Hostwinds Review

Hostwinds

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Hostwinds was founded as a VPS provider in 2010.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers Shared, VPS and Dedicated hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Netherlands
  • United States

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Hostwinds VPS Features

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

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  No
DDOS Protection  No

DDOS Protected IP Addresses available for $25/month.

Backups  No

Available for $1/month.

Control Panel  Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  3
Number of Datacenter Continents  2
Monitoring Charts  Yes

Looks like memory usage only.

Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit card, PayPal, AliPay, cryptocurrencies
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
Firewall  Yes
Shelving  No
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Hostwinds Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, Hostwinds 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

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Hostwinds Yabs.sh Runs

VPSBenchmarks and its community have run yabs.sh on Hostwinds servers. Here are the most recent results. Yabs.sh inscludes Geekbench, Fio and Iperf3 tests.
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The scale in the charts between 0 and 100 represents the performance of this server for each metric relative to the performance of all other servers tested recently at VPSBenchmarks for that same metric.

  • 100 means the server is the fastest for this metric.
  • 50 means the server has exactly median performance for this metric.
  • 0 means the server is the slowest for this metric.
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Hostwinds Instance Types and Plans

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
Instance Type:
Other

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Cloud 1GB 1 core 1 1.0GB 30GB $4.99 / month
Cloud 4GB 2 cores 2 4.0GB 75GB $18.99 / month

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