Selectel vs Spaceship: Which Is Better?
We track Selectel and Spaceship 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 SpaceshipSpaceship is a domain registrar and web-services platform built by the team behind Namecheap. Spaceship, Inc. is an ICANN-accredited registrar (IANA ID 3862) based at 4600 East Washington Street in Phoenix, Arizona. The company says it has been serving customers since 2022; Namecheap announced the platform's public beta in August 2023, with founder and CEO Richard Kirkendall at its head, and in June 2024 Spaceship reported passing one million domains under management. Spaceship and its Unbox™ feature are trademarks of Namecheap, Inc.
Domains are the core of the platform: around 500 extensions, each with its own registration, renewal and transfer price, free WHOIS privacy through Withheld for Privacy on nearly all of them, DNSSEC, custom nameservers, premium domains and SellerHub, a marketplace for listing and selling your own names. A transfer costs one year of renewal, and that year is added to the existing registration. Spaceship lists domain prices without ICANN's $0.20 annual fee, which it adds at checkout on generic extensions such as .com, .net and .org.
Around the domains sits a full hosting line-up:
- Web Hosting — cPanel plans (Essential, Pro, Supreme) on LiteSpeed with NVMe storage, unmetered bandwidth, Imunify360 and free Spacemail mailboxes for the first year, in US, UK, EU or Singapore data centers.
- EasyWP — managed cloud hosting for WordPress with its own dashboard instead of cPanel, three caching layers and the HackGuardian and MalwareGuardian security tools.
- VPS — nine KVM configurations on AMD EPYC 7742 with DDR4 ECC memory and NVMe storage, in Phoenix or Singapore, billed by the hour or prepaid monthly, quarterly or yearly, with block-storage Volumes, load balancers, Mail Bridge for outbound email and AutoBackup as add-ons.
- Hyperlift — a container platform that builds and deploys apps straight from a GitHub repository and a Dockerfile.
- Spacemail business email, the Supersonic CDN, the FastVPN service and Alf Website Studio, an AI website builder.
Spaceship's pitch is simplicity: Unbox™ connects a domain to the hosting or email bought with it without manual DNS work, and most products start with a free trial and a discounted first billing cycle. That keeps entry prices low, but renewals are higher, and for hosting the 30-day money-back guarantee covers only first-time purchases made without a trial.
Support works by live chat and email (support@spaceship.com) — Spaceship describes the team as ready 24/7 — alongside Alf, an AI assistant built into the dashboard, and a knowledge base. Payment options include major cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay and Bitcoin.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Selectel | Spaceship |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.37 | $1.66 win |
| Renewal price | — | Higher after first term (hosting, EasyWP) |
| Datacenters | 7 win | 4 |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | — | Paid |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✓ Yes win |
| Support | — | 24/7 live chat & email |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.06% | 100.00% win |
Price History
Selectel · VDS 1-1-10Collecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Spaceship · Web Hosting EssentialCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Selectel 99.06% Spaceship 100.00%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)
Spaceship- Around 500 domain extensions with free WHOIS privacy (Withheld for Privacy) on nearly all of them, plus DNSSEC and custom nameservers
- Registration, renewal and transfer prices published for every extension; a transfer adds a year to the registration
- One account for domains, hosting, email and cloud — Unbox™ connects them without manual DNS work
- Free 30-day trials on Web Hosting, EasyWP, Spacemail, the CDN, FastVPN and Alf Website Studio
- cPanel Web Hosting on LiteSpeed with NVMe storage, unmetered bandwidth and Imunify360, in US, UK, EU or Singapore data centers
- Hourly pay-as-you-go or prepaid VPS on AMD EPYC with NVMe; prepaid yearly terms cost less than hourly billing
- Hosting promos cover the first billing cycle only — Web Hosting and EasyWP renew noticeably higher
- Many new-extension domain promos are first-year only; renewals can cost several times the first-year price
- A $0.20 ICANN fee per year is added at checkout on generic extensions such as .com, .net and .org
- Trial-based hosting isn't eligible for the 30-day money-back guarantee; new domains are refundable only within 5 days, at Spaceship's discretion
- VPS only in Phoenix and Singapore, with outbound port 25 closed unless you buy Mail Bridge
- EasyWP hosts one WordPress site per plan, in a US data center only, and has no cPanel
The Verdict
On the data we track, Spaceship 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.
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FAQ
Right now Spaceship 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, Spaceship 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.