Truly Dedicated Bare Metal
OVH's bare metal profile removes the overhead of a shared hypervisor layer, making it attractive for teams that care about predictable hardware behavior and stronger infrastructure ownership.
The Fortress of Dedicated Computing
OVHcloud: Physical Control, Self-managed Hardware, and Strong DDoS Defense
OVHcloud stands out through tighter control over hardware, facilities, and network behavior. For teams that care about sovereignty, strong anti-DDoS posture, and more tangible infrastructure ownership, OVH offers a very different profile from generic public cloud platforms.
Core Infrastructure
In-house Hardware Strategy: Why Infrastructure-focused Teams Choose OVH
In a cloud market shaped by abstraction, OVH earns trust from teams that still care deeply about hardware, physical network design, and the operational value of tighter infrastructure control.
Industrial Water-cooling Design
OVH's in-house cooling model helps maintain thermal stability on high-load machines, which supports stronger sustained performance and lower operational energy pressure.
Global vRack Private Network
vRack allows physical resources across facilities and cities to be combined within a private network layer, reducing public exposure and supporting stronger cross-region internal connectivity.
Hardware Catalog
Physical Servers and VPS Options Across the Stack
From entry-level systems to heavyweight dedicated machines, OVH offers a hardware-centered portfolio for teams that want more tangible infrastructure control.
| Server Family | Hardware Characteristics | Performance Profile | Recommended Workloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rise Series | Classic Intel Core / Xeon options | Stable and cost-efficient physical entry point. | Web portals and smaller dev environments. |
| Advance Series | Latest-generation Xeon / AMD EPYC | Good storage density and stronger I/O throughput. | Production databases and more complex business systems. |
| Game Series | High-frequency cores | Optimized for low-latency real-time workloads. | Online gaming and latency-sensitive service nodes. |
| Storage Series | Large-capacity storage arrays | Very high single-server storage capacity. | Monitoring archives and unstructured data storage. |
| High-Grade | Dual top-tier CPUs plus 1TB+ RAM | Designed for large virtualization and HPC use cases. | Managed private cloud and advanced scientific compute. |
Global Availability
Global Data Centers with a Strong Sovereignty Story
OVH's footprint matters not only for bandwidth access, but for teams that want European roots, clearer sovereignty narratives, and strong physical infrastructure identity.
European Core
Frankfurt, London, and Paris provide strong European connectivity and are especially relevant for businesses that want a clearer GDPR-oriented hosting posture.
North America Expansion
Facilities such as Beauharnois extend OVH into North America with large capacity and a strong cost-performance profile for physically oriented infrastructure teams.
Asia-Pacific Extension
Singapore and Sydney help OVH participate in Asia-Pacific traffic patterns, especially for teams balancing physical hosting needs with stronger anti-DDoS requirements.
Maximum Security
Anti-DDoS Defense and Compliance Controls
OVH's security profile is shaped heavily by default anti-DDoS posture, physical control, and region-aware compliance requirements.
ISO 27001 / SOC 2 Type II
HDS Certification
PCI DSS Lifecycle Coverage
GDPR Sovereign Facilities
SecNumCloud (France)
HIPAA-compatible Infrastructure
CSA STAR Registration
VAC Traffic Scrubbing
OVH's traffic scrubbing network is built to absorb and filter attacks at scale, which is especially valuable for game servers, exposed public services, and attack-prone workloads.
Identity and Physical Security Auditing
Strong physical access controls combined with disciplined key management help create a more complete boundary between hardware ownership, operator access, and public exposure.
Fortress Scenarios
High-security and High-control Deployment Patterns
OVH is most attractive when infrastructure control, anti-DDoS readiness, and hardware certainty matter more than abstract cloud convenience.
1. Global Anti-DDoS Game Backend
Game-focused servers and VAC defense make OVH a relevant option for real-time gaming platforms that experience repeated DDoS pressure and need lower-latency dedicated infrastructure.
2. Large-scale Cross-site Recovery Vault
Storage-oriented servers and vRack private links can be combined into a physically grounded disaster recovery pattern for large archives and business-critical datasets.
3. Sovereign European SaaS Delivery
For privacy-sensitive sectors such as healthcare and legal services, OVH can support a stronger sovereignty narrative with dedicated physical foundations and European hosting context.
4. Cost-efficient Crawling and Indexing Center
OVH's bandwidth economics and dense hardware profiles can work well for large crawling, ingestion, and indexing systems that need strong ROI at the hardware layer.
Industrial Ecology
Building Infrastructure with Long-term Responsibility
OVH's cooling and facility strategy also contributes to its sustainability story, making it relevant for organizations that want infrastructure decisions to align with ESG positioning.