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I think that OVH is the third largest hosting provider in the world. Operates its own datacenters in North America and Europe. It's at the same scale as AWS. Th
by berns 12y ago
I think that OVH is the third largest hosting provider in the world. Operates its own datacenters in North America and Europe. It's at the same scale as AWS. That's why it makes sense the comparison.
- cedrickthecrow 12y agoSource for OVH? Amazon is truly massive in scale: http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-scale-aws/ http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-s...
- moe 12y agohttps://www.ovh.co.uk/aboutus/ovh-in-figures.xml https://www.ovh.co.uk/aboutus/ovh-in-figures.xml It's hard to get definite numbers from anyone, but they're all in about the same league. My personal guess would be that EC2 is much bigger than OVH in the US, while OVH is almost certainly bigger than EC2 in Europe.
- berns 12y agoWikipedia cites 180,000 servers in 17 datacenters in 2014. So, not exactly AWS scale, but still relevant for comparing.
- fweespeech 12y agoIf I can go to a company and get more nodes than I need for a given DC, I don't care if they are "the same scale as AWS".