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Amazing for the disk space. Anyone recommends the company? Never heard of.

by talles 13y ago

Wiz 13y ago
In my opinion they are number one in France. Their European network is nice too. The US one is rather new, I have no idea but be warned that theses new servers are not available at their American (Beauharnois, Canada) datacenter.
reidrac 13y ago
"Since 2012 the company has been classed as the largest server host in the world" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovh Don't know if the Wikipedia is correct, but I know them (I'm in EU).
- nakkiel 13y ago
  It's correct, in terms of physical servers installed. That said, there's no reliable comparison (that I know of) with VPS instances hosted by well known US companies (such as Amazon) because they are not quite as willing to release figures.
  - oijaf888 13y ago
    While it wouldn't cover VPC clients you can get a max figure by looking at the number of ip addresses allocated to AWS. They list them all here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701 I think the last time I did the math it worked out to something like 2M addresses in US-EAST.
adventured 13y ago
OVH is a very large dedicated hosting company. They now have a nice location in North America (Montreal) as well, with tremendous prices. They generally get solid reviews. If I had to peg them, it'd be a B rating or 8 out of 10. Weak customer service, but you can pay a modest fee and get immediate attention. Their hardware is solid. Whether you use them or not is probably down to three issues: do you need managed servers and rapid response from a tech inside the company; if you need US based hosting, they don't offer that, but the Montreal location gets great speeds to most of the US; the listed kimsufi servers are obviously located in Europe.
dreen 13y ago
They actually had a very serious security breach few days ago. But I would still recommend them over some of the others.
- yapcguy 13y ago
  Basically their customer database was copied. This special offer is a good way to get new customers and get some positive press. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083944
txutxu 13y ago
My short experience was very good. A few VPSs for low traffic sites and a big dedicated for a drupal. Everything was fine, no surprises, and they have a soap API which allows you to automate everything from billing, to dns, machine creation/resize/destroy, etc. Nice. My only caveat was about their custom kernels, but that is something usual in lot of providers.
- jrn 13y ago
  Is there a way of using your own custom distro or image; vs the ones they provide?
  - txutxu 13y ago
    When I used OVH about two years ago, on dedicated servers, it was possible. And I think still will be in those.
jeffasinger 13y ago
Keep in mind that's not RAID disk, so if that hard drive goes, so does all your data.
- darkarmani 13y ago
  RAID isn't backup anyway -- it's for uptime.

Amazing for the disk space. Anyone recommends the company? Never heard of.

by talles 13y ago

Amazing for the disk space. Anyone recommends the company? Never heard of.

Wiz 13y ago

In my opinion they are number one in France. Their European network is nice too. The US one is rather new, I have no idea but be warned that theses new servers are not available at their American (Beauharnois, Canada) datacenter.

reidrac 13y ago

"Since 2012 the company has been classed as the largest server host in the world" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovh Don't know if the Wikipedia is correct, but I know them (I'm in EU).

nakkiel 13y ago
It's correct, in terms of physical servers installed. That said, there's no reliable comparison (that I know of) with VPS instances hosted by well known US companies (such as Amazon) because they are not quite as willing to release figures.
- oijaf888 13y ago
  While it wouldn't cover VPC clients you can get a max figure by looking at the number of ip addresses allocated to AWS. They list them all here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701 I think the last time I did the math it worked out to something like 2M addresses in US-EAST.

adventured 13y ago

OVH is a very large dedicated hosting company. They now have a nice location in North America (Montreal) as well, with tremendous prices. They generally get solid reviews. If I had to peg them, it'd be a B rating or 8 out of 10. Weak customer service, but you can pay a modest fee and get immediate attention. Their hardware is solid. Whether you use them or not is probably down to three issues: do you need managed servers and rapid response from a tech inside the company; if you need US based hosting, they don't offer that, but the Montreal location gets great speeds to most of the US; the listed kimsufi servers are obviously located in Europe.

dreen 13y ago

They actually had a very serious security breach few days ago. But I would still recommend them over some of the others.

yapcguy 13y ago
Basically their customer database was copied. This special offer is a good way to get new customers and get some positive press. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083944

txutxu 13y ago

My short experience was very good. A few VPSs for low traffic sites and a big dedicated for a drupal. Everything was fine, no surprises, and they have a soap API which allows you to automate everything from billing, to dns, machine creation/resize/destroy, etc. Nice. My only caveat was about their custom kernels, but that is something usual in lot of providers.

jrn 13y ago
Is there a way of using your own custom distro or image; vs the ones they provide?
- txutxu 13y ago
  When I used OVH about two years ago, on dedicated servers, it was possible. And I think still will be in those.

jeffasinger 13y ago

Keep in mind that's not RAID disk, so if that hard drive goes, so does all your data.

darkarmani 13y ago
RAID isn't backup anyway -- it's for uptime.