production ready, IMO - it has a few things that really should be patched up, but if you can work around them, then its a better alternative to OpenVZ and doesn't require VT or a special kernel (stock kernel). I use LXC on a KS2G.

As for the question about a single VM on a machine: It's good if you want to be able to move the VM to another machine in one fell swoop. Stop it on one, copy the image/rootfs over to the other machine, start it back up. Quicker than restoring from backup, making sure everything's there, etc., etc.

[Tentacruel]

Thanks for the reply, I currently have esxi running but am looking to add one of the new kimsufi servers and they no longer support esxi or ipfailover.

I am trying to configure XenServer but need to get iptables to forward the traffic to the vif's of the guest but am having no luck.

Ahhh Xen and I have a long and arduous relationship. I compiled a xen kernel for my OVH box but could never get it to work properly. If you google about there are a few links about NAT port forwarding with iptables. It might take a while, but it's possible - had it running on a server at home.

So it's confirmed that the new ones don't support ESXi? Guess I'll just switch to the lowest OVH then. Still cheaper and more powerful too.

[Kuro07]

Unfair? Why is it unfair? Is it also unfair your bank account doesn't increase by a thousand dollars a day magically? Is it unfair your grass doesn't cut itself?

Unbelievable.



Yes nat does work, a pain but it works.



Yea it was, clearly you're a new customer. For a while you couldn't even order from some parts of the EU let alone international.



It won't matter what site you order from if your address is not in the EU.

I do have a .co.uk account as well as my .com, but I won't abuse OVH's goodwill and try order, you should respect it as well and maybe OVH will open it up in a few weeks to the rest of the world.

If you and others try cheat in the mean time, you'll just ruin it for everyone else.

You're wrong about me being a new customer. I've been with ovh for a year already. I cancelled all of my previous servers but I'm now thinking of ordering these new plans and in case you didn't know, ovh accepts orders from people outside the the EU. Those sites are .com and .ie. My account is verified with them and even had the tax removed on my account since I'm not from the EU.

[AndyS]

From what I can work out, my networking knowledge and my knowledge of ESXi:

1. Set up ESXi on the server - External IP acts as vSphere connection point
2. Create another vSwitch - your NAT network if you will
3. Install Cisco CSR, pfSense, or another firewall distro in a VM.
4. Configure two interfaces for this firewall VM - one attached to the vSwitch attached to the internet, the second attached to the "NAT" Network
5. Statically assign the server IP to the internet facing interface of the "Router VM". Likewise, assign a private address range to the NAT side.
6. Assign the ESXi host a private IP address from the NAT network.
7. Configure NAT to portforward 443 and 902 to your ESXi Address
8. Likewise, portforward for all other VM's.
9. Assign your VM's the NAT interface as their gateway, or run DHCP.

I think the only limitations for the above is that you cannot run a secure webserver (i.e. https://) behind the NAT, as 443 is needed for vSphere.

This may work, I haven't tested it yet but plan to within the next week or so.

/SJ

Edit:

What's the point in only running one VM? Just use a standard distro and save yourself the hassle

Thanks for the reply, I currently have esxi running but am looking to add one of the new kimsufi servers and they no longer support esxi or ipfailover.

I am trying to configure XenServer but need to get iptables to forward the traffic to the vif's of the guest but am having no luck.

[Tentacruel]

From what I can work out, my networking knowledge and my knowledge of ESXi:

1. Set up ESXi on the server - External IP acts as vSphere connection point
2. Create another vSwitch - your NAT network if you will
3. Install Cisco CSR, pfSense, or another firewall distro in a VM.
4. Configure two interfaces for this firewall VM - one attached to the vSwitch attached to the internet, the second attached to the "NAT" Network
5. Statically assign the server IP to the internet facing interface of the "Router VM". Likewise, assign a private address range to the NAT side.
6. Assign the ESXi host a private IP address from the NAT network.
7. Configure NAT to portforward 443 and 902 to your ESXi Address
8. Likewise, portforward for all other VM's.
9. Assign your VM's the NAT interface as their gateway, or run DHCP.

I think the only limitations for the above is that you cannot run a secure webserver (i.e. https://) behind the NAT, as 443 is needed for vSphere.

This may work, I haven't tested it yet but plan to within the next week or so.

/SJ

Edit:

Me too! Can't find a way to do it. I only want to run a single VM.

What's the point in only running one VM? Just use a standard distro and save yourself the hassle

[Mark1978]

I would appreciate any information on how this could be achieved under xenserver.

Many Thanks

Me too! Can't find a way to do it. I only want to run a single VM.

[AndyS]

just NAT whatever ports you want to the appropriate VM.

I would appreciate any information on how this could be achieved under xenserver.

