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I recently moved from OVH to Hetzner as I could get better hardware for the same price.

No issues so far, but OVH's network seems to be better, especially for people in other continents.

Edit to add:

- I'm using their Germany DCs, not the Finland one (which is cheaper but peering is worse).

- Using a CDN does improve the latency/speed for users outside Europe, but it still influences performance as CDN exit point often connect directly to the origin to fetch uncached content.

- I lost a VPS with OVH's DC fire, but I had backups somewhere else and fixed it quickly. A good thing about the lower prices is that I can have backups on multiple services (also cheap - Backblaze B2, for example) and still save money compared to AWS, Google Cloud, etc.



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