ScalaHosting Review
ScalaHosting in its own words
ScalaHosting is all about Managed VPS!
Why ScalaHosting?
- Simplified VM and website management with our in-house developed SPanel, a cPanel/WHM alternative;
- Unconditional anytime money back guarantee - just to show you how certain we are about the quality of our services;
- The latest all-NVMe storage hardware and Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y processors across all our data centers - for ultimate cloud performance;
- SPanel transforms every self-managed VPS, e.g. AWS or Google Cloud, into a fully managed service;
- Joomla exclusive VPS provider - the only hosting company endorsed by Joomla's founder, Brian Teeman;
ScalaHosting was founded as a VPS provider in 2007.
It is headquartered in the United States.
It employs 55 people.
It offers Managed Hosting, VPS, Web Hosting and Wordpress hosting products.
- Australia
- Bulgaria
- Finland
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Singapore
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| ScalaHosting plans specs and prices | Plans |
| ScalaHosting instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are ScalaHosting servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of ScalaHosting trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in ScalaHosting trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of ScalaHosting VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of ScalaHosting yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Managed VPS
ScalaHosting offers Managed VPS products. Review ScalaHosting Managed VPS Features.
ScalaHosting News
Providers share news about their company, their products, their features and their promotions on VPSBenchmarks. See all announcements on the Provider News page.
This is the most recent news from ScalaHosting.
As a natural progression in our partnership with Automattic, ScalaHosting has been officially approved by WordPress.org as a WP Engine alternative. All WP Engine customers are offered free, unlimited migrations and a 100% credit equivalent to their existing WP Engine contract. In addition, ScalaHosting will donate 5% of all related revenue to WordPress.org to support the open-source community.
The Christmas and New Year Promo makes this value proposition even more attractive, with discounts of up to 78% available until January 6, 2025.
ScalaHosting VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
ScalaHosting Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, ScalaHosting 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 ScalaHosting 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 |
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| 209s | 45s | 1200s | 13 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by ScalaHosting 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 Throttled
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is throttled.)
Free allowance: 3 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
ScalaHosting networking
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This provider does not charge for bandwidth. |
ScalaHosting Instance Types and Plans
All ScalaHosting 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 |
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| Family: General purpose Instance Type: Self-managed VPS |
Cloud VPS hosting with fast SSD storage. Dedicated control, functionality and speed.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scalahosting.com/cloud-server-hosting.html
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| Build #1 | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $24.95 / month |
| Build #2 | 4 | 8.0GB | 100GB | $49.95 / month |
| 6 cores 12GB | 6 | 12.0GB | 120GB | $71.95 / month |
| Build #3 | 8 | 16.0GB | 160GB | $95.95 / month |
| Build #4 | 16 | 32.0GB | 240GB | $183.95 / month |
| Family: General purpose Instance Type: Managed VPS Hosting |
24/7 Worry-Free Fully Managed Support. Free, Effortless & Guaranteed Migration. Automatic Offsite Backups. Unmetered bandwidth.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scalahosting.com/cloud-servers.html
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| Build #1 Managed | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $49.95 / month |
| Build #2 Managed | 4 | 8.0GB | 100GB | $91.95 / month |
| Build #3 Managed | 8 | 16.0GB | 150GB | $165.95 / month |
| Build #4 Managed | 12 | 24.0GB | 200GB | $239.95 / month |