HOSTKEY Review

HOSTKEY

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HOSTKEY in its own words

Hostkey is a diverse web-services company that serves customers from throughout Russia, Europe, and the surrounding regions. They offer colocation services, cloud solutions, hosting, and other related options to individuals and companies throughout the area. With data centers and offices in Amsterdam and Russia, they are positioned to help a wide range of different people. To help boost their services and reputation, Hostkey has partnered with Microsoft, NGINX, cPanel, RETN, Huawei, AMS-IX, Serverius, DataPro, and a variety of other companies to make sure they can provide the best in class services.

HOSTKEY was founded as a VPS provider in 2007.
It is headquartered in Netherlands.
It offers VPS, Dedicated servers and GPUs hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • Iceland
  • Netherlands
  • Turkey
  • United States

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HOSTKEY VPS Features

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  No

Not strictly available but HOSTKEY customers will receive a refund for the unused portion of their bill in case of cancellation for month to month orders.

DDOS Protection  Yes

DDoS protection is available for free in the Netherlands.

Backups  Yes

Snapshots can be created and restored from the VPS.

Control Panel  Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  6
Number of Datacenter Continents  3
Monitoring Charts  No
Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  No
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Bitpay, Paypal, Stripe, Webmoney
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
IPv6 support  No
Firewall  No
Shelving  No
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HOSTKEY Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, HOSTKEY 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 HOSTKEY 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
270s 260s 280s 2

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HOSTKEY Instance Types and Plans

All HOSTKEY 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:
VPS
Instance Type:
Edge

DDR5 + AMD EPYC 4th Gen for High-load services, high-load databases, mediastreaming, machine-learning.

Provider page for instance type: https://hostkey.com/vps
vm.v3-mini 2 4.0GB 30GB 9.00€ / month ($9.90 / month)
vm.v3-medium 4 8.0GB 60GB 15.00€ / month ($16.50 / month)
vm.v3-heavy 6 16.0GB 120GB 26.00€ / month ($28.60 / month)
Family:
VPS
Instance Type:
General

SSD + Xeon E5-26xx for low-load web-servers and services, VPN, CRM, CMS, blogs, repositories and sandboxes.

Provider page for instance type: https://hostkey.com/vps
vm.nano 2 2.0GB 30GB 4.00€ / month ($4.40 / month)

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