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I don't think OVH is anywhere near the level of AWS/GCP/Azure in terms of the quality of the infrastructure and networking. They seem to cut all the corners they can cut in pursuit of lower prices. They built a data center out of wood, with no fire suppression, and it burned down, taking businesses with it: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/ovhclouds-dat...

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You're right, it's not anywhere where the major US cloud vendors are.

Microsoft isn't much better : https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-releases-details-las...

I remember losing access to azure devops, even though it was hosted in Canada, because Microsoft didn't have a backup domain controller elsewhere than in their datacenter in Texas.

I'm sure OVH learned from this event and will use EU's investment to improve everything.

> They seem to cut all the corners they can cut in pursuit of lower prices.

You might want to contrast with Azure's recent security record. Microsoft is letting it seriously slide

Agreed. It's laughable how many incidents OVH has on a monthly basis.

That being said, I'm all for the EU using EU products, and hopefully it only means OVH gets better over time.

Might be a feature. A chaos monkey. What do you do when your provider is like this: use a second cloud for resilience.

For cheap bulk compute, it's probably ok, but where would you serve your actual critical prod from?

On the other hand they do have the occasional rapid unscheduled burning down of a datacenter.

It got better though, especially with the new 3-AZ regions.

Their recovery process was terrible as well. Wash everything, drop a load of PR stuff out about how good they were washing stuff, then hope it worked. What a shit show. I would never even go near them after that.

lol

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