Spaceship vs SSD Nodes: Which Is Better?
We track Spaceship and SSD Nodes prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
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.
About SSD NodesSSD Nodes is a budget-focused VPS provider founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tustin, California. It rents capacity from the Hivelocity data center network and runs its own Vippy virtualization stack, which lets it offer KVM plans with 8 GB RAM and up from just $5.50/mo on 3-year terms. The company is deliberately VPS-only and covers 14 locations across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Spaceship | SSD Nodes |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $1.66 win | $5.50 |
| Renewal price | Higher after first term (hosting, EasyWP) | — |
| Datacenters | 4 | 14 win |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | Paid | — |
| CDN | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Support | 24/7 live chat & email | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 100.00% win | 99.78% |
Price History
Spaceship · Web Hosting EssentialCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
SSD Nodes · KVM / SMALLCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Spaceship 100.00% SSD Nodes 99.78%Pros & Cons
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
SSD Nodes- Rock-bottom VPS pricing — KVM / SMALL from $5.50/mo on a 3-year term
- NVMe storage on 4X-LARGE and up (720 GB – 1.92 TB) at prices far below the market
- 14 locations across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific (Hivelocity network)
- Free IPv6, 10 Gbps ports and full root access on every plan
- No bandwidth overage fees — soft caps with upgrade recommendations
- 14-day money-back guarantee with 24/7 support
- Best prices require 3-year prepayment — monthly billing costs ~25% more
- VPS only — no dedicated servers, cloud, or managed hosting
- Entry tiers still run SATA SSDs — NVMe starts at the 4X-LARGE tier
- Aging Intel Silver CPUs — no AMD EPYC/Ryzen or newer Xeon options
- Bandwidth capped at 4–48 TB/mo — no unmetered plans
- No phone or live-chat support — tickets and email only
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.