OVHcloud Associate case studies
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The OVHcloud Associate credential is an independent, third-party certification designed for cloud professionals who work with OVHcloud products and want to demonstrate practical breadth across the vendor's portfolio. It suits systems administrators, cloud engineers, pre-sales and solutions architects, and managed-service technicians who already touch OVHcloud services or plan to. It is not an official OVHcloud certification, and this page makes no claim of affiliation, endorsement, or partnership with OVHcloud SAS or OVH US LLC. The exam is structured around six weighted domains: Bare Metal & VPS (20%), Storage and Backup (20%), Network & Network Security (20%), Public Cloud (20%), Hosted Private Cloud (10%), and Identity, Security & Operations (10%). The OVHcloud Associate case studies are 5 cases and about 2,934 words.
1VPS Under Memory Pressure: Scale Up or Move Out?
A small e-commerce site runs on an OVHcloud VPS with 2 vCores, 4 GB RAM and an 80 GB SSD. MySQL 8, PHP-FPM and Redis share the host.
634 words, about 3 min240 TB Media Archive: Object Storage or More NAS?
A media company stores 40 TB of video masters and thumbnails - about 5 million objects - on two NAS appliances in a single datacentre. The volumes are 85% full, protected by RAID 6, and synchronised to each other nightly with rsync.
605 words, about 3 min3Public IPs on Every Tier: Closing an Exposed Public Cloud Project
A Public Cloud project hosts a three-tier web application: one load balancer, three application instances and one managed database. Every instance has a public IP.
572 words, about 3 min4Autoscaling a One-Hour Morning Peak
A SaaS provider runs eight fixed Public Cloud instances behind a load balancer. CPU sits at about 20% overnight but reaches 85% every weekday from 09:00 to 10:00, when users log in and generate reports.
549 words, about 3 min5Hosted Private Cloud DR: Same-Site Backup Is Not DR
A company runs 60 VMware VMs on a three-host Hosted Private Cloud in one region. Total provisioned storage is 30 TB.
574 words, about 3 min