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Mar 10, 2021

The OVH data center fire is going to have an impact on offensive cyber operations. I hope CrowdStrike and FireEye can track that over the coming days

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they really are a wretched hive of scum and villainy

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"OVH is, bar none, *the* bargain basement cloud provider."

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is hetzner any better?

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OVH is known for having good DDoS mitigation, ridiculously understaffed support and great pricing. I think all three of those things make it appealing for that niche. OVH DDoS protection makes it quite popular for hosting game servers too thanks to kids paying for DDoS attacks.

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if one wanted to host a critical app with beefy db requirements on baremetal, proxying through cloudflare for ddos mitigation, preferably in north america, do you have any suggestions on where to look? i used to think "packet.net" but not sure abt "equinix metal"...

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We OVH with their Canadian location (Beauharnois) for nearly all the GrapheneOS servers and it's my overall first choice for anything. I've used them for many years and have always found it reliable. The stories about their support being terrible are definitely true though.

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DDoS mitigation from their network and unlimited bandwidth are nice. I wouldn't use their US location since it's much smaller. They have terrible user interfaces, terrible support and some of their newer service offerings like their domain registrar / DNS are a bit primitive.

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I don't want anything to do with AWS or OpenShift again. I'm quite happy using OVH for everything other than DNS. I'd like to use it for DNS to have everything in one place once they improve it. Don't use Cloudflare anymore because my experience is it's slow and not very helpful.

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You really don't want to put non-website HTTPS services behind Cloudflare because they end up silently breaking them with the challenge pages. It will break web resource downloads too if they aren't being made alongside the main document requests. It's also just really slow...

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"newer service offerings like their domain registrar / DNS are a bit primitive.", uh, you know that is the first thing they were doing when they started like more than 20 years ago ?

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I'm aware they've been a domain registrar for a long time. I'm only talking about the current incarnation of it. I can't edit my tweets to improve the wording or to fix things like the obvious typo in the previous one. I also don't think they offer domains to US customers anyway.