Ask HN: Recent positive experience with OVH?

Have a dev server with them and considering moving production. Network and hardware seem solid so far. Heard terrible things about their support, but I expect a lot of these are from people who don't know what they're getting into when buying unmanaged servers.

DDoS protection is mostly against volumetric attacks. It won't protect you from an L7 flood that crashes your infrastructure by targeting some expensive service. It will clean up SYN floods, UDP floods, reflected NTP / DNS, etc just fine.

I have a powerful dedicated box with them, pay very little, but also do fairly little with the box. But the speed for $$$ is great, and for the development box with Xen virtualisation it's great. Basically didn't have much issues. I had a $3.50/month VPS with them -- also worked great for the similar characteristic of usage.

Very bad, we were hosted on OVH for a year and it was troublesome - their documentations do not match with the feature set. DDoS protection is weak and they do not provide interface to configure firewall rules or anything like that.

We shifted to Google cloud and feel satisfied with Google.

I have a small VPS with them, running a personal website and a blog (behind CloudFlare).

I pay very little and I have no complaints.