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OVH are the largest hosting provider in Europe, and the third largest in the world based on physical servers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH They have traditionally focussed on hosting "Websites" (_think PHP sites like WordPress_) rather than web Applications, so they were leapfrogged by AWS who build "Infrastructure as a Service".
OVH have traditionally either offered "Hosting" i.e. shared hosting, or dedicated servers.
Their pricing for ("bare metal") dedicated servers is incredible! https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/prices
If you search online, you will find that OVH has the cheapest "Public Cloud" VPS instance available:
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices

Their cheapest instance has 2GB RAM, 10GB NVMe SSD includes an IPV4 address for **$3.50/month**
> "_These instances are adapted to suit your tests, recipes and development environments. Their performance may vary slightly over time._"
There are accounts on Reddit/HN of people using these instances for personal projects without any issues.
If you want a "_real_" instance then the prices start at: $26.40 /month but you get **7 GB RAM** and 2 CPU cores:
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#compute

Where they _really_ out-compete on price is for Block Storage: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#storage

They have NVMe SSD Block storage for **$0.073/GB/month** which is 30% cheaper than DigitalOcean or Linode.
This HN thread has some insightful comments:
"_Ask HN: Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular?_"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17999662
> **Conclusion**: their support is non-existent. Only use OVH if you know what you're doing. If you mess up you're on you own!
Ask HN: Should I really avoid OVH for production app?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12582735
> **Conclusion**: cheap but unreliable and _horrible_ support.
This looks _really_ bad: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.ovh.com

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