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Linode (Akamai Cloud) vs Hostinger VPS

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A comparison of Linode (Akamai Cloud) and Hostinger VPS built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 30 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Linode (Akamai Cloud) if…

Akamai Cloud virtual machines from $5 a month in North America, with 1 TB of transfer included and egress at half a cent per gigabyte in core data centres.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Hostinger VPS if…

Running Docker applications on a cheap KVM server with root access, where 4 GB of RAM at the entry plan matters more than a managed control plane. The one-click catalog covers the usual self-hosted stack.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Linode (Akamai Cloud): Pricing varies by region, so the North American rate is not what you will pay everywhere, and stopped instances continue to bill.
  • Hostinger VPS: The advertised price is introductory. Compare the two-year renewal rate, and note that Hostinger publishes continents rather than data centre locations, so you cannot pick a specific region before buying.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Linode alternatives · Hostinger VPS alternatives

15 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionLinode (Akamai Cloud)Hostinger VPS
Pricing
Free tierNo — Only free offer published is a US$100 credit for new customers, not an ongoing free plan.No — KVM VPS plans appear only under the 30-day money-back guarantee, not among the free-trial offerings.
Kind of free offerFree creditNo free offer
Entry paid plan
$5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above it: $6.00 in Jakarta and $7.00 in São Paulo.
$11.99/month on renewal for KVM 1, on a two-year term. The advertised $6.49 is an introductory rate for the first term only.
Pricing modelHybrid hourly billing, invoiced monthly, with hourly usage capped at each service's monthly ratePrepaid multi-year terms at a discounted first term, renewing at roughly 1.85x. KVM 1 is $6.49/month on a two-year prepay and $11.99/month on renewal. Milder than the shared-hosting line, where the same structure renews at 3.7x.
Egress over allowance0.005 for Network Transfer, with regional overrides of 0.015 in Jakarta and 0.007 in São Paulo, and 0.01 for Distributed Network Transfer. Published in Linode's API rather than in documentation: the techdocs page carried these as per-GB rates until it was edited on 14 September 2026 to remove them and point at a pricing page that refuses this checker. The API's price field is named "hourly", which transfer is not billed by, so no unit is asserted here.No per-GB overage price; at the plan monthly bandwidth limit the VPS connection is throttled to 10 Mbps for the rest of the month, resetting at the start of the next month.
Limits
Storage (entry plan)
25 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/month. The types API reports it as "disk": 25600.
50 GB NVMe on KVM 1, the cheapest plan
Memory (entry plan)
1 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/month. The types API reports it as "memory": 1024.
4 GB RAM on KVM 1, the cheapest plan
Included bandwidth
1 TB per month on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode; larger shared-CPU plans include more.
4 TB on KVM 1, rising to 8 TB on KVM 2, 16 TB on KVM 4 and 32 TB on KVM 8
Deployment
ContainersSupportedSupported
Infrastructure
Persistent storageSupportedSupported
Regions33 regions listed by the Linode API v4 /regions endpoint on 2026-09-13 (every entry returned has site_type core)Data centers in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. Hostinger names the continents on the VPS page rather than listing the locations.
Compliance
SOC 2
Akamai cites its information security compliance with standards such as SOC 2 in the Akamai Cloud disk encryption documentation. Stated in passing in product docs; Akamai's Trust Center requires requesting access to see reports.
Not SOC 2 certified; the Trust Center states Hostinger holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 instead.
HIPAA
Akamai lists Compute (Dedicated/Shared CPU, High Memory, GPU, LKE), Storage, NodeBalancers and Cloud Manager among the services in scope for HIPAA/HITECH. Read from a failover copy of the compliance-programs page on 13 September 2026. As of 15 September both that copy and www.akamai.com/legal/compliance answer 403 to this checker, so neither can be re-read.
Hostinger states its hosting services are not intended to provide a HIPAA-compliant environment.
GDPR / data residencyWorkloads can be placed in specific geographies, across core and distributed sites, to meet data residency and regulatory requirements. Page describes region placement for residency; it does not mention GDPR.GDPR Data Processing Addendum published; EU Standard Contractual Clauses apply to Customer Data transferred outside the EEA.
Encryption at rest
Local disk encryption is enabled by default on all Linodes, with the platform managing encryption and decryption. Same page notes backups are not encrypted even when taken from an encrypted disk.
DPA security standards include encrypting Personal Data and sensitive data at rest in databases and shared directories. Hostinger-side processing measure; not a statement about customer-managed VPS disks.
Customer-managed keys
Platform-managed only; docs state the platform manages disk and Block Storage volume encryption and decryption, and document no customer-supplied key option. No mention of BYOK, KMS, SSE-C or customer-managed keys in any of the 394 Akamai Cloud guides.
Not supported: Hostinger states it does not currently support customer-managed KMS or BYOK and manages key management internally.
Role-based access controlIdentity and Access uses an RBAC model: fine-grained per-endpoint permissions combined into predefined roles assigned to users. Natively enabled for Linodes, Cloud Firewall, NodeBalancer, Volume, Image and VPC.Account Sharing grants a Collaborator or Admin role, scoped to selected services; each role has a different set of permissions.
Dedicated infrastructureDedicated CPU plans reserve each assigned vCPU core exclusively for your instance, with no contention from neighboring users.Each KVM VPS is a dedicated, isolated environment on a physical server, with CPU and RAM not shared with other users.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Kind of free offer

