If you already know which features you need, select them in the Cloud Provider Finder to immediately find matching providers.
The selected providers have data centers in the following countries.
| Amazon Lightsail | Contabo | Evoxt | OVHcloud | Vultr |
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| Australia Canada France Germany India Ireland Japan Singapore South Korea United Kingdom United States | Australia France Germany India Japan Singapore United Kingdom United States | Australia Canada France Germany Hong Kong Indonesia Japan Malaysia Poland South Korea Switzerland United Kingdom United States | Australia Austria Belgium Canada Czech Republic France Germany India Ireland Italy Luxemburg Morocco Netherlands Poland Singapore Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom | Australia Brazil Canada Chile France Germany India Israel Japan Mexico Netherlands Poland Singapore South Africa South Korea Sweden United Kingdom United States |
Features not included in the VPS price or that can't be managed from the provider control panelwill be marked as missing.
| Amazon Lightsail | Contabo | Evoxt | OVHcloud | Vultr | |
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| Hourly Billing | Yes | No | No | Mixed | Yes |
| DDOS Protection | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Backups | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Control Panel | custom | custom | Custom | Custom | Builtin |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 13 | 12 | 17 | 22 | 31 |
| Number of Data Center Continents | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Admin REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reverse DNS | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards | Credit cards, Paypal, bank transfers, Skrilla | Credit cards, Paypal, Bitcoin | Credit cards, Paypal | Paypal, credit card, crypto, Alipay |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Affiliate Program | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Firewall | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shelving | No | No | No | No | No |
Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.
| Amazon Lightsail | Contabo | Evoxt | OVHcloud | Vultr | |
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| 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 |
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Compare the performance of the 5 selected providers.