On: Pijul – Datacenter on Fires

[bayindirh]

However, Amazon is a US company. So while it may be bigger, it's not in Europe "per se". OTOH, OVH is a European company since it was found inside EU borders.

So, OVH may be the biggest cloud provider in Europe, since it's a European company.

[bastardoperator → bayindirh]

I would argue that OVH is not a cloud provider and instead just an average run of the mill webhosting company similar to Godaddy. If anything:

"lo barato siempre es mas caro"

The cheap is always more expensive.

[bayindirh → bastardoperator]

I have no experience working with them. I just wanted to clarify how OVH is considered European and AWS is not since I work in EU projects and I'm familiar with the perspective and thinking.

[thiht → bastardoperator]

> I would argue that OVH is not a cloud provider

You would argue wrong. OVH (now renamed OVHcloud) is clearly and openly shifting from a webhosting company to a cloud company, and it has been for a few years now. Their name says it. Their landing page says it (the 4 maine categories have "cloud" in their name. All the official PR describe it as a cloud company.

[jonathantf2 → bastardoperator]

They have a full on Public Cloud available but their main business is still selling dedicated servers. This makes them a competitor to AWS.

[qznc → bayindirh]

Hetzner and SAP also provide cloud services and it is probably impossible to tell how much of their revenue it is.

[bayindirh → qznc]

I think SAP, Dassault and like give these services to test their capabilities and beta test their services in a somewhat lower risk environment. They also charge for it, so it's a win-win for them.

A slightly more advanced version of old MyRealBox, which was Novell's e-mail server public beta test. It was free and was working with 99.99% uptime from my experience.