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Kurze Antwort: OVH Italia sells some of the cheapest infrastructure in Europe, and you pay for it in support time. The company opened its first Italian datacentre near Milan in May 2025. Its shared hosting plans still cannot run there.
Diese Rezension basiert auf drei Quellen. OVHcloud’s own public order catalogue for the Italian market, queried on 19 August 2026. The live Trustpilot record, einschließlich der 218 Italian-language reviews. And the current Italian contracts, read in full. Im Gegensatz zu Affiliate-lastigen Bewertungen, we print renewal prices next to promotional ones and quote the contract rather than the sales page.
Gesamtbewertung: we rate OVH Italia 3.2/5. The global OVHcloud profile scores 3.9/5 über 8,252 Bewertungen. The legacy ovh.it profile sits at 1.2/5 über 110. Strengths are price, hardware choice and a real Italian phone line. Common complaints involve billing after cancellation, slow tickets and provisioning delays.
Besucherseite
| Name | OVH Italien |
| Bewertungen insgesamt | 102 |
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.8 |
| Webseite | http://ovh.it |
| Serverstandorte | |
Anzahl der Bewertungen
Durchschn. Bewertungsergebnis
Kundendienst
Funktionen und Dienste
OVH Italia is the Italian arm of OVHcloud, the French group founded by Octave Klaba on 2 November 1999. The Italian contracting entity is OVH S.r.l., registered in Milan under company number MI-1873458. The group runs 44 datacentres and more than 450,000 Server.
Angebotene Hosting-Typen
- Shared Hosting – eight plans split into Eco, Business and Agencies ranges
- VPS – four models in the current 2027 Bereich, von 2 zu 8 virtuelle Kerne (virtuelle CPU-Kerne)
- Dedizierte Server – the Eco ranges (Kimsufi, So You Start, Erheben) plus Advance, Scale and HGR
- Öffentliche Cloud – Instanzen, object storage and managed Kubernetes
- Domänen, email and hosted Exchange
Wichtige Funktionen, die Kunden hervorheben
- Unlimited free SSL certificates on every shared plan, so encryption costs nothing extra
- Automatic backups written into the shared hosting contract, with restore from the control panel
- NVMe-Speicher (eine schnellere Art von Solid-State-Laufwerk) on all four current VPS models
- Mehr als 20 Betriebssystembilder, including Debian 13, Ubuntu 26.04 und FreeBSD 15
Standorte von Rechenzentren
Here’s the finding most reviews miss. OVHcloud opened its first Italian datacentre in the Milan region in May 2025, its 44th worldwide. Milan is selectable when you order a VPS, where it appears as EU-SOUTH-MIL. It is not selectable for shared hosting.
Every shared plan in OVHcloud’s Italian order catalogue is locked to three sites. Two are in Gravelines, Frankreich. The third is Beauharnois, Kanada. There is no Italian option and no southern European one. Dedicated servers have no Milan option either.
Warum ist das wichtig?? An Italian visitor loading a site on OVH shared hosting is talking to a server roughly 1,000 km entfernt. That’s fine for a brochure site. It’s a handicap for a shop competing with a rival hosted in Milan.
Leistungserwartungen
Die Shared-Hosting-Seite wirbt “disponibilità osservata del 99,9%”. That translates as observed availability, not guaranteed availability. The wording is deliberate. We read the current shared hosting contract, datiert 7 August 2023, and it contains no uptime figure and no service credits.
The VPS contract is better. Dated 10 April 2025, it commits to real service levels. Fall between 99.5% und 99.9% monthly availability and you get a credit worth 10% of the month. Fall below and the credit rises to 50%. A credit is not a refund, obwohl. The general conditions say credits are never paid in cash, are capped at your monthly price, and are void if you owe an invoice.
Kundenerfahrung
OVH Italia’s review record is split across two Trustpilot profiles, and that split explains most of the confusion elsewhere.
The main ovhcloud.com profile scores 3.9/5 von 8,252 Bewertungen, 3,671 of them in the past twelve months. The distribution is sharply polarised: 4,142 Fünf Sterne dagegen 3,015 Ein Stern. Damit 87% of reviewers sit at one extreme. It is also overwhelmingly French. Von der 7,833 reviews with text, 4,731 are French and only 218 are Italian.
The legacy ovh.it profile tells a different story: 1.2/5 von 110 Bewertungen, 91 davon ein Stern. That profile is claimed but no longer collecting, and it gathered just 4 reviews in the past year. Any review quoting 1.8 oder 1.2 for OVH Italia is quoting a dormant page.
Filtered to Italy, the live profile shows 75 Bewertungen: 53 Fünf-Sterne-und 19 Ein Stern. Better than the old page suggests, worse than the global average implies.
