Analysis of hosters and their rates for virtual servers

Hi, my name is Sergey, I’m the editor of Hosting Cafe . Every day, from morning to night, I write to hosters and ask them a lot of questions about themselves and their tariffs. More recently, the number of hosters that are presented in the HOSTING.cafe directory has exceeded 250, so I decided to do a study about the hosters and their tariffs for virtual servers , organizing the information on various parameters. If the material presented is interesting, you can conduct similar studies for shared hosting, SSL certificates, licenses, and backup locations. Payment methods Bank card - 234 WebMoney hosts - 211 Yandex.Money hosts - 179 Alfa-Click hosts - 152 hosts









Euroset - 145 hosted
Svyaznoy - 143 hosted
Promsvyazbank - 140 hosted
Bank transfers in rubles - 135 hosted
PayPal - 125 hosted
W1 - 122 hosted
QIWI - 119 hosted
Eleksnet - 112 hosted
Russian Standard - 107 hosted

24 hosters do not support SSL in billing, while 220 hosters have it. 4 of the 24 hosters request passport data that is transmitted without encryption.

105 hosters will not ask you for anything when registering and ordering the service, but still about half of the hosters ask for some information:
Phone number - 130 hosters
Mailing address - 95 hosters
SMS verification - 36 hosters
Passport data - 22 hosters


Only new domain zones are used several hosters: sinaro.host, lite.host, relcom.host, ua-hosting.company, hosting.energy.

Most of the payment methods (43) are accepted immediately by 3 hosting providers: xlho.st, hosting.energy, vpsdom.ru
One payment method at 2 hosting providers : linode.com, regatron.ru
The average number of payment methods per host is 17.11.

Price
The minimum price is 75 rubles (1 dollar) per month, but only with a one-time payment for the year, the maximum is 72 165 rubles (960 dollars) . At the time of writing, 1728 tariffs from 193 hosters are presented in the virtual server catalog. The total cost of all tariffs is 4,300,012 rubles, the average cost of the tariff is 2,488 rubles.

Disk
space Minimum hosters offer 2 GB of disk , maximum 4 TB . The total value for all tariffs is 150,428 GB, the average is 87 GB. The number of tariffs decreases very much with increasing volume of the hard drive.



> = 100 GB - 434 tariffs
> = 200 GB -169 tariffs
> = 300 GB - 87 tariffs
> = 400 GB - 58 tariffs
> = 500 GB - 34 tariffs

By type of drive, tariffs are distributed as follows:
SSD - 733 tariffs, 113
SATA hosts - 485 tariffs, 72
SAS hosts - 240 tariffs, 41
SAS + SSD hosters - 118 tariffs, 14
SATA + SSD hosters - 152 tariffs, 20 hosters

Thus, we can conclude that SSD disks are already fully in first place.



RAM
The minimum RAM that the hosters offer is 128 MB. Such a volume is available at 10 tariffs, and the maximum volume is 128 GB, presented at 5 tariffs. The total volume for all tariffs is 8 130 096 MB, the average value is 4704 MB.

Processor The
minimum tariff includes 256 MHz of the processor, the maximum value is 32 cores of 2200 MHz each (rough multiplication gives 70,400 MHz). The total frequency is 11 999 312 MHz, the average value is 6944 MHz.

Traffic
740 tariffs have traffic restrictions - from 3 GB to 40 TB per month, the remaining 988 tariffs have no restrictions.

Port Speed ​​The
minimum port speed is 5 Mbps, and the maximum is 10,000 Mbps. The average value is 489 Mb / s. KVM

Virtualization



-898 tariffs, 119
OpenVZ hosters - 490 tariffs, 76
XEN hosters - 163 tariffs, 26
Virtuozzo hosts - 85 tariffs, 8
VMware hosters - 66 tariffs, 9
Hyper-V hosts - 42 tariffs, 10
Cloud Server hosts - 8 tariffs, 2 hosters
FreeBSD - 7 tariffs, 1 hoster

Countries


Russia - 663 tariffs, 83
US hosts - 458 tariffs, 55 hosts the
Netherlands - 407 tariffs, 50 hosts
Germany - 235 tariffs, 32 hosts
Ukraine - 185 tariffs, 34 hosts
France - 147 tariffs, 22 hosts
Great Britain -87 tariffs, 13 hosting
Canada - 70 tariffs, 8 hosting
Sweden - 43 tariffs, 4 host
Singapore - 38 tariffs, 6 host
Bulgaria - 34 tariffs, 7 host
Australia - 32 tariff, 5 host
Latvia - 29 tariff, 2 host
Czech Republic - 17 tariffs, 2 hosts
Lithuania - 16 tariffs, 2 hosts
Estonia - 15 tariffs, 2 hosts
Japan - 13 tariffs, 2 hosts
Finland - 12 tariffs, 2 hosts
Romania - 11 tariffs, 1 host
Kazakhstan - 10 tariffs, 1 host
Belarus - 8 tariffs , 2 hosters
China - 7 tariffs, 1 hoster
Kyrgyzstan - 5 tariffs, 1 host
Poland - 3 tariffs, 1 hoster

Operating systems


CentOS - 1594 tariffs, 192 hosters
Debian - 1546 tariffs, 184 hosters
Ubuntu - 1504 tariffs, 177 hosters
FreeBSD - 618 tariffs, 83 host
Windows Server - 562 tariff, 92 host
the Fedora - 459 tariff, 56 hosts
the ISO image - 389 tariff, 48 hosts
the openSUSE - 256 tariff, 32 host
Scientific Linux - 116 tariff, 13 hosts
the Gentoo - 114 tariff, 14 hosts
coreos -61 tariffs, 5
Arch Linux hosters - 51 tariffs, 3
Slackware hosters - 43 tariffs, 6
Red Hat hosters - 20 tariffs, 3 hosters

Administration


For an additional fee - 519 tariffs, 61 hosters
Basic - 448 tariffs, 58 hosters
Not available - 360 tariffs , 36 hosters
Minimum - 155 tariffs, 18 hosters
Initial setup - 143 tariffs, 23 hosts
Advanced - 47 tariffs, 6 hosters
Full - 56 tariffs, 10 hosters

ISPmanager control panel license is included in the price of 308 tariffs 50 hosts , not included1420 tariffs of 170 hosters .

Windows Server license is included in 143 tariffs of 30 hosters , not included in 419 tariffs of 63 hosters . 880 tariffs of 88 hosters

support IPv6 , while 848 tariffs have 115 IPv6 hosters . I hope you found something interesting for yourself. If you have any ideas what other parameters should be systematized - write, I will do one more review.