OVH
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| Private | |
| Industry | Cloud computing, Hosting |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Roubaix, France |
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Key people
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Octave Klaba (Founder, Chairman, CTO) Henryk Klaba (President) Laurent Allard (CEO) Miroslaw Klaba (R&D director) |
| Products | VPS, Hosting, Web hosting, DSL |
| Revenue |
 320 million € (2016) |
| Website | www |
OVH is a French cloud computing company, that offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. The company was founded in 1999 by the Polish born Klaba family, and is headquartered in Roubaix, France. OVH is incorporated as a simplified joint-stock company under French law.
The company has 17 datacenters housing around 250,000 machines, which are home to 18 million websites and 2,900,000 domain names. The company offers localized services (such as customer service offices) in many European countries, as well as in North America and Africa.
OVH was founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba, with the help of three family members (Henry, Haline, and Miroslaw). In October 2016, it was reported that OVH raised $250 million in order to raise further international expansion. This funding round valued OVH at over $1 billion, making it a unicorn. In the fiscal year of 2016, OVH reportedly had €320 million in revenue.
OVH is one of the sponsors for Let's Encrypt
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