Compare Provider Features

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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

Amazon EC2 Genesis VMs
Australia
Bahrain
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
United States

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.

Amazon EC2 Genesis VMs
Hourly Billing  Yes No
DDOS Protection  No Yes
Backups  No Yes
Control Panel  Builtin WHMCS
SSH Keys Setup  Yes No
Total Number of Datacenters  22 1
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 1
Monitoring Charts  Yes Yes
Admin REST API  Yes No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  No No
Mobile Friendly UI  No Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards Credit cards
Hidden CPU Model  No No
Affiliate Program  No Yes
Firewall  Yes Yes
Shelving  Yes No

Extra Services

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

Amazon EC2 Genesis VMs
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
Amazon EC2
  • Numerous datacenter locations.
  • The largest catalog of cloud services you can find.
  • Not the easiest UI.
  • Storage speed throttled based on volume size.
Genesis VMs
  • Choose CPU type when you order.
  • Fast and modern CPUs.

Performance Comparisons

Compare the performance of the 2 selected providers.

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