Like other said. Its blackmail for money. Essentially "would be a shame if your website is down during your IPO, maybe you should pay us so we don't DDoS you to

Like other said. Its blackmail for money. Essentially "would be a shame if your website is down during your IPO, maybe you should pay us so we don't DDoS you to hell". I imagine this is especially common here since one of the services offered by OVH is DDoS protection. Hence being down from a DDoS would be even worse press.