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 55 people.
It offers Managed Hosting, VPS, Web Hosting and Wordpress hosting products.
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Quick Links
| 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 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.
We’re excited to announce a new partnership between OpenCart and ScalaHosting! 🎉
As part of this collaboration, ScalaHosting is now officially listed as a recommended hosting provider on the OpenCart Download page. This recognition marks an important milestone as we join forces to deliver a seamless and reliable hosting experience for OpenCart users around the world.
OpenCart is one of the most popular eCommerce platforms, trusted by thousands of businesses to power their online stores. It’s a free, open-source solution that allows you to create and manage online shops with ease. Written in PHP, OpenCart is known for being lightweight, user-friendly, and relatively simple to set up—even for those without advanced technical knowledge.
Through this partnership, OpenCart users can now... (continued)
ScalaHosting VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices 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 | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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| 130s | 45s | 780s | 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. |
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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| Family: General purpose Instance Type: Self-managed VPS |
Cloud VPS hosting with fast SSD storage. Dedicated control, functionality and speed.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scalahosting.com/cloud-server-hosting.html
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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 |
| Family: General purpose Instance Type: Managed VPS Hosting |
24/7 Worry-Free Fully Managed Support. Free, Effortless & Guaranteed Migration. Automatic Offsite Backups. Unmetered bandwidth.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scalahosting.com/cloud-servers.html
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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 |