OVH

OVH

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 more than 80,000 machines.[1] The company offers localized services in France,[2] Germany,[3] Italy,[4] Poland,[5] Spain,[6] Ireland,[7] United Kingdom [8] and Finland. [9] It will be soon be expanding its services to the United States of America and Canada[10]. The company has deployed IPv6.[11]

In 2009 it was classed as the 6th largest host of servers on the internet and the largest in Europe.[1]

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FDLR

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..[12][13]

WikiLeaks

In December 2010 WikiLeaks installed itself on the servers of OVH in France.[14] 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.[15] In response, OVH referred the topic in emergency to a judge[16] 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.[17] The case was rejected on the grounds that such a case required an adversarial hearing.[18]

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 fulfil the contract."[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Who Has the Most Web Servers?". Data Center Knowledge. 2009-05-14. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-got-the-most-web-servers/. 
  2. ^ "Hébergement et Solutions Internet" (in (French)). OVH. http://www.ovh.com/fr. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  3. ^ "Hosting und Internetlösungen - OVH" (in (German)). Ovh.de. http://www.ovh.de/. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  4. ^ "Hosting e soluzioni Internet - OVH" (in (Italian)). Ovh.it. http://www.ovh.it/. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  5. ^ "Hosting i Rozwiązania Internetowe - OVH" (in (Polish)). Ovh.pl. http://www.ovh.pl/. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  6. ^ "Alojamiento y Soluciones de Internet - OVH" (in (Spanish)). Ovh.es. http://www.ovh.es/. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  7. ^ "Hosting and Internet Solutions - OVH" (in (English)). Ovh.ie. http://www.ovh.ie/. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  8. ^ "Hosting and Internet Solutions" (in (English)). OVH. http://www.ovh.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  9. ^ "Webhotelli- ja Internet-ratkaisut - OVH" (in (Finnish)). OVH. http://www.ovh-hosting.fi. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  10. ^ "OVH and Patriot Act". http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5614. 
  11. ^ "OVH : Ipv4Ipv6". Help.ovh.co.uk. http://help.ovh.co.uk/Ipv4Ipv6. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 
  12. ^ "Reporter succeeds where UN failed: Rwanda militia website closed". Christian Science Monitor. September 4, 2009. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/0904/reporter-succeeds-where-un-failed-rwanda-militia-website-closed. 
  13. ^ Rwanda: German Firm Shuts Down FDLR Website, The New Times
  14. ^ (French) http://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/expulse-d-amazon-wikileaks-s-installe-en-france-02-12-2010-1270137_47.php
  15. ^ "WikiLeaks Flees to Switzerland as U.S., France Options Narrow". Bloomberg Businessweek. UK. 3 December 2010. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-03/wikileaks-flees-to-switzerland-as-u-s-france-options-narrow.html. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
  16. ^ "OVH-WikiLeaks sets a reassuring precedent". 4 December 2010. http://www.nicollet.net/2010/12/ovh-wikileaks/. Retrieved 5 December 2010. 
  17. ^ French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site: judge (AFP)
  18. ^ "Following the wikileaks case". OVH. 6 December 2010. http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4916. Retrieved 6 December 2010. 
  19. ^ "BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. 2010-12-09. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11935539. Retrieved 2010-12-12. 

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