Google Cloud Platform vs. OVH Dedicated Servers

For how it helps our team with data storage and connecting to GA4 as a backup option, and the incredibly low cost for us to use it and reliably back up our data, I would highly recommend using this tool for all of your cloud storage needs. It's easy to use and their customer service is always responsive and easy to get a hold of.

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With the dedicated servers, we have maintained a consistent over 99 percent uptime. Several apparel purchases are made on our website every month and therefore having versatile servers is very important. OVH servers are robust enough and offer secure HIPAA compliance. But as you scale higher, and aim to have secure servers you might need to engage security software like SOAR systems as OVH security is not enough.

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• Google Cloud Platform provide the autoscale workload when the workload need to scale up or down
• Great pay-as-you-go pricing model and dashboard report of pricing that help user monitor and optimize the cost
• Using simpler than other cloud provider

• Automatically archives and backs up storage.
• It is optimized for large and critical loads.
• Consistent top uptime.

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• The Logs Explorer is quite hard to dig into and find logs of interest
• BigQuery transparency for BigLake vs External tables isn't the best
• Google Group management for permissions can get hairy.

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• Security options are pretty basic, we must use SOAR software alongside to secure the servers.

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I've found it incredibly easy to use since day one of deployment.

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Everything has been thought of - from the initial password secure portal, through to day to day management, you can do everything from the console easily. Remote KVM is on hand for those awful moments (if you have them - and we all have) where the server won't boot for some reason

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I feel GCS buckets are pretty interchangeable with Amazon S3 as far as I have typically used them. It just depends on who or your company wants to give money to. I have liked the Google Cloud Platform BigQuery console better than the interface for Snowflake, but that may be due to familiarity and the proportion of time I've used Google Cloud Platform over Snowflake.

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OVH Dedicated Servers are a different product so a direct comparison is difficult. In simple terms, both provide compute, memory and storage. However the EC2 instances offer significantly more in the way of resiliency in the event of a single hardware failure. However this comes at a price, and there is no way you could get 18TB of RAID5 style storage on HDD from a Public Cloud provider for the price of an OVH Dedicated Server

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• Approx 30% cost savings after moving from on-prem to GCP due to reduced hardware, maintenance of DC support, and energy costs.
• There are much faster release cycles due to CI/CD pipelines with cloud build and scalable infrastructure using GKE. It works very nicely.
• We use BigQuery a lot, and what used to take hours now takes minutes, speeding up business decisions across teams. Clients.

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• Consistent 99 percent uptime.
• Quite affordable, with plans costing barely 100 dollars per month.

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