OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas (opens in new tab)

Still use it as soon as I'm forced to use a Windows computer.

Otherwise, as long as you make sure that no billing issue can arise from your side (like an expired card...), you should be fine.

We had a halon system in an on-prem data center twice the size of my bedroom. We had to knock out a wall because the volume was too small for the smallest cooling system we could get installed in the building. That was 20 years ago, and we had to do it for insurance reasons. In the United States, which I know you Europeans like to make fun of for being sooo amusingly Neanderthal.

What the absolute fuck, OVH.

As near as I can tell, the newest "premium" CPU you can get from them is a ~2021 era Xeon. The shared and "regular" CPUs are even older.

OVH Groupe is a separate VPS (and an extremely large one) based in France and Poland. They are backed by Xavier Niels (one of the powers behind Macron's throne) [edit: this is WRONG, confused with Scaleway and Klaba's past affiliation with 42].

Hetzner is a smaller VPS and colo in Germany, but provides a better experience for hobbyists.

HN idealist types will probably like Hetzner more than OVH Groupe's more enterprise oriented experience, but a number of government and industry critical apps in France are actually hosted on OVH.

In Germany, the bigger providers are either whitelabeling AWS (eg. Deustche Telekom) or implementing a chimera of GCP, Azure, and existing colos (eg. Schwarz's STACKIT).

I personally think the French approach to tech sovereignity is a much more realistic approach than the German method - French industries, financiers, entrepreneurs, and government agencies are actually aligned with building their own ecosystem, such as the effort put into LaSuite plus actually putting effort to host in OVH and Scaleway, and the fact that people like Xavier Niel actually exist, whereas the German equivalent would move to London or the US. Even French-turned-American tech companies like Datadog have tried to maintain a presence in France, but I haven't seen a similar thing in Germany.

OVH, SYS (So You Start), and KimSufi. It's a bit confusing!

IIRC they bring the newest hardware into OVH and push it down the line to SYS and KS as it ages.

It's how Prime Ministers and Project Managers prefer to abbreviate it. Especially in the afternoon (Post Meridiem). Particularly Meaningful if it relates to Project Management or Post Mortems.