Hostinger vs Scaleway

Hostinger is strongest for budget-conscious site owners. Scaleway is strongest for european data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hostinger	Scaleway
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious site owners WordPress sites Small business web hosting First-time VPS users	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	NVME	SSD
Regions	10	3
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Knowledge base, AI assistant (Kodee)	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Displayed price is an introductory promo rate tied to prepaying a 12/24/48-month term; renewal price is 2-4x higher (e.g. VPS KVM 1 renews at $11.99/mo vs $6.49/mo intro) Monthly (1-month) billing is available but at a significantly higher per-month rate than any multi-month term Free domain is only free for the first year; renews at standard domain pricing Dedicated IP, extra backups, and some AI/Vibe coding credits are limited allotments, not unlimited Weekly (not daily) backups on base VPS plans; daily backups reserved for Cloud plans	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