# OVH dedicated server

17 Hacker News commenters recommended OVH dedicated server and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend OVH dedicated servers for low cost against public clouds, fast SSD hardware and good value for the price. The most common caveat is that the service has declined recently.

## Why people recommend it

- Far cheaper than public clouds (3 comments): "These providers also offer VMs, object storage and other virtualized services for way cheaper with similar guarantees" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46055620)) "A dedicated OVH or Hetzner box would be faster and cheaper even when on all the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502739)) "it's going to be 1/5 of what it would cost on public clouds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293992))
- Good value for the price (2 comments): "hosted on dedicated OVH for a very significantly small amount of money" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704888)) "for the price I really can't complain" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367515))
- Fast hardware and SSDs (3 comments): "A dedicated OVH or Hetzner box would be faster and cheaper even when on all the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502739)) "Our costs were cut by 90%, our performance tripled, and our reliability improved." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986335)) "5 big bare metal boxes on OVH with fast SSDs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874502))
- Low maintenance and reliable (2 comments): "Our costs were cut by 90%, our performance tripled, and our reliability improved." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986335)) "I never had to touch a single cable or change a single disk" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830595))

## What people warn about

- Service has declined recently (1 comments): "Hetzner was much preferrable to let's say OVH who also "deals" bare metal but not anymore." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544830))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Hetzner dedicated server](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner-dedicated-servers.md): 41 recommend
- [Hetzner Server Auction](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner-server-auction.md): 15 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/bare-metal/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "OVH dedicated server", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovh-dedicated-servers/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).