OVH charges a setup fee equal to a full month's rent unless you lock into a 12-month commitment - and delivery can stretch to days when stock runs thin. Server Room's instant servers deploy in about 30 minutes with no contract and, on most, no setup fee - the $5 entry server adds $13 once and custom builds $29 - with unmetered bandwidth and real engineers on call 24/7.
OVH's global footprint is real - but so are its setup fees, commitment pricing and business-hours ticket queue. Here's what changes when you move.
Our entry, mid-range and performance builds lined up against the closest OVH equivalents - and when OVH has nothing in a class, the card says exactly that.
No low-power tier offered
OVH's cheapest server in its US data centers is the Kimsufi KS-5 - a 4-core Xeon E3-1270 v6 at $20/mo plus a $20 setup fee, so $40 before the first month is out.
Drops to $70/mo from month two; prepaying 12 months skips the setup fee at $66.50/mo. cPanel license extra.
Datacenter EPYC like ours - 24 cores against our 64, at three times the price; setup waived only with commitment.
*OVH models, specs and US pricing as publicly listed at us.ovhcloud.com / eco.us.ovhcloud.com in September 2026. Prices may change - check OVH for current figures. Our prices are configurator totals for custom builds, which add a one-time $29 setup fee; instant servers in stock have none, apart from $13 on the $5 entry server.
Everything the two providers do differently - from setup fees to migration help.
| Server Room | OVH | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup fees | $13 on the $5 entry server, none on other instant servers; $29 once on custom builds | One month's price, on every range - waived only with 12/24-month commitment |
| Deployment time | ~30 minutes; custom builds within 24h | Minutes advertised; OVH's own stock codes run 1 to 72 hours |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered options up to 10 Gbps, never oversold | Unlimited traffic on 500 Mbps - 1 Gbps ports; Rise's 1 Gbps is not guaranteed |
| cPanel | $49.50/mo add-on (Premier, 100 domains) - or the free ISPConfig panel | Paid add-on license |
| 24/7 human support | Phone & live chat with engineers, included | Chat and email during US business hours on standard support |
| Locations | New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bucharest | Global (US, Canada, EU, APAC) |
| Migration help | Planning free on every tier; hands-on app work is paid - documented plan | Self-service |
OVH built its name on scale; Server Room built ours on speed and straight answers. Your server is live in minutes, your bill is the number you saw at checkout - setup from $0 and no commitment required - and when you call at 3 a.m., an engineer answers. If you're on OVH today, we handle the infrastructure half of the move and help you plan the rest.
