Togglebox Review
Togglebox in its own words
Togglebox is the cloud hosting division of TekTonic, which has been providing virtual servers since 2003. All cloud services are hosted on distributed NVMe storage with 3 copies of all data. High Availability is built-in -- If the underlying hardware fails your server is automatically started on a spare node. Resources are purchased individually allowing you to fine tune what you pay.
Currently we have datacenters in Dallas, Texas and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Togglebox was founded as a VPS provider in 2003.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- United States
Quick Links
| Togglebox plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Togglebox instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Togglebox servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Togglebox trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Togglebox trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Togglebox VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Togglebox yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Togglebox VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Flexible pricing.
- Platform as a Service available. Automatically scale your infrastructure with exactly the resources you need with Jelastic.
Weaknesses
- Billing system can be disorienting at first (you buy resources as opposed to instances).
Togglebox Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Togglebox 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 Togglebox 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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| 497s | 50s | 2520s | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backups | $0.070 |
Fully managed backups. Restores are instantaneous.
Togglebox backups storage |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Togglebox 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: 10 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
Togglebox networking
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$0.020/GB |
Togglebox 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 |
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| Family: Cloud VPS Instance Type: Monthly & Hourly Clouds |
Togglebox Cloud VPS provide high performance, high availability hosting for large and small businesses, developers, and hobbyists. Performance and uptimes are delivered by powerful compute and state-of-the-art distributed SSD block storage.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.togglebox.com/cloud-vps/
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| 1GB 1core | 1 | 1.0GB | 20GB | $10.50 / month |
| 2GB 1 core | 1 | 2.0GB | 40GB | $13.70 / month |
| 4GB 2cores | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $22.75 / month |
| 8GB 4cores | 4 | 8.0GB | 80GB | $42.05 / month |
| 12GB 6cores | 6 | 12.0GB | 120GB | $62.75 / month |
| 16GB 8 cores | 8 | 16.0GB | 160GB | $84.85 / month |
| Family: Application hosting Instance Type: Cloudlets |
Our App Hosting Platform allows you to easily deploy applications with automatic vertical and horizontal scaling, load balancing, clustered databases and more.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.togglebox.com/app-hosting/
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| Jelastic 5.2GHz | 2 | 1.6GB | 40GB | $30.10 / month |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
/hosters/togglebox
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| 20GB 10cores | 10 | 20.0GB | 200GB | $104.05 / month |
