Does it really need a VPS? Can’t throw it onto a cloudflare page for free?
Please don't encourage MITM-ing even more of the web by a US company.
OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
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Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#12Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#13Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient.
I know... all content has to be served via a "server" but in case of OVH it's a full-blown hosting solution isn't it?
Besides, I'm sure GitHub wouldn't mind supporting Pandas documentation. They do it for a million other projects for free (even though they're not popular among the HN crowd these days)
Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#14As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.
DO is amazing. Easy to use and clean
Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#15Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#16As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.
> They never had any major downtime for me
One of my server was lost to a fire so...
That being said, only happen one and I had no data on it so I didn't mind.
I switched to Hetzner too.
Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#17Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient. I know... all content has to be served via a "server" but in case of OVH it's a full-blown hosting solution isn't it? Besides, I'm sure GitHub wouldn't mind supporting Pandas documentation. They do it for a million other projects for free (even though they're not popular…
Free stuff has a way of short circuiting things.
Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#18Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#19As someone who's been around the block for affordable hosting providers, OVH was one of those that never really impressed. They never had any major downtime for me, but micro-outages, blips... things like that were common. Support was fine. In time I migrated off in search of better stability. Overall my gold standard is still Hetzner or DO for easy-to-use, affordable VPS/hosting options.
Isn't Hetzner strongly associated with OVH? I thought they were under the same umbrella.
Re: OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
#20Before cutting a service, OVH sends several warnings. In my opinion, the worrying point is not that OVH made a mistake, it's that important messages to the "infrastructure mailing list" of Pandas were ignored for weeks... until the post-mortem.
To be fair, if I had an agreement with a hosting provider and started to get "Your balance is too low", I'd also chalk it up to their payment/metering systems not knowing about the deal, not for the entire platform and organization to have forgotten about it.
Still I'd look into it at that point and send them an email about "Billing system not agreeing with what we've agreed on" or similar, rather than just ignoring it...