> Due to a fire at one of our data centres, a few of our servers are down and may be down permanently. We are restoring these servers from backups and will enable puzzles and storm as soon as possible. > > We hope that everyone who is dealing with the fire is safe, including the firefighters and everyone at OVH. <3.
I didn't know what OVH was before 10 minutes ago, but this seems really impactful. I hope everyone there is safe and that the immediate disaster gets resolved quickly.
e.g. They have a 4core, 16gb ram server for $22/mo which is 25% of what my preferred provider, Linode, charges.
Now, it comes with older consumer hardware (that one is a sandy bridge i5), and about as much support as the price tag suggests, as well as a dated management interface, but when I used to run a modded minecraft server as a college student, which needed excessive amounts of RAM and could be easily upset by load spikes on other clients, then it was a no-brainer, even if I would expect the modern-ish Xeons Linode uses to win on a core for core basis.
This is the interface they had when I used them last:
It is still a mess of separate accounts, but you can use email addr to log in instead of random-numbers generated handle.
The OVHCloud US is completely separated for legal purposes, from what I remember. No account sharing, different staff, OVH EU cannot help you at all with US accounts.