ovh . the neutrality of this article is disputed . relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . february 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message ovh type private industry hosting founded 1999 ; 17 years ago 1999 headquarters roubaix france key people octave klaba founder chairman cto henryk klaba president laurent allard ceo miroslaw klaba r & d director products hosting web hosting dsl revenue 240 million 2014 1 website www.ovh.com ovh is an internet service provider providing dedicated servers shared and cloud hosting domain registration and voip telephony services . the company is a simplified joint stock company under french law and is headquartered in roubaix northern france . the company has seventeen datacenters 2 housing around 250 000 machines . 3 the company offers localized services in france germany italy poland spain ireland the united kingdom the netherlands lithuania the czech republic and finland . it has also expanded its services to the united states canada and tunisia . the company has deployed ipv6 and dnssec 4 5 and is one of the sponsors of the free certificate authority let s encrypt which provides free certificates for secure websites . 6 contents 1 history 2 services 2.1 dedicated servers 2.2 dedicated cloud 2.3 runabove 2.4 vps virtual private server 2.5 exchange 3 ovh canada 4 key figures 5 in the news 5.1 controversies 6 references 7 external links history edit ovh was founded in 1999 by octave klaba fr at the time a third year student at the institut catholique d arts et m tiers icam in lille . citation needed in 2001 ovh rented 7 racks from paris hosting provider claranet . with its expansion more room was needed and cooling became an issue so ovh moved to a datacenter abandoned by free a french isp . shortly after the server park grew to 1 200 machines . to keep up with the growing demand ovh installed new servers . citation needed in 2002 ovh began renting another datacenter also owned by free . they later purchased the building making it the first company owned datacenter in paris . in 2006 ovh opened its first subsidiaries in poland senegal and spain . the volume of activity grew exponentially from 6 000 to 12 000 servers . an opportunity arose in roubaix where ovh has its headquarters and technical teams but no datacenter . ovh built roubaix 1 rbx 1 its very first datacenter . in 2008 and 2009 rbx 2 and rbx 3 were built . meanwhile the subsidiaries multiplied abroad tunisia morocco the united kingdom ireland italy germany finland portugal and the netherlands for a total of fifteen branches in europe and two in north africa . since 2010 ovh has invested 10 million euros in cloud computing to offer new services . at the end of 2010 ovh launched dedicated cloud a new external cloud solution . it is now possible to deploy a virtual datacenter within an hour and to add resources as needed . in 2011 ovh hosted 100 000 servers at its datacenters . the company constructed a 100 % air conditioning free datacenter rbx 4 the first of its kind . in 2012 ovh built its first container type datacenter in strasbourg sbg 1 to respond to the needs of its eastern european clients . in 2012 ovh continued its expansion and opened ovh inc. in the united states and canada . in 2013 the ovh had 700 employees and launched a datacenter with an overall capacity of 300 000 servers in gravelines northern france . ovh also launched a vdsl internet connection opened new offices in brest bretagne raised a 140 million dollar syndicated loan to support its investments and participated with atos in the cloud plan initiated by the french government . 2013 also marked the year of the first ovh summit an annual event inspired by it shows in north america . in 2014 ovh celebrated its 15th anniversary . it now had 800 employees and hosted 180 000 servers in 17 datacenters . the same year the company launched . ovh a new generic top level domain gtld . . ovh was the first new french gtld to be opened to the general public and over 50 000 new domain names were registered within the first five days of a promotion campaign for the launch . 7 two new brands have since been launched by ovh so you start offering servers and dedicated infrastructure and runabove a high performance public cloud solution . these two brands also work as labs where users can test new innovations . services edit dedicated servers edit ovh has a variety of servers . there are high end servers mid range servers and low end servers . the mid range servers are sold under the so you start brand . the low end servers are sold under the kimsufi brand . dedicated cloud edit some characteristics of ovh s dedicated cloud are its content delivery network its big data and its high performance computing hpc . runabove edit runabove is a public cloud solution designed for developers and devops . in october 2014 ovh launched the first per hour cloud computing offer based on the new ibm power 8 processor . vps virtual private server edit ovh offers two ranges of vps in the roubaix strasbourg and beauharnois datacenters . the first range is vps ssd which is based on the kvm . its specific information is e5v3 2.4 ghz 2gb to 8gb ram 100mbit s network . the other range is the vps cloud which is based on kvm . its specific information is e5v3 3.1 ghz 2gb to 8gb ram 100mbit s network . exchange edit since 2014 ovh has offered a collaborative messaging platform for professionals . this solution allows users to share contacts folders and calendars and sync emails on any device . all data is hosted at ovh s french and canadian data centers . ovh canada edit on january 26 2012 henryk and octave klaba along with canadian institutional partners the city of beauharnois the center for local development cld beauharnois salaberry and montreal international officially established ovh in the beauharnois salaberry regional county municipality of southwestern quebec canada . located in a renovated aluminium plant formerly owned by rio tinto alcan the bhs datacenter opened in january 2013 south of montreal . within 6 months ovh teams built two towers hosting 10 000 servers each . a third hosting space of the same capacity was built in 2014 . designed for the north american market as of 2015 ovh s bhs datacenter has an overall capacity of 360 000 servers . it is powered by hydropower . citation needed key figures edit number 1 hosting provider in europe number 3 hosting provider in the world netcraft jan. 14 18 000 000 hosted websites apr. 12 220 000 servers sep. 15 citation needed 17 datacenters sep. 15 8 2 900 000 domain names dec. 12 9 in the news edit in 2012 and 2013 vmware rewarded ovh with the service provider program partner award for the emea region and the title of global service provider of the year in 2013 . 10 on october 7 2014 during the 2nd ovh summit octave klaba revealed the company s new logo and slogan innovation is freedom . in december 2014 octave klaba is named it personality of the year by the magazine le monde informatique . 11 ovh also announced a new fundraising of 327 million dollars to support the company s international development . controversies edit until september 2009 ovh hosted a website of the democratic forces for the liberation of rwanda fdlr a hutu rebel force suspected of having committed crimes against humanity . 11 in december 2010 gizmodo revealed that wikileaks selected ovh as its new hosting provider following amazon s refusal to host it . 12 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 . 13 the case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing . 14 during the week of april 21 2013 accounts of at least two separate bitcoin providers websites hosted on ovh servers were compromised . ovh confirmed that three customers were victims of a vulnerability in their password recovery unique url system as it was not generating as randomly as intended . 15 in july 2013 ovh was attacked by hackers . a database of all european customers name phone hashed password ... was stolen . 16 on july 30 2014 american adult magazine publisher perfect 10 known for having sued several big companies since 2005 including google microsoft amazon giganews megaupload depositfiles mastercard visa and leaseweb filed a lawsuit against ovh for 188 million for hosting websites that illegally provide their images on various pirate sites . 17 references edit ovh mag actualit s innovetions & tendances it in french . no . june 2014 . ovh . p. 2 . ovh site in french . ovh . retrieved 2014 10 08 . ovh about page . ovh . retrieved 2016 08 24 . ovh ipv4ipv6 . help.ovh.co.uk . retrieved 2013 10 15 . included services dnssec domain names ovh . ovh . retrieved 2013 10 15 . gilbert guillaume december 22 2015 . ovh commits to let s encrypt to provide free ssl certificates . ovh.com . retrieved 21 january 2016 . already more than 50 000 domain names for the . ovh gtld . afnic . 2014 10 07 . retrieved 2015 03 11 . innovation is freedom . ovh . retrieved 30 may 2016 . ovh retour express sur 2012 . ovh.com . 2013 01 03 . retrieved 2015 02 05 . ovh octave klaba pdg d ovh personnalit it 2014 pour lmi . 2014 12 18 . retrieved 2015 02 05 . a b reporter succeeds where un failed rwanda militia website closed . christian science monitor . september 4 2009 . greenberg andy september 13 2012 . this machine kills secrets how wikileakers hacktivists and cypherpunks are freeing the world s information . new york new york usa random house . isbn 978 0 753 54801 1 . retrieved 2015 07 23 . within days they had registered the url and set up an sslprotected site and a tor hidden service in an ovh data center in the french city of roubaix the same one that briefly housed wikileaks publications until they migrated to sweden . french web host need not shut down wikileaks site judge afp following the wikileaks case . ovh . 6 december 2010 . retrieved 15 october 2013 . ovh forum our backoffice security . ovh un hacker s empare de la base de donn es clients . universfreebox.com . 2013 07 22 . retrieved 2014 01 18 . ovh slapped with 188m lawsuit for passing on pirate traffic . torrentfreak . 5 august 2014 . retrieved 5 august 2014 . external links edit website official in french official website us v t e website management concepts overselling web document web content web content lifecycle web hosting service web server webmaster website governance web hosting control panels comparison alternc cpanel directadmin domain technologie control gnupanel h sphere i mscp interworx ispconfig kloxo kloxo mr plesk usermin webmin top level domain registries afilias centralnic cira donuts neustar ovh uniregistry verisign domain 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