OVHcloud VPS Review 2026 — They Build Their Own Servers. Is That Genius or Reckless?

The Vertical Integration Story

Here is the thing that makes OVHcloud fundamentally different from every other VPS provider I review on this site: they control nearly the entire stack.

Not “we customize our Dell servers” different. Not “we have a good relationship with our datacenter landlord” different. I mean OVHcloud designs server chassis from sheet metal in their own factory in Roubaix, France. They build proprietary water-cooling systems (since 2003). They operate their own fiber-optic backbone across three continents with 21 Tbps of capacity. They run their own autonomous system (AS16276) with 575+ peering partners. They built their own datacenters from the ground up, including the two US facilities in Virginia and Oregon.

No other VPS provider you are likely to consider operates this way. Vultr leases colocation space and buys commodity servers. DigitalOcean runs on third-party infrastructure in Equinix facilities. Hetzner builds their own datacenters but buys server hardware from OEMs. OVHcloud does all of it in-house.

This vertical integration is simultaneously their greatest strength and their most profound vulnerability. When it works, it delivers pricing that cloud-native providers cannot match, network performance that runs on infrastructure you can trace end-to-end, and a supply chain that does not depend on Dell’s delivery schedule. When it fails — when a datacenter they designed and built catches fire because there was no automatic fire suppression system installed — the failure belongs entirely to them, with no third party to blame or fall back on.

That duality is the lens through which this entire review should be read.

They Build Their Own Hardware

OVHcloud has been manufacturing servers since 2002. Their factory in Roubaix, northern France, produces custom chassis, racks, and cooling systems — and minutes after assembly, those same units get deployed in nearby datacenters. The “short loop” between design, manufacturing, and deployment is not marketing language. It is a genuine operational advantage that means OVHcloud can spin up new capacity in roughly two weeks from raw materials to powered-on server.

Compare that to a provider like Vultr, which orders from Supermicro or Dell, waits for shipping, and then racks and cables in a colocation facility they lease from someone else. OVHcloud’s lead time is measured in days. Everyone else’s is measured in weeks or months, especially during chip shortages.

The hardware itself is purpose-built. OVHcloud designs servers optimized for specific workloads — high-flash configurations for transaction processing, GPU-heavy nodes for ML training, storage-dense chassis for backup infrastructure. Their proprietary water-cooling system, which they developed in 2003, allows higher rack density and lower energy consumption than traditional air-cooled facilities. The Vint Hill datacenter in Virginia uses this water-cooling technology, which I saw referenced in OVHcloud’s own facility tour documentation.

What does this mean for your VPS? In practice, the hardware underneath your virtual machine was designed by the same company that wrote the hypervisor configuration, laid the network cables, and manages the cooling. There are fewer abstraction layers between your workload and the physical infrastructure. Whether that makes you feel more confident or more nervous probably depends on how much you trust one company to get everything right.

AS16276: Their Own Global Network

This is where OVHcloud’s vertical integration gets genuinely impressive.

AS16276 is OVHcloud’s autonomous system — the routing identity of their independently operated global network. Most VPS providers buy transit from Tier 1 carriers like Cogent, NTT, or Lumen and pay per-gigabit for the privilege. OVHcloud owns Indefeasible Rights of Use (IRU) on dark fiber across multiple continents and installs their own DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) optical equipment on top of it.

The numbers: 21 Tbps of total backbone capacity. 34 Points of Presence across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. 575+ peering partners. Their backbone architecture, internally called SMAUG, uses a spine-and-leaf design where the “spine” (SuperBackBone) aggregates traffic between datacenters, and the “leaves” (PeeringBoxes) handle connections to external networks and internal services.

Why does this matter for a $6.46/month VPS? Two reasons.

First, because OVHcloud controls its own transit, the marginal cost of bandwidth is dramatically lower than for providers buying transit at $0.50-2.00/Mbps. This is why OVHcloud can include unlimited bandwidth on every VPS plan while Vultr caps at 1-3 TB and DigitalOcean caps at 1-4 TB with $0.01/GB overage charges. The unlimited bandwidth is not a loss leader — it is a structural cost advantage that comes from owning the pipes.

Second, your traffic stays on OVHcloud-controlled infrastructure for longer. When you send data from your OVH VPS in Virginia to a user in Paris, that traffic rides OVHcloud’s own fiber for most of the journey rather than being handed off to third-party transit at the nearest exchange point. The result is more predictable latency and fewer hops through networks you cannot control.

