Leaseweb Review
Leaseweb in its own words
Leaseweb stands out as a premier provider of Cloud services and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), catering to a diverse global clientele of 20,000 customers that range from small and medium businesses to large enterprises. Their extensive suite of services encompasses Virtual Private Servers, Public Cloud solutions, Kubernetes management, Private Cloud infrastructure, Hybrid Hosting, Colocation, Content Delivery Networks, Cyber Security Services, and Dedicated Servers. All offerings are backed by exceptional customer service and technical support, ensuring clients receive reliable and expert assistance at every step.
Leaseweb was founded as a VPS provider in 1997.
It is headquartered in Netherlands.
It offers VPS, dedicated servers, web hosting, colocation, CDN and Storage hosting products.
- Canada
- Germany
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- United States
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| Leaseweb plans specs and prices | Plans |
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| List of Leaseweb trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Leaseweb trials | CPUs |
| List of Leaseweb yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Leaseweb 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 Leaseweb.
Leaseweb has expanded its cloud portfolio in Australia with the launch of Public Cloud and VPS services from its Sydney data center.
Previously focused on dedicated servers, colocation, and network services, Leaseweb’s Australian operations now support a broader range of virtualized infrastructure options for businesses seeking scalable, locally hosted solutions.
Leaseweb Virtual Private Servers
Leaseweb VPS provides a straightforward way for small businesses and development teams to deploy applications on reliable infrastructure with predictable costs.
Available configurations:
- 4–24 vCPUs
- 6–120 GB vRAM
- 100–600 GB NVMe storage (25K IOPS)
- 5–10 TB monthly traffic
- Standard DDoS IP Protection included (up to 5 Gbps volumetric & up to 2.5 M pps)
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Leaseweb VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices are marked as missing in the table below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Mixed | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
Every VPS includes automatic mitigation against volumetric attacks up to 5 Gbps and protocol-based DDoS attacks up to 2.5 million pps, filtering malicious traffic while ensuring minimal service disruption |
| Backups | Yes |
Every VPS comes with built-in snapshot data protection as a standard feature, with 1 snapshot included for free: https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/virtual-private-server/virtual-private-server-managing-vps-snapshot/. |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 9 | |
| Number of Data Center Continents | 3 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
Data traffic only. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit/debit cards, Paypal, ACH direct debit | |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | |
| Affiliate Program | No | |
| IPv6 support | No | |
| Firewall | Yes | |
| Shelving | No |
Leaseweb Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Leaseweb 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 Leaseweb 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 | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19030s | 3000s | 90s | 54000s | 3 |
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 & Request Pricing | Description |
Restriction
Extra capacity provisioning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object | 0.017€ |
Product name: Object storage
Leaseweb offers a cost-effective and scalable Object Storage solution for storing large amounts of data. It utilizes standard protocols and S3 APIs to organize data into buckets. Leaseweb object storage |
Minimum 500GB
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| Block | 0.100€ |
Product name: Value
Block Storage solution is ideal for high-performance and mission-critical applications. It divides data into independent blocks for exceptional speed and low latency, making it perfect for transactional workloads, production databases, and data-intensive applications. Leaseweb block storage |
Minimum 500GB
IOPS allowance: Max IOPS Burst: 8000 Throughput price per MBps: Throughput allowance MBps: |
| Block | 0.030€ |
Product name: Local storage
Pricing is based on peak usage per gigabyte per month for monthly billing and per gigabyte-hour for hourly billing, ensuring you only pay for the exact resources you use. Leaseweb block storage |
Public Cloud servers local storage
IOPS allowance: Max IOPS Burst: 15000 Throughput price per MBps: Throughput allowance MBps: |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Leaseweb for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
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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: 1 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Product range: This pricing is for the Leaseweb Public Cloud.
Transfer pool: yes
1 TB of free pooled Internet traffic per month, shared across all instances under a single contract. Incoming traffic is always free.
Leaseweb networking |
Tiered pricing:
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Leaseweb Instance Types and Plans
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.
Cloud Server Plans
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: Public Cloud Instance Type: Compute Optimized |
Compute-optimized instances are designed for applications with higher processing requirements. These instances provide a higher CPU-to-memory ratio, making them ideal for workloads that benefit from high-performance processors. They are a good fit for the
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/public-cloud/pricing
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| LSW.C6A.LARGE | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | 34.39€ / month ($40.24 / month) |
| Family: Public Cloud Instance Type: General Purpose |
General Purpose instances provide a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources, and can be used for a wide range of workloads.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/public-cloud/pricing
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| LSW.M3.LARGE | 2 | 7.0GB | 5GB | 29.44€ / month ($34.44 / month) |
| Family: Leaseweb VPS Instance Type: General purpose |
Leaseweb VPS provides highly efficient infrastructure for your business by delivering exceptional price-performance, fast local storage and easy deployment.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/virtual-private-server
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| Leaseweb VPS 1 | 4 | 6.0GB | 100GB | $3.50 / month |
| Leaseweb VPS 2 | 6 | 16.0GB | 200GB | $9.00 / month |
| Leaseweb VPS 3 | 8 | 24.0GB | 300GB | $14.60 / month |
| Leaseweb VPS 5 | 16 | 64.0GB | 500GB | $36.70 / month |