When comparing Microsoft Azure vs OVH, the Slant community recommends Microsoft Azure for most people. In the question“What are the best VPS providers?” Microsoft Azure is ranked 13th while OVH is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Microsoft Azure is:
Although it's a bit laborious to acquire, BizSpark gets startups a ton of free tools and usage.
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Pros
Pro BizSpark
Although it's a bit laborious to acquire, BizSpark gets startups a ton of free tools and usage.
Pro Cheap
The cheapest plan VPS SSD 1 is at $3.49 /month with :
OpenStack KVM
1 vCore
2.4 GHz
2 GB RAM
10 GB SSD
Local RAID 10
Pro Advanced DDoS protection
DDoS protection available on most plans. And advanced game server DDoS protection available as well.
Cons
Con Dashboard is weird to navigate
Looks pretty, but weird to navigate. The whole left to right thing is unintuitive. It's also very sluggish, or just doesn't load on a poor internet connection.
Con Horrible support
I opened several tickets, but I didn't got ANY response.
Con Difficult, awkward to manage your server's resources
They only provide an upgrade path for CPU, RAM, disk. If you wish to downgrade later, you can't, you must rebuild your server from scratch.