Octave Klaba

In July 2026, OVHcloud announced that it was challenging a Canadian production order issued in 2024 seeking subscriber data associated with IP addresses hosted on servers belonging to subsidiaries outside Canada. According to the group, Canadian authorities threatened OVH France and OVH Canada with proceedings for non-compliance with the order and obstruction.

The fire at Strasbourg's SBG2 data centre in March 2021 destroyed servers and caused data losses for some customers. In a landmark case, the Lille Commercial Court subsequently ordered OVHcloud to compensate a customer by more than €100 000, notably because contractual backups were stored in the same building as the primary data.

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The bid led by Octave Klaba to acquire the assets of Blade, developer of the Shadow cloud gaming service, was selected by the Paris Commercial Court in April 2021. Shadow, controlled by Klaba, subsequently entered into several commercial arrangements with OVHcloud, including transfers of contracts and equipment sales, creating a related-party governance issue.

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In December 2020, OVH Groupe sold its Hubic shares to Jezby Ventures, a company controlled by Octave Klaba, for €500 000. The transaction was a related-party transaction and therefore required specific governance oversight.

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On 9 November 2017, two independent incidents simultaneously affected OVH's infrastructure: a power outage in Strasbourg and a software bug in Roubaix. Numerous websites and services became unavailable for several hours, exposing limitations in the resilience and communications of a hosting provider that had become critical to part of the French web.

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After part of WikiLeaks' infrastructure moved to OVH servers in France, the hosting provider urgently applied to courts in Lille and Paris for a ruling on whether it should maintain or terminate service. The episode placed OVH at the centre of an international debate over freedom of information, hosting providers' responsibility and the legality of published content.

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In summer 2008, OVH announced tougher measures against storage of unlawful files, including server suspension following reports. The initial wording, perceived as allowing potential shutdowns without sufficient verification of allegations, drew criticism from customers and the specialist press.

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