OVH Scale-a4, $ 499.00/mo. on Linux/Windows Dedicated

Scale-a4 has been added on Sep 27, 2025, Aggregate Rating (3.2 out of 10 from 36 reviews)

💪 CPU/Cores :	AMD EPYC GENOA 9454, 48 cores / 96 threads, 2.75–3.65 GHz
🔋 RAM :	128000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔧 Category :	Self ManagedDDoS Protection
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-Free
⚑ Targeting :	AU AT BE CA FR DE IN IE IT LT LU MC MA NL PL PT SN SG ES TN UK US
🚀 Uptime :	99.99 %

See also initial Scale-a4 plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 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.