OVH has quietly sent out emails to its VPS customers with some very bad news. The prices for their new “VPS 2026” range are going up by 50% or more, starting 1st April 2026. This is not a small, routine increase. In my case, the VPS2 plan I use is going to cost around 65% more than what I pay today.
For a long time, OVH was the first choice for many of us. The reasons were simple: good performance, steady pricing, decent DDoS protection, and data centers spread across Europe, North America, Asia, and even India. We trusted them because things were stable and predictable. This sudden price hike has broken that trust.
In the email they sent, OVH says the increase is because hardware costs have gone up, especially RAM. They blame the rise in demand for AI computing and limited supply of memory chips. This reason is not entirely wrong. Memory prices have been under pressure, and OVH’s own CEO had earlier mentioned that some cloud service prices may go up by 5 to 10 percent by mid-2026.
But here is the thing that does not make sense to me.
A VPS runs on hardware that was already bought and set up years ago. These are not brand new machines being built for you today. When I checked the CPU running behind my VPS, I found it was an Intel Haswell processor, which is many years old. If the machines are already paid off, why does today’s RAM price have anything to do with a 65% increase on old infrastructure?
What makes this even worse is how OVH is handling the communication. As of now, the main OVH website still shows the old prices. A new customer can sign up today at those rates, only to receive an email a few hours later saying that from April, they will be charged much more. This feels like a bait and switch. You get people to set up their servers and move their work there, and then you raise the price once it becomes painful for them to leave.
It is no surprise that forums are already full of users saying they are planning to move away from OVH. Maybe OVH is betting that most customers will find it too much trouble to shift everything to a new provider. Maybe they think the market will simply accept it. But a 50 to 65% price hike is not an adjustment. It is a big strategic decision, and one that is going to hurt a lot of loyal, long-term customers.
These are my personal views. But one thing is clear: a hike this large, handled this poorly, is going to push many users to start seriously looking at other options.
