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Comments from people seem to indicate their anti DDoS was "we blackhole you if you draw an attack". Has that changed?

Yes. This hasn’t been true for a long time. OVH runs a huge network and they invested in tools to mitigate and neutralize DDoS attacks[1]. Of course an attack can still saturate your servers’ NICs but they won’t drop you anymore.

At their scale they are basically forced to handle big attacks on regular basis. The fact that they offer this protection in their basic package is what makes them a great host[2].

They don’t get a fraction of the love Cloudflare gets, but they should.

[1] https://www.ovh.com/us/anti-ddos/hoovering-up.xml

[2] https://www.ovh.com/us/news/articles/a1171.protection-anti-d...

Good to see OVH getting some recognition here. I am a happy customer of both OVH and DigitalOcean but my usage has become strongly weighted towards OVH. The OVH web interface could be improved (I've had to open support tickets for basic things like activating auto-renewal), that's the only downside with them really. Range of products, network, disk speed and responsiveness are all consistently very good. Their new 2016 'Cloud' VPSs have markedly better disk speed than DigitalOcean's SSDs, which are already pretty fast.

For a quick side project I still like DigitalOcean's hourly billing and user interface, but any machine I plan on using for a month or more are all with OVH by default.

Their Anti-DDoS setup is amazing. Once they detect an attack it goes through their VAC setup, and legitimate traffic will still reach you, but illegitimate traffic won't.

Got hit with a DDoS to my DNS servers, I didn't see any external service disruption thanks to OVH's setup. I have several of their cheaper SoYouStart servers, and it's awesome.

Yes. We moved an IRC server that was under attack (and being dropped from DO/Linode) there, and it ate it fantastically well for the price. I've never seen anyone else do it that well for that cheap, to be honest.

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