# ScalaHosting > Shared and cloud VPS hosting with its own SPanel control panel ScalaHosting sells shared web hosting, managed and unmanaged cloud VPS, and reseller hosting, managed through its own SPanel control panel or cPanel. Its in-house tools include the SShield real-time security system and a WordPress Manager with automatic updates, staging and an AI site builder. Shared plans are sold on 1-, 12- and 36-month terms, with lower prices for the first term. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** ScalaHosting (since 2007) - **Website:** https://www.scalahosting.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing ScalaHosting is a paid product, starting at $11.95 per month (Mini), or $2.95 a month for a first term of 12 or 36 months. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Mini, 1 month | $11.95 per month, billed monthly | 1 website, 10 GB NVMe storage and no bandwidth limit, with SPanel or cPanel. Monthly billing has no introductory price. | | Mini, 12 months | $11.95 per month at renewal, after a first year at $2.95 a month | The same Mini plan. The first 12 months cost $35.40 ($2.95 a month), paid upfront, then $11.95 a month. | | Mini, 36 months | $11.95 per month at renewal, after a first term of 36 months | The same Mini plan. The first 36 months cost $106.20 ($2.95 a month), paid upfront, then $11.95 a month. | | Start, 36 months | $14.95 per month at renewal, after a first term of 36 months | Unlimited websites, 50 GB and a free domain. $5.95 a month for the first 36 months ($214.20), then $14.95; the same $5.95 on 12 months. | | Advanced, 36 months | $19.95 per month at renewal, after a first term of 36 months | Unlimited websites and 100 GB. $9.95 a month for the first 36 months ($358.20), then $19.95 a month. | | Entry Cloud, 36 months | $39.95 per month at renewal, after a first term of 36 months | Cloud VPS with 2 dedicated CPUs, 2 GB RAM and 50 GB NVMe. $24.95 a month for 36 months; a 12-month term starts at $14.95 a month. | Read from https://www.scalahosting.com/web-hosting-for-small-business.html on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ScalaHosting before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Mini at $2.95 a month for the first term** (Other savings): On a 12- or 36-month term Mini costs $2.95 a month, Start $5.95 and Advanced $9.95, paid upfront. They renew at $11.95, $14.95 and $19.95 a month. Source: https://www.scalahosting.com/web-hosting-for-small-business.html ## Key features - **SPanel or cPanel:** Accounts can run on ScalaHosting's own SPanel, offered free, or on cPanel. Some tools, such as SShield and the AI site builder, come only with SPanel. - **SShield and malware scanning:** SShield watches for attacks in real time, and every shared plan lists real-time malware protection, brute-force protection and a WordPress malware scan tool. - **WordPress Manager:** Automatic WordPress updates, staging and cloning, a security lock for files, admin role controls and Google Lighthouse reports, managed from the panel. - **AI WordPress site builder:** An AI site builder for WordPress is included on every shared plan when it runs on SPanel. - **Daily offsite backups:** Backups run every day and are stored offsite, and archives can also be made by hand and restored in one click from the control panel. - **Email with reputation tools:** Unlimited mailboxes, forwarders and autoresponders, with blacklist monitoring and delivery tracking to help mail reach inboxes. ## Good for - Small business sites that want hosting and email on one plan - Sites expected to move from shared hosting to a cloud VPS later - Buyers who would rather not pay for cPanel licenses ## Worth knowing - The $2.95 a month needs a 12- or 36-month term paid upfront; Mini renews at $11.95, Start at $14.95 and Advanced at $19.95 a month. - Mini hosts one website and has no free domain; a domain comes with Start and higher plans. - Several tools, including SShield, the AI site builder and the WordPress malware scan, work only with SPanel, not cPanel. - Managed cloud plans start at $29.95 a month, and reseller hosting and larger VPS plans are sold separately. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. ScalaHosting runs on its own free SPanel, so you're not paying for cPanel licenses, and adds real-time SShield security, daily offsite backups and unlimited mailboxes. Three years of Mini cost $106.20 upfront, which is cheap. The catch: Mini hosts one site with no free domain, and several tools only work on SPanel. - **Value for money: A.** Mini is $106.20 upfront for 36 months, so two years cost $106.20, about $4.43 a month, under the $5.97 an A needs, with a third year thrown in. A 12-month term plus a year at $11.95 would be $178.80. Monthly is $11.95. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record. Monthly billing has no intro price either, so the cheapest way in still means paying. - **Features: B.** Daily offsite backups, SShield real-time protection, a malware scanner, WordPress Manager with staging, an AI site builder and unlimited mailboxes with blacklist monitoring. Mini has no free domain, but the core job is covered. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. SPanel or cPanel with one-click restores, but there's still a site, email and maybe a domain to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web panel only. Cloudflare, Google Lighthouse, Softaculous and the apps it installs are named, but no API is on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ScalaHosting's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - ScalaHosting's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 6. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 16 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $2.95 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 3 of the 16 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace ScalaHosting you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade. It costs $35.40 a year. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, WooCommerce and cPanel among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, WooCommerce, cPanel, Softaculous, Cloudflare, Google Lighthouse, Joomla, Drupal **Tags:** Managed WordPress, AI features, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hostinger-vs-scalahosting) - [hosting.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/a2-hosting): Shared hosting from the former A2 Hosting, with an API and MCP server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/a2-hosting-vs-scalahosting) - [Cloudways](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloudways): Managed cloud hosting on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloudways-vs-scalahosting) - [InterServer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/interserver): One shared hosting plan plus cloud VPS sold in $3 slices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/interserver-vs-scalahosting) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://www.scalahosting.com/web-hosting-for-small-business.html - https://www.scalahosting.com/fastest-wordpress-hosting.html - https://www.scalahosting.com/ - https://www.scalahosting.com/about-us.html Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/scalahosting Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).