L'ecommerce agency Soledis offers its customers the possibility of hosting their site, and combines this with the following services support, monitoring, PRA, backup... The leaders in hosting are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, but ecommerce agency Soledis has chosen OVH, the European alternative. Find out why and how secure your data is.

An independent company

Although OVH has been listed on the stock exchange for the past 5 years, founder Octave Klaba remains the main shareholder in the company he founded some 25 years ago. OVH is a real success story, which began in a garage and now employs 2,900 people, with almost 500,000 servers, 35 datacenters and sales of €900 million.

The company has always been headquartered in Roubaix, France, and Octave Klaba is determined to maintain its European roots. Indeed, unlike its American competitors, OVH is subject to European laws including the RGPD. The Cloud Act, enacted in 2018 by Donald Trump and which authorizes the US government to search all data hosted in the United States, will therefore never concern your data hosted at OVH. Even OVH USA is a hermetically sealed company with no links to OVH France.

Made In France servers

OVH's original business is the manufacture of physical servers. The Croix plant is still in operation, manufacturing servers on a just-in-time basis. This enables OVH to offer shorter delivery times than its competitors. Beyond this advantage, it also enables us to control 100% of the physical server manufacturing chain, with no risk of security breaches at this stage.

Ecommerce agency Soledis wanted a choice of datacenter

Unlike competing offers, an OVH customer can choose which and how many different datacenters to store his data in. L'ecommerce agency Soledis has chosen 3 European datacenters, while competitors often offer only two. So you can be sure of knowing where your data is, and what laws apply to it! We think this is essential.

What's more, the Soledis ecommerce agency is autonomous in the management of these servers and has full latitude to temporarily increase your RAM or CPU in the event of a sales peak on your ecommerce site. Discover our accommodation offers here.

A culture of innovation

Did you know that OVH is the only data center company to cool its processors with water? This proprietary technology is called watercooling, and consumes far less energy than the air conditioning used in competing datacenters. This is obviously reflected in OVH's rates.

At Soledis, we love this kind of story that combines common sense, economy, environmental performance and innovation!

No outsourcing of your ecommerce data

OVH has chosen to focus on its core business of manufacturing and managing servers, and to keep its hands off data. To meet its customers' service needs, it refers them to an ecosystem of partners (themselves hosted by OVH to guarantee data security). At Soledis, we find this reassuring. How do the big names in the sector manage data security, given that their entire business model is based on data exploitation?

A high level of data center security

Aware of the value of stored data, OVH has implemented several levels of security around their physical servers (identification of employees authorized to enter the datacenter, tracking of their maintenance activities, training...). These are essential guarantees to demand from your ecommerce agency for your cyber risk management.

Measuring and reducing carbon footprint

In the interests of transparency and mutual support for environmental protection, OVH provides its customers with the carbon footprint of its hosted servers. Scopes 1, 2 and 3 of OVH's carbon footprint are thus passed on to each customer - whereas some competitors limit their information to scopes 1 and 2.

Aware that computer hardware, and servers as such, represent a significant part of a company's carbon footprint, OVH does everything it can to extend the life of its servers. After being manufactured and operated as "normal" in a datacenter, each server is put to work in a second-hand hosting service, offered at a reduced price. Each server then continues its life in a test and training center.

Thanks to its partnership with OVH, the Soledis ecommerce agency can guarantee the sovereignty of your ecommerce data in Europe, the security of the servers where they are stored, the measurement and reduction of the carbon impact of this hosting, and Soledis' control of the scalability of your ecommerce site hosting.