I see several people talking about advanced backup systems for businesses.
I do not have a company, I work as a freelancer, I am Brazilian and the current 70 euros of tuition I was paying was already compromising my income, since my local currency is quite devalued against the dollar.
Then imagine the situation. my websites are down, the only backup I have was a copy of the vps that i made in november last year because i was with the intention of creating a server at my house, since it was getting expensive to maintain this server at OVH. It would be unacceptable for a company of this size not to have its servers backed up or to keep them in the same location as the incident, since their networks are all connected. I hope you have a satisfactory and quick solution to this problem.
If OVH backed up everything, the cost of the service would be double.
Many customers don't need a backup, so it's up to each customer to arrange their own backups — perhaps with tools and services provided by the hosting company, or their own solution.
Running a company with no backup (for cost or any other reason) is very risky, as some people will have found out today.
I had my server in SBG2 and sadly the backup failed since the end of january. Yep it is my mistake for not checking the backups. Now I lost about 1 month of data.
The only good thing is that my backup was offsite.
Does OVH offer automatic snapshots for VPS? I know Hetzner does it for 20% addidation of the cost of the server. If they do the next question would be if they are destroyed too?
With OVH the price can depending on the situation double your cost, if you've got a 3€ VPS and a 3€ backup configuration (as the price depends on size)
Well, not having managed backups is obviously part of choosing to go bare-metal. They do have triple-redundancy backups in their cloud offerings. Nobody to blame but yourself.
Also, if you’re hosting clients’ static websites, you were burning your money, there are way cheaper options out there (and fully managed).
