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Tough timing, considering their IPO is tomorrow [1].

[1]: https://ipo.ovhcloud.com/sites/default/files/2021-10/OVHclou...

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Wasn't the fire in one of the Strasbourg's datacenter the night after the announcement of the IPO ? They have bad luck.

they also have garbage it support

This is one of those things I keep hearing but in my case I experienced the opposite. I have been using OVH for a long time, and their paid support is actually really good.

One of our projects used to get ddosed and as a small company the only reason we managed to survive was thanks to OVH. When the attackers kept changing their attacks, we were direct to talk to their engineers and they helped fix the issue, all we had to do was send a bunch of packet captures to them.

Over the years since then we had a few issues and every single time their customer support was really helpful.

I have used paid support from google, azure and amazon, but I have had a better customer service experience with OVH overall.

Maybe competitors doing their worst to cripple the IPO? Are hosting/CDN firms evil enough?

If this is an unforced error that would be monumentally stupid.

> Those last few days, DDoS attacks intensity has grown a lot.

not unforced, prolly ransom requests before IPO

Yes, that would be the expected thing. Around an IPO you should have your house in order otherwise you will get burned.

So ovhcloud seems up, where's that hosted?

Stuff is apparently starting to come back up. Mostly still inaccessible though.

Pure coincidence.

not really, from Octave’s twitter it seems that DDoS attempts have increased which is usual right before an IPO. They were installing new gear because of the higher DDoS.

Could you please elaborate on this? I’ve never heard of that being related to an IPO before, so I’m wondering if this is a standard practice for competitors to get known groups to do this sort of thing, or if this is an economy destabilization measure that’s in the playbook of some nation state actors. Any insight there?

*NATION state actors. Damn mobile keyboards. Stupid app wouldn’t let me edit the reply either, hence this.

The term is state actor, anyway.

A state is a sovereign political division, or a subdivision within a federation (France, Arizona).

A nation is a community of people with a common culture, language, ethnicity etc (the Navaho, the Welsh, the Japanese).

When these are the same entity, it's a nation state (Japan), but there are many cases where they aren't the same (Belgium, China, USA, Russia).

> A nation is a community of people with a common culture, language, ethnicity

Nitpick: The belief of the existence of the said common ground is actually more important than its actual existence. France is considered a nation state even though there are several ethno-linguistic groups in France. A few illustrations:

- less than half of the French population during the French revolution spoke French as their native language.[1]

- The second Nobel Prize of Literature from France (Frédéric Mistral) didn't wrote its work in French, but in Occitan[2].

- My family has lived in France for as long as genealogy could trace back, yet half of my great-grandparents only learnt French in school, they didn't spoke it at home.

[1]: I don't have an online source for that, nor the exact figure: I read it in Frernad Braudel's L’Identité de la France

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language

"Nation-state" is an little bureaucratic Americanism because if you talk about a malicious state actor there everyone assumes you mean Florida.

It's more likely to be a "DDoS until you pay a ransom" sort of deal where the attacker thinks the company will value uptime more highly during that period.

You've clearly never run a web service of any sort... you can expect DDoS in response to pretty much anything you do. Not seeing in increase in DDoS attacks before an IPO would be more concerning.

Like other said. Its blackmail for money. Essentially "would be a shame if your website is down during your IPO, maybe you should pay us so we don't DDoS you to hell".

I imagine this is especially common here since one of the services offered by OVH is DDoS protection. Hence being down from a DDoS would be even worse press.

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