Selectel vs Hostinger: Which Is Better?
We track Selectel and Hostinger 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 HostingerHostinger is a global, budget-friendly hosting provider serving 30M+ users across 150+ countries. It pairs aggressive intro pricing with a genuinely fast LiteSpeed + NVMe stack and an unusually beginner-friendly control panel (hPanel), making it a popular first host for blogs, small businesses and WooCommerce stores.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Selectel | Hostinger |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.37 win | $2.99 |
| Renewal price | — | — |
| Datacenters | 7 | 9 win |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✓ Yes win |
| Backups | — | — |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✓ Yes win |
| Support | — | — |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.25% win | 99.04% |
Price History
Selectel · VDS 1-1-10Collecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Hostinger · PremiumCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Selectel 99.25% Hostinger 99.04%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)
Hostinger- Excellent intro pricing with free domain, SSL and email
- Fast LiteSpeed + global CDN on NVMe storage
- Beginner-friendly hPanel and 1-click WordPress
- 24/7 live chat with ~2 min replies in 20+ languages
- 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked
- Steep renewal prices after the first term
- Daily backups and dedicated IP are paid add-ons on entry plans
- No root access or cPanel on shared plans
- Cheapest rates require a long upfront commitment
The Verdict
On the data we track, Hostinger wins more rows in the comparison table above (3 vs 2). 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 Hostinger 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.