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Datacenter Countries

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Microsoft Azure PQ.Hosting
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Norway
Singapore
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Switzerland
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United States

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.

Microsoft Azure PQ.Hosting
Hourly Billing  Yes No
DDOS Protection  No Yes
Backups  No No
Control Panel  Custom VMmanager, Virtualmin, Hestia... CyberPanel
SSH Keys Setup  Yes No
Total Number of Datacenters  40 41
Number of Datacenter Continents  5 3
Monitoring Charts  Yes Yes
Admin REST API  Yes No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  No Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  No No
Reverse DNS  Yes Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards Credit cards, cryptocurrencies, Google/Apple Pay
Hidden CPU Model  No No
Affiliate Program  No Yes
IPv6 support  Yes No
Firewall  Yes No
Shelving  Yes No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Microsoft Azure PQ.Hosting
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Microsoft Azure
  • Large choice of cloud services.
  • Numerous datacenter locations across the world.
  • Very heavy management UI.
  • Resources tied to a an instance are not released automatically when the instance is destroyed.
PQ.Hosting

Performance Comparisons

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