OVH VPS
Shares rank 12 of 21 VPS hosts by recommenders
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.
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.
24 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cheap compared with alternatives
“OVH prices are insanely cheap comparing to basically everyone else.”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month” “Hetzner, OVH and others offer 4-8gb and 2-4 cores for the same ~5$”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack” “their un-metered VPS was one of the better and affordable options”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas” - Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%”
- Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”
- Comment from 25 May 2026 in “The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month”
Good RAM for the money
“Hetzner, OVH and others offer 4-8gb and 2-4 cores for the same ~5$”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack” “OVH VPSs are particularly nice for RAM.”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month” Works well for personal sites
“All my personal websites are on a single $5/mo OVH VPS and it works perfectly fine.”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots” “As a solo dev, I use $5 VPS on OVH or Hetzner for peace of mind.”
Comment from 24 Dec 2025 in “Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff” “It's good enough for my needs.”
Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?” - Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Prices and plans changed upward
“They shifted right (VPS-1 2026 is now VPS-2 2027) and increased prices.”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x” “they're putting the prices up on a VPS I span up last month by 20% ish”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%” Slower than Hetzner equivalents
“performance was significantly worse than similarly priced Hetzner ones”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%” “their disk i/o is much better than at OVH”
Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?” Poor incident handling and support
“They handled the fire terribly and after that they improved a bit”
Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Don't rent the cloud, own instead” “their response was poor: they didn't even refund time lost”
Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Don't rent the cloud, own instead”
Other VPS hosts people recommend
The four most recommended other VPS hosts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | 415 | 212 | 66% | 13 | 5 yrs40 owners | — |
| DigitalOcean | 133 | 117 | 53% | 12 | 10 yrs15 owners | — |
| exe.dev | 115 | 56 | 67% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Hetzner Cloud | 99 | 28 | 78% | 12 | 3 yrs8 owners | Approved |
| OVH VPSThis page | 15 | 9 | 63% | 10 | — | — |
What people said
24 of the 26 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“OVH doesn't seem to directly support installation of arbitrary images”
“OVH prices are insanely cheap comparing to basically everyone else.”
“OVH VPSs are particularly nice for RAM.”
“All my personal websites are on a single $5/mo OVH VPS and it works perfectly fine.”
“OVH still seems cheaper here for smallest VPS”
“They shifted right (VPS-1 2026 is now VPS-2 2027) and increased prices.”
“their offers are real cheap”
“I had a VPS there and all the data was lost.”
“a single pain-in-the-ass OVH VPS for $7”
“Hetzner, OVH and others offer 4-8gb and 2-4 cores for the same ~5$”
“just happily using their VPS”
“their un-metered VPS was one of the better and affordable options”
“out of nowhere 1.40 bill on my 4.90/mo OVHcloud VPS”
“performance was significantly worse than similarly priced Hetzner ones”
“they're putting the prices up on a VPS I span up last month by 20% ish”
“Current VPS line-up (Intel based, though) is still quite cheap”
“They handled the fire terribly and after that they improved a bit”
“their response was poor: they didn't even refund time lost”
“their disk i/o is much better than at OVH”
“It's good enough for my needs.”
“a $4 black Friday sale OVH vps is perfect”
“Same price but better specs.”
“As a solo dev, I use $5 VPS on OVH or Hetzner for peace of mind.”
“rent a $5/mo vps in another country from a provider like OVH or Hetzner”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.