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Free credit
Hostinger VPS
No free offer
Sources (2) →
  • Akamai Cloud | Akamai ↗

    “Try Akamai Cloud with US$100 in credits [...] Sign up for an account and start using your credits today. Explore Akamai Cloud and try out our products and services — on us. Offer valid for new customers only.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • How to try Hostinger services for free ↗

    “While standard web hosting plans do not include an entirely free tier, Hostinger provides several ways to try building platforms and hosting environments without financial risk. [...] All new purchases of web, cloud, agency, KVM, and Game Panel hosting plans, as well as Hostinger Business Mail plans, are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Entry paid plan

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
$5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above it: $6.00 in Jakarta and $7.00 in São Paulo.
Hostinger VPS
$11.99/month on renewal for KVM 1, on a two-year term. The advertised $6.49 is an introductory rate for the first term only.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Hybrid hourly billing, invoiced monthly, with hourly usage capped at each service's monthly rate
Hostinger VPS
Prepaid multi-year terms at a discounted first term, renewing at roughly 1.85x. KVM 1 is $6.49/month on a two-year prepay and $11.99/month on renewal. Milder than the shared-hosting line, where the same structure renews at 3.7x.
Sources (2) →
  • Billing ↗

    “Akamai uses a hybrid hourly billing model that's simple and flexible. You can continuously add, modify, and remove services throughout the month. Once the month ends, you receive an invoice for the hourly usage of each service up to the monthly cap.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction

  • VPS Hosting — Hostinger ↗

    “KVM 1 $19.49 $6.49/mo Choose plan Renews at $11.99/mo for 2 years. Cancel anytime. [...] KVM 2 $24.49 $8.99/mo Choose plan Renews at $14.99/mo for 2 years.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Egress over allowance

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
0.005 for Network Transfer, with regional overrides of 0.015 in Jakarta and 0.007 in São Paulo, and 0.01 for Distributed Network Transfer. Published in Linode's API rather than in documentation: the techdocs page carried these as per-GB rates until it was edited on 14 September 2026 to remove them and point at a pricing page that refuses this checker. The API's price field is named "hourly", which transfer is not billed by, so no unit is asserted here.
Hostinger VPS
No per-GB overage price; at the plan monthly bandwidth limit the VPS connection is throttled to 10 Mbps for the rest of the month, resetting at the start of the next month.
Sources (2) →
  • Network Transfer Prices — Linode API v4 ↗

    “{"id": "network_transfer", "label": "Network Transfer", "price": {"hourly": 0.005, "monthly": null}, "region_prices": [{"id": "id-cgk", "hourly": 0.015, "monthly": null}, {"id": "br-gru", "hourly": 0.007, "monthly": null}]”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official docs · Report a correction

  • What happens if your VPS bandwidth resource limits are exceeded ↗

    “This means that while your websites and services will remain operational, the connection speed will be reduced to 10 Mbps for the rest of the month. [...] At the beginning of the next month, your monthly bandwidth allocation will be reset to its original value, and your connection speed will return to its normal level.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Storage (entry plan)

Linode (Akamai Cloud)

25 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/month. The types API reports it as "disk": 25600.

Hostinger VPS

50 GB NVMe on KVM 1, the cheapest plan

Sources (2) →

Memory (entry plan)

Linode (Akamai Cloud)

1 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/month. The types API reports it as "memory": 1024.

