Much cheaper and better performance at the high end. Doesn't compete at all at the low-end, except through their budget brand Kimsufi. I don't see them really as targeting the same market.
I rent a server from OVH for $32 a month. It's their So You Start line... doesn't come with fancy enterprise support and the like.
It's a 4 core 8 thread Xeon with 3x 1TB SATA with 32GB of ECC RAM IIRC (E3-SAT-1-32, got it during a sale with a price that is guaranteed as long as I keep renewing it)
The thing is great, I can run a bunch of VM's on it, it runs my websites and email.
Overall to get something comparable elsewhere I would be paying 3 to 4 times as much.
I would consider $50 a month or less low end pricing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I forgot they also have the so you start brand. It's probably more expensive than the majority of what digital ocean sells, but there is some overlap for sure.
I don't know about OVH but Hetzner beats DO at the lower end: for $5/month you get 2 CPUs vs 1, 2 GB RAM vs 1, 40 GB disk vs 25 and 20 TB traffic vs 1. They have an even lower-end package for 2.96 Euro/month as well.
