OVHcloud at a glance
Roubaix (France) · Société cotée (Euronext : OVH), famille Klaba actionnaire de référence
Founded in 1999 in Roubaix by Octave Klaba, OVHcloud became Europe's leading cloud provider — with a rare model: designing its own servers, racks and cooling, and operating its own data centers on three continents.
The story in short
From a northern-French web hoster, OVH became a cloud industrialist in twenty years: server factories, liquid cooling developed in-house since the 2000s, expansion to Canada then worldwide, and a 2021 IPO. The 2021 Strasbourg fire marked the company, which has since extensively documented the overhaul of its fire-safety and continuity standards.
Footprint
About forty data centers across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, including the historic Roubaix and Gravelines campuses, among France's largest. The infrastructure is built for volume: hundreds of thousands of physical servers run as an industrial flow.
Services
OVHcloud's core is not classic colocation: dedicated servers (bare metal), public and private cloud, web hosting. Some infrastructure-hosting offers and a network POP programme complete the picture. For a rack buyer, OVHcloud is above all an ALTERNATIVE to the colocation model: rent the server rather than the space.
What it means for your project
If your real need is compute power with no attachment to hardware, industrial bare metal can cost less than an equipped rack — compare the full three-year cost. If you must host YOUR machines (compliance, specific hardware, depreciation), stay with the classic colocation the comparator covers.
OVHcloud data centers to compare
Strasbourg, FranceOVHcloud Strasbourg - SBG-5
Strasbourg, FranceOVHcloud Strasbourg - SBG-3
Strasbourg, FranceOVHcloud Roubaix (RBX)
Roubaix, FranceOVHcloud Gravelines (GRA)
Gravelines, FranceOVHcloud Hillsboro US
Hillsboro, États-Unis
Frequently asked questions
Who owns OVHcloud?
OVHcloud: Société cotée (Euronext : OVH), famille Klaba actionnaire de référence. Founded in 1999, headquartered in Roubaix (France).
How many OVHcloud data centers are listed?
DataColoc lists 13 sites operated by OVHcloud, including 5 in France, comparable on an identical basis (all-in price, connectivity, certifications).
How to get a quote for a rack at OVHcloud?
Open the target site's listing above, compare the all-in monthly cost, then send a structured quote request from the listing: it goes directly to the operator.
What was OVHcloud called before?
OVHcloud brings together activities formerly known as: OVH. Sites usually keep their address and teams; only the brand changed.
Its network presence and offers (IP transit, connectivity, colocation) →
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