OVH Hardware, support and pricing is GREAT! Buuuuutttttt...<p>Their firewall situation is not. Guess what, if you use the supplied firewall, any server from any other customer in the local NOC that your server is in, can connect to your server. They seem to be all "safely" behind the OVH firewall product.<p>You have to protect each server individually with its own in-machine firewall.<p>I don't want to automatically trust all other OVH customers.<p>At first I thought I was doing something wrong (more than a decade of setting up firewalls). But I did put in a support ticket and they confirmed this.<p>Maybe I'm wrong, maybe something I did not understand, but damn... If I'm not.... :-(
I had the worst experience from a vps/dedicated hosting provider with OVH few years back, long story short I had a dedicated server with software raid, after a month, one of the disks failed I gave them all the details SN of the disk at fault etc, but apparently the removed the good disk and I lost the server, I asked them to put it back and they told me they had destroyed it, luckily I had backup. Lastly I asked for a refund they didn’t give anything back.<p>I moved to hetzner immediately, and I haven’t had such issues till today.<p>I know that you can’t expect much from cheap providers but OVH is extremely unprofessional in my experience.
Notice how there’s no info on IPv6. That’s because OVH has horrible support for IPv6 and requires non standard routes to be set because they don’t support router advertisements. They also rely on ND packets and not static routing for IPv6, and also block outgoing IPv6 packets if an incoming IPv6 address has not been established. I would avoid OVH.
I miss OVH's old control panel. It was so nerdy and to-the-point, unlike their newer modern interface that heats up my CPU with boatloads of javascript, and adopts the 'flat' design pattern that has now permeated every site in existence.
OVH is an absolutely shitty company. I've seen a tremendous uptick of spam from OVH that they're happy to simply ignore. The same kind of spam using the same content, the same registration patterns and the same template have existed on their networks for many months in spite of constant abuse complaints.<p>I can't imagine why anyone would want to run anything on the same networks that OVH uses to host spammers and scammers.<p>And good luck talking to an actual human at OVH if something goes wrong.
and their APAC backbone: <a href="http://weathermap.ovh.net/#apac" rel="nofollow">http://weathermap.ovh.net/#apac</a> with Singapore somewhat migrated to the new architecture
Just a reminder, from Wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH#Email_spam" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH#Email_spam</a>):<p><pre><code> As of November 2019, OVH is listed by The Spamhaus Project as the world's
second worst Internet service provider for the proliferation of unsolicited bulk E-Mail
</code></pre>
<a href="https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/ovh.net" rel="nofollow">https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/ovh.net</a><p>Looking at the same list now, it recently seems to have added fraud, and many malware distribution entries too.