OVHcloud
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
Data sovereignty in Europe: what it means for your architecture
Sovereignty is not the same as residency, and confusing the two produces architectures that satisfy neither. Here is the distinction and what it changes.
The OVHcloud product range, decoded
OVHcloud sells several overlapping compute products with similar names. Knowing which is which turns a confusing catalogue into a short decision.
Designing for a region outage without rebuilding everything
Full multi-region redundancy is expensive and hard. There is a great deal of useful resilience available well before that point, and most teams skip straight past…
CDNs: what they fix, and what they do not
A CDN is the highest-return infrastructure change available to most sites, and it is regularly deployed in a way that caches nothing.
DNS for people who deploy things
DNS causes an outsized share of deployment incidents, almost always through the same handful of misunderstandings about caching, record types and delegation.
A staged plan for moving to another cloud provider
Provider migrations fail when they are attempted as one event. Staged in the right order, most of the risk is removed before anything user-facing moves.