OVH Free SSL Gateway, $ 0.00/mo. on SSL Certificates

Name: Free SSL Gateway
Brand: OVH
SKU: p63318
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 3.1 (37 reviews)

Free SSL Gateway has been discontinued on September 27, 2025 (added August 19, 2018), Aggregate Rating (3.1 out of 10 from 37 reviews)

🔐 Domains protected :	unlimited
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire TransferCheck PaymentsMoney Order
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeForumAvailable 24/7
⚑ Targeting :	AU AT BE CA FR DE IN IE IT LT LU MC MA NL PL PT SN SG ES TN UK US

screenshot of Free SSL Gateway from ovhcloud.com

Original plan URL was https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/security/ssl-gateway/

📜 Plan description

For sites with low traffic: blogs, associations, forums

Anti-DDoS
Metrics included (24h)

Features
SSL
Default DV Let's Encrypt certificate
Optional: EV Comodo certificate (from the Advanced solution upwards)
Up to 1000 domains and sub domains from the Advanced solution upwards
Support
Free solution: OVH Community
Advanced solution: Via email or OVH Community
Anti-DDos
Anti-DDos level: Advanced L4
Blocked attacks:

ICMP Echo Request Flood
IP Packet Fragment Attack
SMURF
IGMP Flood
Ping of Death
TCP SYN Flood
TCP Spoofed SYN Flood
TCP SYN ACK Reflection Flood
TCP ACK Flood
TCP Fragmented Attack

Load Balancing
Free Solution: not available
Advanced solution: up to different IPs so you can distribute traffic among your servers.

📄 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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