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Réponse courte: OVH Italia vend des infrastructures parmi les moins chères d'Europe, et vous le payez pendant le temps d'assistance. L'entreprise a ouvert son premier datacenter italien près de Milan en mai 2025. Its shared hosting plans still cannot run there.
This review is built from three sources. OVHcloud’s own public order catalogue for the Italian market, queried on 19 août 2026. The live Trustpilot record, incluant le 218 Italian-language reviews. And the current Italian contracts, read in full. Contrairement aux critiques d'affiliation, we print renewal prices next to promotional ones and quote the contract rather than the sales page.
Évaluation globale: we rate OVH Italia 3.2/5. The global OVHcloud profile scores 3.9/5 à travers 8,252 Commentaires. The legacy ovh.it profile sits at 1.2/5 à travers 110. Les points forts sont le prix, hardware choice and a real Italian phone line. Common complaints involve billing after cancellation, slow tickets and provisioning delays.
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| Nom | OVH Italie |
| Total des avis | 102 |
| Score moyen | 1.8 |
| Site Internet | http://ovh.it |
| Emplacements des serveurs | |
Nombre d'avis
Moy. Note d'examen
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Fonctionnalités et services
OVH Italia is the Italian arm of OVHcloud, the French group founded by Octave Klaba on 2 novembre 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 les serveurs.
Types d'hébergement proposés
- Hébergement partagé – eight plans split into Eco, Business and Agencies ranges
- VPS – four models in the current 2027 gamme, de 2 à 8 vCores (cœurs de processeur virtuels)
- Serveurs dédiés – the Eco ranges (Kimsufi, So You Start, Augmenter) plus Advance, Scale and HGR
- La pensée combinatoire de HowToHosting.guide a conduit à l'inclusion d'une représentation graphique moderne des données sur SiteCountry et à notre analyse approfondie des sources – cas, object storage and managed Kubernetes
- Domaines, email and hosted Exchange
Principales caractéristiques mises en avant par les clients
- 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
- Stockage NVMe (un type de disque SSD plus rapide) on all four current VPS models
- Plus que 20 images du système d'exploitation, including Debian 13, Ubuntu 26.04 et FreeBSD 15
Emplacements des centres de données
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, France. The third is Beauharnois, Canada. There is no Italian option and no southern European one. Dedicated servers have no Milan option either.
Pourquoi est-ce important? An Italian visitor loading a site on OVH shared hosting is talking to a server roughly 1,000 à km. That’s fine for a brochure site. It’s a handicap for a shop competing with a rival hosted in Milan.
Attentes en matière de performances
La page d'hébergement partagé annonce “disponibilità osservata del 99,9%”. That translates as observed availability, not guaranteed availability. The wording is deliberate. We read the current shared hosting contract, daté 7 août 2023, and it contains no uptime figure and no service credits.
The VPS contract is better. Dated 10 avril 2025, it commits to real service levels. Fall between 99.5% et 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, bien que. The general conditions say credits are never paid in cash, are capped at your monthly price, and are void if you owe an invoice.
Expérience client
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 de 8,252 Commentaires, 3,671 of them in the past twelve months. The distribution is sharply polarised: 4,142 cinq étoiles contre 3,015 une étoile. Donc 87% of reviewers sit at one extreme. It is also overwhelmingly French. De la 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 de 110 Commentaires, 91 dont une étoile. That profile is claimed but no longer collecting, and it gathered just 4 reviews in the past year. Any review quoting 1.8 ou 1.2 for OVH Italia is quoting a dormant page.
Filtered to Italy, the live profile shows 75 Commentaires: 53 cinq étoiles et 19 une étoile. Better than the old page suggests, worse than the global average implies.
Ce que les clients louent
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 juillet 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. UNE 30 juin 2026 review welcomes Italian phone support being available again, praising both the speed of the answer and the operator.
Plaintes courantes
Billing after cancellation dominates, and it repeats across years. A customer since 2019 wrote on 10 juillet 2026 that they had asked to deactivate hosting. They were charged the full annual renewal on 1 juillet 2026 en tous cas, with no refund. UNE 19 juin 2026 review describes a service marked for deactivation being renewed regardless.
Provisioning delays come second. UNE 15 juillet 2026 review describes buying a VPS advertised as automatic, then waiting over five hours with no credentials. UNE 23 Mars 2026 review describes a EUR 3.65 domain stuck in validation for 36 heures.
Third are specification and promotion disputes. UNE 3 décembre 2025 reviewer reported a VPS sold with 12 GB RAM delivering 11 GB. UNE 27 Mars 2026 reviewer took a free-domain promotion and was not told the domain had to be claimed within seven days.
Commentaires de la communauté (Reddit et forums)
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.
Sur 11 août 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 et 9 August came back corrupt. Sur 16 août 2026 another user found an Amsterdam VPS stopped for over six hours with no notification.
Sur 18 août 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.
Qualité de l'assistance
OVH Italia does have Italian phone support, sur +39 02 5560 0423, Monday to Friday from 08:00 à 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 minutes et 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, positif et négatif, 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:
Idéal pour
Developers who administer their own servers: A VPS-2 with 4 vCores et 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.
Vous l'apprécierez si
- You want predictable costs, 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
Aucun hôte ne convient à tout le monde. OVH Italia is the wrong choice if:
Regardez ailleurs si
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. le 99.9% on the sales page is described as observed, and it buys you nothing if it is missed.
Drapeaux rouges pour votre situation
- Vous souhaitez une garantie de remboursement: Il n'y en a pas. 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
Si l'un de ces éléments s'applique, regardez les alternatives ci-dessous.
