Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter?

Hi,

I live in France and the government is preparing a law to be able to cut electricity this winter, so I guess my OVH VPS in Gravelines isn't assured to run 24/7.

On it I run a small website with about 1000 visits per day. It's not vital that it remains up at all times (it doesn't bring money) but if I can do it for cheap I'm looking to relocate this VPS in a country where electricity won't be a problem.

Anything in Europe seems as bleak as France. Not sure about the US. Even Finland that has its own nuclear power plants is preparing to ration electricity.

The only country that has cheap energy seems to be Russia, but I can't get a VPS there for obvious reasons.

Any suggestions?

I imagine most datacenters will be jumping through many hoops to make sure they have power through any cuts. Things like paying premiums for electricity, backup diesel generators, etc. This is their bread and butter. There is of course a chance that the worst case will occur, but honestly I wouldn't spend too much energy focusing on it.

Iceland should be fine, they have plenty of renewable energy.

I can't imagine that these big hosting providers will shutdown parts of their infrastructure because of this.

They will probably buy additional fuel before winter to prepare to run their generators in the times where electricity could be cut off.

Wat? Where are you getting this from? Europe is completely fine from electricity standpoint. Most are doing deals with countries that have nuclear plants. Finland isn’t rationing anything either.