• k_o_t@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    this sucks, best of luck to them

    i wonder how this will affect ovh’s reputation and as a result potentially change the distribution of hosting loads among existing hosts 🤔

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      10 months ago

      Not that OVH’s reputation was much higher to begin with.

      They had another fire in a different datacenter in Germany I believe, going back about 3 years, in which the business I was working for had lost only emails but was also renting a dedicated server with them in a different datacenter.

      Looking at how they handled the situation (slow response times, not offering us space in a different datacenter to at least keep receiving emails), plus after constantly experiencing IO slowdowns in their “Performance” web hosting pack (in 2 out of 3 different hosting packs), our business (and me too, personally) changed providers in the coming months for basically everything.

      I suppose that was the right choice.

      The only thing I didn’t care to switch was DNS, but this last event makes me think whether I should also switch DNS providers.

      Edit: I just realized that this post is NOT today years old but was actually the event that I had experienced.

      Whatever… I guess I’m gonna leave my experience over here anyways.

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        4 years ago

        We migrated the instance to Digitalocean manually. OVH said that it would take them about a week to get the servers in that location running again. When I checked yesterday, even the admin interface itself was broken. And so far I havent received any direct communication from them, let alone a replacement server.