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OVH SAS

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legal form SAS
founding November 2, 1999
Seat Roubaix , France
management Octave Klaba
Number of employees > 1400 (as of 2018)
sales € 240 million (2014)
Branch Internet service provider
Website www.ovh.com

OVH SAS , based in Roubaix ( France ), is a French telecommunications and Internet service provider . With more than 260,000 servers in twenty data centers, the company is the European market leader in the hosting sector, and according to its own information it is in third place worldwide.

history

OVH was founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba while he was still a student, then in his third year at the Catholic Institute for Arts and Crafts (ICAM) in Lille . The start-up capital was 50,000 francs (equivalent to 7,622.45 euros).

In 2001 the company rented seven rack units ( height units ) from the Paris provider Claranet . However, there was a lack of space and cooling was also a problem. Therefore, the company then moved to a data center previously abandoned by the company Free in the 11th arrondissement (Paris) . Little by little the park grew until a number of 1200 machines was reached.

Additional servers have been added to meet demand. At the end of 2002, the company rented another data center next to Free in Courbevoie . Thereupon the opportunity arose to acquire a 3000 m² building unit in the 19th arrondissement (Paris) . OVH has been building its own servers since 2002 and is currently the third largest manufacturer.

In 2006 the company opened its first foreign subsidiaries. After Poland, where the Klaba family comes from, two subsidiaries followed in Senegal and Spain in the same year . During this time, the number of servers rose sharply from 6,000 to 12,000 servers, which is why the acquisition of a plot of land at the company's headquarters in Roubaix was used to build the new data center Roubaix 1 (RBX-1). In 2008 Roubaix 2 (RBX-2) and in 2009 Roubaix 3 (RBX-3) went into operation. With Roubaix 4 (RBX-4), the host put a data center into operation in 2011, which for the first time no longer required air conditioning. In 2012, OVH built its first containerized data center in Strasbourg to meet the needs of its Eastern European customers ( round-trip delay, or ping delay, which should be as short as possible , especially for online games ( game server )).

At the same time, further foreign branches were founded: Tunisia, Morocco, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Finland, Portugal, the Netherlands. The company currently has 15 subsidiaries in Europe and two in North Africa. In 2012 OVH Inc. was founded in the USA and Canada .

In 2015, Octave Klaba was replaced as CEO by Laurent Allard. Octave Klaba has been OVH's CTO and CEO and is responsible for the technical infrastructure.

For the company's 20th anniversary, the company announced that it would operate under the name OVHcloud with immediate effect.

Company name

The company name OVH has its origin in the initials of the nickname of its founder, O les V an H erman. O n V ous H éberge? also appeared as a welcome message during an FTP connection on one of your servers ( backronym ).

Data centers

The servers are located in the data centers in Beauharnois (BHS), Canada and in Roubaix (RBX), Gravelines (GRA) and Strasbourg (SBG) in France . A data center was opened in Limburg (LBG) in July 2017 , with space for 45,000 servers.

Product portfolio

Telephony

In France, the company offers telephony via SIP ( VoIP ), fax via personal computer / e-mail , ADSL / VDSL and SDSL under the OVH Telecom brand .

Hosting

In France, many other countries in the European Union and Canada, web hosting , virtual and dedicated servers and domain registration are offered. The offer is expanded with a specially developed protection against denial-of-service attacks.

With the Dedicated Server offer, the customer has the option of choosing between three product models, depending on the need for support:

Kimsufi

  • Kimsufi (from the French "qui me suffit", which is enough for me; previously Isgenug ): Kimsufi is a product group aimed at students / beginners, which is characterized by a very low price. The users should not expect traditional support, but have to cover their support needs with software problems solely via the provided internet forum . Any hardware problems will be solved by technicians from the provider.

So you start

  • So You Start: With these servers, OVH primarily addresses start-ups and small companies. In addition, OVH has an offer that is primarily aimed at professional providers in the game area.

OVHcloud

  • OVHcloud: With this brand, the company is primarily aimed at professional users, from small to medium-sized companies, through web agencies, hosters and resellers, to IT service providers and corporations. Depending on requirements and area of ​​application, they can choose the right offer from the three server series 'Enterprise', 'Hosting' and 'Infrastructure'.

