> VM images can be backed up automatically without downtime (on a schedule, not live.) They offer an EBS equivalent.

But if you need to persist transactions you still need to replicate and persist state yourself. Or can I mount an OVH virtual drive that I know will survive across VM migrations?

> I'll grant that the US regions are operated by a different corporate entity and a different web interface, and that is annoying.

Why? Do they at least support the same API? Can OVH actually scale on demand?