ScalaHosting Review
ScalaHosting in its own words
ScalaHosting is all about Managed VPS!
Why ScalaHosting?
- Simplified VM and website management with our in-house developed SPanel, a cPanel/WHM alternative;
- Unconditional anytime money back guarantee - just to show you how certain we are about the quality of our services;
- The latest all-NVMe storage hardware and Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y processors across all our data centers - for ultimate cloud performance;
- SPanel transforms every self-managed VPS, e.g. AWS or Google Cloud, into a fully managed service;
- Joomla exclusive VPS provider - the only hosting company endorsed by Joomla's founder, Brian Teeman;
ScalaHosting was founded as a VPS provider in 2007.
It is headquartered in the United States.
It employs 50-200 people.
It offers Managed Hosting, VPS, Web Hosting and Wordpress hosting products.
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ScalaHosting plans specs and prices
Plans
ScalaHosting instance types
Instance Types
How fast are ScalaHosting servers? Check them out in the Screener
Screener
List of ScalaHosting trials
Trials
Review CPU models found in ScalaHosting trials
CPUs
Performance variations of ScalaHosting VPS over the long term
Consistency
List of ScalaHosting yabs.sh results
Yabs
Managed VPS
| ScalaHosting plans specs and prices | Plans |
| ScalaHosting instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are ScalaHosting servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of ScalaHosting trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in ScalaHosting trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of ScalaHosting VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of ScalaHosting yabs.sh results | Yabs |
ScalaHosting offers Managed VPS products. Review ScalaHosting Managed VPS Features.
ScalaHosting 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 ScalaHosting.
ScalaHosting is upgrading the database layer across its managed cloud VPS fleet from MariaDB 10.11 to MariaDB 11.8, and has joined MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor. Both are Long Term Support releases; 11.8 has been generally available since June 2025 and is maintained through June 2028. The upgrade is handled as part of the managed service, with no migration or application changes on the customer side.
Where the performance difference shows up
The substantive change is the query optimizer. MariaDB reworked its cost model in the 11.0 series, moving to a purely cost-based approach with costs recalculated for SSD-backed storage rather than the spinning disks the original model assumed. That work ships in 11.8. MariaDB's published estimate is that... (continued)
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ScalaHosting VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices or that can't be managed from the provider control panel are marked as missing in the table below.
ScalaHosting Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, ScalaHosting 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 ScalaHosting 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 |
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| 65s | 55s | 25s | 180s | 12 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by ScalaHosting 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 Throttled
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is throttled.)
Free allowance: 3 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
ScalaHosting networking
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This provider does not charge for bandwidth. |
Recent Performance Trials
| Instance Type | Plan | Date | Score | PW Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General purpose / Self-managed VPS | Build #1 | Jul 27 2026 | 34 | 44 |
| General purpose / Self-managed VPS | Build #3 | Jun 12 2026 | 67 | 50 |
| General purpose / Self-managed VPS | Build #2 | Apr 27 2026 | 57 | 49 |
| General purpose / Self-managed VPS | Build #1 | Mar 13 2026 | 45 | 55 |
ScalaHosting Instance Types and Plans
All ScalaHosting 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.
Cloud Server Plans
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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Instance Type: Self-managed VPS |
Cloud VPS hosting with fast SSD storage. Dedicated control, functionality and speed.
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| Build #1 | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $24.95 / month |
| Build #2 | 4 | 8.0GB | 100GB | $49.95 / month |
| 6 cores 12GB | 6 | 12.0GB | 120GB | $71.95 / month |
| Build #3 | 8 | 16.0GB | 160GB | $95.95 / month |
| Build #4 | 16 | 32.0GB | 240GB | $183.95 / month |
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Instance Type: Managed VPS Hosting |
24/7 Worry-Free Fully Managed Support. Free, Effortless & Guaranteed Migration. Automatic Offsite Backups. Unmetered bandwidth. |
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| Build #1 Managed | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $49.95 / month |
| Build #2 Managed | 4 | 8.0GB | 100GB | $91.95 / month |
| Build #3 Managed | 8 | 16.0GB | 150GB | $165.95 / month |
| Build #4 Managed | 12 | 24.0GB | 200GB | $239.95 / month |