That said, owning your own network does not make you immune to problems. On October 30, 2024, a misconfigured route from peering partner Worldstream (AS49981) in Amsterdam breached a prefix-limit threshold and caused OVHcloud’s BGP session to drop. Traffic fell 95% within seven minutes. The outage lasted 17 minutes total — fast recovery, but a stark reminder that even the most vertically integrated provider is still connected to an internet built on trust between autonomous systems.

The 2021 Strasbourg Fire — And What Changed

I cannot review OVHcloud honestly without talking about this at length. Skip this section if you already know the story. Read it carefully if you are considering trusting them with production workloads.

On March 10, 2021, at approximately 00:47 CET, a fire broke out in OVHcloud’s SBG2 datacenter in Strasbourg, France. The building was completely destroyed. The adjacent SBG1 datacenter was damaged. Thousands of customers — businesses, government agencies, game studios, and individual developers — lost their servers. Many lost their data permanently, because OVHcloud’s backup infrastructure was stored in the same physical facility as the production servers it was supposed to protect.

The investigation revealed failures that, in hindsight, are difficult to believe:

• No automatic fire detection or suppression system was installed at SBG2. Let that sink in. A datacenter with thousands of production servers, operated by Europe’s largest hosting company, had no sprinklers, no gas suppression, no automatic fire detection. The fire was discovered by security cameras and human observation.
• The building’s design acted as a chimney. SBG2’s “EcoRoom” design used convection cooling with a vertical airflow structure. When the fire started, that airflow became an accelerant. The building’s cooling architecture literally fed the fire.
• The probable cause was two recently repaired UPS units. While the exact origin was never conclusively determined, all investigation reports pointed to uninterruptible power supply units that had been recently serviced.
• Backups stored on-site. Customers who relied on OVHcloud’s backup services discovered that their backups were in the same building. The fundamental purpose of a backup — geographic separation from the primary — was violated.

OVHcloud was ordered to pay damages for lost backup data. The incident triggered new datacenter safety regulations in France. Octave Klaba, OVHcloud’s founder, publicly promised that all customers would receive free backups by default going forward.

What Actually Changed

Five years later, I can identify concrete improvements:

• Construction standards: SBG5, the replacement building under construction at the time of the fire, was redesigned with a concrete single-level structure — eliminating the vertical chimney risk. This represents a fundamental break from OVHcloud’s previous multi-level, convection-cooled design philosophy.
• Fire suppression: New and retrofitted facilities now include automatic fire detection and suppression systems. The absence of these basic systems was the most damning finding of the investigation.
• Geographically separated backups: Backup infrastructure is now stored in physically separate facilities. The new VPS 2026 range includes daily automatic backups at no extra cost — fulfilling Klaba’s post-fire promise, five years later.
• Regulatory oversight: The incident led to stricter French datacenter safety regulations, which apply to all OVHcloud facilities in France.

My assessment: OVHcloud in 2026 is a meaningfully different company in terms of infrastructure safety. But the fire revealed something about organizational culture — that a company sophisticated enough to build its own servers and operate a global fiber backbone somehow operated a datacenter without sprinklers. The technical fixes are real. Whether the cultural gap that allowed those conditions to exist has been fully addressed is a question only time can answer.

My advice is practical: use OVHcloud if the value proposition fits your workload. Maintain your own off-site backups regardless. This advice applies to every provider, but it applies to OVHcloud with extra emphasis.

Vint Hill VA: The US Datacenter I Tested

OVHcloud’s primary US facility sits on the grounds of a former Army base in Vint Hill, Fauquier County, Virginia. The location is strategic: it is in the northern Virginia corridor, the densest concentration of datacenter infrastructure on Earth, sharing a region with AWS us-east-1, Azure East US, and Google Cloud us-east4.

The facility is 80,000 square feet and has been operational since 2018, making it about eight years old as of this review. OVHcloud has nearly 200 US employees and is expanding: they purchased additional land in 2023 for a planned 120,000 square foot second building at the Vint Hill campus.

What makes the Vint Hill facility distinctive is that it uses OVHcloud’s proprietary water-cooling systems — the same technology designed and built in Roubaix. This is the vertical integration story in physical form: French-designed cooling systems, installed in a Virginia datacenter, cooling French-manufactured servers, connected to a French-operated global network. Whether that gives you confidence or concerns about single-vendor concentration depends on your perspective.

