# OVH VPS

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovh-vps/

11 people recommended OVH VPS in Hacker News comments, 3 had mixed feelings and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 12 months, in 12 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend OVH VPS for low prices and generous RAM for personal sites and small projects. The most common caveat is that prices and plan lines have changed, sometimes upward.

Summary written by Claude from 24 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Cheap compared with alternatives (6 comments in the sample): "OVH prices are insanely cheap comparing to basically everyone else." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443223)) "Hetzner, OVH and others offer 4-8gb and 2-4 cores for the same ~5$" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737560)) "their un-metered VPS was one of the better and affordable options" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366930))
- Works well for personal sites (4 comments in the sample): "All my personal websites are on a single $5/mo OVH VPS and it works perfectly fine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212548)) "As a solo dev, I use $5 VPS on OVH or Hetzner for peace of mind." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379691)) "It's good enough for my needs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815066))
- Good RAM for the money (1 comment in the sample): "OVH VPSs are particularly nice for RAM." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441571))

## What people warn about

- Prices and plans changed upward (2 comments in the sample): "They shifted right (VPS-1 2026 is now VPS-2 2027) and increased prices." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543055)) "they're putting the prices up on a VPS I span up last month by 20% ish" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136422))
- Slower than Hetzner equivalents (2 comments in the sample): "performance was significantly worse than similarly priced Hetzner ones" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138271)) "their disk i/o is much better than at OVH" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822374))
- Poor incident handling and support (2 comments in the sample): "They handled the fire terribly and after that they improved a bit" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899111)) "their response was poor: they didn't even refund time lost" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897336))

## Other VPS hosts people recommend

- [Hetzner](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner/): 347 recommend, 87 mixed, 198 criticize
- [DigitalOcean](https://hackerapproved.com/p/digitalocean/): 107 recommend, 16 mixed, 111 criticize
- [exe.dev](https://hackerapproved.com/p/exe-dev/): 89 recommend, 19 mixed, 49 criticize
- [OVH hosting](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovh/): 62 recommend, 18 mixed, 49 criticize

## Where to get it

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

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "OVH VPS", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovh-vps/ (11 recommend, 3 mixed, 9 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.