Many Thanks

[Tentacruel]

*looks for an upvote button...*

[Thelen]

It's posted on the website that only resides of the european union are allowed to order. Is this true? Isn't that kinda unfair for other people.

Unfair? Why is it unfair? Is it also unfair your bank account doesn't increase by a thousand dollars a day magically? Is it unfair your grass doesn't cut itself?

Unbelievable.

Does NAT work with ESXi? I looked into this before but had it into my head it was a pain in the ass...

Yes nat does work, a pain but it works.

It wasn't like this before for the previous kimsufi plans.

Yea it was, clearly you're a new customer. For a while you couldn't even order from some parts of the EU let alone international.

It depends on which site you order from. I order from kimsufi.com

It won't matter what site you order from if your address is not in the EU.

I do have a .co.uk account as well as my .com, but I won't abuse OVH's goodwill and try order, you should respect it as well and maybe OVH will open it up in a few weeks to the rest of the world.

If you and others try cheat in the mean time, you'll just ruin it for everyone else.

[Kuro07]

Really? If so then I apologise. I know that when I got my K16G in 2011 I had to have my address verified and stuff to make sure I was. May have been different before that.

It depends on which site you order from. I order from kimsufi.com

[Tentacruel]

It wasn't like this before for the previous kimsufi plans.

Really? If so then I apologise. I know that when I got my K16G in 2011 I had to have my address verified and stuff to make sure I was. May have been different before that.

[Kuro07]

Well it is a European based server company...

It wasn't like this before for the previous kimsufi plans.

[Tentacruel]

Trust you to steal my thunder! That's what I was going to suggest

Does NAT work with ESXi? I looked into this before but had it into my head it was a pain in the ass...

It's posted on the website that only resides of the european union are allowed to order. Is this true? Isn't that kinda unfair for other people.

Well it is a European based server company...

[Kuro07]

It's posted on the website that only resides of the european union are allowed to order. Is this true? Isn't that kinda unfair for other people.

[rickyday]

Sorry!

Well if my thunder is going to be stolen there is no one else I would rather have steal it!

I just wish payday would hurry up so I can buy some of these new amazing servers

So much fun can be had with these little babies!

[Myatu]

Sorry!

[rickyday]

It depends. You can use one IP address and multiple VMs with NAT. That's what I do.

Trust you to steal my thunder! That's what I was going to suggest

[Myatu]

Is there a way of running virtualisation on the K16G then?

I just want to run a single VM so theoretically would only need one IPv4? But how could I then access the server itself? IPv6? Some KVM?

The reason being is that I'd more than halve my server costs switching to this. (My personal costs, I'm also the sysadmin of a business that uses a load of OVH servers but that's a different issue)

It depends. You can use one IP address and multiple VMs with NAT. That's what I do.

In fact, I'm just using LXC on two KS2Gs. The partition the containers live on is a DRBD partition, synced over an IPSEC link. As these still have a failover IP if one server dies, the LXC container on the other KS2G starts, the failover IP moves over and everything is running like it was on the server that died - all within 1 minute.

Granted, DRBD over an IPSEC link using an Atom CPU isn't exactly made for speed. But these are just two servers I use for LDAP, Puppet and the e-mail master (low load, except memory usage).

You can still accomplish the same without a failover IP, especially now that the KS2G is so cheap. Just get yourself two of the larger ones for the HA setup, and plant the K2SG in front of them, directing the traffic to the server that's live.

If you get one of the KS16G's with VT, you can even use a lightweight virtualization like KVM, which will allow a wider range of OS'es to be installed. You could even use multiple KVMs if you want - just NAT whatever ports you want to the appropriate VM.

It all depends on your imagination what you do with them

[Vmlweb]

OVH are becoming a joke, changing packages less then 24 hrs of the new packages.

If OVH where serious they would have had pre-made servers before releasing the new packages as they know there will be a huge demand for it.

Though this way they can act on feedback much quicker.

If you ask me they should release info of the new offers, then act on feedback.
Maybe do a few revisions before finalising the offers and starting production.

[marcround]

As if people are still complaining when OVH offer low end dedis for £2.50 a month!...seriously you won't find a price anywhere near THAT good anywhere on the internet.

Keep up the good work OVH!

[wii89]

Glad I used some of my loyalty points...

24hrs to 1 to 10 days... C'mon OVH, if you really want us to start using your "real" servers, just say so, don't offer Kimi's for peanuts then change the specs the day after.

OVH are becoming a joke, changing packages less then 24 hrs of the new packages.

If OVH where serious they would have had pre-made servers before releasing the new packages as they know there will be a huge demand for it.

[LawsHosting]

Glad I used some of my loyalty points...

24hrs to 1 to 10 days... C'mon OVH, if you really want us to start using your "real" servers, just say so, don't offer Kimi's for peanuts then change the specs the day after.

