[jacquesm]

OVH has come a long way. They used to be cheap and bad at service and totally incommunicado about any issues. Then a few years back something changed and they started to work on their image. Their still cheap, but their service is good and getting better and they seem to have nailed the communications angle. Good for them. Between OVH, Hetzner and Leaseweb the EU hosting space is doing fine.

[adamseabrook]

We tried a number of hosting companies before settling on OVH including the premium dedicated companies. They do have the occasional hiccup but overall we have been very impressed with the pricing and the support both reactive and proactive. The day we signed up for our 50th server we received a nice personal email from the head of their support in Montreal.

[cmer]

We have over 25 machines with them. How do you cope with having to pay individually for every single machine, every single month? Their billing system is non-sense, unless I'm missing something?

[adamseabrook]

It is annoying but the cost of having someone sit there and click renew for 4 hours once a month is still less than the $35k extra we would have to pay to host elsewhere.

[Karunamon]

I might add that OVH has a US arm as well - prices are competitive with Hetzner at least.

[gtaylor]

I've been wanting to try them. Does this security breach have any implications for the US data center, or was this pretty localized to the European arm?

[jlgaddis]

Did you RTFA?

[seivan]

Wasn't there a recent thing with their CEO hating Github because of "Githubs agenda of poaching developers" or some shit like that?

[johnchristopher]

Oh yeah: http://www.ovh.com/fr/a1136.interview-github-octave-klaba-ov...

Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=ht...

[gouggoug]

I've always been a huge fan of OVH in my previous company. I had never seen this article. I was planning on moving my company's infrastructure from Rackspace to OVH. Reading this article makes me reconsider my decision.

Note to future CEOs: your opinions matter when it comes to getting/keeping customers. Customers not sharing your opinions are likely to leave, if they can, or not subscribe to your services if they're not already subscribed. Bashing github is certainly the best way to alienate the developer community from OVH. Moreover, stating that the reason was because one of their developer got hired by another company makes me wonder what must be the working conditions at OVH. I had thought one day applying there, I won't think about it anymore.

[temac]

Their CEO is not the brightest guy in the universe. This security notice is well written and signed by him... but obviously not written by him.