Hetzner vs OVHcloud

• Hetzner offers a massive 20000 GB egress baseline, dwarfing OVHcloud’s 1000 GB limit, though Hetzner punishes overages with a steep $1.19/GB fee compared to OVHcloud’s negligible $0.01/GB.
• Disk storage costs favor Hetzner, which charges $0.06/GB for extra capacity, whereas OVHcloud bills at $0.10/GB.
• Hetzner’s entry costs are lower at $7.09/mo, but the hardware ceiling caps out at 32 GB of RAM, while OVHcloud scales to enterprise levels with 1920 GB of RAM for $36178.80/mo.

Hetzner remains the standard for predictable, high-bandwidth workloads where you can stay within the generous 20000 GB egress window. Their hardware typically utilizes older Intel or AMD EPYC configurations in German and Finnish data centers, making them a budget-friendly choice for static assets or high-transfer microservices. If you exceed that egress threshold, however, the financial penalty is severe. You are essentially paying for the raw performance of the underlying NVMe storage without the overhead of premium support or complex global private networking.

OVHcloud occupies the opposite end of the spectrum, offering a vastly higher ceiling for massive memory-intensive applications that would never fit on a standard Hetzner instance. While their baseline egress is restrictive, the $0.01/GB overage rate makes them a safer bet for volatile traffic patterns where you cannot accurately forecast monthly data usage. Their infrastructure often competes with global players like AWS by providing specialized bare-metal configurations that cater to high-density virtualization needs. Choosing between these two comes down to whether your bottleneck is fixed monthly bandwidth or the physical capacity to scale memory for large database clusters.