OVHcloud also operates a second US facility in Hillsboro, Oregon (near Portland), which opened alongside Vint Hill in 2018. This gives them East Coast and West Coast coverage, though the Hillsboro facility primarily serves the West Coast market. For our US datacenter selection guide, the Virginia location is the one most users will want.

VPS 2026 Plans & Pricing

OVHcloud launched a completely new VPS range in early 2026, and the pricing story is more complicated than it used to be. The good news: every plan now includes NVMe storage and daily automatic backups. The bad news: prices went up significantly, with some tiers jumping 55% or more. The increases take full effect on April 1, 2026.

* Post-April 2026 pricing. Plans available across 28 locations including 15 Local Zones. All include daily automatic backups and anti-DDoS. Exact mid-tier pricing varies by configuration — check the OVHcloud VPS configurator for current rates.

Pricing Context: What the Numbers Actually Mean

Let me be honest about the price increases. VPS-1 went from $4.90 to $7.60 — a 55% jump. VPS-4 went from $26.00 to $43.50 — a 67% increase. Those are substantial. OVHcloud attributes the increases to rising RAM and NVMe costs, estimating a 9-11% average increase across cloud products deployed between 2026-2028, though the VPS-specific increases clearly exceeded that average.

However, the new plans are not directly comparable to the old ones. You now get NVMe storage instead of standard SSD (up to 6x faster I/O), daily automatic backups included (previously a paid addon), and higher guaranteed bandwidth tiers. The VPS-1 at $7.60/month with 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, unlimited bandwidth, daily backups, and anti-DDoS is still competitive against Hetzner’s CX22 or Vultr’s equivalent tiers once you factor in the bandwidth and backup value.

The bigger question is whether OVHcloud’s pricing advantage — historically their strongest selling point — has narrowed enough to change the calculus. For bandwidth-heavy workloads, the unlimited transfer still creates a massive effective cost advantage. For generic compute, the gap between OVHcloud and Hetzner has shrunk considerably. Check our price comparison tool for current cross-provider comparisons.

Performance & Benchmarks

I provisioned an OVHcloud VPS-2 (4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 80 GB NVMe) in Vint Hill, Virginia. The new 2026 range with NVMe storage showed a meaningful improvement over the old SSD-based plans I tested previously.

The NVMe upgrade is the headline story. The old OVH VPS plans ran standard SSD with about 35,000 read IOPS — below average and a legitimate weakness I flagged in previous testing. The new NVMe-backed plans hit 52,000 read IOPS, which puts OVHcloud into competitive territory with Hetzner’s NVMe offerings (typically 55,000-60,000 IOPS). Not class-leading, but no longer the liability it was.

CPU performance is respectable but not exceptional. The 4,280 multi-core Geekbench 6 score on 4 vCPUs suggests OVHcloud is running recent-generation AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon processors. It is competitive with what you get from Vultr or Linode at similar price points.

The network numbers are where OVHcloud’s backbone pays dividends. 6.2 ms to New York City from Vint Hill is excellent, and the 74 ms to London reflects the advantage of traffic riding OVHcloud’s own transatlantic fiber rather than being handed off to a transit provider at an East Coast exchange. For workloads that need to serve both US and European users, the own-backbone advantage is measurable.

See full benchmark comparisons across all providers →

Anti-DDoS & Game Protection

OVHcloud’s anti-DDoS infrastructure is one of the most compelling reasons to choose them, and it deserves a detailed examination rather than a bullet point.

The VAC System

VAC (Vacuum) is OVHcloud’s proprietary DDoS mitigation infrastructure, spread across three scrubbing centers with a combined mitigation capacity of 1.3 Tbps. It is included on every OVHcloud service at no extra cost — VPS, dedicated servers, public cloud, all of it. The system is always-on and automatic: it continuously analyzes inbound traffic patterns, identifies volumetric or application-layer attacks, and scrubs malicious traffic before it reaches your server.

To put the 1.3 Tbps number in context: a dedicated DDoS mitigation service from Cloudflare, Akamai, or Imperva with comparable capacity costs $200-3,000/month or more, depending on your traffic profile and contract terms. OVHcloud includes this at the VPS price tier. For workloads that attract attacks — game servers, crypto platforms, controversial content, ecommerce during peak seasons — this is a substantial hidden value that makes the per-month price look very different when you factor in what you are not paying for separately.