Was Kunden loben
Italian five-star reviews are strikingly consistent in subject. They praise ticket handling, and most quote a ticket reference while doing it. One from 6 Juli 2026 reads simply “Ticket CS16149525 risolto con feedback costante”, meaning resolved with constant updates.
The other themes are longevity and the phone line. Several reviewers describe years of use without incident, valuing price and server speed. EIN 30 Juni 2026 review welcomes Italian phone support being available again, praising both the speed of the answer and the operator.
Häufige Beschwerden
Billing after cancellation dominates, and it repeats across years. A customer since 2019 wrote on 10 Juli 2026 that they had asked to deactivate hosting. They were charged the full annual renewal on 1 Juli 2026 wie auch immer, ohne Rückerstattung. EIN 19 Juni 2026 review describes a service marked for deactivation being renewed regardless.
Provisioning delays come second. EIN 15 Juli 2026 review describes buying a VPS advertised as automatic, then waiting over five hours with no credentials. EIN 23 März 2026 review describes a EUR 3.65 domain stuck in validation for 36 Std.
Third are specification and promotion disputes. EIN 3 Dezember 2025 reviewer reported a VPS sold with 12 GB RAM delivering 11 GB. EIN 27 März 2026 reviewer took a free-domain promotion and was not told the domain had to be claimed within seven days.
Community-Feedback (Reddit und Foren)
Italian-language Reddit barely discusses OVH, so the candid material sits in English on r/OVHcloud and r/ovh. It is recent and it is blunt.
Auf 11 August 2026 a customer reported a server down for 12 hours after speaking to five separate agents, with tickets closed unresolved. The detail that stings: they paid for the backup add-on, and restores from both 8 und 9 August came back corrupt. Auf 16 August 2026 another user found an Amsterdam VPS stopped for over six hours with no notification.
Auf 18 August 2026 a buyer described a paid dedicated server suspended hours after provisioning. The refund was refused because an old account carried an unsettled balance of about USD 6. Two weeks earlier, another reported cancelled orders left unrefunded and a ticket with no reply.
The consistent community advice is worth repeating. If something is urgent, phone them rather than opening a ticket.
Support-Qualität
OVH Italia does have Italian phone support, auf +39 02 5560 0423, Monday to Friday from 08:00 zu 18:00. Reviews claiming OVH offers no phone support are wrong. Standard and Premium customers get business-hours phone plus tickets. Only Business and Enterprise get 24/7 phone cover.
The stated target is a first response between 15 Minuten und 8 working hours. Reality varies wildly. Invited five-star reviews describe same-day resolution, while community threads describe 24 hours of silence on a live network fault.
One caveat on the review data itself. Every Italian review we sampled, positiv und negativ, carries the verification source “invitation”. The five-star ones nearly all cite a ticket number. That pattern suggests invitations fire when a ticket closes. The Italian corpus therefore measures how a ticket went, not how the hosting ran for a year.
When to Use OVH Italia
OVH Italia is a strong choice in specific scenarios:
Ideal für
Developers who administer their own servers: A VPS-2 with 4 virtuelle Kerne und 8 GB RAM costs EUR 7.21/mo and renews at that price. If you can read a log file, you never need the support queue.
Businesses that need data kept in the EU: The Milan region gives you an Italian jurisdiction option for VPS and Public Cloud. It runs three availability zones for redundancy, which matters to a regulated company.
Anyone renting bare metal on a budget: A Rise-1 at EUR 59.99/mo with no setup fee undercuts most of the market. The Eco store often undercuts OVHcloud’s own main store on identical hardware.
Sie werden es zu schätzen wissen, wenn
- Sie wollen vorhersehbare Kosten, because VPS and Eco dedicated pricing does not jump on renewal
- You need an unusual operating system, because the VPS image list is unusually long
- You prefer a European supplier, because the contract is Italian law and the entity sits in Milan
- You would rather phone than raise a ticket, because the Milan line answers in Italian
When NOT to Use OVH Italia
Kein Gastgeber passt zu jedem. OVH Italia is the wrong choice if:
Schauen Sie woanders hin, wenn
You want your website physically hosted in Italy: Shared hosting cannot run in Milan. Your files sit in France or Canada whichever Italian plan you buy. An Italian host will actually deliver Italian hosting.
You are not technical and expect hand-holding: OVH sells infrastructure, not managed care. Support is a ticket queue with an office-hours phone line, and the community is full of people who waited days on it.
A contractual uptime promise matters to you: The shared hosting contract carries no uptime figure. Das 99.9% on the sales page is described as observed, and it buys you nothing if it is missed.
