They try hard to brand themselves as a cloud provider but I'd say that they mostly are a VPS provider.
The cloud side isn't polished enough to pretend to be a cloud provider.
The cloud side isn't polished enough to pretend to be a cloud provider.
While I like the user interface, after having used it for more than a year I've successfully stayed away from it ever since.
Also they are literally called OVHcloud...
When you have country with population under 10mil and your gov form is used by 10% of those people a year… Thats 80k submissions a month, split by 20 workdays = 4k submissions a day over 8 work hours = 500 submissions hour or about 8 submissions a minute.
I know these are wrong numbers and there are peaks etc. But many would dare to put this on single server with sqlite. Even if you 10x that.
You do need autoscale groups or self healing architectures. Govs requirements are CRUD apps whos biggest issues are design, accessibility, data permissions etc. Not scale.
For example, it enables seamless rollout strategies for frequent cicd. Any regressions in application performance are automatically handled by scaling up, etc.
I mean, see Azure and Google Cloud a few years back. For quite a while the market was AWS, and also some joke services which nobody who wasn't required to used (notoriously, in 2012 Azure was substantially entirely down for _over a day_ due to a leap day).