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

> 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.

Your house.

A site like that would run on a Raspberry Pi from a small solar panel and/or small (tiny) marine wind generator depending on your climate.

Self-hosting is a learning curve, but don't listen to the pessimists who tell you it's "impossible". There are many examples, but my favourite it this one [1].

[1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

Hetzner has a US VPS location. Linode and Vultr are good, too.

Anyway, I’d be surprised if things like OVH went down over this. I imagine they run some critical stuff and that France wouldn’t want their tech darlings to look so unstable.

There will always be electricity available, but it'll come at a cost. I expect businesses running duplicate capacity for redundancy (ie AWS) to spike in price first.

The French grid is mostly powered by nuclear and has been for years. I don't expect much of a problem there even with rising gas prices. The total energy consumption graphs online that show a significant amount of fossil fuels seem to also include other types of energy consumption such as heating.

I wouldn't worry about this for now. Make sure your offsite backups are working and prepare a plan for migration to any other host if you're worried, but with OVH I'd be more worried about the data center catching on fire than electricity being cut for more than a maintenance window.

You can trust the fire to be resilient

I can't speak French but this may be related to recent news about some policy regarding the nationalisation of the energy grid that France is working on. I can't find anything about cutting power, though.