NovoServe vs OVHcloud: Which Is Better?
We track NovoServe and OVHcloud prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About NovoServeNovoServe is a Dutch bare-metal hosting provider (est. 2013) with 7,000+ servers across its own Tier III data centers in the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States. Headquartered in Enschede, it operates an 18Tbps carrier-neutral network with 800+ peering partners and sells dedicated servers, GPU servers, storage and unmetered bandwidth lines plus colocation — aimed at MSPs, SaaS, streaming, iGaming, fintech and AI workloads.
About OVHcloudOVHcloud is a French cloud computing company founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba. Headquartered in Roubaix, France, OVHcloud is the largest European cloud provider with 1.6 million customers in 140 countries. It operates 33 data centers across 4 continents with its own global fiber backbone. The company went public on Euronext Paris (OVH) in 2021. OVHcloud offers a full spectrum from VPS and bare metal to private/public cloud and web hosting, with a strong focus on European data sovereignty and compliance.
Comparison Table
| Feature | NovoServe | OVHcloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $68.44 | $1.87 win |
| Renewal price | Monthly (promos ex. VAT) | — |
| Datacenters | 5 | — |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | — | — |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | — | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.32% win | 99.07% |
Price History
NovoServe · Unmetered 1Gbps Entry ServerCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
OVHcloud · StarterCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
NovoServe 99.32% OVHcloud 99.07%Pros & Cons
NovoServe- Own 18Tbps carrier-neutral backbone with 800+ peering partners
- 5 Tier III data centers: Amsterdam (×2), Rotterdam/The Hague, Copenhagen, New York
- Entry dedicated servers from €59/mo with 25TB traffic included by default
- Unmetered bandwidth lines on 1G, 2G, 5G, 10G and up to 50Gbps dedicated ports
- GPU fleet: NVIDIA V100 / RTX 3090, AMD MI50 / MI210, up to 4× RTX PRO 6000 96GB
- In-house anti-DDoS scrubbing centers on every server
- Most stock servers run older generations (HPE G8/Gen9, Xeon E5/v2)
- Custom builds, HPC and colocation are quote-only — no public price list
- Bare metal only — no shared hosting, VPS or managed services
- Published prices are ex. VAT (21% Dutch VAT for EU consumers)
- No money-back guarantee on dedicated servers
- Only EU + US East Coast locations — nothing in Asia
OVHcloud- Largest European cloud provider with 33 data centers, 44 PoPs
- Full-service: VPS, bare metal, public/private cloud, web hosting, domains
- Industry-leading DDoS protection (VAC up to 4.8 Tbps) included free
- Strong EU compliance: ISO 27001/27017/27018, SOC 1+2, HIPAA, HDS, SecNumCloud
- Very competitive bare metal pricing тАФ among the cheapest dedicated servers
- Water-cooled data centers with industry-leading PUE and sustainability
- Support quality varies significantly тАФ can be slow for non-enterprise plans
- Control panel (OVH Control Panel) is complex and less intuitive than DO/Vultr
- Past reliability incidents: major fire at SBG Strasbourg (2021), outages (2023)
- Some legacy products have outdated interfaces and steep learning curves
- Billing system can be confusing with multiple subsidiaries (OVH SAS, OVH US, etc.)
- No live chat support тАФ ticket and phone only
The Verdict
On the data we track, NovoServe wins more rows in the comparison table above (2 vs 1). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now OVHcloud has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Over the last 30 days of our monitoring, NovoServe had the higher measured uptime. We ping both providers every few minutes from multiple locations — see the uptime graph above.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.