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I don't think OVH is anywhere near the level of AWS/GCP/Azure in terms of the quality of the infrastructure and networking. They seem to cut all the corners the

I don't think OVH is anywhere near the level of AWS/GCP/Azure in terms of the quality of the infrastructure and networking. They seem to cut all the corners they can cut in pursuit of lower prices. They built a data center out of wood, with no fire suppression, and it burned down, taking businesses with it: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/ovhclouds-data-center-fire-one-year-on-what-do-we-know/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/ovhclouds-dat...

AndroTux 1y ago
Agreed. It's laughable how many incidents OVH has on a monthly basis. That being said, I'm all for the EU using EU products, and hopefully it only means OVH gets better over time.
- bravesoul2 1y ago
  Might be a feature. A chaos monkey. What do you do when your provider is like this: use a second cloud for resilience.
  - physhster 1y ago
    For cheap bulk compute, it's probably ok, but where would you serve your actual critical prod from?
dwroberts 1y ago
> They seem to cut all the corners they can cut in pursuit of lower prices. You might want to contrast with Azure's recent security record. Microsoft is letting it seriously slide
whynotmaybe 1y ago
You're right, it's not anywhere where the major US cloud vendors are. Microsoft isn't much better : https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-releases-details-last-weeks-big-azure-outage-servers-damaged-no-data-lost/ https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-releases-details-las... I remember losing access to azure devops, even though it was hosted in Canada, because Microsoft didn't have a backup domain controller elsewhere than in their datacenter in Texas. I'm sure OVH learned from this event and will use EU's investment to improve everything.
neepi 1y ago
Their recovery process was terrible as well. Wash everything, drop a load of PR stuff out about how good they were washing stuff, then hope it worked. What a shit show. I would never even go near them after that.
artursapek 1y ago
lol
TiredOfLife 1y ago
On the other hand they do have the occasional rapid unscheduled burning down of a datacenter.
matteocontrini 1y ago
It got better though, especially with the new 3-AZ regions.

AndroTux 1y ago

Agreed. It's laughable how many incidents OVH has on a monthly basis. That being said, I'm all for the EU using EU products, and hopefully it only means OVH gets better over time.

bravesoul2 1y ago
Might be a feature. A chaos monkey. What do you do when your provider is like this: use a second cloud for resilience.
- physhster 1y ago
  For cheap bulk compute, it's probably ok, but where would you serve your actual critical prod from?

dwroberts 1y ago

> They seem to cut all the corners they can cut in pursuit of lower prices. You might want to contrast with Azure's recent security record. Microsoft is letting it seriously slide

whynotmaybe 1y ago

You're right, it's not anywhere where the major US cloud vendors are. Microsoft isn't much better : https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-releases-details-last-weeks-big-azure-outage-servers-damaged-no-data-lost/ https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-releases-details-las... I remember losing access to azure devops, even though it was hosted in Canada, because Microsoft didn't have a backup domain controller elsewhere than in their datacenter in Texas. I'm sure OVH learned from this event and will use EU's investment to improve everything.

neepi 1y ago

Their recovery process was terrible as well. Wash everything, drop a load of PR stuff out about how good they were washing stuff, then hope it worked. What a shit show. I would never even go near them after that.

artursapek 1y ago

lol

TiredOfLife 1y ago

On the other hand they do have the occasional rapid unscheduled burning down of a datacenter.

matteocontrini 1y ago

It got better though, especially with the new 3-AZ regions.