A promise is a promise, so several weeks ago we fulfilled it: your servers now have twice the bandwidth, for the same price!

We knew from the start that this upgrade would be feasible, as our 20Tbps network core can definitely cope with the extra load!  We work daily to make sure you enjoy using our network, which is one of the largest in the world among hosting providers.

Indeed, our network is constantly evolving, and our teams work tirelessly to optimise the capacity planning and anticipate the load generated by all our customers, spread across our 28 datacentres.

It’s also more than capable of managing the waves of DDoS attacks that arrive almost daily, sending millions of requests to hosted servers in an attempt to render them unavailable. These are absorbed by our in-house Anti-DDoS Protection, without any customer impact! As a reminder, we suffered one of the biggest attacks on record a few years ago, which generated traffic of more than 1Tbps, but was nonetheless absorbed by our infrastructure, without any impact on our customers.

To guarantee this additional public bandwidth, our Network and Bare Metal teams have worked closely together to be more and more LEAN when it comes to our infrastructures. As a result, thousands of active devices (routers, switches, servers etc.) have been updated in a completely transparent way!

The overall deployment process has taken some time, as we have done a rolling upgrade, taking a QoS and isolation approach to prevent possible traffic spikes. Product range by product range, datacentre by datacentre… The deployment itself was quick and painless, as it was fully automated. The potential bottleneck was making sure that everything worked as intended, which involved carefully monitoring our full server farm, as bandwidth doubling can have a huge impact, especially at OVH, where (let me mention it once again!) egress traffic is indeed unlimited!

Here’s a quick overview of the new bandwidth for each server range:

Even if the bandwidth doubling doesn’t yet cover the full extent of our ranges, or the So you Start and Kimsufi servers, we haven’t forgotten our customers who’re using those servers. We have also updated our bandwidth options to offer all our customers an even better service, at an even better price.

We aren’t going to stop there though! We will soon announce some nice new features on the network side of things.  And of course, lots of other innovations will arrive in the coming months. But those are other stories, which will be told in other blog posts… 😉

Our new ranges of dedicated servers are about to launch! 

OVH’s new dedicated server ranges aim to offer a wide selection of servers that are both powerful and easy to use.  

For the past couple of months, all engineering groups involved with the Bare Metal Product Unit have been working on the new dedicated servers’ foundations and future offers. From our portfolio’s value proposal, to our functional requirements (i.e. the technical building blocks); from our methodology, compliance, and production processes, to our datacentre standards and industry foundations, we have addressed the entire value chain! 

It has been an important and very interesting journey, where we’ve capitalised on our customers’ feedback, integrated our scalability constraints, and developed our operational excellence (and our ambitions!). And because innovation is our engine, we wanted to learn from our previous challenges, while still taking an innovative approach, as always! 

The new ranges each possess strong identities, shared by all their models, which makes it simple for customers to find, identify, and choose the server that’s right for their needs. 

“But what’s a bare-metal server?”

A bare-metal’ server is simply a single-tenant physical server. This is what distinguishes it from other forms of computing, such as virtualisation, and allows for customer access to hardware-specific features, which could not otherwise be provided with constant, guaranteed resources, or managed by a virtualisation layer (hardware flexibility, data-intensive projects, processing power etc.).  Each server may run any amount of work for the customer, or may have multiple simultaneous users, but its resources are dedicated entirely to whoever is renting it, without any lock-in !

The bare-metal server production chain at a glance!

A global approach

What does it mean to deploy a new range? Well, for a company like OVH – where bare metal represents a huge footprint of 400K servers in 28 datacentres – it requires a lot of organisation… 

• Customer feedback and continuous improvement
• Performance and innovation
• Resilience and scalability
• Product line and use case approaches
• Quality and lean industrial practices
• The best competitive ratio for our customers!

Those six pillars were our key drivers when starting this phenomenal programme for the launch of our new dedicated server ranges! 

Let’s kick-start our new OVHcloud journey!

The first new range from our dedicated server family is already here! Its name is Advance.

As you might have already seen, the Hosting range of servers has evolved considerably over the years, becoming larger and more versatile, in order to offer greater flexibility.  The new Advance range builds on this, and has been designed to meet the needs and requirements of SMEs, providing them with a strong foundation from which to meet their business challenges. 

Many, many new technical features (motherboards, CPUs, memory, disks, networks, options etc.) and benefits are embedded in the new range, such as: 

• A scalable infrastructure 
• A higher, unmetered network bandwidth 
• A free private network, included with all servers: vRack 
• 10Gbps network interfaces
• High-performance NVMe drives (Enterprise class) 
• New options for drive customisation 
• Free storage space, remote from the server, for backups 
• 256 additional free IPs 
• The best anti-DDoS protection 

But it’s not just about technical improvements…

On the pricing side, we kept our promise to offer both no commitment and no setup fees, to make it easier to benchmark our new models and quickly establish which ones should accompany your growth. We also listened to our customers regarding the commitment terms. That’s why we have introduced new discounts for longer-term commitment, with or without an upfront payment!

All this is by design. Our objective is to ease accessibility, and bring you the best of our industry when it comes to the price/performance ratio.  

Furthermore, we worked hard to enhance our level of quality and increase our overall maturity by moving to a key standard: ISO 27001. Because compliance and quality is just as important as performance! But we’ll talk about that in another post ?… 

Now stay tuned, because it’s just the beginning! OVHcloud is accelerating for YOU.