14 DAY TRIAL // Today, April 3, 2017, Canonical announced that OVH, the leading and fastest-growing cloud computing company offering VPS and dedicated servers, as well as other web services, joined the company's Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud program.
The new Canonical and OVH partnership will benefit OVH customers running public or private clouds, VPS, and bare metal servers on their infrastructures, minimizing the downtime and bandwidth costs. Being an Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud partner, OVH will now be able to distribute Ubuntu guest images to all of their users.
"We have delivered same-day in-region patches, for every security update since 2013, which has minimized bandwidth costs and downtime for Ubuntu users running on those clouds. OVH users will now benefit from the same," said Udi Nachmany, head of public cloud at Canonical.
Whether they're working with OVH’s dedicated servers, VPS server, public or private cloud servers, or virtual machines, all OVH customers will now be able to choose Ubuntu as their operating system and use it with the same dependable experience no matter the services used.
Through its Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud program, Canonical promises to offer its partners authorized and secure Ubuntu images that always receive the latest security updates. Professional support can also be purchased by all OVH customers for their Ubuntu deployments through Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage online shop.
There, you'll be able to buy the Canonical Livepatch service for rebootless kernel upgrades, as well as the new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) package for Ubuntu images running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or later, which is reaching end of life on April 28, 2017.