Warnsignale für Ihre Situation
- Sie möchten eine Geld-zurück-Garantie: Es gibt keinen. Italian consumers keep the statutory 14-day withdrawal right, but the hosting contract says immediate activation waives it for the period used. Refunds are pro-rata on the remaining term
- You dislike automatic renewal: It is on by default, and the top Italian complaint is being charged after asking to stop
- You hate surprises during maintenance: The hosting contract lets OVHcloud move your service to another platform during an incident. It adds that performance may be degraded with no right to compensation
Falls einer dieser Punkte zutrifft, Schauen Sie sich die Alternativen unten an.
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia Aus Italien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.78 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 75 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Frankreich
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 10 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Großbritannien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 2.70 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Kanada
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.20 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Österreich
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Griechenland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus der Schweiz
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia von den Vereinigten Staaten
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Bulgarien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Schweden
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Taiwan
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Bewertungen von OVH Italia aus Polen
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 1.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
OVH Italia Plans and Pricing
All prices are in EUR per month, ausschließlich 22% Italian VAT. We read them from OVHcloud’s Italian order catalogue on 19 August 2026, and they match the public pricing page.
Verlängerungswarnung: OVH Italia’s shared hosting jumps are among the steepest we’ve measured. The Pro plan enters at EUR 1.99/mo und erneuert bei EUR 9.99/mo. That is a 402% Zunahme, a multiplier of 5.02x. Budget for year two before you buy.
Shared Hosting
The ladder, first year to renewal, with the multiplier we calculated:
- Anlasser: EUR 1.59 renews at EUR 2.59 (1.63x)
- Personale: EUR 2.99 renews at EUR 5.99 (2.00x)
- Anfang: EUR 2.99 renews at EUR 5.99 (2.00x)
- Profi: EUR 1.99 renews at EUR 9.99 (5.02x)
- Performance 1: EUR 6.99 renews at EUR 19.99 (2.86x)
- Performance 2: EUR 12.99 renews at EUR 38.99 (3.00x)
- Agentur: EUR 12.99 renews at EUR 38.99 (3.00x)
- Agentur max: EUR 24.99 renews at EUR 76.99 (3.08x)
Look at Pro again. It is the cheapest plan in the Business range at signup, undercutting Startup by a euro. It then renews 67% above Startup. Buyers who scan the front page and pick the cheapest Business plan get the most expensive one.
Terms of 24 und 48 months are also sold, and they are not always cheaper. Pro on a 24-month term costs EUR 3.99/mo in its discounted period. That is double the EUR 1.99 you pay on 12 Monate. Check the per-month figure at every term length.
VPS-Hosting
No renewal shock here at all. Das 2027 range renews at the price you signed up on.
- VPS-1: EUR 3.81 mit einer Laufzeit von 12 Monaten, EUR 4.49 rolling monthly. 2 virtuelle Kerne, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe
- VPS-2: EUR 7.21 / EUR 8.49. 4 virtuelle Kerne, 8 GB RAM, 75 GB NVMe
- VPS-3: EUR 10.40 / EUR 12.24. 6 virtuelle Kerne, 12 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe
- VPS-4: EUR 19.96 / EUR 23.49. 8 virtuelle Kerne, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB NVMe
Committing to 12 months saves exactly 15% against the monthly rate, and setup fees are zero. One thing to get right first time: the VPS contract says your datacentre choice at order is final. If you want Milan, pick Milan at checkout.
Dedizierte Server
Entry pricing starts at EUR 9.99/mo for a Kimsufi KS-B. That is a 2013-era Intel Xeon in Gravelines, and it carries a EUR 9.99 Einrichtungsgebühr. Rise-1 costs EUR 59.99 monatlich, oder EUR 56.99 on a 12-month commitment. Vorschuss-1, on an AMD EPYC 4244P, lists at EUR 114.99.
Now a buyer trap worth EUR 300 ein Jahr. OVHcloud publishes the same Advance plan codes in two of its own catalogues at two prices. Advance-1 is EUR 114.99/mo on the main dedicated store and EUR 89.99/mo on the Eco store. The gap runs across the whole 2024 Advance line, von 13.7% zu 32.1%. Check both stores before ordering.
Versteckte Kosten, die es zu beachten gilt
- Installation fee on rolling-monthly dedicated orders: one full month. Advance-1 costs EUR 114.99 to set up monthly and EUR 0 on a 12-month upfront term
- Kimsufi and So You Start setup fees: also one month, EUR 9.99 es ist EUR 18.99 by model
- Shared hosting setup and upgrade fees: EUR 0 auf jeder Stufe
- Umsatzsteuer: advertised prices exclude 22% IVA, so EUR 1.99 beträgt EUR 2.43 at the till
- Automatic renewal is on by default, and changing the term needs 24 Std’ beachten
Preisurteil
On VPS and Eco dedicated servers, OVH Italia is close to unbeatable in Europe. The flat renewal is rare and welcome. On shared hosting the picture flips. A 3x renewal is normal in this market, but 5.02x on the plan that looks cheapest is a trap, not a discount.
