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OVH Groupe SAS
Company typePrivate
IndustryCloud computing, hosting
Founded1999[1]
Headquarters
Roubaix
,
France
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
RevenueIncrease €600 million (2019)[3][4]
−40,320,000 Euro (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
2,900 (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.ovh.com

OVH, legally OVH Groupe SAS, 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.[5] It is the largest hosting provider in Europe,[6][7] and the third largest in the world based on physical servers.[8] The company was founded in 1999[1] by the Klaba family and is headquartered in Roubaix, France.[9] OVH is incorporated as a simplified joint-stock company under French law.

History and growth

OVH was founded in November 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.[10] 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 and $8.1 billion U.S. dollars (4 to 7 billion euros).[11]

Operations

As of 2018, OVH has 27 data centers in 19 countries hosting 300,000 servers.[12] The company offers localized services such as customer service offices in many European countries, as well as in North America, Africa, and Singapore.[13] As of 2019, OVH is considered one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world, with over a million customers and one of the largest OpenStack deployments in the world.[14]

OVH is known for its offering of email hosting service,[15] considered one of the largest in the world,[16] in addition to its general Internet hosting services.

Partnerships

OVH is one of the sponsors for Let's Encrypt, a free TLS encryption service,[17][18] and OVH's hardware supplier is Super Micro Computer Inc.[19]

Incidents

In March 2021, OVH suffered a large fire at its datacenter in Strasbourg, France.[20] SBG2 was declared a total loss at the time, with early reports indicating damage to SBG1, and services across all four Strasbourg locations experiences disruptions.[21] The company's chairman, Octave Klaba, took to Twitter to confirm that SBG1 was damaged partially while SBG4 remained intact, and SBG3 intact but without power, though the servers at the latter sites were taken offline temporarily. No human casualties have been reported.[22][23] According to a Reuters report, millions of websites were taken offline, including "government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites".[24] For the video game Rust, a total loss of data was reported.[25][26]

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.[27][28][29] 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.[30] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.[31]

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.[32]

Environmental impact

OVH started to integrate innovative water cooling in 2003[33] in its datacenters.

OVH relies in large part on nuclear power, in particular their Gravelines data centre is known for being located next to the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station.[34][35]

In January 2021, OVH with other industry players joined the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, which is a pledge to achieve climate neutrality of datacenters before 2030.

References

  1. ^ a b c Clabaugh, Jeff (2016-10-06). "French firm to open 1st US data center in Fauquier Co". WTOP. Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. ^ "OVH reorganises its governance to support new acceleration phase". OVH.
  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}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "OVH Partners with KKR and TowerBrook for Further Global Expansion". exithub. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "About - OVH Canada". OVH. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  13. ^ Williams, Mike; Turner, Brian (2019-08-26). "Best dedicated server hosting providers of 2019". TechRadar. Archived from the original on 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "Press release for market report". 2020.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Gilbert, Guillaume (December 22, 2015). "OVH Commits to Let's Encrypt to Provide Free SSL Certificates". OVH.COM. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Rosemain, Mathieu (2021-03-10). "Blaze destroys servers at Europe's largest cloud services firm". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  21. ^ Sharwood, Simon (2021-03-10). "OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable". The Register. Retrieved 10 March 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ^ Sverdlik, Yevgeniy (2021-03-10). "CEO Says Fire Has Destroyed OVH's Strasbourg Data Center (SBG2)". Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  23. ^ Miller, Rich (2021-03-11). "OVH Data Center in France Destroyed by Fire, All Staff Safe". Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  24. ^ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU
  25. ^ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/ovh-data-center-burns-down-knocking-major-sites-offline/
  26. ^ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2021/03/ovh-cloud-datacenter-destroyed-by-fire/
  27. ^ 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.
  28. ^ 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.
  29. ^ Greenberg, Andy (2010-12-03). "Despite Attacks, WikiLeaks' Swedish Host Won't Budge". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  30. ^ "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.
  31. ^ "Following the wikileaks case". OVH. 6 December 2010. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  32. ^ "Report: We Tested 5 Popular Web Hosting Companies & All Were Easily Hacked". Website Planet. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  33. ^ "Servers on Demand: Custom Water-Cooled Servers in One Hour". Data Center Knowledge. September 16, 2013.
  34. ^ Julien Costagliola di Fiore (2017-05-04). "Energy efficient datacenter" (PDF). OVH.
  35. ^ Teva Meyer (2017-12-11). "Le nucléaire et le territoire : regards sur l'intégration spatiale des centrales en France" (in French). ENS Lyon.

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