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.[5] They are 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.

For the top level internet domain, see .ovh.
OVH
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
Revenue €600 million (2019)[3][4]
Number of employees
2,750 (2018) 
Websitewww.ovh.com

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]

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.[20][21][22] 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.[23] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.[24]

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.[25]

Email spam

In late 2019 and early 2020, OVH was listed by The Spamhaus Project among the world's 10 worst Internet service providers for the proliferation of unsolicited bulk E-Mail (spam).[26]

Environmental impact

OVH started to integrate innovative water cooling in 2003[27] in its datacenters.

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
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