OVHcloud Review

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OVHcloud was founded as a VPS provider in 1999.
It is headquartered in France.
It offers VPS, Bare metal and Web hosting hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • France
  • Germany
  • Poland
  • Singapore
  • United Kingdom

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OVHcloud VPS Features

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  Yes
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.
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/security/anti-ddos/

Backups  No

Snapshots are available for a fee: €0.011 ex. VAT/month/GB
Automated backups are €3.30/month.
See https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/vps/options/ .

Control Panel  Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  7
Number of Datacenter Continents  3
Monitoring Charts  No
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  No
IPv6 support  Yes
Firewall  Yes

A firewall can be setup for every public IP address.

Shelving  No
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Pros and Cons

Strengths

  • Large number of datacenter locations.
  • Rich array of features.

OVHcloud Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, OVHcloud 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 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
597s 45s 1560s 12

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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
Block 0.042€ Classic: 250 IOPS guaranteed, 4 TB max.
OVHcloud block storage
Block 0.086€ High speed: Up to 3000 IOPS, 4 TB max.
OVHcloud block storage
Block 0.086€ High speed gen2: 30 IOPS/GB for up to 20000 IOPS per volume
OVHcloud block storage
Snapshots 0.011€ Storage replicated x3.
OVHcloud snapshots storage
Object 0.007€ S3 API.
OVHcloud object storage
This price is for Standard Object Storage.

Network Bandwidth Prices

These are the network bandwidth prices charged by OVHcloud 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
Pricing model: Unlimited (the provider does not charge for bandwidth and allows unlimited transfer with possible throttling.)
Port speed: 2 Gbps
OVHcloud networking
This provider does not charge for bandwidth.

OVHcloud Instance Types and Plans

How fast are OVHcloud servers?
Screen all OVHcloud VPS Plans

All OVHcloud 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
Family:
General purpose
Instance Type:
VPS

With OVHcloud Virtual Private Servers (VPS) you’ll get reliable performance at affordable prices.
OVHcloud VPS get a dedicated environment with powerful processing, great storage options, snapshots, and up to 2 Gbps of unmetered bandwidth.
Around 40GB storage per vCore.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/vps/
VPS Value 1 2.0GB 40GB 5.80€ / month ($6.38 / month)
VPS Essential 2 4.0GB 80GB 12.50€ / month ($13.75 / month)
VPS Comfort 4 8.0GB 160GB 23.50€ / month ($25.85 / 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.
Around 25GB of storage per CPU vCore.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
B2-7 2 7.0GB 50GB 24.20€ / month ($26.62 / month)
Family:
CPU 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.
Around 25GB of storage per CPU vCore.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
C2-15 4 15.0GB 100GB 68.20€ / month ($75.02 / month)
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://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet.
Family:
Memory optimized
Instance Type:
r2

These instances are designed for data analysis and data science, with optimized CPU/RAM ratios and accelerated IOPS.
Around 25GB of storage per CPU vCore.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices/
VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet.
Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
Limited Edition

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://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/vps/limited-edition/
VLE-4 4 4.0GB 80GB 10.00€ / month ($11.00 / month)
VLE-16 16 16.0GB 160GB 40.00€ / month ($44.00 / month)
Family:
CPU optimized
Instance Type:
c3

These instances are perfect for applications that require high-frequency computing, or for parallel processing of workloads. vCores are clocked at 2.3 GHz and higher.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/prices
C3-4 2 4.0GB 50GB 30.60€ / month ($33.66 / month)
c3-8 4 8.0GB 100GB 59.76€ / month ($65.74 / month)
c3-16 8 16.0GB 200GB 119.44€ / month ($131.38 / month)
Family:
General purpose
Instance Type:
b3

With General Purpose instances, you can get projects up and running, stress-free and with all the scalability options open to you. These instances have a balanced ratio of 4 GB RAM per high-end AMD EPYC vCPU, to cover nearly all of your standard use cases.

B3-8 2 8.0GB 50GB 33.48€ / month ($36.83 / month)
b3-16 4 16.0GB 100GB 66.96€ / month ($73.66 / month)
Instance Type:
Other

No description

Provider page for instance type: /hosters/ovhcloud
VLE-2 2 2.0GB 40GB 5.00€ / month ($5.50 / month)
VPS Elite 8 16.0GB 160GB 44.00€ / month ($48.40 / month)

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