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On an unrelated note, why on earth doesn't OVH have reoccurring billing. Every month I have to click on their email link and make sure that my server billing gets processed? It's so strange...

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I've asked OVH about this many times, and they keep saying they'll get it. I'm actually going to leave OVH because of this and other issues. Its super annoying

They probably do it to reduce risk from chargeback fraud. Recurring payments run the risk of reversing multiple payments over a range. If someone files a chargeback dispute, OVH can dispute it by saying the customer authorized each charge.

Makes sense. I also had recurring bills that kept getting paid for 4-5 months after my credit card number was stolen and I got a new number+card for the same account. It was so odd.

It's a feature! IIRC, if a business has a certain volume, they can make an agreement with certain card companies to have the subscription "forward" to the new card.

if amazon, atlantic and DO can so this they can as well.

They can probably absorb more fraud.

Yet all the time people compare them to those services.

They should be using an indemnified payment service. Maybe not cost effective enough for them.

Maybe to encourage people to buy more months at once?

You can set up recurring billing - OVH calls it automatic renewal - I've got this set up, and they collect payment for my VPS and dedicated server with this method

It's only for their dedicated cloud product. http://docs.ovh.ca/en/faqs-renew-servers.html

Every month, I have to click on some invoice, enter CC details (even though I went through the process of saving those creds once).

UGH, so annoying. They're going to lose my business one day just because I'm going to forget..

I have a dedicated server and a VPS. Both renew automatically (at least here in the UK)

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