Selectel vs Servarica: Which Is Better?
We track Selectel and Servarica prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for October 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 ServaricaServarica is a Canadian-owned and operated hosting provider founded in 2010. It started as an internal hosting project and grew into a full provider with its own routers, ASN and multi-carrier network out of a single Montreal data center. The catalog spans KVM VPS with dedicated cores, NVMe and RAIDz2 storage VPS with daily-expanding disks, dedicated servers from compact EPYC boxes to 192 TB storage giants, a Tesla P40 GPU VPS, and shared hosting with 2 TB plans. All plans sit behind a 99.99% network SLA with cash refunds, and the facility runs on 100% hydroelectric power.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Selectel | Servarica |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.42 | $1.33 win |
| Renewal price | — | Same price (no intro deals) |
| Datacenters | 7 win | 1 |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | — | Weekly (shared only) |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | — | Ticket & email 24/7 |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.85% | 99.95% win |
Price History
Selectel · VDS 1-1-10Collecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Servarica · SSD StarterCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Selectel 99.85% Servarica 99.95%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)
Servarica- Genuine budget pricing — KVM VPS from $5/mo with dedicated cores
- Unmetered bandwidth on most plans (250 Mbps, growing +1 Mbps/day)
- Huge storage options — up to 8 TB RAIDz2 VPS and 24× 8 TB dedicated
- 100% Canadian-owned, single Montreal DC outside US data law
- Tiered SLA: 99.0%+ = 15% refund, up to 100% below 95% uptime
- Dedicated IPMI console included on all dedicated servers
- Single data center — no redundancy across regions
- Ticket/email support only — no live chat or phone
- No DDoS protection advertised on any plan
- Older dedicated hardware on budget tiers (Xeon E5 v2/v4, DDR3)
- Fraud screening can delay new orders by hours
- No money-back guarantee — refunds only via the SLA
The Verdict
On the data we track, Servarica 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 Servarica 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, Servarica 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.