# OVH hosting 81 Hacker News commenters recommended OVH hosting and 55 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 2 years (6 owners). **Verdict:** Cheap, established European hosting provider that people use for VPS, servers and managed cloud; critics cite slow support, billing trouble and a buggy web UI. ## Why people recommend it - Cheap compared with AWS and GCP (9 comments): "The 2 providers above were much cheaper than our GCP stuff one the free credits ran out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844384)) "there are sometimes 10x cheaper options than AWS,GCP,Azure with things like Hetzner/OVH" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300354)) "a 50€ a month server at Hetzner, OVH or whatever is more than enough to host a website" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608947)) - European provider under EU privacy law (5 comments): "using something like upcloud/ovh which provide unlimited egress/bandwidth (both European) is a good combo for peertube imo" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673732)) "I have been a vocal supporter of European tech providers like hetzner,ovh etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705185)) "Scaleway and OVH are good alternatives if you want to host in Western Europe." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560082)) - Reliable over years of use (4 comments): "used VMs, dedicated servers and other services from Hetzner and OVH extensively" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46055481)) "I'm currently using OVH in Montreal for many years and never had any issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513160)) "The thing ran on a dozen of OVH servers, including multi-site redundancy." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835994)) - Managed Kubernetes and OpenStack support (3 comments): "OVH is much more developed on the managed side, they even have managed k8s as a service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817274)) "there are cheaper managed cloud than aws etc. as well (upcloud,ovh etc.)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458281)) "openstack integration from them works good enough for most of my needs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073696)) ## What people warn about - Slow, weak customer support (4 comments): "It's so buggy I couldn't even have my account deleted, not even after contacting their customer support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803462)) "some grossly overworked, underqualified and underpaid person working in a call center type environment" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886220)) "OVH is awful. The UI is slow and buggy, operations often fail and you need slow contact with support." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838000)) - Billing and account problems (3 comments): "They also kept double-billing me for 3 months without me realizing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121010)) "OVH for example will gladly take your money first and then refuse to provide any service without ID verification" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737502)) "It's so buggy I couldn't even have my account deleted, not even after contacting their customer support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803462)) - Buggy web UI and checkout (3 comments): "their web UI looks and feels like it was pieced together by hamsters" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838006)) "the experience was shitty was forwarded between different versions of the page GB etc and could not finish the checkout" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085835)) "OVH is awful. The UI is slow and buggy, operations often fail and you need slow contact with support." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838000)) - Less consistent than US clouds (3 comments): "OVH while a good company is definitly not providing US cloud-level data resiliency" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132043)) "the reliability and throughput of both of them isn't as consistent as AWS and this has been a constant headache" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198443)) "Hetzner and OVH are noticeably better, but still not quite at the level of the main cloud providers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504799)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Hetzner](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner.md): 415 recommend - [DigitalOcean](https://hackerapproved.com/p/digitalocean.md): 133 recommend - [exe.dev](https://hackerapproved.com/p/exe-dev.md): 115 recommend - [Hetzner Cloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner-cloud.md): 99 recommend - [Amazon EC2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-ec2.md): 73 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://us.ovhcloud.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "OVH hosting", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovh/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).