
hosting.com Managed VPS
hosting.com
hosting.com, the brand A2 Hosting LLC now trades under after joining with World Host Group, rents managed and self-managed Linux VPS plans on AMD EPYC servers in ten locations.
- Cheapest, with IPv4
- $23.20/mo
- Managed cPanel 4GB, 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 100 GB NVMe
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Automatic backups
- Included
- Billing
- 12-month term
- Billed in US dollars
- Datacenters
- 9 in 8 countries
- Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, Middle East
- Run by
- A2 Hosting, LLC (trading as hosting.com)
- United States
Entry plans and the real monthly bill
In US dollars, per month, as listed by hosting.com (All regions). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.
Swipe the table sideways for the price and the bill.
| Plan | Server | Traffic | Plan price | With IPv4 | The bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed cPanel 4GBManaged: cPanel/WHM, CloudLinux, daily backups; 1 IP address included | 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 100 GB NVMeDedicated CPU | 1 TB | $23.2012-month termRenews at $58.00 | $23.20 | plan $23.20IPv4 included |
| Managed cPanel 8GBManaged; 1 IP address included | 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 150 GB NVMeDedicated CPU | 2 TB | $36.0012-month termRenews at $90.00 | $36.00 | plan $36.00IPv4 included |
| Managed cPanel 16GBManaged; LiteSpeed replaces Apache from 16 GB; 1 IP address included | 8 vCPU, 16 GB, 300 GB NVMeDedicated CPU | 3 TB | $56.0012-month termRenews at $140.00 | $56.00 | plan $56.00IPv4 included |
Good to know
- A public IPv4 address is included in every entry plan
- Managed cPanel 4GB renews at $58.00, 2.5× the first-term price
- The cheapest price needs a 12-month term
Where hosting.com has datacenters
9 in 8 countries, as listed by hosting.com.
Europe 1
- London, United Kingdom
North America 4
- New York, United States
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
Asia 2
- Singapore, Singapore
- Mumbai, India
Oceania 1
- Sydney, Australia
Middle East 1
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Where it stands among 43
Each fact with every host's answer. hosting.com is outlined.
Kind of host
Monthly VPS
Cloud servers 14
Monthly VPS 25
Bills in
US dollars
US dollars 32
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Swiss francs 1
Public IPv4 address
In the plan price
In the plan price 36
Alibaba Cloud
Amazon Lightsail
Bluehost
CivoCloudways
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DigitalOceanDreamHost
ExoscaleGoDaddy
GreenCloudHivelocity
HostHatch
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IONOSKamatera
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Oracle Cloud
OVHcloud
RackNerd
ScalaHostingServers.com
Tencent Cloud
Time4VPS
UltaHostUpCloud
Webdock
Charged on top 5
Not stated 2
Price after the first term
Goes up on renewal
Same price 28
Goes up on renewal 11
Hourly billing
Monthly or longer
Billed by the hour 19
Monthly or longer 21
Not stated 3
Dedicated CPU in entry plans
A dedicated-CPU plan
A dedicated-CPU plan 6
Shared CPU only 13
Datacenters on
4 or more
One continent 10
2 or 3 continents 13
ARM servers
Not stated
Add-ons and extra charges
- Public IPv4
- Included One IP address per managed plan; extra IPs for a fee that isn't stated
- Automatic backups
- Included Daily backups to a separate server on managed plans
- Snapshots
- Not stated Not stated
- Extra traffic
- Not stated What happens past the monthly bandwidth isn't stated
How you pay
- Hourly billing
- NoNo Billing options are 1 month or 12 months (managed) and monthly, annual or triennial (unmanaged)
- Minimum term
- 1 month; the listed prices need a 12-month term
- Setup fee
- Not stated Not stated
- Always-free server
- None None listed on the VPS pages
- New-account credit
- None None listed on the VPS pages
- Payment methods
- Card, PayPal, Bank transfer, Crypto Bitcoin; the billing policy also lists Skrill, checks, money orders and wire transfers
- Signup checks
- Email verification; no other checks stated
- Refunds
- Not stated Pages disagree: the unmanaged VPS FAQ says VPS plans aren't covered by the money-back guarantee; the comparison table lists 7 days for cloud servers
What you get
- Processors
- AMD EPYC Generation not stated
- ARM servers
- Not statedNot stated No Arm option stated
- IPv6 included
- Not statedNot stated Not stated for managed VPS; the unmanaged VPS FAQ says IPv6 isn't supported
What comes with it
- Block storage
- Not statedNot stated Not stated for Linux VPS; managed Windows VPS sells extra disk in 10 GB steps
- Object storage
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- Private network
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- Cloud firewall
- Not statedNot stated Managed plans include a server firewall (Monarx); no cloud firewall stated
- Load balancers
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- DDoS protection included
- Not statedNot stated The unmanaged VPS FAQ raises DDoS protection but the answer is cut off in the excerpt
- Managed databases
- Not stated Databases run inside cPanel; no managed database service stated
- Managed Kubernetes
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- API
- Not statedNot stated An account API covers billing, domains, websites and email; no VPS endpoints identified
- Terraform provider
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- Custom ISO
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- Windows
- Separate managed Windows VPS product Licence cost relative to Linux not stated
Who you're renting from
- Company
- A2 Hosting, LLC (trading as hosting.com) Formerly sold as A2 Hosting; renamed hosting.com
- Owned by
- Not stated No parent company named; the brand combines World Host Group and A2 Hosting
- Based in
- United States A Delaware limited liability company; headquarters not named
- Founded
- 2003 hosting.com dates its business to 2003; VPS start year not stated
- Support
- 24/7 live chat, phone, email and tickets Unmanaged VPS support covers hardware and network only
- Certifications
- Not stated No certifications named on the VPS pages