OVH, legally OVH Groupe SAS, is a French cloud computing company which offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services.
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12 Facts About OVH
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OVH is incorporated as a simplified joint-stock company under French law.
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OVH was founded in November 1999 by Octave Klaba, with the help of three family members .
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In October 2016, OVH raised $250 million in order to raise further international expansion.
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In 2018 OVH announced its five-year plans to triple investment starting in 2021.
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OVH offers localized services such as customer service offices in many European countries, as well as in North America, Africa, and Singapore.
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OVH uses in-house design and manufacturing, including custom-made servers and a modular shipping container architecture.
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In March 2021, OVH suffered a large fire at its datacenter in Strasbourg, France.
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OVH started to integrate innovative water cooling in 2003 in its datacenters.
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OVH relies in large part on nuclear power, in particular their Gravelines data centre is known for being located next to the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station.
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In January 2021, OVH with other industry players joined the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, which is a pledge to achieve climate neutrality of datacenters before 2030.
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