HosterSale vs Selectel: Which Is Better?
We track HosterSale and Selectel prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for October 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About HosterSale| HosterSale at a Glance | |
|---|---|
| Services | Shared cPanel hosting, WordPress Care, WHM reseller, dedicated servers, cloud VPS, domains |
| Shared hosting from | $1.25/mo on a 1-year term ($1.99 month-to-month) |
| Stack | cPanel, LiteSpeed, NVMe storage |
| Renewal | Same as the sign-up price (HosterSale's own claim) |
| Money-back | 30 days on hosting plans |
| Cloud VPS | 1 to 16 vCPU on NVMe, monthly, priced per region; 20 TB traffic in Europe |
| Locations | Cloud VPS: 6 locations in Germany, Finland, the USA and Singapore; dedicated: Germany and Finland |
| Domains | 54 extensions with published prices |
| Support | 24/7 live chat, WhatsApp and tickets |
HosterSale sells cPanel web hosting on LiteSpeed servers with NVMe storage in two lines — four "Cheap Hosting" plans for one site up to unlimited sites, and four "Web Hosting" plans aimed at small businesses and agencies — alongside WordPress Care maintenance plans, WHM reseller packages, dedicated servers, cloud VPS and domain registration. Prices are quoted in US dollars, with a separate rupee storefront under /pk/ for customers in Pakistan.
The prices we track are the storefront's headline figures: the 1-year term for shared hosting and WordPress Care, the monthly rate for reseller packages, cloud VPS and dedicated servers. HosterSale states that renewals cost the same as sign-up, which is unusual in budget hosting, where first-term discounts often end in a much higher renewal. Dedicated servers add a one-time setup fee of $24.99 to $49.99.
The website does not publish a company name, registration number or address. The terms of service (last updated in November 2020) refer to "HosterSale.com", the SLA page to "HosterSale Networks", and the phone contact is a Pakistani WhatsApp number. Company details on this page come from HosterSale's own application to DohoHub.
Cloud VPS plans run in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Hillsboro, Ashburn and Singapore, with root access, a browser VNC console and dedicated IPv4 and IPv6, and HosterSale says a new server is live in about a minute. They are priced per region: European plans include 20 TB of traffic a month, US plans 1–5 TB depending on the plan, and the same configuration costs more in the USA and Singapore than in Europe. Configurations marked sold out on the storefront are left out of our list until they return. Shared-hosting server locations are not stated anywhere on the site.
The 30-day money-back guarantee covers hosting plans; the FAQ excludes domains, VPS and dedicated servers, and the terms also exclude add-ons and domain fees. The storefront advertises 99.9% uptime, while the SLA page guarantees 99.99% network uptime with service credits — the SLA is the commitment that pays out.
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 | HosterSale | Selectel |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $1.25 win | $2.38 |
| Renewal price | Same as sign-up (their claim) | — |
| Datacenters | 6 | 7 win |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Backups | 1 | — |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | 24/7 chat, WhatsApp & ticket | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 100.00% win | 99.83% |
Price History
HosterSale · Cheap Hosting 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
HosterSale 100.00% Selectel 99.83%Pros & Cons
HosterSale- Low entry price: $1.25/mo for one site on a 1-year term, $1.99 month-to-month
- HosterSale says renewal costs the same as sign-up — no first-term-only discount
- cPanel with LiteSpeed and NVMe storage on every shared plan
- Free SSL, free site migration and offsite backups (weekly, daily from the Business plan)
- 30-day money-back guarantee on hosting plans
- Cloud VPS in six locations across Europe, the USA and Singapore, live in about a minute
- No company name, registration number or address published on the website
- Shared-hosting server locations are not stated
- Cloud VPS in the USA and Singapore costs more than the same configuration in Europe
- Dedicated servers add a $24.99–$49.99 setup fee and are unmanaged by default
- The money-back guarantee excludes domains, VPS and dedicated servers
- Two uptime figures: 99.9% advertised, 99.99% network uptime in the SLA
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
On the data we track, HosterSale wins more rows in the comparison table above (3 vs 1). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
HosterSale & Selectel alternatives
FAQ
Right now HosterSale 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, HosterSale 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.