OVH

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I've rented a dedicated server through OVH and I never had to touch a single cable or change a single disk”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “OVH for example will gladly take your money first and then refuse to provide any service without ID verification. First and only time I've ever charged back.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “None of OVH, GCP, AWS, Azure wanted so much data about me, and I run my services in all of them successfully”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “I can spin up a dedicated server within 24-48hours or a VM within minutes on OVH”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “ovh rocks, they are also far more customer support friendly than hetzner”

  MIXED · support · Hacker News · 2026-05-09

• “For that money I can get 5 big bare metal boxes on OVH with fast SSDs”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-23

• “a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-19

• “patching some shortcomings of the OVH offerings which are not as featureful”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “we rented bare metal servers in OVH to do that. It worked OK.”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-03

• “For the same money, I get 10x of RAM, storage and CPU with Hetzner or OVH.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-03-30

• “OVH doesn't have their equivalent of their auction servers which are great if you are looking for combinations of SSD + HDD servers. These don't really exist at OVH unless you pay > 200 euro / month.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-24

• “OVH are putting up prices in the same way, with the same reasoning”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-02-23

• “We've been running for years on one single baremetal server on Hetzner/OVH though”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-20

• “I had to wait I think a week for OVH to physically replace it”

  LUKEWARM · support · Hacker News · 2026-02-13

• “OVH is awful. The UI is slow and buggy, operations often fail and you need slow contact with support.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-01-31

• “The thing ran on a dozen of OVH servers, including multi-site redundancy.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-31

• “OVH co-mingling postgres customers on the same underlying server with no noisy-neighbour protections”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-02-23