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DigitalOcean, Linode (Akamai), Hetzner side by side — on the facts each one publishes and our team checks. Checked September 26, 2026.
| 3 hosting providers | Visit site | Visit site | Visit site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | |||
| Entry plan | from $4.00 per month Basic Droplet; 1 vCPU, 512 MiB RAM, 10 GiB SSD, 500 GiB transfer. | from $5 per month Nanode 1 GB (shared CPU) plan, per Linode community docs; exact storage spec not directly re-confirmed from a fetched vendor page this session. | from €3.79 per month CX22 cloud VPS; 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB disk, 20 TB traffic. |
| Hosting types | |||
| VPS | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dedicated | No | No | Yes |
| Cloud | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Infrastructure | |||
| Data centres | US, CA, NL, UK, DE, IN, SG, AU | US, CA, NL, DE, UK, ES, IT, SE, IN, JP, SG, AU, BR, ID | DE, FI, US, SG |
| DDoS protection | Included | Included | Included |
| Pay with crypto | No | — | No |
| Track record | |||
| Trust Score | 40 / 100 · Guarded | 40 / 100 · Guarded | 40 / 100 · Guarded |
| On the market since | 2000 | 2003 | 1997 |
| Reviews on smm.guide | No reviews yet | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Owner | Not claimed yet | Not claimed yet | Not claimed yet |
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