What alternatives are there? Not many good ones at a comparable price point. (Yeah I know about online.net, Hetzner and so on. OVH offers a much more polished product and vastly better network)
At the prices OVH offers, you can have your servers replicated in multiple datacenters for less money than many DCs would charge you for a single server with the same specs.
At this price point it should be perfectly fine if a datacenter burns down occasionally. At least their network is otherwise very reliable.
See my post here of how they are jacking prices up: https://rorodi.substack.com/p/sorry-but-due-to-the-high-cost...
Why wouldn't you mention them? Is it generic clickbait, and you don't want to get sued?
The big one (that did cause considerable consternation) was Hetzner some weeks ago, though they are based in Germany not France. See https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/176802/hetzner-price-incre... for much complaining about that one.
As the problems causing price increases for power continue, I expect many cheap providers (who have very low margins so can't afford not to pass on significant increases in power costs), and larger outfits with budget lines, will have to change prices soon or fail.
That depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for sustainable options, this probably doesn't include companies that burn down datacenters.
You would need to use multiple locations, not just datacenters, for durability. The network performance between locations just isn't as good as between datacenters in the same location.
IME OVH also offers much better connectivity around the world (which makes sense, given that they operate at a much larger scale than Hetzner)
Oh, and Hetzner billing support is absolutely terrible. I had to fight with them for months to stop charging for servers which had already been cancelled, after tens of emails they eventually owned up to having a bug on their end. It was like talking to a wall.
With Hetzner on the other hand I've had technical support issues responded to adequately within two hours, multiple times. As a small individual customer no less.
Hetzner has very good technical support, definitely no complaints about that. It’s their billing department which is downright unpleasant to work with.
I also had several outages with OVH (Exchange and Dedicated Server) - none yet with Hetzner. Right now planning to finally leave OVH for Hetzner and Microsoft (Exchange)
Note that OVH is primarily focused on dedicated servers, a VPS host isn’t comparable.
It would be strange to expect them to deal with the situation any differently if there was a catastrophic event in one of their DCs resulting in destroyed servers.
When working with dedicated servers at this price point, you’re very much expected to deal with your own backups.
Glad to have left that company years before the fire, never doing business with them ever again.