Clouding.io Review
Clouding.io in its own words
Founded in 2014, Clouding.io is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) for all kinds of online projects in the Cloud. Cloud servers are flexible in resources: RAM, CPU and SSD disc can be increased or decreased any time, adjusting to your needs.
Clouding.io is a pay-per-use service, there is no minimum rate or commitment to stay. Linux and Windows OS are available as well as hi-tech features such as backups, snapshots and the archive.
Offices and datacentre are located in Barcelona. If you sign up, you’ll get 5€ for free for trials. Clouding.io. Contact:sales@clouding.io.
Clouding.io was founded as a VPS provider in 2014.
It is headquartered in Spain.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- Spain
Quick Links
| Clouding.io plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Clouding.io instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Clouding.io servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Clouding.io trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Clouding.io trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Clouding.io VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Clouding.io yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Clouding.io VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
https://clouding.io/hc/en-us/articles/360011147099-Anti-DDOS |
| Backups | No |
Available for a fee (0.02€/GB/month). |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 1 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 1 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
CPU, disk, network |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | |
| Affiliate Program | No | |
| IPv6 support | No | |
| Firewall | Yes | |
| Shelving | Yes |
"Archived" instances are only billed for storage: https://clouding.io/hc/en-us/articles/360011036060. |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Modern, intuitive, fast UI.
- Flexible instance size customization.
- Only pay for storage on archived instances.
Weaknesses
- Single datacenter.
Clouding.io Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Clouding.io 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 Clouding.io 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 73s | 35s | 300s | 12 |
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 | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snapshots | 0.020€ |
Entire server snapshots can be made in seconds at any point in time.
Clouding.io snapshots storage |
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| Backups | 0.020€ |
Clouding.io lets you choose number of backups to retain and frequency of backups. You can then restore full servers from the backup of your choice.
Clouding.io backups storage |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Clouding.io 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 Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 4 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
Clouding.io networking
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$0.004/GB |
Clouding.io Instance Types and Plans
All Clouding.io 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.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: Single server line Instance Type: General purpose |
Configurable servers billed by the hour with highly available triple replica storage. |
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| 1GB 0.5 core 25GB | 1 | 1.0GB | 25GB | 5.00€ / month ($5.50 / month) |
| 2GB 1 core | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | 7.00€ / month ($7.70 / month) |
| 4GB 2 cores 60GB (Off rankings) | 2 | 4.0GB | 60GB | 16.00€ / month ($17.60 / month) |
| 8GB 4 cores | 4 | 8.0GB | 80GB | 28.00€ / month ($30.80 / month) |
| 12GB 6 cores | 6 | 12.0GB | 120GB | 42.00€ / month ($46.20 / month) |
| 16GB 8 cores | 8 | 16.0GB | 160GB | 56.00€ / month ($61.60 / month) |
| 24GB 12 cores | 12 | 24.0GB | 240GB | 84.00€ / month ($92.40 / month) |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description |
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| 1GB 0.5core (Off rankings) | 1 | 1.0GB | 5GB | 3.00€ / month ($3.30 / month) |
| 1GB 0.5 core | 1 | 1.0GB | 20GB | 4.50€ / month ($4.95 / month) |
| 2GB 1core (Off rankings) | 1 | 2.0GB | 5GB | 5.50€ / month ($6.05 / month) |
| 4GB 2 cores | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | 14.00€ / month ($15.40 / month) |