My First Try with OVH VPS: Incredible Value at $7.7/Month
I've been exploring budget VPS options and decided to give OVH a try. Here's what I got for just $7.7 USD/month.
Iβve been on the lookout for budget VPS options for hosting side projects and experimenting with self-hosted apps. After hearing good things about OVHβs VPS offerings, I decided to give them a try.
I choosed the VPS-2 plan from OVH, which is 6v CPU, 12GB RAM, and 100GB NVMe storage. It only costs $7.7 USD/month when billed monthly.
Hereβs what I get:
curl -sL https://yabs.sh | bash -s -- -g -n
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2025-04-20 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Sun Dec 21 05:52:50 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 1 hours, 32 minutes
Processor : Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)
CPU cores : 6 @ 2793.436 MHz
AES-NI : β Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : β Enabled
RAM : 11.4 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 96.9 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 25.04
Kernel : 6.14.0-34-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : β Online / β Online
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 120.35 MB/s (30.0k) | 2.03 GB/s (31.8k)
Write | 120.67 MB/s (30.1k) | 2.04 GB/s (31.9k)
Total | 241.02 MB/s (60.2k) | 4.08 GB/s (63.8k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 2.29 GB/s (4.4k) | 2.37 GB/s (2.3k)
Write | 2.41 GB/s (4.7k) | 2.53 GB/s (2.4k)
Total | 4.71 GB/s (9.2k) | 4.91 GB/s (4.7k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 918 Mbits/sec | 937 Mbits/sec | 76.0 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 921 Mbits/sec | 855 Mbits/sec | 92.0 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 563 Mbits/sec | 677 Mbits/sec | 182 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 548 Mbits/sec | 718 Mbits/sec | --
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 158 Mbits/sec | 944 Mbits/sec | 69.2 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | busy | 977 Mbits/sec | 15.6 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 817 Mbits/sec | 838 Mbits/sec | 151 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 906 Mbits/sec | 926 Mbits/sec | 75.5 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 913 Mbits/sec | 847 Mbits/sec | 91.4 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 822 Mbits/sec | 843 Mbits/sec | 182 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 682 Mbits/sec | 799 Mbits/sec | 236 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 263 Mbits/sec | 931 Mbits/sec | 68.7 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | busy | 964 Mbits/sec | 36.2 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 831 Mbits/sec | 828 Mbits/sec | 151 ms
YABS completed in 6 min 59 secHow Does This Compare to AWS EC2?
For equivalent specs on EC2 (m5.xlarge or m6i.xlarge):
On-demand: $140-150 USD/month
1-year reserved: ~$80/month
Plus extra for provisioned IOPS storage
Thatβs roughly 10x the price for similar hardware.
The Catch?
The CPU is older Haswell architecture (2013-2014 era). OVH is likely running fully depreciated hardware(likely E5 v3 series). But honestly? For web apps, databases, and general hosting, itβs more than capable.
Verdict
If you need a server for side projects, OVH looks good. The price-performance ratio is unbeatable at this tier. Just be aware of the older CPU architecture.