Comparing HostEurope vs. OVHcloud as VPS hosting providers (2025)

The Host Europe Group Ltd., based in Hayes, England, is a hosting provider acquired by GoDaddy in April 2017. Founded in 1997, the company operated under different names in its early years and became one of Europe's largest privately owned hosting providers. It managed over 5 million domains and offered web hosting, cloud solutions, and SaaS services across multiple brands in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, and Spain.

The company changed ownership multiple times, including sales to Montagu Private Equity in 2010 and Cinven in 2013. Through acquisitions, it expanded its market presence, notably purchasing domainfactory GmbH in 2013 and Intergenia in 2014. In 2015, Host Europe relocated dedicated and virtual servers to a data center in Strasbourg, leading to customer concerns about data privacy. GoDaddy completed the acquisition of Host Europe Group for €

OVH is a French cloud computing company that provides VPS, dedicated servers, and other web services. Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba and headquartered in Roubaix, France, it was the largest hosting provider in Europe as of 2019. The company operates data centers globally and rebranded as OVHcloud in 2019.

OVHcloud has expanded through acquisitions, including its 2023 negotiation to acquire gridscale GmbH, and went public on the Euronext Paris in 2021. The company has faced incidents, including a major data center fire in 2021 that resulted in data loss and lawsuits, as well as a global outage due to human error. As of 2025, OVHcloud US has expanded its network with a new Local Zone in Seattle to enhance data processing speeds in the Pacific Northwest.