HostUp Review

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HostUp in its own words

HostUp is a Swedish cloud infrastructure provider and an Accredited domain registrar with servers located in Stockholm, Sweden. HostUp helps businesses and individuals alike bring their online idea to reality with enterprise grade server hardware and world class stability.

HostUp was founded as a VPS provider in 2019.
It is headquartered in Sweden.
It offers Web, Wordpress, VPS and Domains hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Sweden

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HostUp News

Providers share news about their company, their products, their features and their promotions on VPSBenchmarks. See all announcements on the Provider News page.

This is the most recent news from HostUp.

HostUp now offers VPS with Block Storage featuring High Availability as standard for all their VPS. This is the default option and comes at no additional cost. What this means is that instead of traditional RAID where data is replicated to disks on the same server, the storage is now replicated to 3 separate servers.

Even in the event of complete server failures the data is still available and VPS can reboot within a few minutes on another server. In terms of redundancy this new offering marks a significant upgrade from traditional RAID, taking data replication and system resilience to unprecedented levels. But it's not all about redundancy, it also got a lot higher throughput!

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HostUp VPS Features

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

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  No
DDOS Protection  Yes

Corero based DDoS protection.

Backups  Yes

30 backups are included. You can take a backup manually or set it up to be taken automatically every day, every other day, or every week.

Control Panel  VirtFusion
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  1
Number of Datacenter Continents  1
Monitoring Charts  Yes

Network traffic, Disk, CPU, Memory.

Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Swish, IBAN
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
IPv6 support  Yes

/48 subnet is allocated.

Firewall  No
Shelving  No
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HostUp Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, HostUp also sells the services marked green in the following table:

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 HostUp 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
1558s 60s 8400s 6

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HostUp Instance Types and Plans

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All HostUp instance types

Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. 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 Monthly Price
Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
VPS

Ideal for businesses and developers seeking advanced capabilities and robust infrastructure.

VPS XS 2 4.0GB 50GB 39.00 kr ($3.74) / month
VPS SM 2 8.0GB 100GB 75.00 kr ($7.20) / month
VPS MED 8 16.0GB 200GB 150.00 kr ($14.40) / month
VPS LG 8 32.0GB 400GB 300.00 kr ($28.80) / month
VPS XL 16 64.0GB 800GB 600.00 kr ($57.60) / month
VPS XXL 32 128.0GB 1600GB 1200.00 kr ($115.20) / month

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