Genesis Public Cloud Review
Genesis Public Cloud in its own words
Genesis Hosting Solutions is a leading provider of hosting solutions that are common for businesses of all sizes. Genesis does not focus on any particular vertical, but we have solutions from basic infrastructure hosting to the most critical infrastructure that requires the utmost security and reliability controls.
Genesis Public Cloud was founded in 1997.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS, Storage and Networking hosting products.
- United States
This provider is related to Genesis VMs
Genesis VMs offers low price VPS billed monthly.
Quick Links
| Genesis Public Cloud plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Genesis Public Cloud instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Genesis Public Cloud servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Genesis Public Cloud trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Genesis Public Cloud trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Genesis Public Cloud VPS over the long term | Consistency |
Genesis Public Cloud VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
Genesis provides network layer DDoS protection and it also provides network protection with Fortinet's FortiGuard, which thwarts various other attacks, including blacklisted IP blocking. It also helps with anti-hammering. |
| Backups | No |
Available for a fee. Stored in object storage for $0.01/GiB per month. |
| Control Panel | OpenStack | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 1 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 1 | |
| Monitoring Charts | No |
Granular metrics are available via the OpenStack CLI, API, or SDK. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | No | |
| Firewall | Yes |
Security groups can be configured through the OpenStack CLI or through the UI. |
| Shelving | Yes |
"Powered-off (shut down) VM resources (CPU and Memory) have no cost": https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- 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.
Weaknesses
- There is a learning curve for the CLI management interface coupled with the jumphost.
- Network transfer costs are not included in instance prices.
Genesis Public Cloud Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Genesis Public 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 Genesis Public 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.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47s | 23s | 90s | 9 |
Control Panel Screenshots
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | $0.080 |
gp1: General Purpose (3k IOPS max / 0.5GiB/sec max)
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes |
1GiB min / 4TiB max |
| Block | $0.100 |
gp2: General Purpose (3 IOPS/GiB, 50k IOPS and 10 Million IO burst, 300 IOPS min / 3k IOPS max)
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes |
10GiB min size / 4TiB max |
| Block | $0.180 |
gp3: General Purpose (6 IOPS/GiB, 100k IOPS and 20 Million IO burst, 600 IOPS min / 6k IOPS max)
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes |
10GiB min / 4TiB max |
| Object | $0.010 |
S3 and Swift compatible. Triple replication. No additional cost for bandwidth and traffic.
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#objectstorage |
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| Backups | $0.010 |
Genesis Public Cloud has backups for $0.01/GiB/month and compresses, then stores, the backups onto object storage.
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#backups |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Genesis Public 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 |
|---|---|
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 0 GB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#network
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$0.005/GB |
Genesis Public Cloud Instance Types and Plans
All Genesis Public 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: Web Server Optimized Instance Type: w6asx |
Affordable line of servers featuring EPYC 7502P with 2GB RAM and 100GB local SSD storage for each vCPU. |
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| w6asx.large | 1 | 2.0GB | 100GB | $12.00 |
| w6asx.xlarge | 2 | 4.0GB | 200GB | $24.00 |
| w6asx.2xlarge | 4 | 8.0GB | 400GB | $49.00 |
| w6asx.3xlarge | 6 | 12.0GB | 600GB | $74.00 |
| Family: Compute optimized Instance Type: c6s |
C6s instances all feature Xeon E-2288G CPUs with 4GB storage for each core. |
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| c6s.large | 1 | 4.0GB | 20GB | $16.60 |
| c6s.xlarge | 2 | 8.0GB | 40GB | $33.20 |
| c6s.3xlarge | 6 | 24.0GB | 120GB | $99.60 |
| Family: Compute optimized Instance Type: c5 |
C5 server all feature dedicated Xeon 6154 CPU cores with 4GB RAM for each CPU core |
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| c5s.2xlarge (Off rankings) | 4 | 16.0GB | 0GB | $50.00 |
| Family: Web Server Optimized Instance Type: w6as |
EPYC 7702P CPUs with 2GB RAM for each core. |
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| w6as.large (Off rankings) | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $24.60 |
| w6as.xlarge (Off rankings) | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $41.00 |
| Family: Compute optimized Instance Type: c6.asx |
EPYC 7502P CPUs with local storage and 1:4 core to RAM ratio. |
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| c6asx.large | 1 | 4.0GB | 100GB | $13.00 |