# OVHcloud

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/ovhcloud/

Cloud provider selling virtual private servers, Public Cloud instances, bare-metal dedicated servers, hosted private cloud and web hosting from data centers in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

## Who it suits

VPS with generous hardware for the price and unlimited traffic outside Asia-Pacific: 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 40 GB NVMe for $5.35 a month with no commitment (less on 6- or 12-month terms), in 13 data centres across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Consider something else if You need compliance scoped to the VPS itself or longer backups: OVHcloud's PCI, HIPAA and US SOC 2 scopes do not name the VPS range, the included backup is one daily copy kept 24 hours, and Asia-Pacific plans cap traffic at a monthly quota.

## iScore

58 / 100 (80% interval 50–66), rank 6 of 16 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/ovhcloud/alternatives/

- Price: 41 (20–62), weight 29%, 1 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, free_card_required, free_offer_type, free_tier
- Capacity and limits: 55 (44–66), weight 29%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: bandwidth_included, file_count_limit
- Capabilities: 77 (70–83), weight 10%, 3 of 11 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: autoscaling, connection_pooling, edge_network, git_deploy, managed_databases, persistent_processes, scale_to_zero, scheduled_jobs
- Trust and compliance: 73 (65–81), weight 14%, 9 of 13 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys, dedicated_infrastructure, encryption_at_rest, private_networking
- Evidence: 81 (81–81), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 51 (9–94), weight 10%, 0 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Entry paid plan: $5.35/month for VPS-1 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe) with no commitment, excluding tax, on OVHcloud's US storefront. The VPS page's headline 'Starting at $4.54/month' is the 12-month-commitment price; a 6-month commitment is $5.08/month. No installation fee. The same USD prices apply to US, European, Canadian and Asia-Pacific data centers in the US catalog. ([source](https://api.us.ovhcloud.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/vps?ovhSubsidiary=US), read 2026-09-27)
- Pricing model: Fixed monthly price per VPS plan, quoted excluding tax, with optional commitment discounts: no commitment, 6 months (5% off per month) or 12 months (15% off per month). A committed subscription auto-renews at the end of its term unless renewal is disabled in the Control Panel. Upgrades are one click; VPSs ordered outside the US regions cannot be modified or upgraded after delivery. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/configurator/?planCode=vps-2027-model1&brick=VPS%2BModel%2B1&pricing=upfront12&processor=%20&vcore=2__vCore&storage=40__SSD__NVMe), read 2026-09-27)
- Egress over allowance: No per-GB price on the VPS range: traffic is unlimited outside Asia-Pacific, and in Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney traffic beyond the monthly quota is limited to 10 Mbps rather than charged. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/), read 2026-09-27)
- When you exceed a cap: Throttled, not billed: traffic is unlimited outside Asia-Pacific; in Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney, once the monthly quota (1 TB on VPS-1) is used, bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbps. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/), read 2026-09-27)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 40 GB NVMe SSD on VPS-1, the cheapest VPS 2027 plan ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/), read 2026-09-27)
- Memory (entry plan): 4 GB RAM on VPS-1, the cheapest VPS 2027 plan ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/), read 2026-09-27)
- Included bandwidth: Unlimited traffic on every VPS 2027 plan (VPS-1: 500 Mbps public bandwidth), except in Asia-Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney), where a monthly quota applies: 1 TB on VPS-1 and VPS-2, 3 TB on VPS-3 and VPS-4. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/), read 2026-09-27)

### Deployment

- Docker deployment: Limited ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/os/), read 2026-09-27)
- Containers: Limited ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/os/), read 2026-09-27)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent storage: Supported ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/options/), read 2026-09-27)
- Regions: 13 data centers for the standard VPS 2027 range, as listed by code in OVHcloud's US order catalog: US-EAST-VA and US-WEST-OR (United States); DE, EU-SOUTH-MIL, EU-WEST-RBX, GRA, SBG, UK and WAW (Europe); BHS, SGP, SYD and YNM (Canada and Asia-Pacific). VPS-2 is also sold in Local Zones: 8 US and 7 European cities in the same catalog. ([source](https://api.us.ovhcloud.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/vps?ovhSubsidiary=US), read 2026-09-27)
- Uptime SLA: 99.9% availability SLA, included with the VPS ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/), read 2026-09-27)

### Data

- Backup retention: Standard automatic backup is included: one daily backup, kept for 24 hours. Premium automatic backup (from $1.40/month) keeps daily backups for 7 rolling days, each replicated three times in the same data center. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/options/), read 2026-09-27)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: Standard support is included with every OVHcloud service: tickets via the Control Panel or API, and live chat during US business hours (Mon-Fri 06:00-17:00 EST). OVHcloud recommends it for non-critical and test environments; Business and Enterprise support cost extra. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/support-levels/standard/), read 2026-09-27)
- Response time commitment: On the included Standard support, OVHcloud aims to give a first response to critical (P1) incidents within 3 hours. This is an objective, not a guarantee. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/support-levels/standard/), read 2026-09-27)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: SSAE 18 Type 2 SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 for OVHcloud US; SOC 2 covers security and availability. The listed scope is Bare Metal Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud in Vint Hill (VA) and Hillsboro (OR); the list does not name the VPS range. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/compliance/soc-1-2-3/), read 2026-09-27)
- ISO 27001: ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 and 27018 certified. OVHcloud's ISO page lists VPS among the certified services for non-US data centers; US data centers have a separate scope. OVHcloud's docs table of certified products (updated June 2026) does not list VPS. ([source](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/compliance/iso-27001-27017-27018/), read 2026-09-27)
- HIPAA: Type 1 HIPAA attestation for OVHcloud US, scoped to Bare Metal Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud in Vint Hill (VA) and Hillsboro (OR); the list does not name the VPS range. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/compliance/hipaa-hitech/), read 2026-09-27)
- GDPR / data residency: The customer picks the data center when ordering, and a VPS cannot be moved to another location afterwards. OVHcloud says a VPS hosted in France or elsewhere in the EU gets stronger data protection and is not subject to the US CLOUD Act. ([source](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/bare-metal-cloud/virtual-private-servers/vps-faq), read 2026-09-27)
- PCI DSS: PCI DSS Attestation of Compliance for OVHcloud US scoped to Bare Metal Cloud and Hosted Private Cloud in Vint Hill (VA) and Hillsboro (OR); the VPS range is not in the listed scope. ([source](https://us.ovhcloud.com/compliance/pci-dss/), read 2026-09-27)
- Role-based access control: OVHcloud IAM policies grant users, groups or accounts specific actions on specific resources, VPS included; OVHcloud's own example lets a user reboot a VPS and nothing else. ([source](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/account-information/iam-policies-api), read 2026-09-27)