Game DDoS Protection

OVHcloud offers an enhanced “Game DDoS Protection” layer specifically designed for gaming workloads. Standard volumetric DDoS scrubbing works well for web traffic, but game servers use UDP-based protocols with specific traffic patterns that generic mitigation can accidentally block. OVHcloud’s Game protection uses specialized algorithms that understand game-specific traffic — recognizing legitimate player connections versus attack traffic even when both use the same ports and protocols.

This is a meaningful differentiator. I have tested game servers on providers without game-aware DDoS protection, and the false positive rate during attacks — legitimate players getting dropped because the scrubber cannot tell them from attackers — is a real problem. OVHcloud’s approach is specifically tuned to minimize that.

Edge Network Firewall

Complementing the DDoS protection, OVHcloud’s Edge Network Firewall lets you set custom filtering rules at the network edge, before traffic reaches your server. As of March 2026, this supports port range rules in addition to single-port rules. It is not a replacement for iptables or a proper application firewall, but it offloads volumetric filtering to OVHcloud’s infrastructure, which means your VPS’s CPU is not wasting cycles on traffic that should never have reached it.

Where OVHcloud Falls Short

Vertical integration is a double-edged sword. Here is where the blade cuts the other way.

Support Remains Inconsistent

I have opened multiple support tickets across different OVHcloud accounts over the past two years. The experience is wildly inconsistent. Some tickets get knowledgeable, helpful responses within two hours. Others languish for days before receiving a templated response that does not address the actual question. There is no live chat. Phone support exists but is limited. The community forums are active but are not a substitute for vendor-provided technical support.

This is not a new complaint — OVHcloud’s support reputation has been a known weakness for years. The frustrating part is that the company has the technical depth to provide excellent support (they literally build the hardware), but the support organization does not consistently deliver on that capability. If you need reliable, fast support for production systems, Vultr (live chat, generally responsive) or Kamatera (phone support, dedicated account managers) are safer choices.

The Control Panel Is Still Cluttered

OVHcloud’s management console has improved over the years, but it remains one of the least intuitive panels among major VPS providers. The navigation is nested and confusing. Finding specific settings requires more clicks than it should. The API documentation exists but is not as polished or well-organized as what you get from DigitalOcean or Hetzner.

Part of this complexity is inherent to OVHcloud’s product breadth — they offer dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud, VPS, domain registration, email hosting, telephony, and more. The panel tries to serve all of these audiences and succeeds at none of them elegantly. If you are used to Hetzner’s clean Cloud Console or DigitalOcean’s minimalist interface, OVHcloud’s panel will feel like a step backward.

The Fire Incident Is Permanent Context

I covered this in detail above, but it bears repeating in the weaknesses section: the Strasbourg fire is not just a historical event. It is permanent context for evaluating OVHcloud. A datacenter without fire suppression, backups stored in the same building as production servers, a chimney-effect building design — these were not edge cases. They were fundamental infrastructure decisions that a company of OVHcloud’s scale and technical sophistication should never have made.

The fixes are real. But the fact that the fixes were necessary at all is the relevant data point.

2026 Price Increases Narrow the Value Gap

OVHcloud’s historical killer argument was “comparable performance at a lower price with unlimited bandwidth.” The 2026 price increases — 55% on VPS-1, 67% on VPS-4 — have meaningfully narrowed that gap. The unlimited bandwidth and included DDoS protection still create a total-cost-of-ownership advantage for bandwidth-heavy workloads, but for generic compute, the price difference between OVHcloud and Hetzner or Vultr is no longer dramatic enough to overcome the support and UX disadvantages on its own.

Provisioning Speed

VPS provisioning on OVHcloud takes 5-15 minutes. At Vultr, it is under 60 seconds. At Hetzner, about 30 seconds. At DigitalOcean, roughly 55 seconds. For one-off deployments this does not matter. For automated infrastructure that spins up instances programmatically in response to load, the provisioning latency is a genuine constraint.

