Hostwinds was founded in 2010.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers Shared, VPS and Dedicated hosting products.
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, Hostwinds 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 |
These are all the CPU types we have seen in Hostwinds instances per plan and time period.
Hostwinds CPUsFor each Hostwinds VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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75s | 60s | 90s | 2 |
The Screener shows all Hostwinds plans side by side with their grades in 5 categories.
URL | https://www.hostwinds.com/cloud/cloud-hosting |
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Price per month | $4.99 |
Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
Disk GB | 30 |
Num Cores | 1 |
Memory GB | 1.0 |
Hourly Billing | No |
Virtualization | KVM |
Data Transfer GB | 1000 |
Burstable CPU | No |
Dedicated CPU | No |
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 24
Web Performance | Raw CPU Power | Performance Stability | Disk IO Performance | Network Performance |
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F | F | D | E | D |
Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2021 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.
We conducted 6 different types of tests during the latest trial for Hostwinds - Cloud 1GB 1 core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Web Runs | Live Web | Network Transfers | Remote Timings | Sysbench | Endurance |
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Review | Review | Review | Review | Review | Review |
Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Cloud 1GB 1 core plan with its grade and CPU type.
Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
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Apr 27 2020 | Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, IBRS) | Dallas, USA | E |
URL | https://www.hostwinds.com/cloud/cloud-hosting |
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Price per month | $18.99 |
Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
Disk GB | 75 |
Num Cores | 2 |
Memory GB | 4.0 |
Hourly Billing | Yes |
Virtualization | KVM |
Data Transfer GB | 2000 |
Burstable CPU | No |
Dedicated CPU | No |
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 32
Web Performance | Raw CPU Power | Performance Stability | Disk IO Performance | Network Performance |
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E | E | D | D | E |
Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2021 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.
We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for Hostwinds - Cloud 4GB 2 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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Review | Review | Review | Review |
Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Cloud 4GB 2 cores plan with its grade and CPU type.
Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
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Aug 26 2020 | Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, IBRS) | Seattle, Washington, USA | E |