Analysis of hosters and their tariffs for virtual servers

Hi, my name is Sergey, I am the editor of Hosting Cafe . Every day, I write to the hosters from morning till night and ask them many questions about themselves and their tariffs. Most recently, the number of hosters that are represented in the HOSTING.cafe catalog has exceeded 250, so I decided to do a study about hosters and their tariffs for virtual servers , by systematizing information by various parameters. If the presented material is interesting, you can conduct similar research for shared hosting, SSL certificates, licenses and backup space.



Payment Methods

Bank card - 234 hosters
WebMoney - 211 hosters
Yandex.Money - 179 hosters
Alpha Click - 152 hosters
Euroset - 145 hosters
Svyaznoy - 143 hosters
Promsvyazbank - 140 hosters
Bank transfers in rubles - 135 hosters
PayPal - 125 hosters
W1 - 122 hosters
QIWI - 119 hosters
Eleksnet - 112 hosters
Russian Standard - 107 hosters

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

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

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New domain zones are used by only a few hosters: sinaro.host, lite.host, relcom.host, ua-hosting.company, hosting.energy.

Most of the payment methods (43) accept 3 hosters at once: xlho.st, hosting.energy, vpsdom.ru
One by one payment methods from 2 hosters: linode.com, regatron.ru
The average number of payment methods per hosting provider is 17.11.

Price
The minimum price is 75 rubles (1 dollar) per month, but only if the one-time payment is paid for the year, the maximum is 72,165 rubles (960 dollars) . At the time of writing this article, 1,728 rates 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 2488 rubles.

Disk capacity
Minimum hosters offer 2 GB of disk , maximum - 4 TB . The total value of all tariffs - 150,428 GB, the average - 87 GB. The number of tariffs is greatly reduced with increasing hard disk space.



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

According to the type of discs, rates are distributed as follows:
SSD - 733 tariffs, 113 hosters
SATA - 485 tariffs, 72 hosters
SAS - 240 tariffs, 41 hosters
SAS + SSD - 118 tariffs, 14 hosters
SATA + SSD - 152 tariffs, 20 hosters

Thus, we can conclude that SSD drives have already fully reached the first place.



RAM
The minimum RAM offered by hosters is 128 MB. That is the volume of 10 tariffs, and the maximum amount - 128 GB, presented on 5 tariffs. The total volume for all tariffs is 8,130,096 MB, the average value is 4,704 MB.

CPU
The minimum tariff includes 256 MHz of the processor, the maximum value is 32 cores at 2200 MHz (coarse multiplication gives 70,400 MHz). The cumulative 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 Mbit / s, the maximum - 10,000 Mbit / s. The average value is 489 Mbit / s.

Virtualization



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

Country


Russia - 663 tariffs, 83 hosters
USA - 458 tariffs, 55 hosters
Netherlands - 407 tariffs, 50 hosters
Germany - 235 tariffs, 32 hosters
Ukraine - 185 tariffs, 34 hosters
France - 147 tariffs, 22 hosters
Great Britain - 87 tariffs, 13 hosters
Canada - 70 tariffs, 8 hosters
Sweden - 43 fares, 4 hosters
Singapore - 38 tariffs, 6 hosters
Bulgaria - 34 tariffs, 7 hosters
Australia - 32 tariffs, 5 hosters
Latvia - 29 tariffs, 2 hosters
Czech Republic - 17 tariffs, 2 hosters
Lithuania - 16 tariffs, 2 hosters
Estonia - 15 tariffs, 2 hosters
Japan - 13 tariffs, 2 hosters
Finland - 12 tariffs, 2 hosters
Romania - 11 tariffs, 1 hoster
Kazakhstan - 10 tariffs, 1 hoster
Belarus - 8 tariffs, 2 hosters
China - 7 tariffs, 1 hoster
Kyrgyzstan - 5 tariffs, 1 hoster
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 hosters
Windows Server - 562 tariffs, 92 hosters
Fedora - 459 tariffs, 56 hosters
ISO image - 389 tariffs, 48 ​​hosters
openSUSE - 256 tariffs, 32 hosters
Scientific Linux - 116 tariffs, 13 hosters
Gentoo - 114 tariffs, 14 hosters
CoreOS - 61 tariff, 5 hosters
Arch Linux - 51 tariff, 3 hosters
Slackware - 43 tariffs, 6 hosters
Red Hat - 20 tariffs, 3 hosters

Administration


For an additional fee - 519 tariffs, 61 hosters
Basic - 448 tariffs, 58 hosters
No, it turns out - 360 tariffs, 36 hosters
Minimum - 155 tariffs, 18 hosters
Initial setting - 143 tariffs, 23 hosters
Advanced - 47 tariffs, 6 hosters
Full - 56 tariffs, 10 hosters

The license for the ISPmanager control panel is included in the price of 308 tariffs of 50 hosters , not included for 1420 tariffs of 170 hosters .

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

Support for IPv6 is at 880 tariffs 88 hosters , while at 848 tariffs 115 hosters do not have IPv6.

I hope you find something interesting for yourself. If you have any ideas what other parameters should be systematized - write, I will do another review.