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Leaseweb and OVHcloud both sell bare metal in Europe, but one is Dutch with historic global network reach, the other French with vRack and HDS. When traffic and peering dominate, the comparison happens off the CPU spec sheet.
Gandi remains rooted in domains and sober hosting. Alwaysdata offers a multi-language platform with SSH and instant scaling. For a developer who refuses cloud complexity, the right pick shows up in runtimes and support.
IONOS and Contabo both advertise low-price VPS in Germany, but one sells a full ecosystem with renewal traps while the other packs massive resources with limited support. The trade-offs are not the same.
Infomaniak bets on Switzerland, documented ecology and 24/7 French support. o2switch offers unlimited shared hosting in France at a single price. For an SME, the right pick depends mainly on data location and site complexity.
Scaleway and Clever Cloud both target technical teams in France, but one sells infrastructure to configure and the other a deploy-ready PaaS. Time saved depends mostly on what you agree to stop controlling.
Managed or self-managed is not budget alone. It is a clear split of who patches, monitors, restores, and answers at night when production falls.
Dedicated hardware is not hosting's mandatory summit. It is justified by physical isolation, steady load, or regulatory constraints — not prestige.
Two European pillars: Hetzner for price-performance and autonomy, OVHcloud for the French ecosystem and support. Scenario comparison, limits and decision grid for European apps.
Cloud is expensive when load is flat. It pays off when your spikes exceed what a fixed server can absorb without wasting resources the rest of the year.
Moving to a VPS is not about prestige. It is the point where shared hosting no longer guarantees what your site needs — isolation, versions, cron, restore.
For a brochure site or blog just getting started, shared hosting is often the right first step — if you know when it becomes a constraint rather than a saving.