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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

IONOS ScalaHosting
France
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
Australia
Bulgaria
Finland
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States

Features and Usability

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IONOS ScalaHosting
Hourly Billing  Mixed No
DDOS Protection  Yes No
Backups  No Yes
Control Panel  Custom SPanel
SSH Keys Setup  Yes No
Total Number of Datacenters  7 13
Number of Datacenter Continents  2 4
Monitoring Charts  Yes Yes
Admin REST API  Yes No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal Credit cards, Paypal, Bank transfers
Hidden CPU Model  No Yes
Affiliate Program  Yes Yes
IPv6 support  Yes No
Firewall  Yes No
Shelving  No No

Extra Services

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

IONOS ScalaHosting
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
IONOS
  • Free load balancer.
  • Unlimited traffic.
  • Slowish management UI.
ScalaHosting

Performance Comparisons

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