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Originally Posted by roly
Thanks for your help, its appreciated.
when signing up it asks for a referal nic, is this something you can get commision for, for refering me? if so let me know what it is and i'll add it.
I've looked around for coupons to lose the setup fee, i've found offers for the ovh (france) but not the uk one, i don't suppose you know of any promo codes to lose the setup fee?
my current servers don't have raid, so its all new to me. i'm not too worried about the speed so i was going to use raid 1 incase a drive dies on me (i will backup also). is software raid ok for this purpose and if it is, would it be all setup on the server for me?
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SA75953-OVH is my nichandle - they don't have an affiliate programme, but it may give me points. You accumulate points each month, redeemable on your invoices, 1 point == 1c or (1p prob for you). I think I get like 650 points each month with my services, so it may add more if you sign up with my nic as referral.
They sent out a detailed forum post recently explaining the setup fee and explaining a new way to remove it. basically they want to scare off the non-serious people who just take a server for 2 months to mass spam, and reward loyalty with free setup if you've had your server with them for a year (maybe 2 can't remember) to allow people to upgrade their machines with age with no setup.
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http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=67996
here's their post (run it through google translate) - it's for 2 years fidelity.
Yes, I have no probs with my sware raid 1 setup. You select how you want it configured (os etc) and it will all get delivered with a root pass ready to go. One thing I would do is if there is a section to add notes, ask for / to be partitioned at 50GB - they give a stupid default partition scheme of
/ 10 GB
/home (the rest)
which is dumb cos /var fills 10GB easily with logs and db etc. If nowhere to add notes, drop them a customer support ticket before they deliver...
Finally, when you get it, in the manager switch to netboot 64bit 1000MHz kernel - the load drop is amazing with this kernel...
hit me up on icq 498999 or email if you want any help...