Selectel vs Hivelocity: Which Is Better?
We track Selectel and Hivelocity prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
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.
About HivelocityHivelocity is a Tampa, Florida-based infrastructure provider (est. 2002) running 40+ data centers across 6 continents on a 2+ Tbps multi-carrier network. Instant-deploy bare metal, VPS/VDS, GPU servers, colocation and managed services — with 24/7/365 human support (NPS 79), a 99.99% uptime SLA and SOC 2 / PCI DSS certifications.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Selectel | Hivelocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.37 win | $10.00 |
| Renewal price | — | Promo pricing (up to 50% off) |
| Datacenters | 7 | 42 win |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | — | — |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | — | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.25% win | 99.07% |
Price History
Selectel · VDS 1-1-10Collecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Hivelocity · pro.sm.amd (Virtual Shared)Collecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Selectel 99.25% Hivelocity 99.07%Pros & Cons
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)
Hivelocity- 40+ data centers across 6 continents (US-heavy: Tampa, Miami, NYC, LA, Dallas, Atlanta…)
- Instant deployment — servers online in minutes, hourly billing available
- 99.99% uptime SLA on a 2+ Tbps multi-carrier network
- 24/7/365 human support by phone, live chat and tickets (NPS 79)
- No setup fee on instant-deploy servers; up to /29 IPv4 included
- SOC 2 and PCI DSS certified data centers
- US-centric pricing and footprint — EU/Asia edge stock is limited
- Most instant-deploy configs are limited stock; custom builds take days
- No shared web hosting or domain services
- Colocation and private cloud pricing only on request (quote-based)
- Managed services and backups are paid add-ons
The Verdict
On the data we track, Selectel wins more rows in the comparison table above (2 vs 1). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now Hivelocity 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, Selectel 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.