Rent a Server

The fee of renting cloud servers from OVHcloud varies significantly based on your requirements. There isn't a single price, as it depends on a combination of factors tailored to your needs. Here are the main elements that influence the monthly rental cost:

• Server type: Bare Metal (Dedicated) cloud servers, offering exclusive use of physical hardware, generally cost more than Virtual Private Servers (VPS), which provide a dedicated slice of shared cloud hardware resources.
   
• Specifications: The core components heavily impact the price. This includes processor model (e.g., Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC or Ryzen), number of cores, and Ghz clock speed. More powerful CPUs with more Ghz command higher prices.
   
• Storage: The type (faster NVMe SSDs vs standard SSDs vs high-capacity SATA HDD with cache), the number of drives, and their total capacity. You also need to decide on how much ECC DDR RAM you want.
   
• Server range: OVHcloud offers different ranges of dedicated cloud servers designed for various purposes and fee budgets (e.g., Rise for entry-level, Advance for SMEs, Scale for resilience, High Grade for critical performance, Game for gaming/streaming, Storage for large data volumes). Each range has a different starting price point and optional extras.
   
• Bandwidth: While OVHcloud often includes generous unmetered traffic, guaranteed bandwidth levels or optional higher speeds (e.g., 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps) can affect the cost.
   
• Contract length: Opting for longer commitment periods (e.g., 12 or 24 months) usually results in a lower effective monthly price compared to month-to-month billing.

Services like additional IP addresses, specific cloud backup solutions, enhanced support levels (Business or Enterprise), or certain software licenses can add to the base cost. While often minor, there can sometimes be slight price variations depending on the geographical location of the data centre chosen and optional extras.

OVHcloud is committed to server price transparency. On our website, you'll find clear pricing for various server configurations detailing the monthly cost and any applicable setup fees for cloud servers.

We aim to offer competitive price-to-performance fee ratios across our diverse range, allowing you to find a solution from affordable entry-level options to high-performance machines. For the most accurate and up-to-date pricing for optional extras, please browse the specific server ranges on the OVHcloud website.

Renting a server from a provider like OVHcloud offers numerous compelling advantages compared to purchasing, housing, and managing your own physical hardware:

• Reduced upfront costs (CapEx to OpEx): The most significant benefit is avoiding the large capital expenditure required to buy server hardware, networking equipment, and potentially licenses. Instead, you pay a predictable monthly or annual operating expense, making fee budgeting much easier, especially for startups and SMEs.
   
• Scalability and flexibility: Renting allows you to easily scale your resources up (e.g., more RAM, CPU, storage) or down as your business needs change. This agility is crucial for handling growth or fluctuating demand, and it's much faster and simpler than buying new hardware or trying to sell old equipment.
   
• Elimination of maintenance burden for cloud servers: The cloud datacenter provider is responsible for all hardware maintenance, including component failures, replacements, firmware updates, and diagnostics. This frees your IT team or yourself from time-consuming hardware management tasks, allowing you to focus entirely on your software, applications, and core business strategy.
   
• Access to modern server technology: Reputable providers regularly update their hardware offerings. Renting gives you access to the latest generation processors, faster memory, and storage technologies (like NVMe SSDs and a SATA RAID HDD with a lot of cache) without needing to constantly reinvest in new equipment to avoid obsolescence.
   
• Leveraging provider infrastructure: You benefit from the provider's gold quality investment in enterprise type data centres. This includes redundant power supplies (UPS, generators), sophisticated cooling systems, advanced physical security measures (access control, surveillance), fire suppression systems, and high-speed, redundant server network connectivity – infrastructure that is prohibitively expensive for most businesses to replicate in-house.
   
• Reliability and uptime: Providers typically offer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guaranteeing certain levels of network and server hardware uptime, giving you greater assurance of service availability for your servers. Features like included DDoS protection further enhance reliability.
   

Rented servers can often be configured and deployed within minutes or hours, significantly faster than the procurement, shipping, installation, and configuration timeline associated with buying new datacenter hardware.

By outsourcing this type of server hardware infrastructure management, your business can better focus its gold quality resources, time, and expertise on innovation, software development, customer service, and growth.

It’s also better than free hosting - you simply get much better performance than free hosting and also get better support than free tiers too.

OVHcloud several categories of servers available for rent, designed to meet diverse requirements for server performance, control, and fee budget.

First, Bare Metal Dedicated Servers provide you with exclusive access to an entire physical server. All hardware resources—CPU, RAM, storage, network interfaces—are solely dedicated to your use, delivering maximum performance, security isolation, and complete control.

This includes full root or administrator access, allowing you to install and manage any compatible operating system (like various Linux distributions or Windows Server) and required and optional applications.

OVHcloud offers a wide spectrum of bare metal ranges tailored to specific needs: Rise servers offer an affordable entry point; Advance servers cater to SME requirements with enhanced versatility;

Second, Virtual Private Servers (VPS) represent a more budget-friendly option. A VPS is created by virtualizing a powerful physical server into several isolated instances. While you share the underlying hardware with other VPS users, you receive a guaranteed allocation of resources (vCPU, RAM, disk space) and operate within your own independent environment with root access.

Yes, when you order a server, particularly a dedicated bare metal server from OVHcloud, you can assume your order is highly suitable for both hosting game servers and running streaming services.

For Game Server Hosting, rented dedicated servers excel because they provide the essential dedicated performance needed for smooth, lag-free multiplayer experiences, thanks to exclusive optional access to powerful Intel and AMD CPUs (often with high Ghz single-core speeds), ample RAM, and fast NVMe SSD storage.

OVHcloud's global network, including a local datacenter in many locations such as Germany, helps ensure low latency for local players. You get full control (root access) to install any game server software, manage mods, and configure settings precisely.

Crucially, OVHcloud includes robust datacenter DDoS protection, often specifically tuned for gaming traffic (especially on our 'Game' server range), which is vital as game servers are frequent targets. Generous bandwidth options handle player connections effectively. OVHcloud even offers a specialised 'Game' server range designed with these requirements in mind.

For Streaming (Live Video / Media Hosting), rented servers are also an excellent fit. Successful streaming relies heavily on high, reliable outbound bandwidth to deliver content smoothly to viewers, which OVHcloud's network and server options provide (from 500 Mbps upwards, often unmetered traffic).