29 engineers on Hacker News describe using OVHcloud first-hand: 11 endorse it, 6 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“we moved to OVH and Hetzner and had no issues.”
endorse · production · LunaSea · 2026-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the reliability and throughput of both of them isn't as consistent as AWS and this has been a constant headache.”
regret · production · dismantlethesun · 2025-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OVH's virtual rack tech is pretty amazing too”
endorse · personal · mootothemax · 2025-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run servers at ovh and hetzner for decades; no issues”
endorse · production · 20 yr · anonzzzies · 2024-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had my primary business domain name almost expire twice due to OVH's incompetence.”
regret · production · markvdb · 2022-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Currently I use OVH and Hetzner and find it to be the best of both worlds.”
endorse · production · mgbmtl · 2021-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Happy OVH user here. We run 10 baremetal servers in CA and EU”
endorse · production · mgbmtl · 2021-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've not had a single outage in 3+ years with OVH. I can't say the same for AWS.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · qeternity · 2020-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OVH is pretty much useless for anything 'important'. Worked with a company that had a large spend account with them”
regret · production · voidwtf · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you'd get your whole account suspended and access to all your servers frozen. ... Fast forward to today, never again.”
regret · production · jotm · 2018-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never again. Control panel is awful, closing your account requires jumping through all kinds of hoops”
regret · personal · stef25 · 2018-08-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A few days goes by and I still have not received an answer, and now I'm scared!”
mixed · production · 5 yr · synapse0 · 2017-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“3 years using OVH and not a single regret... Also OVH VMs suck, from my experience. But their dedicated server line is completely reliable.”
mixed · personal · 3 yr · napsterbr · 2016-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to be a customer for almost 18 months. We got DDos'd twice... Never again will I go with OVH”
regret · production · 1.5 yr · no1youknowz · 2016-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using them, and their DDoS protection works really well.”
endorse · production · cpncrunch · 2015-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using them with no issues for the past 3 months or so.”
endorse · production · 0.25 yr · x3sphere · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using OVH for a few years now, and had no issues to report.”
endorse · production · Bedon292 · 2014-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run some of our jenkins build slaves on OVH. ... the bang for the buck makes them very much worth considering.”
endorse · production · rb2k_ · 2013-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If you plan to do something professional with them, just, don't.”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · wut42 · 2012-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are very satisfied with dedicated systems from”
endorse · production · rmoriz · 2011-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The heavy lifting runs on our servers (OVH), and the client script only decides which offer to show.”
neutral · production · aubmedia · 2025-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“deploy to x86 Linux boxes on OVH”
neutral · personal · billyhoffman · 2022-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently moved the infrastructure for one of my company's products... to a single dedicated box at OVH”
neutral · production · mwcampbell · 2022-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are at least 6 cloud providers I can name that I've used which run their own data centers”
neutral · production · george3d6 · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Another service that I've used is using dedicated servers from OVH.”
neutral · production · _benj · 2021-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Finally we moved over to OVH and placed a few really powerful servers in-front of the game server”
neutral · production · malikNF · 2021-03-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run parsers and static analysis algorithms... so we have those powerful dedicated OVH machines sitting mostly underutilized”
neutral · production · fishnchips · 2016-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The main reason why we migrated our servers from Hetzner to OVH is Hetzner's hard drive policy.”
neutral · production · jwr · 2016-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?