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel –
- Anzahl der Websites 5
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel –
- Anzahl der Websites 10
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel –
- Anzahl der Sites unbegrenzt
- Zentralprozessor 1 Ader
- RAM 2 GB
- Zentralprozessor 2 Kerne
- RAM 4 GB
- Zentralprozessor 4 Kerne
- RAM 8 GB
OVH Italia Transparency Score
We assess how upfront OVH Italia is with important information:
- Firmeninformation: Exzellent. The contract names OVH S.r.l., the Milan registered office and the registration number. Dies tun nur sehr wenige Gastgeber.
- Preistransparenz: Gut. Renewal prices are printed next to promotional ones on the pricing page, which is rare and to their credit. Points lost for one Advance server carrying two prices in two OVHcloud catalogues.
- Technische Dokumentation: Begrenzt. The shared hosting page never says which country your site will run in. The answer sits only in the order catalogue.
- Bedingungen und Richtlinien: Gut. Contracts are published, dated and versioned, with a link to the previous version. The availability claim is carefully worded as observed, which is honest but easy to miss.
Gesamttransparenz: Above average on identity and pricing, weakest on where your data physically sits.
Alternatives to OVH Italia
If OVH Italia doesn’t fit, these alternatives close specific gaps:
For Genuinely Italian Hosting: Aruba or Keliweb
Both run datacentres inside Italy and will host a shared site there, which OVH Italia cannot. Latency to Italian visitors improves and support is native. Vergleichen Sie Optionen in unserem Webhosting-Leitfaden für Italien.
Für verwalteten Support: SiteGround
If you want someone to answer at 2am and fix WordPress for you, a managed host earns its premium over OVH’s ticket queue. Sehen Sie sich unsere an Italian WordPress hosting guide.
For Cheap European Servers: Hetzner or Contabo
Both compete with OVH on price for VPS and dedicated hardware in Germany. Both are worth quoting before the September 2026 price rise lands. Unser Europäischer VPS-Vergleich deckt das Feld ab.
For bare metal, sehen Sie unsere Vergleich dedizierter Server. For redundancy-focused setups, Probieren Sie unser Europäischer Cloud-Hosting-Leitfaden.
We rate OVH Italia 3.2/5. It is a serious infrastructure company at prices most rivals can’t match, wrapped in a billing and support experience that repeatedly frustrates non-technical customers.
Das Fazit
Buy the VPS and the dedicated servers. Think twice about the shared hosting. The servers are cheap, well specified and renew at the price you agreed. The shared plans renew at up to 5.02x and cannot be hosted in Italy at all.
Mit 3.9/5 über 8,252 reviews globally, aber nur 218 written in Italian, OVH Italia is a French score wearing an Italian label. Good for someone who runs their own stack. Poor for someone who needs a host to run it for them.
One dated change ages every older review. Auf 11 August 2026 OVHcloud announced dedicated server price rises averaging 28% on 2024-generation machines and 51% on 2026-generation machines. New orders are repriced from 1 September 2026, and equipment already in production from October.
Für weitere Optionen, sehen Sie unsere Webhosting-Leitfaden für Italien, where Italian-hosted alternatives are compared.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Is OVH Italia good for beginners?
Nicht wirklich. OVH sells infrastructure and expects you to manage it. Support is a ticket queue plus an office-hours phone line, kein 24/7 Helpdesk. Beginners will be happier on a managed host.
Is OVH Italia worth the price?
Auf Servern, Ja. A VPS-2 at EUR 7.21/mo renews at EUR 7.21/mo, which is unusual and valuable. Auf Shared Hosting, be careful. The Pro plan enters at EUR 1.99 and renews at EUR 9.99, a 5.02x jump.
Worüber beschweren sich Kunden am meisten??
Drei Dinge dominieren. Being charged an automatic renewal after asking to cancel. Slow ticket responses, sometimes days on a live fault. And delayed provisioning, with VPS and domain orders left waiting hours.
Where does OVH Italia actually host my website?
Shared hosting runs in Gravelines, Frankreich, or Beauharnois, Kanada. Milan is not an option for shared plans. You can choose Milan for a VPS, but that choice is final and cannot be changed later.
Does OVH Italia offer refunds?
There is no money-back guarantee. Italian consumers keep the legal 14-day withdrawal right under the general conditions. The hosting contract says immediate activation waives it for the time you used, and refunds are pro-rata.
How does OVH Italia compare to Aruba?
Aruba hosts inside Italy, which OVH Italia cannot do for shared plans. OVH wins on server pricing and hardware choice. Pick Aruba for latency and local support, OVH for cheap compute you administer yourself.
