> I am aware of the following drawbacks of OVH:
They are all false. OVH is a Public Cloud provider, just like AWS, GCP and Azure.
> * No disk replication i.e unlike EBS or Google disk, if my disk fails, I am at the mercy of my backups (given no RAID)
https://www.ovh.com/world/public-cloud/storage/additional-di...
> * No private network for all the servers by default. Unlike AWS security groups or Google Cloud private networks (which are setup by default), I will have to pay for vRack to setup a private network and is more complicated.
https://www.ovh.com/world/solutions/vrack/
> * Decreased flexibility i.e I may not be able to spin up instances instantaneously or shut down instances to save costs in off peak times.