Comparing Hetzner vs. OVHcloud as VPS hosting providers (2025)

Hetzner Online GmbH is a German internet service provider based in Gunzenhausen, employing around 306 people as of 2021.

The company was founded in 1997 by Martin Hetzner and has operated under various legal structures, currently as a GmbH. Its services include dedicated servers, cloud solutions, web hosting, domain registration, and colocation services in data centers located in Germany, Finland, and the U.S.

OVH is a French cloud computing company that provides VPS, dedicated servers, and other web services. Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba and headquartered in Roubaix, France, it was the largest hosting provider in Europe as of 2019. The company operates data centers globally and rebranded as OVHcloud in 2019.

OVHcloud has expanded through acquisitions, including its 2023 negotiation to acquire gridscale GmbH, and went public on the Euronext Paris in 2021. The company has faced incidents, including a major data center fire in 2021 that resulted in data loss and lawsuits, as well as a global outage due to human error. As of 2025, OVHcloud US has expanded its network with a new Local Zone in Seattle to enhance data processing speeds in the Pacific Northwest.