PLEASE OVH, YOU NEED TO STOP VIBE CODING YOUR FEATURES

[Antoinnneee]

Everything is getting worse and worse on your platform, and the more I look for help, the more stupid it gets !!!

In this image, you see the useful part for creating a post that takes up about ~10% of my screen

In this image, you see the AI chat which occupies roughly ~1/3 of the page. It would fill the whole column, which wouldn’t be annoying at all, on the contrary, because the chat doesn’t hide anything important.
When you close the chat to access what’s behind it (yes, with 1/3 of the column, it still interferes a bit with some buttons). SURPRISE, you reopen the chat and the conversation has disappeared! When you ask the bot to retrieve the last messages, it has no idea. Congratulations on the integration.
I’ve built a platform that’s better made than yours for talking to a model and I’m the only one in a company that makes €80K in revenue, not €1.08 billion.

Anyway, I wanted to call someone but you don’t seem to have an accessible phone number. Next domain name, I’ll take it elsewhere.

I can’t redirect my domain name to my IP because the ‘A’ record is missing, but each time I close the chat to see the rest, my answer disappears. Explain to me why this field isn’t added automatically when I make a redirection addition ??????????????

[TTY]

Hello,

You’re angry, huh
This discussion platform isn’t vibecoded, it’s Discourse https://www.discourse.org/ which I personally think is great… anyway.

For the A rating you should still manage; regarding DNS zone management I find the OVH manager pretty top‑notch.
Tab “webcloud” → click on your domain in the left column → tab “zone DNS"

[sturpin]

Hey @Antoinnneee

I'm really sorry you're going through this. I completely understand your frustration because there's nothing that makes you angrier than wasting time and having tools that don't help you, but actually get in the way.

Regarding the AI chat and the disappearance of the conversation, that's not a bug of “vibe coding”, but a limitation that is usually imposed for security and privacy (correct me if I'm wrong). Most AI assistants on cloud platforms don't keep conversation history between sessions to avoid exposing other customers' confidential data. It's not that it's done badly; it's designed that way.

About your A record and redirection issue… A redirection (like the one you're trying to set up) and an A record are two different things in DNS:

• An A record points a domain name directly to a server's IP address. In other words, it tells the world “my domain is at this IP”.

• A redirection (the one you create from the OVH manager) sends a visitor who enters your domain to a different URL.

The OVH manager creates a redirection via a rule on the web server, but it does not automatically add the A record because they are completely independent operations. For the redirection to work, the domain must already be pointing somewhere (with an A record), and that's what you're trying to do—point your domain to your IP. But because the A record doesn't exist, the domain isn't resolved and the redirection never runs.

And finally, even though I understand you're upset, I would recommend you not abandon the domain just because of this issue. DNS records and redirections are among the most frustrating things at first, but once you understand how they work, they become simple. I hope this helps you solve it.

If you have any other questions, let us know and we'll give you a hand.

Sergio Turpín

[Gaston]

Hello @Antoinnneee

It’s true that the reply‑to‑a‑message area is very small and narrow.

But on Windows it’s very quick to stretch that area vertically with the mouse.

[danielhartley92]

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to fix a technical issue while the tool that's supposed to help keeps getting in the way. Losing the entire chat history every time you close the panel would drive me crazy too.

[Antoinnneee]

Well, I finally figured out the problem. I had to add an “@” sub‑domain record in order to set up a redirect to my server. I don’t understand why that isn’t explained clearly. When you get a domain name, I honestly thought the basic behavior was to redirect to a server, so it’s not a huge deal.

There are a lot of non‑user‑friendly things in the interface, and you really have to turn a blind eye to ignore them. Want more untested stuff? Look at this: I see three domains listed even though I have four on my account. Why do I have to scroll to reach it when the page looks empty??

Why, when you want to access the domain‑settings, do you have to go all the way to the bottom of the page, and the names become less and less visible? Why are they arranged that way? proxileaf.fr was bought after pattounecorp.ovh, so it’s neither purchase order nor alphabetical order.

Why, when I write messages in this chat and paste a domain name, does it automatically create a link with .fr but not .ovh? And why is the link‑management element marked as selected, but if you click on it, it offers to create a new link instead of editing the existing one?

I get the GDPR angle with the AI chat, but when it hints that you should click on hidden buttons and I click the minimize button (not the close one), why does it reset even though I haven’t left the page? Is it in case someone grabs me from my chair and throws me out of my seat to steal the answer??

It’s been eight years that I’ve had my domains with OVH, and I’m fed up. I’m sorry, but OVH should pay developers to test their code, or, if their devs don’t know how to test, they should fund a testing team. I swear the manager gets less and less usable over time. The only reason I’m here is that it’s French and I prefer to spend money on French companies.

Anyway, my problem is solved. Thanks for the help; I ended up finding the solution before the answers.

[Gaston]

Hello @Antoinnneee

Come on, a bit of wholesome reading!

Here is a short guide I wrote that could give you some clarification for a complete and clean installation of your site.

Guide – Understanding the Domain > DNS Zone > Hosting > Site folder

See --> CMS - WordPress – Installation Guide at OVH

Read and assess your situation by following carefully the paragraphs: A to J applicable to all CMSs

Feel free to give me feedback: positive or negative.
This is how I fine‑tune my guide.
If my answer is the solution, feel free to click “Approve the solution”

[TTY]

Aren’t you on the beta version of the manager?
I can’t find your first screenshot.

In the webcloud tab → left column you manage all your domains.

[sturpin]

I also think it's in the Beta version

[MaryS]

Hello
I think it’s in the classic version, which is also what’s selected in the first screenshot, and I see exactly the same thing as that first screenshot in “Classic navigation” > “Dashboard”
We have almost the same thing in both the classic and beta versions.

[Antoinnneee]

Hello,

You're missing the part that talks about the registration of the ‘@’ type sub‑domain; without that I couldn't change the redirect address. Note, I think the site has changed since you made your tutorial and today. Now you have to declare the sub‑domain, not the full address, which requires @ and www records.

see my example :

For an improvement of your tutorial, I would do a graphic redesign to make the site more current. A cool piece of info would be an explanation of how to insert the TXT records for the acme_challenge and thus activate HTTPS when hosting locally, plus a short explanation about opening ports, redirects …

If you want to use hosting at OVH, I believe everything was configured to work out‑of‑the‑box, but to change the IP for a local host (my box’s IP) you had to modify the tables with that famous ‘@’

Otherwise, since I don’t use a CMS, but I create custom services hosted on my own machine that aren’t necessarily websites (application backend server), the tutorial isn’t that useful for me.

ps: @sturpin I’m in classic mode, I just discovered the beta mode by pressing the button, which is misleading because there’s a radio button named “beta navigation” right next to it, so I thought it was an explanation of how the site works (a tutorial).

ps2: The new beta Dashboard looks better

[fritz2cat]

In fact the “@” isn’t OVH’s fault. It’s a standard used in DNS zones since the very early days of the Internet.

@ corresponds to $ORIGIN.
More info: https://serverfault.com/questions/83874/whats-the-meaning-of-in-a-dns-zone-file

Most DNS zone providers use this naming convention.

In the past, OVH went its own way by imposing an empty field.

[TTY]

When they made this change it took me a good five minutes to understand why I couldn't add an A record