Oh good to know. I don't use OvH, and my limited understanding were from their products page which lists VM style offerings. I had assumed VMs were the major use cases on OvH.
The pricing on their dedicated servers are cheaper than most 1-2GB VMs on cloud: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/bare-metal/ - this is their flagship and most expensive brand, the cheaper ones are even less
The funniest tweets demanding their data and saying they'll lose everything are the people running:
I can imagine a provider that offers "Disaster Recovery Plan" in the sense that you push a button and they spin up [whatever machines you subscribe to] in a different data center and restore your latest backup to it.
Or the button flips your DNS from your usual primary servers to a hot backup (or a cold backup that you brought online yourself).
The funniest tweets demanding their data and saying they'll lose everything are the people running:
https://twitter.com/Sensity_RP/status/1369496048998223873 - GTA5 multiplayer gameserver that begs for donations. Running on one of the cheaper sub-brands of OVH probably (soyoustart, for GAME ddos-protection). $30-40/machine.
https://twitter.com/pdfshift/status/1369550522479480833 - I can't tell if this is a troll
https://twitter.com/KatsanosAlex/status/1369501497348812801 - I can't tell if this is a troll