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Data Center Countries

The selected providers have data centers in the following countries.

Bluehost DreamHost HostHatch Kamatera Melbicom
Australia
Canada
Germany
India
Netherlands
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States
Netherlands
Singapore
United States
Australia
Austria
Hong Kong
Japan
Netherlands
Norway
Singapore
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Australia
Canada
Germany
Hong Kong
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Bulgaria
Estonia
France
Germany
India
Italy
Japan
Lithuania
Netherlands
Nigeria
Poland
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
United Arab Emirates
United States

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price or that can't be managed from the provider control panelwill be marked as missing.

Bluehost DreamHost HostHatch Kamatera Melbicom
Hourly Billing  No No No Yes No
DDOS Protection  Yes Yes No No No
Backups  No Yes Yes No No
Control Panel  Custom: Bluehost Control Panel Builtin Custom Custom WHMCS + Virtualizor
SSH Keys Setup  No Yes Yes No Yes
Total number of data centers  9 4 14 24 17
Number of data center continents  4 3 4 4 4
Monitoring Charts  No No No Yes Yes
Admin REST API  No Yes Yes Yes No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Reverse DNS  No No Yes No No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal Credit cards, Paypal Stripe, Paypal, Bank Transfer Credit cards Credit/debit cards, bank transfers, Paypal
Hidden CPU Model  No No No No No
Affiliate Program  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 support  No Yes Yes No Yes
Firewall  No Yes No No No
Shelving  No No No Yes No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Bluehost DreamHost HostHatch Kamatera Melbicom
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Bluehost
DreamHost
  • Management UI for cloud hosting disjointed from main management console.
  • No update or improvements to DreamCompute in years.
HostHatch
Kamatera
  • Large choice of instance types.
  • Large choice of datacenters.
  • When billed hourly, network transfer costs are extremely high ($50 for 5000GB).
Melbicom

Performance Comparisons

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