Hostinger VPS

4 GB RAM on KVM 1, the cheapest plan

Sources (2) →

Included bandwidth

Linode (Akamai Cloud)

1 TB per month on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode; larger shared-CPU plans include more.

Hostinger VPS

4 TB on KVM 1, rising to 8 TB on KVM 2, 16 TB on KVM 4 and 32 TB on KVM 8

Sources (2) →
  • List Types — Linode API v4 ↗

    “"memory": 1024, "disk": 25600, "transfer": 1000, "vcpus": 1, "gpus": 0, "network_out": 1000, "class": "nanode", "successor": null, "capabilities": [], "accelerated_devices": 0}, {"id": "g6-standard-1", "label": "Linode 2GB"”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction

  • VPS Hosting — Hostinger ↗

    “KVM 1 [...] 4 TB bandwidth [...] KVM 2 [...] 8 TB bandwidth [...] KVM 4 [...] 16 TB bandwidth [...] KVM 8 [...] 32 TB bandwidth”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing · Report a correction

Regions

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
33 regions listed by the Linode API v4 /regions endpoint on 2026-09-13 (every entry returned has site_type core)
Hostinger VPS
Data centers in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. Hostinger names the continents on the VPS page rather than listing the locations.
Sources (2) →

SOC 2

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Akamai cites its information security compliance with standards such as SOC 2 in the Akamai Cloud disk encryption documentation. Stated in passing in product docs; Akamai's Trust Center requires requesting access to see reports.
Hostinger VPS
Not SOC 2 certified; the Trust Center states Hostinger holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 instead.
Sources (2) →

HIPAA

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Akamai lists Compute (Dedicated/Shared CPU, High Memory, GPU, LKE), Storage, NodeBalancers and Cloud Manager among the services in scope for HIPAA/HITECH. Read from a failover copy of the compliance-programs page on 13 September 2026. As of 15 September both that copy and www.akamai.com/legal/compliance answer 403 to this checker, so neither can be re-read.
Hostinger VPS
Hostinger states its hosting services are not intended to provide a HIPAA-compliant environment.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Workloads can be placed in specific geographies, across core and distributed sites, to meet data residency and regulatory requirements. Page describes region placement for residency; it does not mention GDPR.
Hostinger VPS
GDPR Data Processing Addendum published; EU Standard Contractual Clauses apply to Customer Data transferred outside the EEA.
Sources (2) →
  • Akamai Global Infrastructure | Akamai ↗

    “Teams start in core sites for full-stack scale and centralized control, then extend into distributed sites when they need to place workloads closer to users for lower latency, or within specific geographies to meet data residency and regulatory requirements.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • Hostinger Data Processing Addendum ↗

    “Module Two (Controller to Processor) EU Standard Contractual Clauses or Module Three (Processor to Processor) EU Standard Contractual Clauses will apply to Customer Data that is transferred outside the EEA, either directly or via onward transfer, to any country not recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for Customer Data.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Encryption at rest

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Local disk encryption is enabled by default on all Linodes, with the platform managing encryption and decryption. Same page notes backups are not encrypted even when taken from an encrypted disk.
Hostinger VPS
DPA security standards include encrypting Personal Data and sensitive data at rest in databases and shared directories. Hostinger-side processing measure; not a statement about customer-managed VPS disks.
Sources (2) →

Customer-managed keys

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Platform-managed only; docs state the platform manages disk and Block Storage volume encryption and decryption, and document no customer-supplied key option. No mention of BYOK, KMS, SSE-C or customer-managed keys in any of the 394 Akamai Cloud guides.
Hostinger VPS
Not supported: Hostinger states it does not currently support customer-managed KMS or BYOK and manages key management internally.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Identity and Access uses an RBAC model: fine-grained per-endpoint permissions combined into predefined roles assigned to users. Natively enabled for Linodes, Cloud Firewall, NodeBalancer, Volume, Image and VPC.
Hostinger VPS
Account Sharing grants a Collaborator or Admin role, scoped to selected services; each role has a different set of permissions.
Sources (2) →
  • Identity and Access in Akamai Cloud | Akamai Cloud TechDocs ↗

    “Identity and Access uses the role-based access control (RBAC) model to authorize operations on entities. [...] each service has a set of fine-grained permissions that control access to a specific service API endpoint. These permissions are then combined into predefined, functional roles that can be assigned to users.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • How to share access to your account at Hostinger ↗

