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OVH Let's Encrypt DV SSL (Free), $ 0.00/yr. on SSL Certificates


Let's Encrypt DV SSL (Free) has been added on Sep 27, 2025, Aggregate Rating (3.2 out of 10 from 36 reviews)
OVH
2, rue Kellermann
Roubaix 59100
FR
☎ Phone 1-855-684-5463
🔐 Domains protected :1
💳 Payment Methods :Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :[In-house]
✍️ Support Options :Help Desk
⚑ Targeting :AU AT BE CA FR DE IN IE IT LT LU MC MA NL PL PT SN SG ES TN UK US

See also initial Let's Encrypt DV SSL (Free) plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

Let’s Encrypt DV SSL is included by default with all OVHcloud Web Hosting plans at no extra cost. It provides domain validation (DV) with automatic issue and renewal, activated when you create your website or subdomains in the OVHcloud Control Panel. Certificates are valid for 90 days and renew automatically, so you get HTTPS without any manual effort. This is ideal for blogs, personal sites and small business pages that need the padlock and encryption without the administrative overhead of a commercial certificate.

Across the OVHcloud SSL page, OVHcloud explains that HTTPS protects customer data and builds trust, while also helping SEO. The page emphasizes that Let’s Encrypt is an open-source initiative supported by many companies including OVHcloud; activation requires no technical skills; and the DV certificate will auto-renew free of charge. For advanced needs, OVHcloud offers premium SSL choices (Sectigo DV or EV) with higher warranty levels and stronger visual trust indicators. The comparison outlines key characteristics (validation level, warranty, multi-domain eligibility, FQDNs covered, browser compatibility and estimated issuance time). The narrative positions SSL as essential for credibility and for securing logins and transactions.

📄 Editorial Review

OVHCloud is a large, vertically integrated provider founded in 1999 that serves ~1.5M customers with a very broad catalog spanning Shared Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servers, Public/Hosted Private Cloud, domains, email, and SSL. They operate on an in-house global backbone (quoted ~20 Tbit/s capacity) and run infrastructure across dozens of locations on four continents. The overall value proposition blends scale, price/performance, and control: anti-DDoS is standard, bandwidth is generous (often unmetered in EU/US/CA), and many products include backups and automation while keeping costs predictable.
Product lineup at a glance

  • Shared Web Hosting – PHP hosting with anti-DDoS, daily backups, databases, 1-click CMS installers, and a free domain for the first year on many plans. They advertise 99.99% availability on the platform (no formal SLA on shared).
  • VPS – NVMe-backed instances with daily automatic backups, 1-click scaling, integrated KVM console, IPv4/IPv6, optional managed databases, 99.9% SLA, and optional cPanel/Plesk images.
  • Dedicated Servers (Bare Metal Cloud) – multiple ranges:
    • Rise (best price/performance; 1 Gbps guaranteed public bandwidth in EU/US/CA; 500 GB backup space).
    • Advance (versatile AMD EPYC, 3 Gbps guaranteed public + 25 Gbps private, 99.95% SLA, rich storage/backup options, Network Security Dashboard, Carbon Calculator).
    • Storage (SAS/NVMe, hot-swap, HA-NAS and file-storage add-ons).
    • Game (high-freq AMD EPYC, Game DDoS protection, NVMe/DDR5).
    • Scale (up to 256 cores, 4×25 Gbps NICs, 50 Gbps vRack).
    • High Grade (Xeon Gold/EPYC 9004, dual PSUs, hot-swap SSDs, 99.99% SLA, up to 100–200 Gbps internal with OLA).
    • Wholesale/white-label rack options and the budget Kimsufi line for low-resource projects.
  • Public Cloud – OpenStack/Kubernetes-based compute, storage, networks, managed databases, analytics, AI/ML, and a growing Local Zones footprint; API calls and egress are included in many price points to keep costs predictable.
  • Hosted Private Cloud – VMware SDDC in dedicated environments (Essential/Premier).
  • Email/Exchange, CDN (Basic/Security/Advanced), and SSL (Sectigo DV/EV) round out the web stack.

Security and compliance are a core theme (built-in anti-DDoS; certifications; SecNumCloud for sensitive EU workloads). The manufacturing/supply chain is unusually integrated (servers built in France/Canada, custom water-cooling, component reuse), supporting both sustainability and cost control.

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