Cloudways vs OVHcloud

• Cloudways entry-level pricing starts lower at $14.00/mo for 1 GB of RAM, whereas OVHcloud begins at $26.28/mo for a more robust 4 GB baseline.
• OVHcloud scales memory significantly higher, offering up to 30 GB of RAM, while Cloudways caps out at 15 GB for 241.50/mo.
• Storage overages are identical across both providers at $0.10/GB, but OVHcloud provides a clear edge in network efficiency with egress overages at $0.01/GB compared to the $0.02/GB charged by Cloudways.
• Disk allocations favor OVHcloud, which ships with 50 GB to 200 GB of storage, contrasting with the 20 GB to 160 GB range found on Cloudways.

Cloudways functions as an abstraction layer over various infrastructure providers, which explains the tighter RAM constraints and higher price-per-gigabyte for memory. If your database workload is lightweight—such as a small WordPress backend or a low-concurrency MySQL instance—the $14.00/mo entry point is sufficient. However, for high-concurrency applications requiring larger buffer pools, the overhead of the Cloudways interface becomes a liability. You are effectively paying for the convenience of their UI, which limits your ability to tune the underlying database configuration beyond standard parameters.

OVHcloud offers a more direct relationship with the underlying metal, which is common for users who prefer working with bare-metal-adjacent cloud instances similar to those found on Linode or Hetzner. By providing up to 30 GB of RAM at a lower price ceiling than the high-end Cloudways tiers, OVHcloud is better suited for memory-intensive PostgreSQL workloads that need to keep indexes entirely in-memory. The primary trade-off is the lack of a simplified management dashboard compared to the Cloudways ecosystem, requiring more manual intervention for high-availability failover configurations. Opting for OVHcloud makes sense if your primary goal is maximizing RAM density and minimizing network egress costs for large data transfers.