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Aruba Cloud in its own words

Aruba Cloud, part of the Aruba Group, is a leading Cloud service provider. Thanks to a network of eight data centers in various countries (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic), Aruba Cloud offers its own customers a range of Cloud services and solutions: from NVMe VPSs to Virtual Private Cloud, Database as a Service, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, plus a selection of Cloud Storage and Backup services.

Aruba Cloud was founded in 1994.
It is headquartered in Italy.
It offers VPS hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Czech Republic
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Poland
  • United Kingdom

Best VPS Awards

3rd Best VPS 2022 under $100 (old revision)
3rd Best VPS 2021 under $60 (old revision)
3rd Best VPS 2020 under $60 (old revision)

1st Best VPS August 2021
1st Best VPS September 2020

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Aruba Cloud plans specs and prices Plans
Aruba Cloud instance types Instance Types
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List of Aruba Cloud trials Trials
Review CPU models found in Aruba Cloud trials CPUs
Performance variations of Aruba Cloud VPS over the long term Consistency

Aruba Cloud VPS Features

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  Mixed
DDOS Protection  Yes

Available for both Cloud PRO and Cloud VPS plans. https://www.arubacloud.com/
Backups  Yes

Snapshots are free but are kept for only 2 days before being destroyed.
Backups are available for a fee.
Control Panel  Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  8
Number of Datacenter Continents  1
Monitoring Charts  Yes

Processor, Network, Memory, Disks.
Admin REST API  Yes

URL: https://github.com/Arubacloud/pyArubaCloud
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  No
Reverse DNS  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  No
IPv6 support  Yes
Firewall  No
Shelving  No
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Pros and Cons

Strengths

  • Numerous datacenter locations in Europe.
  • VMWare hypervisor.
  • Very consistent performance.

Aruba Cloud Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, Aruba Cloud also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):

Backups   Block storage   Object storage   Load balancer   Floating IP addresses
Team Management Managed databases   Serverless DDoS protection   Kubernetes
GPU instances Private network

VPS Instance Provisioning Time

For each Aruba Cloud VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.

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Average Provisioning Time Min Provisioning Time Max Provisioning Time Number of VPS Samples
152s 30s 280s 11

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Cloud Storage Prices

For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.

Storage Type Price / GB / month Description Restriction
Backups 0.150€ This is the pay-per-use price.
Backups can be scheduled on an hourly, daily or weekly basis.
https://www.arubacloud.com/cloud-backup/price-list.aspx 		10GB minimum
Object 0.050€ This is the pay-per-use price.
Outgoing traffic is €0.05 per GB.
API is S3 compatible.
https://www.arubacloud.com/object-storage/pricing.aspx 		10GB minimum

Network Bandwidth Prices

These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Aruba Cloud for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.

For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.

Description Price / GB
Pricing model: Unlimited (the provider does not charge for bandwidth and allows unlimited transfer with possible throttling.)
Port speed: 1 Gbps
Cloud Pro servers have unlimited traffic. Cloud VPS server 2 core 4GB has 25TB free allowance.
https://www.arubacloud.com/cloud-pro.aspx 		This provider does not charge for bandwidth.

Aruba Cloud Instance Types and Plans

How fast are Aruba Cloud servers:  Screen all Aruba Cloud VPS Plans

All Aruba Cloud instance types

Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.

Plan Number of CPU cores RAM Storage Price
Family:
Cloud VPS
Instance Type:
VMware

The Cloud VPS solution features servers that are preconfigured, available in 4 sizes up to 4 vCPUs and 8GB RAM with various technical components, all based on VMware technology, with built-in SSD storage.
VPS V1I2 1 2.0GB 40GB 6.50€ ($7.08)
VPS V2I4 2 4.0GB 80GB 12.50€ ($13.62)
VPS V4I8 4 8.0GB 160GB 25.00€ ($27.25)
VPS V8I16 8 16.0GB 240GB 59.99€ ($65.39)
Family:
Cloud PRO
Instance Type:
VMware Custom

Custom size servers with guaranteed resources, Intel processors, SAN+SSD (redundant) Storage, local network interconnection and a 99.95% SLA.
Prices reported here are for 20GB storage per vCPU.
PRO VMware 2GB 1 core 1 2.0GB 20GB 21.90€ ($23.87)
PRO VMware 4GB 2 cores 2 4.0GB 40GB 43.80€ ($47.74)
PRO VMware 8GB 4 cores 4 8.0GB 80GB 86.40€ ($94.18)
Family:
Cloud VPS
Instance Type:
OpenStack

Built on top of OpenStack, those preconfigured servers offer AMD processors, SDS (Software-Defined Storage) NVMe and a 99.90% SLA. Window Server license is included.
VPS O4A8 4 8.0GB 80GB 11.79€ ($12.85)
VPS O8A16 8 16.0GB 160GB 18.19€ ($19.83)
Family:
Cloud PRO
Instance Type:
OpenStack General Purpose

Built on top of OpenStack, those preconfigured servers offer guaranteed resources, next generation AMD processors, SDS (Software-Defined Storage) NVMe, local network interconnection, hourly billing and a 99.95% SLA.
PRO O2A4 2 4.0GB 80GB 20.10€ ($21.91)
PRO O8A16 8 16.0GB 160GB 55.50€ ($60.50)

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