Hivelocity Review
Hivelocity in its own words
Hivelocity is a global provider of dedicated servers, vps, and colocation. By focusing on our customers' needs and success we've grown to operating 40+ world class data centers across 6 continents.
Hivelocity was founded as a VPS provider in 2002.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS, Dedicated servers and Colocation hosting products.
- United States
Quick Links
| Hivelocity plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Hivelocity instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Hivelocity servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Hivelocity trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Hivelocity trials | CPUs |
| List of Hivelocity yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Hivelocity VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | No | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
https://www.hivelocity.net/enhancements/ddos-protection/ |
| Backups | Yes |
Hourly, daily, weekly and monthly snapshots included with all VPS. Up to 10 snapshots at a time. |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 3 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 1 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
CPU, Memory, Disk, Network. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Reverse DNS | No |
Available through support request. |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit, debit cards, Paypal, Bank transfers | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | Yes | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Hivelocity Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Hivelocity also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Hivelocity VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 155s | 130s | 180s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | $0.075 |
You can attach a volume to any VPS server in the same location.
Hivelocity block storage |
Hivelocity Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: VPS |
High performance servers with Intel and AMD VPS available in Los Angeles, CA; Tampa, FL; and New York City, NY. |
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| VPS.XS | 1 | 2.0GB | 50GB | $4.00 / month |
| VPS.SM | 2 | 4.0GB | 80GB | $7.00 / month |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description |
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| VPS.LG | 8 | 16.0GB | 320GB | $27.00 / month |
