<story><title>OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”</title><url>http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazon-google-we-will-never-be-in-competition-with-you/99939.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>truetraveller</author><text>Important notes about OVH:&lt;p&gt;-I&amp;#x27;m a customer for about ~2 years.&lt;p&gt;-I was &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; using OVH object storage, and was considering other OVH services.&lt;p&gt;-I&amp;#x27;m all about &amp;quot;cheap,cheap,cheap&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;-OVH is super-cheap, which is good.&lt;p&gt;-I want OVH to &amp;quot;win&amp;quot;. OVH doesn&amp;#x27;t want to &amp;quot;win&amp;quot;. Because..&lt;p&gt;-OVH is super-confusing. Interface, website, billing, everything.&lt;p&gt;-website uses esoteric design conventions. A European thing? I don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;-feels as if they went the extra mile &lt;i&gt;to&lt;/i&gt; make it confusing. Defies belief!&lt;p&gt;-they have separate websites for different countries, which use different login credentials.&lt;p&gt;-they have &amp;quot;OVH credits&amp;quot;. Why???&lt;p&gt;-they use OpenStack (Yay!). Unforuntely, they have a confusing implementation of OpenStack dashboard, AND on a separate site, with separate credentials.&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: I&amp;#x27;m a tech-savvy guy who can absorb some pretty bad UX, but OVH made me cringe. Seriously, I do not exaggerate. Anytime I need to log on to OVH, I get an uneasy feeling. So, I &lt;i&gt;gladly&lt;/i&gt; paid extra and switched. I use DigitalOcean now. It&amp;#x27;s not as cheap. Digital Oceans&amp;#x27;s UX is good, but not &lt;i&gt;amazing&lt;/i&gt;. But believe you me, it is BREATHE OF FRESH AIR compared to OVH. Update: may post a video if you guys want me to. Let me know!</text></comment>
<story><title>OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”</title><url>http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazon-google-we-will-never-be-in-competition-with-you/99939.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>QUFB</author><text>I run &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wtfismyip.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wtfismyip.com&lt;/a&gt; on OVH. Egress bandwidth exceeds 8TB a month, which on AWS could cost ~$1000&amp;#x2F;month, not including the cost of the beefy EC2 instance I would need.&lt;p&gt;For some bandwidth heavy use cases, OVH makes a lot more sense than AWS.  In my case it was $150&amp;#x2F;month versus $2000&amp;#x2F;month (bandwidth + EC2).</text></comment>