OVHcloud US Review
OVHcloud US in its own words
OVHcloud US is a subsidiary of OVHcloud, a cloud provider offering Dedicated Servers, Private Cloud, and Public Cloud to over 1.4 million customers worldwide.
We have been an innovator in data center design and management for nearly two decades.
We build our own data centers and servers, own and operate our own network and are responsible for all of the maintenance and support for our customers.
We are a pure-play infrastructure provider. We will maintain your servers and ensure high availability, performance and connectivity so you can concentrate on building your business.
OVHcloud US was founded as a VPS provider in 1999.
It is headquartered in France.
It offers VPS and Dedicated hosting products.
- United States
Quick Links
| OVHcloud US plans specs and prices | Plans |
| OVHcloud US instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are OVHcloud US servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of OVHcloud US trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in OVHcloud US trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of OVHcloud US VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of OVHcloud US yabs.sh results | Yabs |
OVHcloud US VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
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| Hourly Billing | Mixed | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
All OVH instances include our industry-leading anti-DDoS protection at no additional cost. This ensures you are always covered in the event of an attack. |
| Backups | No |
Instance backups: $0.000017 /GB/hour |
| Control Panel | Builtin | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 8 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 3 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
CPU usage, RAM usage. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal | |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | Yes | |
| Firewall | Yes |
Available in Public Cloud. |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Large choice of instance types between the most affordable and the most feature rich.
- Management UI has improved considerably in 2020 and is now modern, reasonably fast but still a bit complex.
- Rich array of features.
OVHcloud US Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, OVHcloud US also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each OVHcloud US VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57s | 30s | 80s | 6 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snapshots | $0.011 |
Goes to object storage.
OVHcloud US snapshots storage |
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| Block | $0.096 |
Triple replication. $0.096 is for High Speed Volumes (3000 IOPS). Also available as "Classic Volumes" at lower speeds for $0.045/GB/month. OVHcloud US block storage |
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| Object | $0.008 |
S3 API Triple replication OVHcloud US object storage |
This price is for Standard Object Storage. |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by OVHcloud US for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
|---|---|
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Pricing model: Unlimited
(the provider does not charge for bandwidth and allows unlimited transfer with possible throttling.)
Port speed: 2 Gbps
OVHcloud US networking
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This provider does not charge for bandwidth. |
OVHcloud US Instance Types and Plans
All OVHcloud US instance types
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: General purpose Instance Type: d2 |
Start your Public Cloud journey with instances that have shared resources, delivering stable performance at a very affordable price.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/
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| D2-2 | 1 | 2.0GB | 25GB | $6.57 / month |
| D2-4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $13.15 / month |
| D2-8 | 4 | 8.0GB | 50GB | $23.67 / month |
| Family: General purpose Instance Type: b2 |
These instances provide you with balanced CPU/RAM resources for development servers, and web or enterprise applications. The vCores are at 2 GHz and above.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/
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| B2-7 | 2 | 7.0GB | 50GB | $29.04 / month |
| B2-15 | 4 | 15.0GB | 100GB | $55.44 / month |
| Family: Memory optimized Instance Type: r2 |
These instances are designed for data analysis and data science, with optimized CPU/RAM ratios and accelerated IOPS.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/
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| Family: General purpose Instance Type: VPS |
With OVHcloud Virtual Private Servers (VPS) you’ll get reliable performance at affordable prices.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/
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| VPS Starter | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $4.20 / month |
| VPS Value | 1 | 2.0GB | 40GB | $7.00 / month |
| VPS Essential | 2 | 4.0GB | 80GB | $14.70 / month |
| VPS Comfort | 4 | 8.0GB | 160GB | $27.30 / month |
| VPS Elite | 8 | 16.0GB | 160GB | $49.50 / month |
| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: VPS Epyc |
With hosts based on AMD EPYC platforms, the VPS Limited Edition offers increased computing and network performance: a major asset for hosting complex websites, resource-intensive applications, and even game servers.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/vps-epyc/
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| VLE-2 | 2 | 2.0GB | 40GB | $5.50 / month |
| VLE-4 | 4 | 4.0GB | 80GB | $11.00 / month |
| VLE-16 | 16 | 16.0GB | 160GB | $45.00 / month |
| Family: Gneneral purpose Instance Type: b3 |
These instances provide you with balanced CPU/RAM resources for development servers, and web or enterprise applications. The b3 instances comprise an AMD processor, and is our latest range. You also get better network performance with the b3 range.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/general-purpose/
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| b3-8 | 2 | 8.0GB | 50GB | $36.58 / month |
| B3-16 | 4 | 16.0GB | 100GB | $73.15 / month |
| Family: Compute optimized Instance Type: c2 |
These instances are perfect for applications that require high-frequency computing, or for processing parallel workloads. The vCores are at 3 GHz and above.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/
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| C2-7 | 2 | 7.0GB | 50GB | $42.24 / month |
| C2-15 | 4 | 15.0GB | 100GB | $81.83 / month |
| Family: Compute optimized Instance Type: c3 |
These instances are perfect for applications that require high-frequency computing, or for processing parallel workloads. The vCores are at 3 GHz and above.
Provider page for instance type:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/#compute
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| C3-4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $32.62 / month |
| c3-8 | 4 | 8.0GB | 100GB | $65.30 / month |