HostGator vs Scaleway

HostGator is strongest for beginners. Scaleway is strongest for european data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	HostGator	Scaleway
Starting price	$3.75/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Beginners Small business sites Budget-conscious buyers on long-term contracts	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	1	3
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7 Live chat, Phone, Ticket, Knowledge base	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	PCI DSS (via SSL/hosting infra)	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Renewal prices are 2-3x the advertised introductory rate on every product line (e.g. Shared Hatchling $3.75/mo intro vs $10.99/mo renewal) Longest (36-month) term required to get the lowest advertised intro price; shorter terms cost meaningfully more per month Domain name is free only for year one; standard registrar pricing applies afterward Site/Domain Backup, SSL certificate upgrades, and dedicated IP are upsells on lower shared tiers VPS/Dedicated bandwidth is "unmetered" but subject to a fair-use policy capping sustained resource usage at 25% of system capacity for 90+ seconds	Public internet egress from Object Storage: 75 GB free per month, then EUR 0.01/GB Windows Server licensing surcharge on POP2-*-WIN instance variants (roughly 2.5x the equivalent Linux instance price) Dedicated Kubernetes control plane is a paid add-on (~EUR 80/month) above the free mutualized control plane if higher SLA/isolation is needed Snapshot storage for Block Storage billed separately per GB-hour Glacier (cold) Object Storage restoration fee: EUR 0.009/GB
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18