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Amazing for the disk space.

Anyone recommends the company? Never heard of.

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"Since 2012 the company has been classed as the largest server host in the world"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovh

Don't know if the Wikipedia is correct, but I know them (I'm in EU).

It's correct, in terms of physical servers installed. That said, there's no reliable comparison (that I know of) with VPS instances hosted by well known US companies (such as Amazon) because they are not quite as willing to release figures.

While it wouldn't cover VPC clients you can get a max figure by looking at the number of ip addresses allocated to AWS. They list them all here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701

I think the last time I did the math it worked out to something like 2M addresses in US-EAST.

OVH is a very large dedicated hosting company. They now have a nice location in North America (Montreal) as well, with tremendous prices. They generally get solid reviews. If I had to peg them, it'd be a B rating or 8 out of 10. Weak customer service, but you can pay a modest fee and get immediate attention. Their hardware is solid.

Whether you use them or not is probably down to three issues: do you need managed servers and rapid response from a tech inside the company; if you need US based hosting, they don't offer that, but the Montreal location gets great speeds to most of the US; the listed kimsufi servers are obviously located in Europe.

They actually had a very serious security breach few days ago. But I would still recommend them over some of the others.

Basically their customer database was copied. This special offer is a good way to get new customers and get some positive press.

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083944

My short experience was very good.

A few VPSs for low traffic sites and a big dedicated for a drupal.

Everything was fine, no surprises, and they have a soap API which allows you to automate everything from billing, to dns, machine creation/resize/destroy, etc.

Nice.

My only caveat was about their custom kernels, but that is something usual in lot of providers.

Is there a way of using your own custom distro or image; vs the ones they provide?

When I used OVH about two years ago, on dedicated servers, it was possible. And I think still will be in those.

Keep in mind that's not RAID disk, so if that hard drive goes, so does all your data.

RAID isn't backup anyway -- it's for uptime.

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