OVHcloud
By OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a French cloud computing and hosting company, one of the largest hosting providers in Europe, offering bare-metal servers, VPS, public cloud, and web hosting services.
Definition
OVHcloud is a French cloud computing and hosting company, one of the largest hosting providers in Europe, offering bare-metal servers, VPS, public cloud, and web hosting services.
Overview
OVHcloud is a European cloud and hosting provider headquartered in France, historically known for building and operating its own data centers and network infrastructure rather than reselling capacity from other providers, giving it tight control over hardware costs and performance. This has made it particularly competitive in bare-metal dedicated server pricing. The company's product range spans bare-metal servers, VPS hosting, a public cloud offering with virtual machines and managed Kubernetes, object storage, and traditional web hosting for smaller sites and domains. OVHcloud has also positioned itself around European data sovereignty, appealing to organizations that prefer or are required to keep data within EU-based infrastructure rather than U.S. hyperscalers. OVHcloud competes with both American hyperscalers like AWS and other European providers such as Scaleway and Hetzner, generally differentiating on price-competitive bare-metal infrastructure and EU-based data residency.
Key Features
- Self-owned and operated data centers and network infrastructure
- Competitively priced bare-metal dedicated servers
- Public cloud with virtual machines and managed Kubernetes
- Object and block storage services
- Traditional web hosting for domains and small sites
- Emphasis on European data sovereignty and residency
- Large European data center footprint
- API and CLI tooling for infrastructure automation