Hostinger vs OVHcloud

Hostinger is strongest for budget-conscious site owners. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hostinger	OVHcloud
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious site owners WordPress sites Small business web hosting First-time VPS users	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	10	33
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Knowledge base, AI assistant (Kodee)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Displayed price is an introductory promo rate tied to prepaying a 12/24/48-month term; renewal price is 2-4x higher (e.g. VPS KVM 1 renews at $11.99/mo vs $6.49/mo intro) Monthly (1-month) billing is available but at a significantly higher per-month rate than any multi-month term Free domain is only free for the first year; renews at standard domain pricing Dedicated IP, extra backups, and some AI/Vibe coding credits are limited allotments, not unlimited Weekly (not daily) backups on base VPS plans; daily backups reserved for Cloud plans	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