Liquid Web vs OVHcloud

Liquid Web is strongest for agencies. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Liquid Web	OVHcloud
Starting price	$5/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Agencies E-commerce/WooCommerce High-traffic WordPress Businesses wanting fully-managed support	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	100% (Liquid Web's published network/power/infrastructure uptime guarantee)	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	3	33
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7/365 phone, Live chat, Ticket, Docs/Knowledge Base	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	PCI DSS, HIPAA (available), SOC 2	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Advertised prices are frequently promotional (e.g. 50% off for the first 2 months, or 10-15% off for 1-2 year prepay terms); renewal pricing is meaningfully higher than the teaser rate Bandwidth overages and additional storage are billed as add-ons beyond plan allowances Managed WordPress/Nexcess plans are billed upfront annually to get the advertised per-month rate ("2 months free" annual billing) in many cases Windows OS licensing adds a surcharge over equivalent Linux dedicated/cloud dedicated configurations	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