DotMoose vs Selectel: Which Is Better?
We track DotMoose and Selectel prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About DotMooseDotMoose is a Canadian hosting provider launched in August 2026 by Mark Shaw, a Calgary-based software engineer. Unlike WHC (established Canadian registrar and host) or Hostinger (global budget hosting), DotMoose is a boutique Canadian alternative: CAD billing, Canadian-operated hosting provider based in Calgary, Alberta, and a deliberately simple lineup — shared hosting, managed WordPress, VPS, dedicated servers, SFTP backup storage, S3 object storage and managed apps. It publishes regular monthly prices with no promo-renewal jumps, includes free SSL and assisted migration, and runs C$0 community hosting programs for eligible Canadian organizations.
About SelectelSelectel (est. 2008, St. Petersburg) is one of Russia's largest cloud and hosting providers, serving 36,000+ customers from 6 own Tier III data centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg plus a partner DC in Novosibirsk. The catalog spans an hourly-billed cloud platform, 100+ ready dedicated servers deployed in 2 minutes, GPU systems up to 8× NVIDIA B300 HGX, VPS/VDS packages from 200 ₽/mo, colocation, managed Kubernetes & databases, S3, CDN and DDoS protection — with ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR and 152-FZ compliance.
Comparison Table
| Feature | DotMoose | Selectel |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $4.33 | $2.32 win |
| Renewal price | Same (no promo jumps) | — |
| Datacenters | 1 | 7 win |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Backups | Paid | — |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | Ticket & email | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 100.00% win | 98.96% |
Price History
DotMoose · StarterCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Selectel · VDS 1-1-10Collecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
DotMoose 100.00% Selectel 98.96%Pros & Cons
DotMoose- Canadian infrastructure — hosting runs in Beauharnois, Quebec and is billed in Canadian dollars
- Transparent pricing: regular monthly rates, no promo-to-renewal jumps; 10–20% off annual terms
- Free SSL, free assisted migration and a first-year-free .com/.ca with annual shared or WordPress plans
- Every VPS includes a dedicated IPv4 + IPv6, root access and free control-panel options
- Rare breadth for a young host: shared, managed WordPress, VPS, dedicated, SFTP backups and S3 object storage
- S3-compatible object storage from C$14.99/mo and managed apps with a private PostgreSQL 16 VM
- Launched August 2026 — no operating history to judge uptime, support or long-term stability
- Single location: one bare-metal platform in Beauharnois — no multi-site redundancy or HA
- No uptime SLA and no money-back guarantee published
- Dedicated servers and larger VPS are quote-only — no online configurator
- Ticket/email support only — no live chat, phone or published response times
- VPS bandwidth limits and port speeds are not published upfront
Selectel- 6 own Tier III DCs (Moscow, St. Petersburg) + Novosibirsk partner DC
- Dedicated servers from 8,540 ₽/mo, deployed in 2 minutes, 100+ ready configs
- GPU line: B300 HGX, H200 NVL/HGX, A100, L4, RTX 6000 Pro/4090 (cloud + bare metal)
- Hourly-billed cloud with preemptible VMs and freeze option (up to 75% savings)
- Free unlimited 1 Gbps traffic on dedicated; 3 TB free on cloud VMs
- VPS/VDS from 200 ₽/mo (~$2.2) — 7 fixed NVMe/KVM configs
- No shared web hosting plans (discontinued)
- No money-back guarantee — prepaid balance model
- Cloud GPU prices published hourly only (monthly estimated at 720 h)
- International footprint limited (KZ/UZ/KE pools are regional)
- English site & docs are a subset of the Russian portal
- Colocation pricing is quote-based (no public price list)
The Verdict
DotMoose and Selectel are evenly matched on the data we track. Choose based on the rows that matter most to you in the table above.
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FAQ
Right now DotMoose has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Over the last 30 days of our monitoring, DotMoose had the higher measured uptime. We ping both providers every few minutes from multiple locations — see the uptime graph above.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.