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The SYS SKUs still order: SYS-1 is EUR 29.99 ex VAT a month plus a EUR 29.99 setup fee for an Intel Xeon-E 2136 at 6 cores / 12 threads, 32 GB DDR4 ECC 2666, 2 x 512 GB NVMe in soft RAID and a 1 Gbps guaranteed unmetered port. On 2026-10-22 the OVH availability API returns stock at Beauharnois (1H-high) and London (1H-low).","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/soyoustart/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"kind not stated"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/soyoustart/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/soyoustart/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"'From GBP 26.69 ex. VAT/month' and 'Guaranteed and unlimited 1 Gbps public bandwidth' with free unlimited ingress and egress in Europe, the US and Canada, 25 TB a month in Asia-Pacific, and 100 GB of backup storage included","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/soyoustart/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"A SYS-1 is a EUR 29.99 build runner with 12 threads and a 1 Gbps unmetered port, which covers the compile and upload half of a pipeline whose storage half sits on cheaper object storage.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"The 1 Gbps port is the ceiling for a transfer job, and stock is the second gate: this SKU exists in two datacenters of the five the range quotes.","source":"https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/soyoustart/"}],"limits_note":"The 1 Gbps port is the ceiling for a transfer job, and stock is the second gate: this SKU exists in two datacenters of the five the range quotes.","binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"The 1 Gbps port is the ceiling for a transfer job, and stock is the second gate: this SKU exists in two datacenters of the five the range quotes.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=IE","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"planCode 24sys01-v1 'SYS-1 | Intel Xeon-E 2136' at 29.99 EUR a month; its addon families list memory options ram-32g, ram-64g and ram-128g ECC 2666 and storage options softraid-2x512nvme through softraid-2x3840nvme and hybrid 2x4000sa plus 2x500nvme"},{"url":"https://www.soyoustart.com/en/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Why are So you Start and Kimsufi now grouped under OVHcloud?' and 'the discontinuation of So you Start services on this website'; the page keeps only support and migration paths and points new orders at eco.ovhcloud.com"},{"url":"https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/dedicated/server/datacenter/availabilities?planCode=24sys01-v1","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"returns availability entries bhs=1H-high, bhs=1H-low and lon=1H-low; every other datacenter is unavailable or unknown"},{"url":"https://www.kimsufi.com/en/sys/sys-1/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"SYS-1 configuration page states 'Intel Xeon-E 2136 6c/12t - 3,3 GHz/4,5 GHz', '32GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz', 'Storage 2x SSD NVMe 512GB Datacenter Class Soft RAID'"},{"url":"https://us.ovhcloud.com/deals/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'SYS-1 New Lower Price Intel Xeon-E 2136 6c/12t - 3.3 GHz/4.5 GHz ... From 32 GB to 128 GB 1 Gbps guaranteed $30 /month'"},{"url":"https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/soyoustart/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'From GBP 26.69 ex. VAT/month' and 'Guaranteed and unlimited 1 Gbps public bandwidth' with free unlimited ingress and egress in Europe, the US and Canada, 25 TB a month in Asia-Pacific, and 100 GB of backup storage included"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"New record: no soyoustart file exists in dossier/compute. This is the cheapest orderable modern dedicated machine found: 6 cores and NVMe for EUR 29.99 beats the Hetzner auction's EUR 64 floor on price by half, and loses on memory (32 GiB against 128 GiB). Refutation to record: the historic advice to buy So you Start for cheap bare metal is stale as a website, because the domain sells nothing new; the product behind it still sells under the SYS SKU. One disagreement is left open: ovheco.com lists 24sys01-v1 as 'Currently out of stock' on the same date while the OVH API returns 1H-high and 1H-low stock, and the API is the vendor's own answer, so the finding follows the API.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"floor-price","free_tier_kind":null,"shape":{"cpu":"Intel Xeon-E 2136","vcpu":6,"threads":12,"ram_gib":32,"disk":"2 x 512 GB NVMe soft RAID","bandwidth_mbit":1000,"traffic":"unmetered and guaranteed in EU, US and CA","price_eur_month":29.99,"setup_fee_eur":29.99,"max_ram_gib":128,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":32,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}