ScalaHosting
Shared hosting and managed cloud VPS with its own SPanel control panel..
ScalaHosting, based in Dallas, sells cheap shared plans and managed cloud VPS servers that come with its own SPanel control panel at no extra cost. Its VPS plans give dedicated CPU, RAM and NVMe storage and can be placed in 15 locations in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Migration and daily offsite backups are included.
ScalaHostingOne floor per score. Lit windows out of five.
What comes with the flat
- SPanel control panel included, no cPanel licence fee
- Free migration and daily offsite backups
- 15 server locations to choose from at checkout
- Refund of unused time at any point in the contract
- Trustpilot score of 4.9 across about 2,208 reviews
The small print
- Renewal prices are two to four times the intro price
- The 36-month term costs more per month than 12 months on cloud plans
- No free domain on the Mini plan
- Some users report CPU limits and throttling on Trustpilot
Floor plans
Mini
Start
Entry Cloud
Managed Cloud Build #1
Read on 2026-10-14 on ScalaHosting's own pricing page, USD excl. tax. Work out the rent year by year
What the neighbours say
2,208 reviews, read 2026-10-14
Our verdict
Worth a look for small businesses and shops that have outgrown shared hosting and want a managed VPS without paying for a cPanel licence. Buyers who look only at the first bill should know that renewals run two to four times higher. In WPBeginner's July 2026 test the entry cloud plan loaded slower than several shared hosts.
The details
- Kinds of hosting
- shared, vps
- Control panel
- SPanel (cPanel also offered on shared plans)
- Backups
- Automated daily offsite backups
- Support
- 24/7 chat, email and tickets; first ticket reply within 15 minutes stated
- Moving in
- free, done by their team
- Free domain
- yes first year, from the Start plan up, not on Mini
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Data centers
- Dallas, USA, New York, USA, Seattle, USA, Sofia, Bulgaria, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Helsinki, Finland, Madrid, Spain, London, United Kingdom, Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Denmark, Stavanger, Norway, Warsaw, Poland, Frankfurt, Germany, Singapore, Sydney, Australia
Sources
- ScalaHosting shared hosting page: Mini, Start, Advanced and Entry Cloud prices per term from the page data, free domain, backups, locations list, money-back terms
- ScalaHosting managed VPS page: Build #1 to #4 prices per term and specs from the page data, SPanel, uptime SLA
- Trustpilot: score, review count, complaints about CPU limits
- WPBeginner ScalaHosting review (July 2026 test): LCP, TTFB, stress test and uptime results, support channels
Scores are our reading of the sources above, on a 1 to 5 scale. We did not run our own server tests for this listing.
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