{"slug": "ovh", "name": "OVH", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 1.975, "rising": -0.65, "first": "2026-01-19", "latest": "2026-04-19", "why": "my monthly expense for hosting went from $500 to $100, for vastly superior servers.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "my monthly expense for hosting went from $500 to $100, for vastly superior servers.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["OVH"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 765166257, "item_id": 47822891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822891", "by": "altern8", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my monthly expense for hosting went from $500 to $100, for vastly superior servers.", "excerpt": "I used to like Vultr because it was a cheaper Digital Ocean, still with a great-looking UI (if not better). Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr. It doesn't make any sense. Also, Vultr has the nasty policy of topping your account $100 whenever you run out of money, even if your se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting personal projects", "switched_from": "Vultr", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 746853074, "item_id": 46678317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678317", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OVH provides unlimited egress as well and OVH is another good bet.", "excerpt": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European and can support deno workers and so you are much more likely to be able to use it Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud and you can get yourself say a 3.50 euros machine there and (they got unlimited egress! Wish I was sponsored by them lmaoo) and their block storage is around 20 Euros per month", "context": "", "use_case": "bandwidth-heavy hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["hosting personal projects", "experimenting with openclaw", "bandwidth-heavy hosting"], "compared": [{"slug": "hetzner-cloud", "name": "Hetzner Cloud", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vultr", "name": "Vultr", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "bunny-net", "name": "Bunny.net", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "upcloud", "name": "UpCloud", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "cloudflare", "name": "Cloudflare", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774", "title": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483", "title": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671952", "title": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 765166257, "item_id": 47822891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822891", "by": "altern8", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my monthly expense for hosting went from $500 to $100, for vastly superior servers.", "excerpt": "I used to like Vultr because it was a cheaper Digital Ocean, still with a great-looking UI (if not better). Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr. It doesn't make any sense. Also, Vultr has the nasty policy of topping your account $100 whenever you run out of money, even if your se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting personal projects", "switched_from": "Vultr", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 753370593, "item_id": 47085662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "by": "Daegalus", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw", "excerpt": "Great post, I did a similar switch mid last year. Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down. I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw, but that was because I was having issues with Hetzner that day on their new instance page (was fixed the next day) I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins. If your origin ", "context": "", "use_case": "experimenting with Openclaw", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 746853074, "item_id": 46678317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678317", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OVH provides unlimited egress as well and OVH is another good bet.", "excerpt": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European and can support deno workers and so you are much more likely to be able to use it Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud and you can get yourself say a 3.50 euros machine there and (they got unlimited egress! 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