Liquid Web vs Scaleway

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

Feature	Liquid Web	Scaleway
Starting price	$5/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Agencies E-commerce/WooCommerce High-traffic WordPress Businesses wanting fully-managed support	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	100% (Liquid Web's published network/power/infrastructure uptime guarantee)	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	3	3
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7/365 phone, Live chat, Ticket, Docs/Knowledge Base	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	PCI DSS, HIPAA (available), SOC 2	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Advertised prices are frequently promotional (e.g. 50% off for the first 2 months, or 10-15% off for 1-2 year prepay terms); renewal pricing is meaningfully higher than the teaser rate Bandwidth overages and additional storage are billed as add-ons beyond plan allowances Managed WordPress/Nexcess plans are billed upfront annually to get the advertised per-month rate ("2 months free" annual billing) in many cases Windows OS licensing adds a surcharge over equivalent Linux dedicated/cloud dedicated configurations	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