OVHcloud: A Polish-Born Engineering Student Visited His Web Host's Wooden Shack in Pennsylvania, Realized Hosting Was Simple, and Built Europe's Biggest Cloud With His Family
As a student at the ICAM engineering school in Lille, Octave Klaba was about to be cut off by his small US web host for using too many resources. He flew over, found the host running a few machines in a wooden cabin, and concluded that hosting was not that complicated. Back in France in 1999 he borrowed a few thousand euros from relatives, rented servers in Paris and started OVH from home in Roubaix. With his father, mother and brother, he built a vertically integrated, family-controlled company
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