OVH

OVH is a French cloud computing company that offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. OVH owns the world's largest data center in surface area.[6] They are the largest hosting provider in Europe,[7][8] and the third largest in the world based on physical servers.[9] The company was founded in 1999[1] by the Klaba family and is headquartered in Roubaix, France.[10] OVH is incorporated as a simplified joint-stock company under French law.

OVH
Private
IndustryCloud computing, hosting
Founded1999 (1999)[1]
FounderOctave Klaba 
Headquarters,
Key people
  • Octave Klaba
    (Founder, chairman, CEO)[2]
  • Henryk Klaba
    (President)
  • Miroslaw Klaba
    (R&D director)
ProductsVPS, Dedicated hosting service, Cloud computing, Public cloud, Private cloud, web hosting, DSL
Revenue 500 million (2018)[3][4]
Number of employees
2,750[5] (2018) 
Websitewww.ovh.com

History and growth

OVH was founded in 1999[1] by Octave Klaba, with the help of three family members (Henry, Haline, and Miroslaw).

Funding

In October 2016, it was reported that OVH raised $250 million in order to raise further international expansion.[11] This funding round valued OVH at over US$1 billion. In the fiscal year of 2016, OVH reportedly had €320 million in revenue. In 2018 OVH announced its five-year plans to triple investment starting in 2021. Which represent between 4.6 to $8.1 billion U.S. dollars (4 to 7 billion euros).[12]

Operations

As of 2018, OVH has 27 data centers in 19 countries hosting 300,000 servers.[13] The company offers localized services such as customer service offices in many European countries, as well as in North America, Africa, and Singapore.[14]

As of 2019, OVH is considered one of the largest so called "cloud computing" providers in the world, with over a million customers and one of the largest OpenStack deployments in the world.[15]

OVH is known for its offering of email hosting service,[16] considered one of the largest in the world,[17] in addition to its general Internet hosting services.

Partnerships

OVH is one of the sponsors for Let's Encrypt.[18][19]

OVH hardware supplier is Super Micro Computer Inc.[20]

Controversies

WikiLeaks

In December 2010, French Gizmodo edition revealed that WikiLeaks selected OVH as its new hosting provider, following Amazon's refusal to host it.[21][22][23] On December 3, the growing controversy prompted Eric Besson, France's Industry Minister, to inquire about legal ways to prohibit this hosting in France. The attempt failed. On December 6, 2010, a judge ruled that there was no need for OVH to cease hosting WikiLeaks.[24] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.[25]

Information disclosure and multiple vulnerabilities

In January 2019, the magazine WebsitePlanet uncovered client-side vulnerability in some of the largest hosting companies in the world: Bluehost, DreamHost, HostGator, iPage and OVH.[26]

Email spam

As of November 2019, OVH is listed by The Spamhaus Project as the world's second worst Internet service provider for the proliferation of unsolicited bulk E-Mail (spam).[27]

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References

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  3. "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud computing". Reuters. 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2020-04-18 via www.reuters.com.
  4. "OVH Mag, Actualités, innovetions & tendances IT" (in French). No. June 2014. OVH. p. 2. Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  5. https://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/cloud-computing/1193432-ovh-de-l-hebergeur-francais-au-cloud-mondial/.
  6. Wood, Eric Emin (2016-10-12). "Why OVH opened the world's largest datacentre in the Great White North". www.itworldcanada.com. International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) IT World Canada. Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  7. MSV, Janakiram (2019-05-26). "How VMware Is Transforming Itself Into a Multi-Cloud Company". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  8. Coop, Alex (2019-08-27). "Canadian customers' heads are still in the clouds, and so is VMware's | Financial Post". Financial Post. Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  9. Sarraf, Samira (2017-05-12). "World's third-largest hosting provider OVH opens Melbourne office". CRN Australia. nextmedia. Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  10. Rosemain, Mathieu; Barzic, Gwénaëlle (2018-10-18). "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud computing". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
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  12. Rosemain, Mathieu; Barzic, Gwénaëlle (2018-10-18). "France's OVH to triple spending to take on Google, Amazon in cloud..." Reuters. Archived from the original on 2019-09-07. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
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  15. Max Smolaks (2019-04-29). "OVH pulls gloves off bare metal fighters as it eyes up US cloud vendors". www.theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  16. David Legrand (2017-03-27). "OVH lance une offre E-mail Pro basée sur Microsoft Exchange... mais sans ActiveSync". www.nextinpact.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  17. "Press release for market report". 2020.
  18. Lomas, Natasha (2016-04-12). "Let's Encrypt free HTTPS certification push exits beta". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  19. Gilbert, Guillaume (December 22, 2015). "OVH Commits to Let's Encrypt to Provide Free SSL Certificates". OVH.COM. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  20. Mawad, Marie (2018-10-18). "OVH Keeps Super Micro as Supplier, Vets Hardware In-House". www.bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2020-02-22. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  21. Greenberg, Andy (September 13, 2012). This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cypherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information. New York (New York), USA: Random House. ISBN 978-0-753-54801-1. Archived from the original on September 7, 2019. Retrieved 2015-07-23. Within days, they had registered the URL and set up an SSLprotected site and a Tor Hidden Service in an OVH data center in the French city of Roubaix, the same one that briefly housed WikiLeaks' publications until they migrated to Sweden.
  22. Vinocur, Nick; Love, Brian (2010-12-03). "France seeks to bar hosting WikiLeaks website". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2019-09-08. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  23. Greenberg, Andy (2010-12-03). "Despite Attacks, WikiLeaks' Swedish Host Won't Budge". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  24. "French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site: judge". Agence France-Presse (AFP). 2010-12-06. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  25. "Following the wikileaks case". OVH. 6 December 2010. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  26. "Report: We Tested 5 Popular Web Hosting Companies & All Were Easily Hacked". Website Planet. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  27. "The SpamHaus Project - SBL".

See also

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