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OVHcloud
Company blog · ovh.com/fr/blogsystemsweb
OVHcloud is the company blog at ovh.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2011, 167 different Hacker News readers have linked it 220 times, most often “OVH – The DDoS that didn't break the camel's VAC”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link OVHcloud's pricing, product and anti-DDoS pages, mostly to compare cheap VPS, dedicated server and unmetered bandwidth offers. One commenter calls an OVH incident write-up very interesting.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the OVH write-up on a large DDoS attack is very interesting.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
OVHcloud offers more than 80 open and reversible services with the best price-performance ratio, including domain names, VPS, dedicated servers, IaaS and PaaS cloud
Most-linked posts?
- /us/vps/vps-ssd.xml9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-09-27
- /world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-03-10
- /us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-04-18
- /us/dedicated-servers/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-03-10
- /us/anti-ddos/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-12-29
- OVH – The DDoS that didn't break the camel's VAC4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-10-07
- OVH down3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-11-22
- /us/dedicated-servers/enterprise/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-05
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-05
- /us/cloud/storage/object-storage.xml3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-19
What Hacker News says?
Where are you getting this from? OVH very prominently advertises their DDOS protection that comes with all their products ( https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/en/anti-ddos/faq.xml ). In fact, they once used it to explain why they increased the prices of their VPSes ( https://community.centminmod.com/threads/ovh-increase-prices... ). And they also have a lot of experience with it because they host a lot of game servers which…
Comment linking /ca/en/en/anti-ddos/faq.xml
on “"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"”Submitted How PCI-Express works (2020) as a story · 202 points
HN discussionOVH suffered a fatal DC loss quite recently [0]. It's not an everyday event, but it's not something that never happens, either. Also, don't overestimate our fire fighting capabilities: Once a fire breaks out, severe damage to the DC is very likely - if the fire doesn't kill the server, water, temperature or shock will easily do so. Especially if we're on a scale as small as a rack. Don't put data you don't want to l…
Comment linking /world/news/press/cpl1787.fire-our-strasbourg-site
on “The 'Fuck You' Pattern”Submitted OVH CEO Octave Klaba speaking about the incident [video] as a story · 194 points
HN discussionThe OVH public cloud offers hourly instances (50% discount if monthly). https://www.ovh.com/us/cloud/instances/prices.xml
Comment linking /us/cloud/instances/prices.xml
on “Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS”Submitted OVH CEO Octave Klaba apologizes and provides updates about SBG2 as a story · 148 points
HN discussionhttps://www.ovh.com/us/cloud/instances/prices.xml
Comment linking /us/cloud/instances/prices.xml
on “Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS”Submitted OVH raises $327M to accelerate its international development as a story · 80 points
HN discussionLightsail: $5/mo 512 MB, 1 core, 20 GB SSD, bandwidth cap -- Scaleway: $3.2/mo 2 GB memory, 2 cores, 50 GB SSD, unmetered bandwidth. Lightsail 2: $10/mo 1 GB memory, 1 core, 30 GB SSD, bandwidth cap -- Scaleway: $10/mo 8 GB memory, 6 cores, 200 GB SSD, unmetered bandwidth. OVH virtual servers have also always been cheaper than Lightsail, and bandwidth is of course unmetered: https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml
Comment linking /us/vps/vps-ssd.xml
on “Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS”Submitted Smaug, the brand new OVHcloud backbone network infrastructure as a story · 59 points
HN discussionHa! You can see they localise it too https://www.ovh.com/world/support/terms-and-conditions/ Like kimsufi equivalent brand "isgenug"
Comment linking /world/support/terms-and-conditions/
on “Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building”Submitted OVH down as a story · 20 points
HN discussionNoticed the same this morning, but note they took the link out of the main page (of SBG2 and 3): https://www.ovh.com/world/community/status/ Probably the best they could do at the moment.
Comment linking /world/community/status/
on “Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building”Submitted Dedicated Server: STOR-72T as a story · 17 points
HN discussionOVH is not Europe-only, it has datacenters in America, Asia and Australia[1]. [1] https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
Comment linking /world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
on “Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building”Submitted OVH Is down (globally) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThey say different here: "The rooms are also equipped with state of the art fire detection and extinction systems." https://www.ovh.com/world/solutions/centres-de-donnees.xml and here "Every data center room is fitted with a fire detection and extinction system, as well as fire doors. OVHcloud complies with the APSAD R4 rule for the installation of mobile and portable fire extinguishers and has the N4 certificate of…
Comment linking /world/solutions/centres-de-donnees.xml
on “Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building”Submitted OVH – The DDoS that didn't break the camel's VAC as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttps://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
Comment linking /world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
on “Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building”Submitted Strasbourg Datacentre: Latest Information as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI think they failed to install it. They only mention smoke detection: https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
Comment linking /world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
on “Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building”Submitted OVHcloud founder video statement on SBG2 fire as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTry OVH. $3.5/mo for a 2GB RAM VPS https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/
Comment linking /us/vps/
on “Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure”Submitted Why we've created TSL: a new way to query your Time Series data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNo I haven't been DDoSed at OVH (as far as I know), and I don't think they null-route customers any more. Here is some info about their system: http://www.ovh.com/ca/en/a1171.protection-anti-ddos-service-... I moved from iweb because they null-routed my server during a DDoS attack that happened for no apparent reason. (My guess is that it was a user upset at some user-generated content, so they decided to DDoS my se…
Comment linking /ca/en/a1171.protection-anti-ddos-service-standard
on “We are under attack”Submitted The DDoS that didn't break the camel's VAC as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWow, I haven't done dedicated hosting in a long time, the prices are insane there! https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/enterprise/2014-MG-... Thanks for posting :-) I've been looking for provider possibilities for my next failed startup. I'm not sure how they can deliver for that price but who am I to complain!
Comment linking /us/dedicated-servers/enterprise/2014-MG-128.xml
on “We are under attack”Submitted OVH scales up in North America as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPerhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml
Comment linking /world/vps/vps-ssd.xml
on “DigitalOcean launches its container service”Submitted OVH cloud: openstack, 100% SLA, free BW in/out, anti-ddos, starting at 3€/month as a story · 4 points
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