Compare Provider Features

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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

Alibaba Cloud Scaleway
Australia
China
Germany
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
France
Netherlands
Poland

Features and Usability

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

Alibaba Cloud Scaleway
Hourly Billing  Mixed Yes
DDOS Protection  Yes Yes
Backups  Yes Yes
Control Panel  Custom Builtin
SSH Keys Setup  Yes Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  24 3
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 1
Monitoring Charts  Yes No
Admin REST API  Yes Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes No
Mobile Friendly UI  No No
Reverse DNS  No Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal, Alipay Credit Cards
Hidden CPU Model  No No
Affiliate Program  Yes No
Firewall  Yes No
Shelving  No Yes

Extra Services

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

Alibaba Cloud Scaleway
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
Alibaba Cloud
  • Numerous datacenter locations.
  • Large catalog of cloud services.
  • Varying pricing depending on location.
  • Complex, hard to use UI.
Scaleway
  • Very large catalog of cloud features.
  • Fast and modern UI.
  • Mostly on the slow and expensive side.

Performance Comparisons

Compare the performance of the 2 selected providers.

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