Funding 2.

In October 2016, OVH raised $250 million in order to raise further international expansion.^[10] This funding round valued OVH at over US$1 billion. In the fiscal year of 2016, OVH reportedly had around $343 million in revenue. In 2018 OVH announced its five-year plans to triple investment starting in 2021. Which represent between 4.6 and $8.1 billion U.S. dollars (4 to 7 billion euros).^[11]

In October 2021, OVHcloud filed its IPO and is listed on the Euronext Paris, the Paris Stock Exchange^[12] as OVH. In December 2021, OVHcloud became part of the Paris SBF120 index.^[13]

Operations

As of 2021, OVH had 30 data centers in 19 countries hosting 300,000 servers.^[14][15] The company offers localized services such as customer service offices in many European countries, as well as in North America, Africa, and Singapore.^[16] As of 2019^[update], OVH is considered one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world, with over a million customers and one of the largest OpenStack deployments in the world,^[17] and a network capacity totaling over 20 Tbps

As of 2017, OVH was known for its offering of email hosting service,^[18] considered one of the largest in the world,^[19] in addition to its general Internet hosting services.

OVH uses in-house design and manufacturing, including custom-made servers (based on standard components) and a modular shipping container architecture. In 2019, the Canadian data center (Beauharnois, Quebec) was considered a leading example of the OVH model.^[20]

Partnerships

As of 2016, OVH was one of the sponsors for Let's Encrypt, a free TLS encryption service,^[21][22] and OVH's hardware supplier is Super Micro Computer Inc.^[23]

Incidents

In March 2021, OVH suffered a large fire at its datacenter in Strasbourg, France.^[24] SBG2 had been built in 2016 with a capacity of 30 thousand physical servers.^[25] SBG2 was declared a total loss, with early reports indicating damage to SBG1, and services across all four Strasbourg locations experiencing disruptions.^[26] The company's chairman, Octave Klaba, took to Twitter to confirm that all its staff were safe.^[27] All customer data and backups stored in SBG2 were lost.^[28] SBG1 was damaged partially while SBG4 remained intact, and SBG3 was intact but without power, though the servers at the latter sites were taken offline temporarily.^[29][27] In September 2021, the company filed a report^[30] with the Autorité des marchés financiers documenting the estimated damage at about €105 million.^[31] In 2023, OVH was ordered to pay €250,000 to two customers that had lost data, and more than 130 other customers are engaged in a class-action lawsuit against the company.^[28]

In October 2021, the company had a worldwide outage across all their networks due to a human error.^[32]

WikiLeaks

In December 2010, French Gizmodo edition revealed that WikiLeaks selected OVH as its new hosting provider, following Amazon's refusal to host it.^[33][34][35] On December 3, the growing controversy prompted Eric Besson, France's Industry Minister, to inquire about legal ways to prohibit this hosting in France. The attempt failed. On December 6, 2010, a judge ruled that there was no need for OVH to cease hosting WikiLeaks.^[36] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.^[37]