Hosting.com vs OVHcloud

Hosting.com is strongest for developers wanting fast Turbo/NVMe shared hosting. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting)	OVHcloud
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Developers wanting fast Turbo/NVMe shared hosting Small businesses needing cPanel VPS Agencies needing reseller hosting	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	4	33
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Phone, Docs/Knowledge base	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	Not published	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Renewal rates are reported at 2-3x the introductory rate across shared hosting tiers Dedicated server and reseller pricing is not published; requires a sales call to obtain a quote Free domain and some promotional pricing require longer-term (12/24/36-month) prepay commitments	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18