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Comment by ferngodfather | Hacker News Reader

My issue with OVH is the support is God awful and half French. Someone made a complaint about my server and their default stance was to nuke me from orbit and ask questions later.

Oh and their "data centers" are just shipping containers that are prone to the occasional fire.

Much happier with Hetzner, even though it's more expensive.

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I partially agree with the first part, but:

  > Oh and their "data centers" are just shipping containers that are prone to the occasional fire.

AFAIK they have a very limited number of DC built reusing shipping containers, most of them, including the ones built in the last ten years, are regular buildings built from scratch or repurposed.

AFAIK there have been ONE instance of a DC taking fire, and it wasn't built from containers.

https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/incendie-sur-un-site-ovh...

1 "data center" built from a shipping container is one too many.

And, did you look at the photos you linked lol.

I did, yes.

Particularly this one: https://lafibre.info/images/ovh/202202_incendie_ovh_strasbou...

Only SBG1 was built from containers, it partially burnt due to its proximity to SBG2, but its SBG2, which was not built from containers, that burnt down.

No fire suppression and wooden ceilings?

I've had a few complaints, few auto-detections, managed to clear it all up quite easily thankfully.

However their IPv6 /128 allocation is horrendous. But I don't know anyone who does it all actually better.

They give you the full /64 even on vps or kimsufi(low end servers) it's just that the interface is configured with the ::1/128 by default in their cloud-init.

Their documentation about it is not consistent though, so the confusion is understandable.

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