How is web hosting from OVH Cloud? Any good/bad reviews?

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Morning all. I was looking for web hosting and would like to go with a "big" company and came across OVH

(https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-hosting/)

The personal plan cost £1.89 without VAT and it includes 100 GB SSD storage. This would be considered cheap, that rounds down to £0.27 per GB per year.

Just wonder if anyone is using their service, or any reviews. Thanks

DigitalFyre

I would strongly recommend reading the specs of each plan carefully, you may notice some things that would make or break the deal for you:

1 x 500 MB database

MikeA

A lot of better options for web hosting if you just want to use a big company..

quicksilver03

I'm using the Pro plan for hosting some WordPress sites, but I'm not very happy about it.

First of all, if you're looking for a control panel such as CPanel or Direct Admin you won't find it at OVH, they have their own control panel which I would define as functional but not straightforward to use.

I'm happy that I can ssh into the server and use common commands such as rsync, git, and write shell scripts for automating some operations, but that's about the extent of my positive observations.

It's not possible to run the PHP process and the web server as different OS users, so WordPress is more exposed to attacks from a vulnerable plugin.

The option to split the access logs per site has never worked for us, so we have a dozen sites whose logs are all dumped to the same file. The "Firewall" option, when activated, make every request return a 403 error: I guess that it makes for an extremely secure website, but not if you want visitors to actually see your pages.

Outgoing connections seem to be filtered, so one cannot use an external SMTP server to send mail from WordPress and the only option is the mail() PHP function. Unfortunately for us, this means that all such mail isn't DKIM signed and thus it doesn't pass the DMARC checks.

nameserver

@MikeA said:
A lot of better options for web hosting if you just want to use a big company..

Any recommendations?

nameserver

@quicksilver03 said:
I'm using the Pro plan for hosting some WordPress sites, but I'm not very happy about it.

First of all, if you're looking for a control panel such as CPanel or Direct Admin you won't find it at OVH, they have their own control panel which I would define as functional but not straightforward to use.

I'm happy that I can ssh into the server and use common commands such as rsync, git, and write shell scripts for automating some operations, but that's about the extent of my positive observations.

It's not possible to run the PHP process and the web server as different OS users, so WordPress is more exposed to attacks from a vulnerable plugin.

The option to split the access logs per site has never worked for us, so we have a dozen sites whose logs are all dumped to the same file. The "Firewall" option, when activated, make every request return a 403 error: I guess that it makes for an extremely secure website, but not if you want visitors to actually see your pages.

Outgoing connections seem to be filtered, so one cannot use an external SMTP server to send mail from WordPress and the only option is the mail() PHP function. Unfortunately for us, this means that all such mail isn't DKIM signed and thus it doesn't pass the DMARC checks.

Thanks a lot for the info

arthit

@nameserver said:

@MikeA said:
A lot of better options for web hosting if you just want to use a big company..

Any recommendations?

Namecrane - I have not used it but have seen many recommending it....

hyperblast

@nameserver said:

@MikeA said:
A lot of better options for web hosting if you just want to use a big company..

Any recommendations?

all-inkl.com

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@arthit said:

@nameserver said:

@MikeA said:
A lot of better options for web hosting if you just want to use a big company..

Any recommendations?

Namecrane - I have not used it but have seen many recommending it....

Well I am using them for email hosting, so far so good.