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Data Center Countries

The selected providers have data centers in the following countries.

Genesis Public Cloud IONOS Kamatera Servers.com Vultr
United States
France
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
Australia
Canada
Germany
Hong Kong
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Singapore
United States
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
France
Germany
India
Israel
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Poland
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
United Kingdom
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.

Genesis Public Cloud IONOS Kamatera Servers.com Vultr
Hourly Billing  Yes Mixed Yes Yes Yes
DDOS Protection  Yes Yes No No No
Backups  No No No No No
Control Panel  OpenStack Custom Custom Custom Builtin
SSH Keys Setup  Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Total number of data centers  1 10 24 6 31
Number of data center continents  1 2 4 3 5
Monitoring Charts  No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Admin REST API  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards Credit cards, Paypal Credit cards Credit/debit cards, Paypal Paypal, credit card, crypto, Alipay
Hidden CPU Model  No No No No Yes
Affiliate Program  Yes Yes Yes No Yes
IPv6 support  No Yes No Yes Yes
Firewall  Yes Yes No No Yes
Shelving  Yes No Yes No No

Extra Services

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

Genesis Public Cloud IONOS Kamatera Servers.com Vultr
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
Genesis Public Cloud
  • Choose precise CPU and storage types when you order.
  • Good documentation.
  • The fastest, cutting edge CPUs in the market are available at Genesis.
  • No charge other than for storage and IP address for turned off instances.
  • There is a learning curve for the CLI management interface coupled with the jumphost.
  • Network transfer costs are not included in instance prices.
IONOS
  • Free load balancer.
  • Unlimited traffic.
  • Slowish management UI.
Kamatera
  • Large choice of instance types.
  • Large choice of datacenters.
  • When billed hourly, network transfer costs are extremely high ($50 for 5000GB).
Servers.com
Vultr
  • Fast and modern UI.
  • Large choice of datacenters.
  • Large choice of instance types.

Performance Comparisons

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