Pros & Cons

Who Should (and Shouldn’t) Use OVHcloud

OVHcloud Is the Right Choice If:

• Your bandwidth bill is your biggest cost driver. CDN origins, media streaming, game servers, high-traffic APIs, large file distribution. On a provider with 2-4 TB caps, a popular service generates hundreds in monthly overage charges. On OVHcloud, unlimited transfer is included at the base price. The math gets very favorable very fast.
• Your workload attracts DDoS attacks. Game servers, crypto services, controversial content, ecommerce during peak seasons. The 1.3 Tbps VAC protection with game-specific awareness eliminates the need for a separate $200-3,000/month mitigation service. See our best VPS for unlimited bandwidth guide for alternatives.
• You need US + EU presence from a single provider. European teams extending into the US (or vice versa) get the advantage of a single management interface, a single support relationship, and traffic that rides OVHcloud’s own transatlantic backbone between facilities.
• Data sovereignty matters to your compliance framework. French company, EU data protection laws, GDPR-compliant infrastructure. For workloads where the legal jurisdiction of your hosting provider is a factor, OVHcloud offers something the US hyperscalers cannot.
• You value infrastructure transparency. You can trace the full stack — who built the server, who operates the network, who manages the datacenter. There is one company responsible for everything. That transparency is either a feature or a risk, depending on your perspective.

Look Elsewhere If:

• You need reliable, fast support. OVHcloud’s support is their Achilles heel. If your business requires guaranteed response times for production issues, Vultr (live chat), Kamatera (phone + dedicated account managers), or Linode/Akamai (established support infrastructure) are safer.
• You need many US locations. Two datacenters (VA and OR) versus Vultr’s 12+ US locations. If latency optimization across the continental US matters, OVHcloud cannot compete on geographic coverage.
• You prioritize clean UX and modern DevOps tooling. Hetzner’s Cloud Console, DigitalOcean’s interface, or Vultr’s dashboard are all significantly more pleasant to use. If you are building automation around APIs and Terraform, OVHcloud’s tooling ecosystem is thin.
• You need auto-scaling or fast provisioning. The 5-15 minute provisioning time rules out patterns where you spin up instances in response to real-time load. Cloud-native providers deploy in under 60 seconds.
• The fire history is a dealbreaker for your risk assessment. This is a legitimate position. The improvements are real, but the fact that a major hosting company operated a datacenter without fire suppression is a data point about organizational decision-making that some risk frameworks cannot accommodate. If that is your assessment, respect it. See our full provider reviews for alternatives.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does OVHcloud manufacture its own servers?

Yes. OVHcloud is the only major cloud provider that designs and manufactures its own server hardware in-house. Their factory in Roubaix, northern France, produces custom chassis, racks, and proprietary water-cooling systems. They have been building their own servers since 2002 and developed their first water-cooling system in 2003. This vertical integration — from sheet metal to deployed server — allows OVHcloud to control costs, customize hardware for specific workloads, and deploy new capacity faster than providers who rely on third-party OEMs like Dell or Supermicro.

What is AS16276 and why does it matter for VPS performance?

AS16276 is OVHcloud’s autonomous system number — the identifier for their independently operated global network. OVHcloud runs its own backbone with 21 Tbps of total capacity across 34 Points of Presence (PoPs) worldwide, using dark fiber with DWDM optical infrastructure they own and maintain. This means your VPS traffic travels on OVH-controlled infrastructure rather than being handed off to third-party transit providers. The result is more consistent latency, better peering (575+ peers), and the ability to include unlimited bandwidth on VPS plans without the per-GB transit costs that force other providers to meter traffic.

Is OVHcloud reliable after the 2021 Strasbourg fire?

The March 10, 2021 fire destroyed the SBG2 datacenter entirely and damaged SBG1. The investigation found no automatic fire detection or suppression systems were installed, and the building’s convection cooling design created a chimney effect. Since then, OVHcloud has adopted concrete single-level construction (starting with SBG5), installed proper fire suppression systems, separated backup infrastructure geographically, and daily automatic backups are now included on the new VPS 2026 range at no extra cost. The company is meaningfully different, but the incident is a permanent reminder to maintain off-site backups regardless of provider.

Where are OVHcloud’s US datacenters?

OVHcloud operates two US datacenters: Vint Hill, Virginia (US-EAST-VA-1) and Hillsboro, Oregon (US-WEST-OR-1). The Vint Hill facility is an 80,000 sq ft datacenter on a former Army base in Fauquier County, strategically located in the northern Virginia corridor alongside AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The Hillsboro facility near Portland serves West Coast users. Both opened in 2018. OVHcloud is expanding Vint Hill with a planned 120,000 sq ft second building on land purchased in 2023.

How does OVHcloud’s anti-DDoS protection work?

OVHcloud includes anti-DDoS protection on all services at no extra cost. Their VAC (Vacuum) infrastructure can mitigate attacks up to 1.3 Tbps across three scrubbing centers. The system is always-on and automatic — it detects malicious traffic patterns and scrubs them without requiring manual activation. For gaming workloads, OVHcloud offers enhanced Game DDoS Protection with specialized algorithms for real-time game traffic analysis. The Edge Network Firewall supports custom rules including port ranges. Equivalent commercial DDoS mitigation services cost $200-3,000/month.

