Amber

For my own experiments, services and just storage I've been using VPSs and dedicated servers for quite some time. To be precise, only dedicated servers usage dates 7 years already.
And for that 7 years I was loyal OVH customer :)

It has started with availability of relatively cheap machines (only Hetzner could compete with them on that, but they had quite poor quality of hardware back than) and surplussed with SmartOS distribution option in ready-to-go setup (just choose it from distro in server selection and you are done!).

However, time goes by and quality of service deteriorates from place to place in OVH. SmartOS is finally died out from availability there, technical support is hardly responsible (I'm waiting for response for more than a week now) and I finally decided to move out.

Since all that stuff isn't bringing me money directly, I'm trying to keep bills under 100 EUR/month, so choice of providers with good enough service isn't that big: OVH or Hetzner :] And today I've spent few hours on trying my current setup from one in another, comparing servers and so on.

At the end of the day that movement seems reasonable to me offering about the same service from provider, a bit better selection of hardware and more robust setup than current one. So, OVH era is over, all glory to Hetzner, hehe (Finnish one, though).

Technical details:
current setup at OVH - HOST-64L/Xeon D-1520 4c:8th/64GB RAM + 3x2TB disks in raidz1 of 5.44 TB in total = 77 EUR/m (plus 2 /28 subnets) / 924 EUR/yr
possible option at OVH (after analysis) - ADVANCE-2/Xeon-E 2136 6c:12th/64GB RAM + 2x4TB disks in mirror of ~3.7TB in total = ~68 EUR/m / 972 EUR/yr (link)
probable option at Hetzner (in evaluation right now) - PX62/Xeon E-2176G 6c:12th/64GB RAM + 2x8TB disks in mirror of ~7.3TB (plus SSD for cache to be added) = ~ 80 EUR/m / 954 EUR/yr (link)

As usually, solution was simplier than I thought :)
1. Create zone with config like this:

{
  "brand": "joyent",
  ...
  "image_uuid": "87b9f4ac-5385-11e3-a304-fb868b82fe10",
  ...
  "nics": [
          {
            "physical": "net0",
            "nic_tag": "admin",
            "mac": "<virtual mac-addr>",
            "ip": "<failover-ip>",
            "netmask": "255.255.255.255",
            "gateway": "<failover-ip>",
            "primary": true
          }
  ],
  ...
}

2. zlogin and enter

   route add <server-ip three octets>.0/24 <failover-ip> -interface
   route add default <server-ip three octets>.254

3. After that our new zone is discoverable from internet.