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 50-200 people.
It offers Managed Hosting, VPS, Web Hosting and Wordpress hosting products.
- Australia
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- Singapore
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- United Kingdom
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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 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 |
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.
Integrating your AI development work with your hosting environment has never been easier. ScalaHosting has launched Skai, a proprietary AI development assistant built natively into its custom control panel, SPanel. Rather than relying on external tools and manual configurations, ScalaHosting developed Skai to connect natural language AI generation directly with server infrastructure management.
How Skai Works
Accessible via a persistent chat window inside the SPanel dashboard, Skai leverages leading AI models like Grok and Claude to turn text descriptions into fully functional sites and web apps. Users simply describe their project goals (e.g., "Build a 5-page business website with an integrated booking calendar").
Because Skai is developed directly into the hosting environment, it automates the entire backend delivery pipeline:... (continued)
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ScalaHosting VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices or that can't be managed from the provider control panel are marked as missing in the table 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 | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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| 58s | 60s | 30s | 100s | 12 |
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.
Cloud Server Plans
| 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.
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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. |
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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 |