Post #4375559
2026-08-04 12:56 UTC
Email from @OVHcloud@mastodon.social this morning: the bandwidth on my VPS went from 400 Mbit to 1 Gbit. Same plan, same price, nothing for me to do.
This is the box running dol.social. The one I benchmarked last month, on the grounds that its memory and disk beat the newer 2027 model and the network gap did not matter enough to move.
The network gap is now gone too.
Correction while I am here: I said 500 Mbit in that thread. It was 400. The conclusion holds, my number did not.
#SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Mastodon #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts
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@dima@dol.social 2026-08-04 13:08
Full disclosure on the cost of that free upgrade. The reboot to pick it up hung at the hypervisor level and took the instance with it. Almost 15 hours of downtime, 41.91% uptime for the day, and nothing I could do from inside the box because there was no inside to get to. Worth it. But this is the part of "simple restart" that the is mentioned in email. Also a decent argument for the thing I keep saying: the box is disposable, the data is not. #SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Downtime #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts