Monthly Updates: Guides and Improvements - April - 2026

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**Dear community members,
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We are delighted to welcome you to this new section dedicated to monthly guides and updates.

Each month, you will find our new guides, designed to help you make the most of our services and products.

You will also discover the latest updates, improvements, and features we have integrated to enhance your experience.

Happy reading,

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Bare Metal Cloud :

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Dedicated Servers

• Bring Your Own Linux (BYOLinux)

• Configuring an Additional IPv6 block in a vRack

• Enabling and configuring the Edge Network Firewall

• Finalise a maintenance intervention on your dedicated server

• How to protect a Game server with the application firewall

• How to use the backup storage on a dedicated server

• Managing and rebuilding software RAID on servers using legacy boot (BIOS) mode

Virtual Private Servers

• OVHcloud VPS FAQ

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Hosted Private Cloud :

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Nutanix on OVHcloud

• Setting up Multicloud Snapshot Technology (MST) on a Nutanix on OVHcloud infrastructure

On-Prem Cloud Platform

• OPCP - How to configure a software RAID on a node

Public VCF as-a-Service

• Hosted Private Cloud VMware Lifecycle Policy

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Manage your accounts and services :

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Account Information

• Phishing - How to recognise fraudulent emails

Invoices, billing and payments

• Adding cloud credit

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Public Cloud :

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Public Cloud - General Information

• FAQ Public Cloud OVHcloud

• How to increase Public Cloud quotas

• Information regarding Public Cloud billing options

• Understanding metrics in OVHcloud Public Cloud — New

Compute

• Resize an instance via the OVHcloud Control Panel

File Storage Service

• File Storage Service - Getting started

• File Storage Service - Key concepts — New

• File Storage Service - Managing Share Snapshots — New

Object Storage

• Cloud Archive Swift - Capabilities and limitations

• Cold Archive - Getting started with Cold Archive

• Object Storage - Bucket ACL

• Object Storage - Enabling HTTPS on a static website using a custom domain

• Object Storage - Encrypt your server-side objects with SSE-C or SSE-OMK

• Object Storage - Endpoints and Object Storage geoavailability

• Object Storage - FAQ

• Object Storage - Getting Started with Versioning

• Object Storage - Hosting a static website in an Object Storage bucket

• Object Storage - How to migrate from OVHcloud Swift Object Storage to OVHcloud S3-compatible Object Storage

• Object Storage - How to migrate from an S3-compatible object storage provider to OVHcloud Object Storage

• Object Storage - How to share an object or file externally

• Object Storage - Identity and access management

• Object Storage - Manage an Object Storage bucket with Terraform

• Object Storage - Master asynchronous replication across your buckets

• Object Storage - Optimise the sending of your files to Object Storage

• Object Storage - Optimising Performance

• Object Storage - Restoring an archived object from Cold Archive storage class

• Object Storage - Server Access Logging

• Object Storage - Setting up CORS on Object Storage

• Object Storage - Smart Storage Management with Lifecycle Rules

• Object Storage - Technical Limitations

• Object Storage - Use Object Storage with Rclone

• Object Storage - Use Object Storage with S3cmd

• Object Storage Swift - Capabilities and limitations

Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS)

• Customising IP allocation on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster — New

• Known limits

Managed Rancher Service (MRS)

• Managed Rancher Service supported versions and lifecycle policy

Public Cloud Databases

• Getting started with Terraform for Public Cloud Databases

Analytics

• ClickHouse - How to connect to a ClickHouse cluster

• Getting started with Terraform for Analytics

AI & Machine Learning

• AI Deploy - Billing and lifecycle

• AI Deploy - Getting started

• AI Deploy - Scaling strategies

• AI Endpoints - Getting started

• AI Endpoints - Integration with Hugging Face Inference Providers

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Storage and Backup :

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Backup Agent

• Backup Agent - How to configure your first backup

• Backup Agent - Restore a Bare Metal server with Veeam Backup Agent

Enterprise File Storage

• Managing Enterprise File Storage with OVHcloud Terraform provider

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Web Cloud :

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Domain names

• Domain name & DNS FAQ

• Domain name holder contact management

• How to connect an OVHcloud domain name to GoDaddy

• How to connect an OVHcloud domain name to a Google Site

• How to connect an OVHcloud domain name to a Shopify hosting plan

• How to connect an OVHcloud domain name to a SquareSpace hosting plan

• How to connect an OVHcloud domain name to a Webflow hosting plan

• How to connect an OVHcloud domain name to a Wix hosting plan

• How to renew OVHcloud domain names

• How to use an OVHcloud domain name with iCloud Mail

• Redirecting a domain name managed by OVHcloud

• Transferring a .uk domain name to another registrar

• Transferring a domain name to OVHcloud

• Transferring a domain name to another registrar

• Troubleshooting a domain name error

DNS (Domain Name System)

• Configure an MX record for email management

• Creating an OVHcloud DNS zone for a domain name

• Customising a domain name’s DNS servers (Hosts)

• How to add a CNAME record for a subdomain

• How to add a DNS A record for a domain name

• How to add a DNS AAAA record for a domain name

• How to add a DNS TXT record for a domain name

• How to delete an OVHcloud DNS zone?

• Managing a DNS zone’s history

• Modifying an OVHcloud domain name’s DNS servers

Web Hosting

• Changing an FTP user password

• Duplicating the contents of one database to another

• Getting started with a Cloud Web hosting plan

• How to change the admin password of a CMS

• Logging in to your web hosting plan’s FTP storage space

• Managing your web hosting plan with Visual Studio Code via SFTP

• Migrating your website and associated services to OVHcloud

• Retrieving the backup of the FTP space on your Cloud Web hosting plan

• Troubleshooting common database errors

• Troubleshooting recurring errors when using FTP software

• Tutorial - Installing a CMS manually on your Web Hosting plan

• Using automated tasks on a Web Hosting plan

• Web Hosting - How to use FileZilla

• What do I do if my website is down?

• What to do if you get a « Your connection is not private » error?

Video Center

• Video Center - Manage your videos online — New

Web Cloud Databases

• Backing up and exporting a database on your database server

• Configuring your database server

• Creating databases and users on your database server

• Getting started with the Web Cloud Databases service

• Restoring and importing a database to your database server

• Web Cloud Databases - Connecting to a database

• Web Cloud Databases - How to authorize an IP address?

• Web Cloud Databases - How to manage logs

• Web Cloud Databases - Modifying a user’s rights

• Web Cloud Databases EOS and EOL announcements

Email and Collaborative Solutions

• Exchange - Configure your email account on Thunderbird for Windows

• Exchange - Configure your email account on Thunderbird for macOS

• FAQ OVHcloud emails

• Getting started with the MX Plan solution

• MX Plan / Zimbra Starter - Setting up your e-mail address on Classic Outlook for Windows

• Managing the billing for Exchange accounts

• Manually migrate your email address

• Migrate email accounts via OVHcloud Mail Migrator

• Migrating an MX Plan email account to an Email Pro, Exchange or Zimbra account

• Migrating your email addresses from one OVHcloud email platform to another

• Restoring deleted items from your email account

• Retrieve an email header and .eml file

• Using email aliases and redirections

• Using the Outlook Web App with an email account

• What to do if your account is blocked for spam

VoIP

• FAQ VoIP OVHcloud

Fax

• FAQ sur la solution Fax OVHcloud

SMS

• OVHcloud SMS FAQ — New

• SMS - Vérifier la validité des numéros mobiles avec le HLR Lookup