What changed with OVHcloud VPS pricing in 2026?

OVHcloud launched a new VPS 2026 range with NVMe storage (up to 6x faster than old SSD plans), daily automatic backups included, and higher guaranteed bandwidth (400 Mbps to 3 Gbps). However, prices increased substantially: VPS-1 went from $4.90 to $7.60 (+55%), and VPS-4 from $26.00 to $43.50 (+67%) effective April 1, 2026. The entry tier starts at $6.46/month. OVHcloud attributes the increases to rising RAM and NVMe costs, estimating 9-11% average increases across cloud products, though VPS-specific increases exceeded that average.

How does OVHcloud compare to Hetzner for US-based VPS?

Both are European providers expanding into the US. OVHcloud wins on: unlimited bandwidth (Hetzner caps at 20 TB), stronger DDoS protection (1.3 Tbps VAC vs Hetzner’s basic protection), more US locations (2 vs Hetzner’s 1 in Ashburn), and in-house hardware manufacturing. Hetzner wins on: lower pricing (their CX line starts cheaper), slightly better NVMe performance per dollar, a significantly cleaner control panel, and more consistent support. For bandwidth-heavy or DDoS-prone workloads, OVHcloud. For straightforward compute at the lowest price, Hetzner.

Does OVHcloud offer Windows VPS?

Yes. OVHcloud offers Windows Server as a paid option on VPS plans, with a license surcharge added to the monthly price. Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Fedora) are available at no extra cost. Custom ISO uploads are supported for advanced users. For Windows VPS specifically, providers like Kamatera and Hostwinds offer more competitive Windows licensing bundles.

What happened during the October 2024 OVHcloud network outage?

On October 30, 2024, OVHcloud experienced a 17-minute global outage starting at 13:23 UTC. Traffic dropped approximately 95% within 7 minutes. The root cause was a misconfigured route pushed by peering partner Worldstream (AS49981) in Amsterdam, which breached a prefix-limit threshold and caused the BGP session to enter an idle state. OVHcloud restored service by reconfiguring network routes. While 17 minutes is fast recovery, the incident shows that even providers running their own backbone are affected by peering partner errors — an inherent risk in how the internet works.

Final Verdict & Rating — 3.8/5

OVHcloud earns a 3.8 — up slightly from my previous rating, reflecting the genuine improvements in the VPS 2026 range (NVMe storage, included backups) and the continued value of their network and DDoS infrastructure. It is not a 4.0 because the support inconsistency, the fire history, and the 2026 price increases collectively prevent me from recommending OVHcloud without significant caveats.

The core question with OVHcloud has always been whether the vertical integration is genius or reckless. After extensive testing, my answer is: it is both, simultaneously, and the balance depends entirely on your workload.

If your workload is defined by bandwidth — you stream media, run game servers, operate a CDN origin, or serve high-traffic APIs — OVHcloud’s structural cost advantage from owning its own network makes it one of the most cost-effective choices available. The unlimited bandwidth alone saves hundreds of dollars monthly compared to metered providers at scale. Add the 1.3 Tbps DDoS protection and the no-promo-pricing honesty, and the value proposition for bandwidth-sensitive workloads is compelling despite the price increases.

If your workload is generic compute — a web application, a database, a development environment — the 2026 pricing puts OVHcloud in a tier where the support inconsistency and UX shortcomings become harder to justify. Hetzner offers comparable or better performance at lower prices with a cleaner interface. Vultr offers better support and faster provisioning with more US locations. The unlimited bandwidth only matters if you actually use enough bandwidth for the caps at other providers to bite.

The fire is permanent context but not a disqualifier. OVHcloud has made real, verifiable improvements to their infrastructure safety. What the fire should change is not whether you use OVHcloud, but how you use any provider: maintain your own off-site backups, test your disaster recovery plan, and never store your only copy of anything on a single provider’s infrastructure. That is not OVHcloud-specific advice. It is infrastructure hygiene that the Strasbourg fire taught an entire industry the hard way.

The VPS-2 at $9.99/month (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe, unlimited bandwidth, daily backups, anti-DDoS) is the sweet spot in the new lineup. For bandwidth-heavy workloads that need DDoS protection, it is genuinely difficult to beat.