- Avis OVH Italie d'Italie
| Score moyen | 1.78 |
| Nombre d'avis | 75 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie de France
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 10 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie du Royaume-Uni
| Score moyen | 2.70 |
| Nombre d'avis | 2 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie Du Canada
| Score moyen | 3.20 |
| Nombre d'avis | 2 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie d'Autriche
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie de Grèce
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie de Suisse
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie des Etats-Unis
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie de Bulgarie
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie de la Suède
| Score moyen | 4.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie du Taïwan
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
- Avis OVH Italie de Pologne
| Score moyen | 1.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 1 Commentaires |
OVH Italia Plans and Pricing
All prices are in EUR per month, sauf 22% TVA italienne. We read them from OVHcloud’s Italian order catalogue on 19 août 2026, and they match the public pricing page.
Avertissement de renouvellement: OVH Italia’s shared hosting jumps are among the steepest we’ve measured. The Pro plan enters at 1,99 EUR/mois et renouvelle à 9,99 EUR/mois. That is a 402% augmenter, a multiplier of 5.02x. Budget pour la deuxième année avant d'acheter.
Hébergement partagé
The ladder, first year to renewal, with the multiplier we calculated:
- Entrée: EUR 1.59 renouvelle à EUR 2.59 (1.63X)
- Personale: EUR 2.99 renouvelle à EUR 5.99 (2.00X)
- Commencez: EUR 2.99 renouvelle à EUR 5.99 (2.00X)
- Pro: EUR 1.99 renouvelle à EUR 9.99 (5.02X)
- Performance 1: EUR 6.99 renouvelle à EUR 19.99 (2.86X)
- Performance 2: EUR 12.99 renouvelle à EUR 38.99 (3.00X)
- Agence: EUR 12.99 renouvelle à EUR 38.99 (3.00X)
- Agence Max: EUR 24.99 renouvelle à 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 et 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 mois. Check the per-month figure at every term length.
Hébergement VPS
No renewal shock here at all. le 2027 range renews at the price you signed up on.
- VPS-1: EUR 3.81 sur une durée de 12 mois, EUR 4.49 rolling monthly. 2 vCores, 4 Go de RAM, 40 GB NVMe
- VPS-2: EUR 7.21 / EUR 8.49. 4 vCores, 8 Go de RAM, 75 GB NVMe
- VPS-3: EUR 10.40 / EUR 12.24. 6 vCores, 12 Go de RAM, 100 GB NVMe
- VPS-4: EUR 19.96 / EUR 23.49. 8 vCores, 24 Go de 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.
Serveurs dédiés
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 frais d'installation. Rise-1 costs EUR 59.99 mensuel, ou EUR 56.99 on a 12-month commitment. Avance-1, on an AMD EPYC 4244P, lists at EUR 114.99.
Now a buyer trap worth EUR 300 une année. 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, de 13.7% à 32.1%. Check both stores before ordering.
Coûts cachés à surveiller
- 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 c'est des euros 18.99 by model
- Shared hosting setup and upgrade fees: EUR 0 à chaque niveau
- T.V.A.: advertised prices exclude 22% TVA, so EUR 1.99 est en euros 2.43 at the till
- Automatic renewal is on by default, and changing the term needs 24 heures’ avis
Verdict sur les prix
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.
- Bande passante illimitée
- Panneau –
- Nombre de sites 5
- Bande passante illimitée
- Panneau –
- Nombre de sites 10
- Bande passante illimitée
- Panneau –
- Nombre de sites illimité
- CPU 1 coeur
- RAM 2 GB
- CPU 2 noyaux
- RAM 4 GB
- CPU 4 noyaux
- RAM 8 GB
OVH Italia Transparency Score
We assess how upfront OVH Italia is with important information:
- Informations sur la société: Excellent. The contract names OVH S.r.l., the Milan registered office and the registration number. Très peu d'hôtes font cela.
- Transparence des prix: Bien. 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.
- Documentation technique: Limité. The shared hosting page never says which country your site will run in. The answer sits only in the order catalogue.
- Conditions et politiques: Bien. 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.
Transparence globale: 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. Comparez les options dans notre Guide d'hébergement Web en Italie.
Pour le support géré: 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. Voir notre 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. Notre Comparatif VPS européen couvre le domaine.
Pour le métal nu, voir notre comparaison de serveur dédié. For redundancy-focused setups, essayez notre Guide européen de l'hébergement cloud.
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.
L'essentiel
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.
Avec 3.9/5 à travers 8,252 reviews globally, mais seulement 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. Sur 11 août 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 septembre 2026, and equipment already in production from October.
Pour plus d'options, voir notre Guide d'hébergement Web en Italie, where Italian-hosted alternatives are compared.
Questions fréquemment posées
Is OVH Italia good for beginners?
Pas vraiment. OVH sells infrastructure and expects you to manage it. Support is a ticket queue plus an office-hours phone line, pas un 24/7 service d'assistance. Beginners will be happier on a managed host.
Is OVH Italia worth the price?
Sur les serveurs, Oui. A VPS-2 at EUR 7.21/mo renews at EUR 7.21/mo, which is unusual and valuable. Sur l'hébergement mutualisé, be careful. The Pro plan enters at EUR 1.99 et renouvelle à EUR 9.99, a 5.02x jump.
De quoi les clients se plaignent-ils le plus ??
Trois choses dominent. 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, France, or Beauharnois, Canada. 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.
