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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Wow, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OVHCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OVHCloud</a>'s customer support is really bad. They don't read the diagnostics that you've already done, they ask you to run tests that would give them no information (you've run iperf3 and it's fast with any remote client. Two other protocols are slow, but only over one ingress path. Please reboot into rescue mode and run iperf3. We don't know what information that will give us, but it's the next thing on the script and we have no actual brains and must follow the script). Oh, and they disappear for a week in the middle rather than responding to questions like 'what do you actually hope to learn from this test, do you have a hypothesis that would be either supported or contradicted by it?'I definitely will not use them for anything important. I have a server with them that I was planning on moving things over to but I'm not even sure I want to trust them for personal stuff anymore, given that they are obviously completely clueless.I guess the fact that their Kimsufi servers are so cheap (4x2TB disks in a machine for about £20/month) should have been a clue that they cut corners everywhere. I assumed it was just that the machines had already fully depreciated.Are there any less-incompetent providers that offer cheapish (old is fine) machines with decent sized disks?EDIT: I want to be able to move a few things to it, but also export a nice big iSCSI drive to my NAS for off-site backups. That means I want at least a few TBs of disk. I'd quite like to run bhyve VMs, so that probably means dedicated not virtualised (unless).

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Really unimpressed by <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OVHCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OVHCloud</a>'s support. Finally gave up trying to figure out what is causing the network slowness. I'm 90% sure it's traffic shaping on one of their peer networks intentionally slowing / dropping ssh and wireguard packets. Every other protocol that I've tried is fast and ssh is fast from other machines.So far, they've asked me to do a whole pile of irrelevant nonsense with no clear idea behind it other than, perhaps, to make me give up and go away.

Rundkuchenbrot / PseudoDie EU-Kommission überlegt offenbar, ihre <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Clouddienste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clouddienste</a> von <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/MicrosoftAzure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MicrosoftAzure</a> zu <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/OVHcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OVHcloud</a> oder einem anderen europäischen Anbieter zu verlagern Zusätzlicher aktueller Auslöser soll sein, dass der Chefankläger des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/istgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#istgh</a> Karim Khan, auf Basis von US-Sanktionen von seinem Microsoft-basierten E-Mail-Konto abgekoppelt wurde. Dieser Schritt gilt vielfach als Weckruf Eine Umstellung wäre ein heftiger Rückschlag für <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Souveraenitaet-EU-Kommission-liebaeugelt-mit-Ersatz-von-Microsofts-Cloud-Azure-10454808.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/Souveraenitaet-EU-Kommission-liebaeugelt-mit-Ersatz-von-Microsofts-Cloud-Azure-10454808.html</a><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cloud</a>

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Well now I'm even more confused about why my connection to my <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OVHCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OVHCloud</a> dedicated. I've installed iperf 2 and 3 (the remote machine I have access to on a fast link, but also in the UK, only has 2 installed). I'm using three network locations for the tests:<ul><li>Home is my local connection.</li><li>Remote is the machine I have access to on a different UK network.</li><li>The server is the one hosted with OVH in Canada.</li></ul>And now I have the following data points:<ul><li>iperf3 from my home to the server can happily do 100 Mb/s UDP.</li><li>iperf2 from the remote machine to the server can do more (it's on a faster network)</li><li>iperf3 locally with TCP starts slowly but usually manages to reach 100 Mb/s.</li><li>Wireguard from my home to the server struggles to get more than 2-3 Mb/s.</li><li>scp from my home to the server gets a similar speed.</li><li>scp from the remote machine to the server happily gets 100 Mb/s (probably more for a larger file, I tested only a 100MiB one).</li><li>If I run <code>nc</code> on the server on a random port and send the data to <code>/dev/null</code>, I can transfer at 100 Mb/s from home.</li><li>scp from my home to the remote machine.</li></ul>So it looks as if something is specifically targeting ssh and wireguard traffic, somewhere between my ISP and OVH's Canadian connection.

Julien RiouThere is no official Ansible collection for managing OVH resources. There are modules in the community.general, a collection made by another company and some small collections made by individuals. None of them were covering my problem of the moment which was to manage a list of members in a role on Logs Data Platform (aka LDP). So I've spent all day updating our dusty collection to make calls to our public API. I will propose to make it open source so we should have an official Ansible collection soon!<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ansible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ansible</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ovhcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ovhcloud</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a>

John LeonardEvery spring, Computing publishes its definitive ranking of cloud providers based on how sustainably they operate. For several years, our in-depth assessment has served as a benchmark for environmental responsibility in cloud computing.<a href="https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2025/cloud-sustainability-top-10-2025-research" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2025/cloud-sustainability-top-10-2025-research</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aws</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/azure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#azure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ovhcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ovhcloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netzero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#netzero</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/green" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#green</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Salesforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Salesforce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lenovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lenovo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OVHCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OVHCloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IONOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IONOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UpCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UpCloud</a>.

Euractiv<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OVHcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OVHcloud</a> CEO calls on companies to anticipate discontinuity risk with European alternatives: For 25 years, we have sometimes been the Plan A, and at other times the Plan B for clients who, after testing us, decided to make us their Plan A, said Revcolevschi. <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/interview/ovhcloud-ceo-calls-on-companies-to-anticipate-discontinuity-risk-with-european-alternatives/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/interview/ovhcloud-ceo-calls-on-companies-to-anticipate-discontinuity-risk-with-european-alternatives/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it</a>

JimmyChezPants 🇨🇦Reason: <a href="https://growers.social/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Docker</a> pops open holes in the local machine's firewall in order to enable itself to work the way it does.This is 100% fine if you have a separate firewall between the machine and the internet, like say if you were hosting something on a Raspberry Pi in your basement - your router is a firewall.If, on the other hand, <a href="https://growers.social/tags/OVHcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OVHcloud</a> has rented you a raw machine with no way to manage access to it from outside the OS, running Docker on that vps is a silly thing to do. They were a mistake.

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