[linuxydave]

The only issue I've had with OVH and Kimsufi servers was that any incoming or outgoing SSH connections would also terminate on the first connection attempt. Always. Mac, Linux, Windows - it didn't matter. I've never had this issue with any other host.

I got so annoyed with it that I created a simple bash script that would attempt to connect, pipe the results to /dev/null and then connect again. Always failed on the first attempt, always worked the second. Their support weren't able to help me either.

The only upside was that it forced me to add decent connection error-handling to my scripts.