OVHcloud
Hacker ApprovedRanked 6 of 10 cloud providers by recommenders
Recommended for cheap, fast servers and VMs and as a non-US cloud option; critics note US cloud act exposure.
Recommended for cheap, fast servers and VMs and as a non-US cloud option; critics note US cloud act exposure.
24 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 16
- criticize it
- 8
- approval share
- 67%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 16 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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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
Low prices for cloud servers
“Its been very cheap to run OVH cloud with the newest and fastest AMD EPYC CPUs that have high single core speeds.”
Comment from 22 Sep 2026 in “AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up” “It's probably the most economical option for a waitlist system.”
Comment from 12 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)” “Like hetzner's or ovh's cloud offerings are cheap”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust” European alternative to US providers
“the cloud offerings of companies like OVH and Scaleway are constantly expanding”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native” “I migrated to them after geopolitical risks with US providers got too high.”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains” “are all valid suppliers without the need to buy from hyperscalers”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence” - Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud”
- Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native”
Serious cloud provider despite flaws
“the cloud offerings of companies like OVH and Scaleway are constantly expanding”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native” “OVH (even with all of its flaws) is definitely a cloud provider”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud” “Scaleway and OVHCloud both provide all of that”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Not independent of US law
“Listed vendors like OVHcloud must follow the US cloud act, so not really independent from US.”
Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps” “Listed vendors like OVHcloud must follow the US cloud act”
Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps” Fires and underinvestment concerns
“real issue that they made the news with burning DCs”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure” “stopped investing in new equipment around the time they IPOd in 2021”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas”
Other cloud providers people recommend
The four most recommended other cloud providers, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 248 | 498 | 33% | 13 | 5 yrs17 owners | — |
| Google Cloud | 161 | 403 | 29% | 12 | 9 yrs13 owners | — |
| Microsoft Azure | 153 | 608 | 20% | 12 | 8 yrs10 owners | — |
| Scaleway | 70 | 26 | 73% | 12 | — | Approved |
| OVHcloudThis page | 16 | 8 | 67% | 9 | — | Approved |
What people said
21 of the 27 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I migrated to them after geopolitical risks with US providers got too high.”
“Its been very cheap to run OVH cloud with the newest and fastest AMD EPYC CPUs that have high single core speeds.”
“OVHCloud did not have any reasonable user management”
“I can spin up a dedicated server within 24-48hours or a VM within minutes on OVH”
“european clouds are better than the american ones”
“these are the first names that would come to mind”
“Listed vendors like OVHcloud must follow the US cloud act”
“Listed vendors like OVHcloud must follow the US cloud act, so not really independent from US.”
“stopped investing in new equipment around the time they IPOd in 2021”
“are all valid suppliers without the need to buy from hyperscalers”
“real issue that they made the news with burning DCs”
“Scaleway and OVHCloud both provide all of that”
“the cloud offerings of companies like OVH and Scaleway are constantly expanding”
“you can build solid infrastructure on top of those”
“Scaleway and Upcloud too might charge more than OVH and hetzner”
“It's probably the most economical option for a waitlist system.”
“Like hetzner's or ovh's cloud offerings are cheap”
“OVH (even with all of its flaws) is definitely a cloud provider”
“None of these remotely come close to their US counterparts.”
“Every other cloud provider has done better than Google in our experience”
“You can't just spin up an LLC and call it a separate company.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.