In our previous articles, we explained why we had to move 800,000 databases from one datacentre to another, 300 kilometres away. So here we are… My team and I did it! It was a real brain-burner, so I hope our story will help you to address more of the huge technical projects we love to […]
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During the OVHcloud Summit last October, we announced the recent filing of 50 patent families. These patent applications obviously concern our “hardware” innovations (you know that we manufacture our servers, racks, cooling systems…) but also software patents, because contrary to popular belief it is possible to patent certain software (under certain conditions, but this is not the subject
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In our tour of OVHcloud’s Internal Databases Infrastructure, we showed you what our infrastructure looks like. This post will be about SQL replication, why it matters, and how we use it at OVHcloud. Nodes are not enough: they have to work together. To do that, we rely on a feature called replication to keep data
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Today, most applications rely directly or indirectly on databases. I would even take a bet and say that a large portion of those are relational databases. At OVHcloud, we rely on several dozens of clusters hosting hundreds of databases to power thousands of applications. Most of those databases power our API, host billing information and
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Last spring, I built a wood oven in my garden. I’ve wanted to have one for years, and I finally decided to make it. To use it, I make a big fire inside for two hours, remove all the embers, and then it’s ready for cooking. The oven accumulates the heat during the fire and
IOT: Pushing data to OVHcloud metrics timeseries from Arduino Read More »
This year OVHcloud celebrates the 20th anniversary of its ecosystem. For 20 years, we thrive to change the world in our own way by turning data revolution into a progress for all. Everyday we thrive for empowering our customers and partners by making the cloud accessible to all, collaborating for a more open cloud, in
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For its 7th Summit, OVHcloud brought together its whole community for the annual meetup at Porte de Versailles, Paris. For the opening keynote, presented by OVHcloud’s Founder and Chairman Octave Klaba and CEO Michel Paulin, nearly 10,000 people followed the event, either by going to the Paris Expo, or via video stream around the world.
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OpenStack Swift is a distributed storage system that is easy to scale horizontally, using standard servers and disks. We are using it at OVHcloud for internal needs, and as a service for our customers. By design, it is rather easy to use, but you still need to think about your workload when designing a Swift
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In our series of articles about migrating web hosting infrastructure from Paris to Gravelines (the first of which is here), we neglected to mention the databases. This is however a very important part, with 800,000 databases to be migrated! In these new series of posts, we will tell you about our experience with web hosting
Web hosting – How do our databases work? Read More »
What is IPMI? What’s the purpose of IPMI? Why should I care about IPMI? These are all fair questions. In the hosting provider world, IPMI or (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is thrown around almost as much as “SDDC (Software Defined Data Center)” or “IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)” but what does it mean, and why
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