[wii89]

Hi,

I bought my server last night when it was advertised for 24 hours setup and 2 cores with 2 threads. As this is what was advertised at the time of purchase, this is what i'm going to get, correct? Or?

I hope they keep the order as what we ordered it as!!

[K.Kode]

The site updates are not real time, staff have said on the forums that servers will provisioned next week.

[coolnow]

Hi,

I bought my server last night when it was advertised for 24 hours setup and 2 cores with 2 threads. As this is what was advertised at the time of purchase, this is what i'm going to get, correct? Or?

[Johno]

Now really this is ridiculous, I was able to resell the KS servers cheap to people as I have an official volume licence for windows, I have 5 servers at the moment and had 4 pending orders via my website, This been done without any prior warning on the forum or email is quite shabby, I phone the uk office today and long and short of the conversation was its how it is if you do not like it then leave, limiting the use of the 3 ks servers is just ridiculous and will be considering if i really wish to stay a customer.

[Tentacruel]

Yes that's the bit I don't quite get really. They have a processor more than capable of running virtualisation, and given the specs it's ideal for that. And yet they ensure this isn't possible by not allowing even a single additional IP. I would even understand if there was a higher than normal cost for the IP itself. Instead you have to go to server which costs more than twice the price just to get the option for the IP?

This is what's confusing me too - it even says on the first post that these are designed for doing things like virtualisation (it's mentioned by name!) yet you cannot choose ESXi as a distro to provision them with.

I brought it up on the phone with OVH this morning and their representative said that the CPU mustn't support ESXi - even though the VT option is ticked...

If it could virtualise and I could get an /29 RIPE block I would dump my current 16G and get one of these in a heartbeat.

[Thelen]

I ordered my KS 2G yesterday and now today it says 1 core and 2 Threads..

Yesterday when I ordered it said 2 cores and 2 Threads, hope they are true to there word and not give me 1 core CPU.....

Probably typo, else you managed to order before they had fully changed the site. You should control refresh when you visit OVH as often the caching messes things up for even days after they change the site.

[Mark1978]

I'm going to cancel my 16G before it gets delivered. I'd understand the unavailability for failover IPs for their entry Kimsufi but not the 16G.

Yes that's the bit I don't quite get really. They have a processor more than capable of running virtualisation, and given the specs it's ideal for that. And yet they ensure this isn't possible by not allowing even a single additional IP. I would even understand if there was a higher than normal cost for the IP itself. Instead you have to go to server which costs more than twice the price just to get the option for the IP?

[pechspilz]

I'm going to cancel my 16G before it gets delivered. I'd understand the unavailability for failover IPs for their entry Kimsufi but not the 16G.

[K.Kode]

Probably a load of Atom 330's sitting around now

[Mark1978]

Is there a way of running virtualisation on the K16G then?

I just want to run a single VM so theoretically would only need one IPv4? But how could I then access the server itself? IPv6? Some KVM?

The reason being is that I'd more than halve my server costs switching to this. (My personal costs, I'm also the sysadmin of a business that uses a load of OVH servers but that's a different issue)

[wii89]

I ordered my KS 2G yesterday and now today it says 1 core and 2 Threads..

Yesterday when I ordered it said 2 cores and 2 Threads, hope they are true to there word and not give me 1 core CPU.....

[pechspilz]

So if I get the 16G which has support for virtualization and would make a perfect KVM node with it's 16 GB: it's no longer possible to add failover IPv4's? I can only run my containers on IPv6's then?

[S0phie]

Hi,

As explained by Oles yesterday, we will start delivering KS servers from early next week.

As stated on our website, it will take between 1 to 10 days to deliver these servers

http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

[Thelen]

The french forum is pretty lol:
http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=89583

open that in chrome, 1st reply:

But what happens? The sun beats down hard on Roubaix? Wanna blow the record of servers ordered in one day?

hahaha

[cartwright118]

Ordered a 2G just to test the GRA network...we shall see Let you know how long it takes to get delivered.

[LawsHosting]

To be fair, these are quite cheap, so the lack of IP space in understandable and they do say for personal use, or testing etc.

Then, as I keep saying, why offer mega-specs (more in the past, the new KSs are pretty crappy except the ram) if they're intend to be only "test" servers?? Guessing they've realised this at last?

[wii89]

wow this is great stuff, will get one for my VPN access

[dragon2611]

To be fair, these are quite cheap, so the lack of IP space in understandable and they do say for personal use, or testing etc.

For personal and testing use one IP should be enough, as even with virtual machines you could easily just set the server to use a virtual network and hand out virtual ip's to the guests, thus not using an OVH IP. The only issue would be you can't point multiple websites to those virtual machines.

