OVH

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OVH
Type Private
Industry Hosting
Founded 1999
Headquarters Roubaix, France
Key people Octave Klaba (DG), Henryk Klaba (President)
Products Hosting, Web hosting, DSL
Website www.ovh.com

OVH is a privately owned web hosting service company in France that provides dedicated servers, mutual hosting, domain names and VOIP telephony services. The company is a Société par actions simplifiée under French law and its headquarters are in Roubaix in northern France. OVH was created in 1998 by Octave Klaba, at the time a third year student at ICAM in Lille.

The company has six datacentres housing at least 120,000 machines.[1] The company offers localized services in France,[2] Germany,[3] Italy,[4] Poland,[5] Spain,[6] Ireland,[7] United Kingdom,[8] the Netherlands and Finland. [9] It has also expanded its services to the United States of America and Canada.[10][11] The company has deployed IPv6 and DNSSEC.[12][13]

Since 2012 the company has been classed as the largest server host in the world.[14]

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FDLR [edit]

OVH hosted a website of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu rebel force, until September 2009 when a German reporter asked it why it was hosting the site.[15][16]

WikiLeaks [edit]

In December 2010 WikiLeaks installed itself on the servers of OVH in France.[17] France's Industry Minister Eric Besson said in a letter to the CGIET technology agency, that WikiLeaks "violates the secret of diplomatic relations and puts people protected by diplomatic secret in danger" and was therefore "not acceptable" that the site was hosted on servers based in France. The minister asked for measures to bar WikiLeaks from France.[18] In response, OVH referred the topic in emergency to a judge[19] in order to get a clear and definitive answer about whether hosting WikiLeaks is legal.

On December 6, 2010, the judge decided that there was no need for OVH to cease hosting Wikileaks.[20] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.[21]

OVH managing director Octave Klaba commented that: "OVH is neither for nor against this site. We neither asked to host this site nor not to host it. Now it's with us, we will fulfill the contract."[22]

Bitcoin Provider Attacks [edit]

During the week of April 21, 2013, accounts on at least two separate Bitcoin providers websites hosted on OVH servers were compromised. The separate attacks occurred two days apart.

The account passwords were reset, and the servers were re-started into recovery mode, giving the attackers full access. The firms who's sites were hacked insist they never initiated a password reset (which requires an email confirmation). OVH confirmed that 3 customers were victim of a vulnerability in their password recovery unique URL system, as it was not generating as randomly as intended, meaning that an attacker could get the correct code via brute force.[23]

Significant loss of funds occurred at both sites.[citation needed]

Malware and spammer hosting [edit]

Dynamoo's blog, a computer security blog that often points out malware hosts, shows that OVH is a major host of malware sources and spammers.[24]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "#ovh has reached 120,000 physical servers hosted in its datacenters". Twitter. 2012-04-10. 
  2. ^ "Hébergement et Solutions Internet" (in (French)). OVH. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  3. ^ "Hosting und Internetlösungen - OVH" (in (German)). Ovh.de. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  4. ^ "Hosting e soluzioni Internet - OVH" (in (Italian)). Ovh.it. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  5. ^ "Hosting i Rozwiązania Internetowe - OVH" (in (Polish)). Ovh.pl. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  6. ^ "Alojamiento y Soluciones de Internet - OVH" (in (Spanish)). Ovh.es. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  7. ^ "Hosting and Internet Solutions - OVH" (in (English)). Ovh.ie. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  8. ^ "Hosting and Internet Solutions" (in (English)). OVH. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  9. ^ "Webhotelli- ja Internet-ratkaisut - OVH" (in (Finnish)). OVH. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  10. ^ "Dedicated Infrastructure for your Business - OVH" (in (English)). OVH. Retrieved 2013-03-29. 
  11. ^ "Dedicated Infrastructure for your Business - OVH Canada" (in (English)). OVH. Retrieved 2013-03-29. 
  12. ^ "OVH : Ipv4Ipv6". Help.ovh.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  13. ^ "Included Services - DNSSEC - Domain names - OVH". OVH. Retrieved 2013-03-29. 
  14. ^ "Who's got the most web servers". Data Center Knowledge. 2012-08-17. 
  15. ^ "Reporter succeeds where UN failed: Rwanda militia website closed". Christian Science Monitor. September 4, 2009. 
  16. ^ Rwanda: German Firm Shuts Down FDLR Website, The New Times
  17. ^ (French) http://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/expulse-d-amazon-wikileaks-s-installe-en-france-02-12-2010-1270137_47.php
  18. ^ "WikiLeaks Flees to Switzerland as U.S., France Options Narrow". Bloomberg Businessweek. UK. 3 December 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
  19. ^ "OVH-WikiLeaks sets a reassuring precedent". 4 December 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2010. 
  20. ^ French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site: judge (AFP)
  21. ^ "Following the wikileaks case". OVH. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010. 
  22. ^ "BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. 2010-12-09. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  23. ^ http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6592.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. ^ Longmore, Conrad (19 April 2013). "OVH WTF". Dynamoo's Blog. Retrieved 20 April 2013. 

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