Controversy

Spam and network abuse

In July 2014, the Spamhaus project listed the provider in first place among the “Top 10” of the “worst ISPs worldwide”. In 2016, the project listed the provider in first place for the number of botnet servers operated. The allegations include continued services for spammers , but also for hackers and botnet operators.

Web hosting for militia

Until September 2009, also hosted OVH site for the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda ( "Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda," FDLR), one in the Rwandan genocide involved militia of Hutu . The militia are charged with crimes against humanity and genocide against the Tutsi group . After this was discussed in the press in 2009, namely in the TAZ , OVH parted with the customer. OVH did not answer a request from the United Nations in 2008. It also remained unclear how the service was paid for, as the UN sanctions against the FDLR had frozen their funds worldwide.

Web hosting for WikiLeaks

In December 2010, Gizmodo announced that WikiLeaks has selected OVH as its new hosting provider. This came after Amazon's refusal to provide hosting services for WikiLeaks. Due to the intense public discussion that resulted from this, the French Minister of Industry Eric Besson felt compelled on December 3rd to have OVH investigate a ban on hosting Wikileaks. On December 6, 2010, a French court ruled that there was no legal obligation on the part of the OVH to refrain from hosting the WikiLeaks website.

.ovh domain

Top-level domain ovh
introduction September 1, 2014
category generic
Registry OVH SAS
Award unrestricted
number over 0.05 million

OVH announced on 1 April 2009, the introduction of a .ovh - domain , actually as April Fool's joke on. After more than 22,000 pre-registrations, OVH decided to apply for the domain extension as part of the introduction of the new gTLDs at ICANN in June 2012. The application was finally granted on June 22, 2013; On June 20, 2014 OVH took over the management of the .ovh domain.

The sunrise period started on September 1, 2014 and ended exactly one month later, on October 1, 2014.

The free registration started on October 2, 2014 with the free registration of 50,000 domains.

A domain can be between three and 63 characters long.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mentions légales. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ OVH is hiring. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ OVH about page ( en ) OVH. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  4. ^ OVH site ( fr ) OVH. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Netcraft "Hosting Provider Server Count", November 2012
  6. ↑ Who has the most web servers? Data center knowledge. July 2013, accessed February 22, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Website www.ovh.net in January 2000 ( Memento from January 18, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ http://www.ovh.com/en/about/presentation.xml  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ovh.com  
  9. ^ OVH, la face cachée de l'Internet français. Retrieved February 23, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Service provider OVH builds its own servers
  11. ↑ OVH subsidiary founded in Canada, "the largest data center in the world"
  12. ↑ https://blog.ovh.com/de/zum-20-jaehrigen-bestehen-aus-ovh-wird-ovhcloud/
  13. ↑ site www.ovh.net in January 2000. Archived from the original on June 7, 2000 ; accessed on February 22, 2014 .
  14. ^ OVH fait de l'humour. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
  15. ↑ New server product portfolio. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
  16. ^ The World's Worst Spam Support ISPs. Retrieved July 7, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Spamhaus Botnet Summary 2016. Accessed April 28, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Found 78 SBL listings for IPs under the responsibility of ovh.net. Retrieved July 7, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Terror side moves away from Germany. taz.de, accessed on April 1, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Jina Moore: Reporter succeeds where UN failed: Rwanda militia website closed. The Christian Science Monitor, September 4, 2009, accessed April 1, 2014 .
  21. ↑ James Karuhanga: Rwanda: German Firm Shuts Down FDLR Website. allAfrica.com, September 1, 2009, accessed April 1, 2014 .
  22. ^ Andy Greenberg: This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cypherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information . Random House, New York (New York), USA September 13, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7535-4801-1 (Retrieved July 23, 2015): “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. "
  23. ↑ French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site: judge (AFP)
  24. ^ Following the wikileaks case . OVH. December 6, 2010. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  25. ↑ .ovh Extension: get your .ovh domain . Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  26. ^ OVH Registrar: - OVH . Retrieved January 30, 2015.