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Do NOT rely on OVH automatic renewal - Infact, don't use them for anything production
linuxthefish
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And 120 second delivery time is bullshit, more like a few days.
I imagine there's warning emails, etc?
Not if you have automatic renewal, nothing. It could be a bug as another server has automatically renewed, but support don't want anything to do with it...
I agree. Never use OVH for critical services.
Does this have anything to do with the email you have just sent to your customers at OVH CA? What happened?
That's generally the case with OVH.
Who's going to be the lucky provider then?
No issues with OVH auto-renewals for me whether it be their Dedicated servers, VPS and Public Cloud services. This also applies to the Kimsufi line of dedicated servers.
My service just auto-renewed for the year? I guess that it's just you.
No issues with me too. Just guessing, but perhaps it's something to do with your browser or firewall preventing some kind of ajax request to save those settings on ovh.
I've had servers that said 10 day wait delivered in 3 minutes, you're just one unlucky fish
Interesting. For another experience, always had fast delivery (except early order for new dedi line), and anytime I've forgotten to renew I just logged in and paid and had my server back up in minutes.
Never tried any auto renewal, wasn't aware it was an option.
Is this like the WHMCS cancellation bug that can immediately terminate people?
Used them since 2008 and never had a problem. I've got 5 dedis with them atm, though I do pay manually.
I think you have to click on "I'm Feeling Lucky".
Add a method of payment then choose which type:
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Yea fish, never use OVH for Hosting maybe as a seedbox.
doesn't auto renewal (not aware it exists) come with invoice payment confirmation?
Nothing is really bulletproof and the same could be said about any provider, so it's kinda your job to make sure that everything is going as planned and not rely on a third party and even then shit can happen. The title should be changed to something like: I got overconfident with a untested service and i failed.
Yeah I agree they NEVER manage to deliver in 120 seconds. In my case, it took whole 221.36 seconds.
This is why i always use manual renew.
OVH is known to oversell their servers every now and then.
Or more likely when they get 100 orders for new servers in 3 seconds their ordering system can't decide that it's out of stock fast enough.
Yes.
and as far as my exerience with them tells me, even if the service won't be renewed automatically, it does not disappear suddenly but stays available to be renewed for quite some time...
thanks, should have known, subscription
Honestly, I think OVH allow it to stay active for a few days after.
Just for confirmation - this came in as well on the same day. (I've edited it to remove my details )
yea, they're normally rather quick to validate payment and even tells you request for due date extension is possible.
I've not had a slow validation on payment.
My invoice was actually delivered after my server was delivered haha and it was less than 2 mins...
I'm just certain that the issue of the OP is due to not correctly setting it up. Otherwise i'm sure OVH would of apologized and sorted his issue out. I've had no need to urgently contact support so far as it's all pretty solid.
hey, no fair, they don't ever give me server w/o first paying :P
from experience, they always sort out issues