    “When you grant access, you choose a role for the shared user: Collaborator or Admin. Each role has a different set of permissions. [...] Here, you can determine an access level, select the services you wish to share, and determine if the user can set up pending orders by filling out the form.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Dedicated infrastructure

Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Dedicated CPU plans reserve each assigned vCPU core exclusively for your instance, with no contention from neighboring users.
Hostinger VPS
Each KVM VPS is a dedicated, isolated environment on a physical server, with CPU and RAM not shared with other users.
Sources (2) →
  • Dedicated CPU Linodes | Akamai Cloud TechDocs ↗

    “Dedicated CPU Linodes are virtual machines that deliver guaranteed, competition-free CPU resources for consistently high performance. Each vCPU core assigned to your instances is reserved exclusively for your workloads”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • What is Hostinger VPS hosting? ↗

    “A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a professional hosting solution that provides a dedicated, isolated environment on a physical server. [...] Dedicated resources. CPU and RAM that are not shared with other users, ensuring stable performance.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

When you exceed a capLinode (Akamai Cloud): Billed automatically and by region: transfer over the monthly allotment is charged at the service region's rate, all transfer is billed where no allowance is included, and the charge lands at the end of the billing period. The rates themselves left this page on 14 September 2026 — see egress_overage_price for where they are now.
File, inode or volume limitLinode (Akamai Cloud): 250 Block Storage volumes per account across all regions (default global quota; increases can be requested)
Managed connection poolingLinode (Akamai Cloud): Supported
Docker deploymentHostinger VPS: Supported
Persistent processesHostinger VPS: Supported
Managed databasesLinode (Akamai Cloud): Supported
Scales to zeroLinode (Akamai Cloud): Not supported
AutoscalingLinode (Akamai Cloud): Limited
Backup retentionHostinger VPS: Automatic weekly backups included, plus manual snapshots. Hostinger does not state how many weekly backups are kept.
ISO 27001Hostinger VPS: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified; certificate viewable in the Hostinger Trust Center.
PCI DSSHostinger VPS: Hostinger hosting plans are not designed to meet PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards.
Private networking / VPCLinode (Akamai Cloud): VPC traffic is walled off from the public internet and from other services in the same data center; VPCs cost nothing extra.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Linode (Akamai Cloud) or Hostinger VPS?

Linode (Akamai Cloud): $5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above it: $6.00 in Jakarta and $7.00 in São Paulo.

Hostinger VPS: $11.99/month on renewal for KVM 1, on a two-year term. The advertised $6.49 is an introductory rate for the first term only.

Egress over allowance: Linode (Akamai Cloud) or Hostinger VPS?

Linode (Akamai Cloud): 0.005 for Network Transfer, with regional overrides of 0.015 in Jakarta and 0.007 in São Paulo, and 0.01 for Distributed Network Transfer. Published in Linode's API rather than in documentation: the techdocs page carried these as per-GB rates until it was edited on 14 September 2026 to remove them and point at a pricing page that refuses this checker. The API's price field is named "hourly", which transfer is not billed by, so no unit is asserted here.

Hostinger VPS: No per-GB overage price; at the plan monthly bandwidth limit the VPS connection is throttled to 10 Mbps for the rest of the month, resetting at the start of the next month.

Included bandwidth: Linode (Akamai Cloud) or Hostinger VPS?

Linode (Akamai Cloud): 1 TB per month on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode; larger shared-CPU plans include more.

Hostinger VPS: 4 TB on KVM 1, rising to 8 TB on KVM 2, 16 TB on KVM 4 and 32 TB on KVM 8

Should I choose Linode (Akamai Cloud) or Hostinger VPS?

Pick Linode (Akamai Cloud) if Akamai Cloud virtual machines from $5 a month in North America, with 1 TB of transfer included and egress at half a cent per gigabyte in core data centres.

Pick Hostinger VPS if Running Docker applications on a cheap KVM server with root access, where 4 GB of RAM at the entry plan matters more than a managed control plane. The one-click catalog covers the usual self-hosted stack.

Provider pages

Linode (Akamai Cloud)Akamai's cloud computing platform, formerly Linode, offering shared and dedicated CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, and block and object storage.Hostinger VPSKVM virtual servers with full root access, sold on prepaid multi-year terms, with a one-click catalog of Docker applications and weekly backups included.

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