Server or sandbox?

Catches

• Users say: orders cancelled after payment, with generic reasons (reviews).
• Bills while switched off: a stopped machine is charged like a running one; only deleting it ends the bill.
• Whole months only: sold as monthly plans, with no hourly price.
• CPU sharing unpublished: OVHcloud publishes no CPU-sharing, burst or contention policy for its VPS vCores, so whether a core is shared is not stated.
• You run the server: OVHcloud makes the server's configuration, security and running your responsibility. A daily backup is included free.
• Not for: many short runs: a monthly plan bills whether the machine runs 166 hours or none, so 1,000 ten-minute tasks cost the same as an idle month.

Catches

• Users say: too few public reviews to judge (reviews).
• What you keep up: when Runtime updates its default image, a paused sandbox or snapshot keeps its old files; only new sandboxes get the update. You run apt yourself.
• Not for: a buyer who needs a named founder, a funding history or a company older than a few months.

Catches

• Users say: too few public reviews to judge (reviews).
• Data out price unpublished: not published: the billing docs meter only compute and disk.
• What you keep up: its hosting plans promise automatic updates and security patches, but its API docs say an instance keeps the image it was created from until you run an update, and an update resets anything installed outside your files.
• Not for: docker on the default type, which is a gVisor container; the vm type costs 2.5× the compute rate.

Catches

• Users say: multi-day VDS outages in October 2026 (reviews).
• Bills while switched off: a stopped machine is charged like a running one; only deleting it ends the bill.
• Whole months only: sold as monthly plans, with no hourly price.
• Shared CPU: shared vCPU cores on mixed CPU generations, so speed depends on what else runs on the host.
• You run the server: Contabo is unmanaged: once you have root access, configuration and security are yours. A network firewall is included; daily backups are a paid add-on.
• Not for: many short runs or one machine per task: there is no hourly or per-second meter, so a ten-minute task costs a month.

Catches

• Users say: too few public reviews to judge (reviews).
• Data out price unpublished: not published: the billing docs meter only compute and disk.
• What you keep up: its hosting plans promise automatic updates and security patches, but its API docs say an instance keeps the image it was created from until you run an update, and an update resets anything installed outside your files.
• Not for: docker on the default type, which is a gVisor container; the vm type costs 2.5× the compute rate.

Catches

• Users say: accounts restricted or deleted during verification (reviews).
• Flexible IPv4 extra: $4.06 a month per machine on top of the machine price.
• Shared CPU: every plan priced here runs its vCPUs on physical cores shared with other Instances; dedicated-CPU ranges cost more and are not priced here.
• You run the server: Scaleway's shared-responsibility page makes the operating system, patches, firewalls and backups yours; it patches only its own infrastructure.
• Not for: many short runs: every task under an hour pays a full hour of compute, disk and IPv4, so 1,000 ten-minute tasks cost $29.49 instead of about $5.

Catches

• Users say: too few public reviews to judge (reviews).
• Data out price unpublished: named as billable in the terms, but no rate is published.
• Updates not published: Morph publishes nothing on who patches its default image or a snapshot you keep; snapshots are frozen copies of memory and disk.
• Not for: a buyer who needs published regions, GPU options, maximum sizes or an SLA.

Catches

• Users say: multi-day VDS outages in October 2026 (reviews).
• Bills while switched off: a stopped machine is charged like a running one; only deleting it ends the bill.
• Whole months only: sold as monthly plans, with no hourly price.
• Shared CPU: shared vCPU cores on mixed CPU generations, so speed depends on what else runs on the host.
• You run the server: Contabo is unmanaged: once you have root access, configuration and security are yours. A network firewall is included; daily backups are a paid add-on.
• Not for: many short runs or one machine per task: there is no hourly or per-second meter, so a ten-minute task costs a month.

Catches

• Users say: too few public reviews to judge (reviews).
• Data out price unpublished: not published: the billing docs meter only compute and disk.
• What you keep up: its hosting plans promise automatic updates and security patches, but its API docs say an instance keeps the image it was created from until you run an update, and an update resets anything installed outside your files.
• Not for: docker on the default type, which is a gVisor container; the vm type costs 2.5× the compute rate.