OVH Scale-a5, $ 554.00/mo. on Linux/Windows Dedicated


Scale-a5 has been added on Sep 27, 2025, Aggregate Rating (3.1 out of 10 from 37 reviews)
ovhcloud.com
OVH
2, rue Kellermann
Roubaix 59100
FR
☎ Phone 1-855-684-5463
  • 💡 Plan Name: Scale-a5 (sku #p137197)
  • 🔧 Category: Dedicated Hosting / Linux/Windows
  • 💰 Price:$ 554.00/mo. VAT exc
  • 💿 Disk Space: 3750 GB
  • 📶 Traffic bandwidth: unmetered
  • 💲 Setup Fee: free
💪 CPU/Cores :AMD EPYC GENOA 9554, 64 cores / 128 threads, 3.1–3.75 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 %
screenshot of Scale-a5 from ovhcloud.com

See also initial Scale-a5 plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

A 64-core EPYC 9554 platform aimed at dense multi-tenant workloads, heavy CI pipelines and CPU-intensive analytics. Start with 128 GB DDR5 ECC and scale to 1 TB as density rises. NVMe storage from 2 x 1.92 TB provides low-latency I/O; use RAID-1 for durability or stripe for throughput. Guaranteed public connectivity and a 50-Gbps private network let you separate ingress from east-west chatter; load balancer and additional IPs support horizontal scale. Out-of-band controls, automated imaging and rescue help reduce MTTR, while built-in anti-DDoS keeps attacks at bay.

The Scale range targets ambitious infrastructures with up to 256 cores per box, 4 x 25-Gbps NICs, true ECC RAM and a 99.99% HA network—well suited for orchestration layers, search clusters and large CMS farms.

📄 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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