Verdict
ovhcloud.com appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | OVHcloud regional site (Ireland) describing cloud infrastructure products and services including compute, storage, networking, databases, AI/GPU offerings, security and developer tooling. Targeted at businesses and partners. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 3% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 7 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013205 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the Ireland-facing OVHcloud corporate site, presenting cloud computing and web-hosting services such as public and private cloud, bare-metal servers, VPS, storage, databases, networking, AI/GPU infrastructure, security, backup, and developer tooling. Its apparent business model is the sale of managed infrastructure, subscriptions, enterprise services, and partner offerings to businesses and technical users.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No blacklist, phishing, malware, or confirmed impersonation contradictions were observed. The site’s corporate service descriptions, stable interaction behavior, and absence of suspicious wallet, redirect, cloaking, or external-form activity are consistent with a genuine enterprise cloud-services presence. A page-similarity signal associated the content with cloud.microsoft, but this was not accompanied by a confirmed impersonation finding and is best treated as a non-conclusive resemblance signal. A small number of abuse reports relate to shared OVH infrastructure rather than being attributed specifically to the website, materially limiting their relevance to site-level risk.
- The homepage identifies the business as “Cloud Computing & Web Hosting | OVHcloud Ireland” and describes corporate infrastructure products, with no page-level red flags.
- The homepage contains a customer-account login form, but behavioral testing recorded no hidden forms, external password submissions, wallet-drainer activity, cloaking, or suspicious scripts.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2011-11-24, with an age of 14.73 years.
- Web-archive records contain 205 snapshots spanning 2013-07-25 through 2018-09-12, covering 6 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
Available content is consistent with an established commercial cloud provider rather than a financial or investment service. No specific regulatory licence or registration number is identified in the supplied site content; this is a disclosure point to clarify if a proposed engagement involves a regulated service, but it is not, by itself, evidence of deception. The real-world operator identity remains independently unverified, so the apparent legitimacy of the site should not be treated as proof of a particular contracting entity. The available external reputation checks were clean, and the broker-reputational dataset contained no match.
- The site is served from AS16276, identified as OVH - OVH SAS, FR.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-21.
- The homepage presents a detailed corporate product structure covering compute, storage, networking, databases, security, AI/GPU services, and developer tools.
- The site’s transport encryption is valid and includes a known certificate issuer and subject-alternative-name coverage.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise should independently confirm the contracting entity, applicable service terms, billing entity, support channels, and any regulatory or sector-specific certifications relevant to the intended service. Account access should be initiated from an independently confirmed corporate channel, and payment-protection, cancellation, service-credit, and data-recovery provisions should be reviewed before a material commitment.
- The homepage provides customer-account access, contact-sales functionality, support navigation, and region-specific pricing context.
- The product pages identify enterprise infrastructure, security, compliance, backup, disaster-recovery, and partner offerings that warrant confirmation against the applicable contract and service documentation.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture with no observed scam or impersonation contradiction. The conclusion is strong at the website-risk level, while the independently verified connection to a specific real-world operator remains limited.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed address belongs to an edge server rather than an identified origin. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a positive defensive control, although protective infrastructure is a mitigating signal and does not independently establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing and standard service evaluation are proportionate; credentials or payments should follow ordinary independent checks of the commercial counterparty, contractual protections, and payment safeguards.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 7 reports on hosting IP 198.27.92.14 (OVH Hosting, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 3% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of ovhcloud.com.
- The request stayed on ovhcloud.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under OVH, SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ovh.net, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2032-11-24. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-07-25. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | OVH, SAS |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 198.27.92.14 |
| Name servers | DNS104.OVH.NET, DNS200.ANYCAST.ME, NS104.OVH.NET, NS200.ANYCAST.ME |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-21 |
| Domain age | 14.73 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2032-11-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-07-25 |
| Archive snapshots | 205 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 3% confidence, 7 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ovhcloud.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.