Hostwinds VPS and Cloud Servers

Hostwinds

Monthly VPSBilled in US dollars

Hostwinds, a Seattle hosting company owned by HostPapa, rents managed and unmanaged VPS and hourly cloud servers in Seattle, Dallas and Amsterdam.

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Cheapest, with IPv4: $4.99/mo; Unmanaged 1 GB, 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 30 GB SSD
Public IPv4: Included
Automatic backups: $1.00/month on the cheapest plan
Billing: Hourly; Billed in US dollars
Datacenters: 3 in 2 countries; North America, Europe
Run by: HostPapa Inc.; United States

Entry plans and the real monthly bill

In US dollars, per month, as listed by Hostwinds (All regions). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.

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Plan	Server	Traffic	Plan price	With IPv4	The bill
Unmanaged 1 GBAn IP is assigned at order and no charge for the first one is listed; CPU model not stated	1 vCPU, 1 GB, 30 GB SSDCPU share not stated	1 TB	$4.99Monthly, excl. VAT	$4.99	plan $4.99IPv4 included
Unmanaged 2 GBAn IP is assigned at order and no charge for the first one is listed; CPU model not stated	1 vCPU, 2 GB, 50 GB SSDCPU share not stated	2 TB	$9.99Monthly, excl. VAT	$9.99	plan $9.99IPv4 included
Unmanaged 4 GBAn IP is assigned at order and no charge for the first one is listed; CPU model not stated	2 vCPU, 4 GB, 75 GB SSDCPU share not stated	2 TB	$18.99Monthly, excl. VAT	$18.99	plan $18.99IPv4 included
Unmanaged 6 GBAn IP is assigned at order and no charge for the first one is listed; CPU model not stated	2 vCPU, 6 GB, 100 GB SSDCPU share not stated	2 TB	$28.99Monthly, excl. VAT	$28.99	plan $28.99IPv4 included

Good to know

A public IPv4 address is included in every entry plan
Billed by the hour, so a test server costs cents
Listed prices exclude VAT

Where Hostwinds has datacenters

3 in 2 countries, as listed by Hostwinds.

Europe 1

Amsterdam, Netherlands

North America 2

Seattle, United States
Dallas, United States

Where it stands among 43

Each fact with every host's answer. Hostwinds is outlined.

Kind of host

Monthly VPS

Bills in

US dollars

Public IPv4 address

In the plan price

Price after the first term

Same price

Hourly billing

Billed by the hour

Dedicated CPU in entry plans

Not stated

Datacenters on

2 or 3 continents

ARM servers

Not stated

Add-ons and extra charges

Public IPv4: Included Servers get 1-250 IPs at order; no price for extra IPv4 is stated. Changing the main IP costs $3.00
Automatic backups: $1.00/month on the cheapest plan Nightly; $1.00/month plus $0.03 per GB
Snapshots: Not stated Snapshots are listed as included, but no storage price or 'free' wording is given
Extra traffic: Not stated Terms bill overage at $0.01 per 'Gigabit (Gb)', an ambiguous unit, and rate-limit the server while over

How you pay

Hourly billing: YesYes Cloud servers are billed for the exact hours used
Minimum term: 1 month (VPS) or none (hourly cloud servers) Cycles from monthly to triennial
Setup fee: Not stated No setup-fee wording on the plan pages
Always-free server: None None listed on the VPS or cloud pages
New-account credit: None None listed
Payment methods: Card, PayPal, Alipay, Crypto Alipay where available; crypto via Stripe Crypto, paid manually
Signup checks: Name, email, phone and address; new orders may be held for payment review
Refunds: 72 hours after payment, prorated Not for hourly-billed services, IPs or crypto payments

What you get

Processors: Not stated CPU model not stated for Linux plans; Windows VPS runs on Intel
ARM servers: Not statedNot stated No Arm option mentioned
IPv6 included: Not statedNot stated IPv6 addresses can be added in the cloud panel; price not stated

What comes with it

Block storage: YesYes Volume storage in the cloud portal; price not stated
Object storage: YesYes Hostwinds object storage (backups are stored there); S3 compatibility and price not stated
Private network: Not statedNot stated Not mentioned in the excerpts
Cloud firewall: YesYes 'Enterprise Firewall' on all Linux VPS plans
Load balancers: YesYes Cloud load balancers; price not stated
DDoS protection included: NoNo DDoS protection is a paid add-on: $25/month per protected IP
Managed databases: Not stated Not mentioned
Managed Kubernetes: Not statedNot stated Not mentioned
API: YesYes Cloud Control API
Terraform provider: Not statedNot stated No Terraform provider mentioned
Custom ISO: YesYes Upload your own Linux ISO
Windows: Extra cost (Windows plans are priced higher) 1 CPU / 1 GB Windows VPS $14.94/mo vs $7.14/mo managed Linux

Who you're renting from

Company: Hostwinds LLC
Owned by: HostPapa Inc. Acquired by HostPapa in April 2026
Based in: United States Seattle, Washington
Founded: 2010 Company founded 2010, per HostPapa's acquisition release
Support: 24/7 live chat and tickets; sales phone Mon-Fri 8:00-16:00 PST Unmanaged plans: support covers hardware, network and power only
Certifications: Not stated Data centers described as 'SAS Type II audited, Tier 3+'; no named certification

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