Problem is things like proxmox / xenserver.etc need an IP for their management.

Be Nice if OVH were able to assign a RFC 1918 address for that and offer a VPN/Tunnel to use it but I think that would end up costing them a fair bti to implement. Alternatively allow more than one IPv6 address and have the management on Ipv6

[Mark1978]

That's a bit rubbish then. No point in having virtualisation.

[Thelen]

It says 1 IP included with the server, but can I order additional IP's the way I have with my current kimsufi? As you can do virtualisation with the KS16G but not much point if you can't give your VM an ip address!

No... read the 1st post. You won't be able to order IPs, and presumably you won't be able to transfer to them assuming the software is setup correctly.

[Mark1978]

It says 1 IP included with the server, but can I order additional IP's the way I have with my current kimsufi? As you can do virtualisation with the KS16G but not much point if you can't give your VM an ip address!

[JakeMS]

Also guessing it's a French IP.

Thing with OVH, they give with one hand and take with the other........

To be fair, these are quite cheap, so the lack of IP space in understandable and they do say for personal use, or testing etc.

For personal and testing use one IP should be enough, as even with virtual machines you could easily just set the server to use a virtual network and hand out virtual ip's to the guests, thus not using an OVH IP. The only issue would be you can't point multiple websites to those virtual machines.

But for personal/testing use it's more than enough. (Besides, you could port-forward to a guest with one thing, and port forward another port for another thing to other guest.)

[LawsHosting]

Sadly with only 1 IP I don't think they'll be very useful for visualization

Also guessing it's a French IP.

Thing with OVH, they give with one hand and take with the other........

[LawsHosting]

Ordered a KS4G from some of my loyalty points for 3 months...... Lets see how long it takes

[dragon2611]

Sadly with only 1 IP I don't think they'll be very useful for visualization


That said some kind of Distributed file system/replication might make for nice backup servers if they come with 500GB disks in each node.


Also notice my existing Kimsufi is now saying Unlimited traffic instead of 5TB
I preusme the IP Failovers will remain in place for the older Kimsufi's

[LawsHosting]

I would prob get one, either for extra backups or for personal sites/etc

[Myatu]

Oh snap! Got another KS 2G toy thing a week or so ago... Well, busy weekend ahead transferring things then!

[Vmlweb]

Valid point. OVH probably have good ways to detect them now though otherwise they wouldn't have such an offer, right?

Isn't their new VAC system suppose to have spam blocking functions?
I remember reading it somewhere.

[Andy]

Valid point. OVH probably have good ways to detect them now though otherwise they wouldn't have such an offer, right?

[LawsHosting]

This is insane!

Quite.. Imagine the spammers having a field day.

[Andy]

This is insane! I might get one just for DNS/E-mail etc.

[JakeMS]

Wow.

It seems OVH has a lot of changes happening lately... Hopefully for the better! :-)

I'm tempted to get a couple of these as DNS servers hmm.

Good idea though! :-D.

[Kacotet]

£3?!?

Epic.

[Vmlweb]

Will GRA open up to all the other servers as well?

[oles@ovh.net]

Hello,

We have just opened the biggest data centre in Europe with a capacity of 350,000 servers. It's called GRA, located in Gravelines (Northern France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelines). The works took several months to complete, and the DC has been operational for the last 3 months for internal purposes.

We worked on the new Kimsufi version in secrecy with one goal: to offer a real dedicated server for less than £5. After 6 months work, we are able to launch the server for ...only £2.49/month! We have completely reviewed the hardware, electrical infrastructure and network for maximum redundancy, but also to reduce costs. For example, we're no longer using UPS, each rack has 3 batteries instead that simultaneously feed a 220V/12V rectifier, which powers the servers directly with 12V. This is just one example of the creative thinking employed to fix problems specific to KS-2G. Unfortunately these innovations don't apply to the other ranges of servers.

The range
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We have 3 servers in the KS range:

KS-2G powered with an Intel ATOM, 2G RAM, a 500GB disk and a 100Mbps connection. Price: £2.49/month.

We also offer a KS-4G 4GB RAM, 2 x 500GB SoftRAID for £9.99/month and KS-16G powered with i5 Core VT with 16GB, and 2 x1TB for £19.99/month.

PS. The £2.49/month payment is very low and to avoid excess bank charges, payment is for 3 months minimum.

We have changed how we route the servers to reduce the costs and it's no longer possible to order additional IP FailOvers. It's a simple and quick routing, without options.

We will start deploying the servers early next week.

Why this server?
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This is a personal server, which is perfect for sysadmins, testing, traceroute, file storage, virtualisation, and monitoring, etc. Basically, everyone needs a small server to do 2 or 3 essential things

More information:
http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

Best wishes,

Octave