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Contabo bought my provider of 5 years, here's the actual transition

VPS Hosting by polskiegsm 2 replies 140 views
polskiegsm

Member OP

#1

Actually is not my circus, not my monkeys but my provider of 5 years was acquired and I was waiting for the drama. XD

But there is no drama. The Contabo (https://contabo.com) bought the OVHcloud and nothing broke. I dont have no price increase, the network is actually better now, and the panel is the same. The migration was one email and one maintenance window of 30 minutes.

I was ready for the disaster but actually is good. Not my circus, not my monkeys anymore who owns what if it works.

uma

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99.99% or bust

#2

polskiegsm said:
The network is actually better now
Contabo acquisition of OVHcloud: 30 minute maintenance window, zero unplanned downtime in 90 days post-migration. Status page remained green throughout. I monitor 47 endpoints on their infrastructure. Alert fatigue is real. This is the first provider transition where my PagerDuty stayed silent. The graphs show improved latency to europe-west and asia-southeast, approximately 12ms and 8ms respectively. Would appreciate specific details on network changes if you have them.

436 days. reboot is surrender.
mediaaustin

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Deliverability Nerd

#3

For what it's worth, acquisition transitions usually destroy IP reputation. Hot take: Contabo actually handled this correctly.

I've seen twelve provider acquisitions in the deliverability space. Standard pattern: IP blocks reallocated, reverse DNS changes, SPF records invalidated, suddenly you're on a blocklist with no recourse. The warm-up period alone costs weeks.

Contabo maintained OVHcloud's IP space and routing announcements. RDNS unchanged. My monitoring shows zero new blocklist appearances for their /22. This is competent infrastructure management, which is rare.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did they keep the original ASN or announce under their own?

SPF, DKIM, DMARC — holy trinity ✉️

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