# Leaseweb

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/leaseweb/

Dutch hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, public cloud, managed Kubernetes and colocation through regional sales entities, with data centers in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

## Who it suits

Large VPS allowances for the money in Europe: 4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe and 30 TB of traffic for €4.99 a month (€4.49 on a 1-year contract), from a host that also sells dedicated servers across nine locations.

Consider something else if Your VPS machines need a private network or one price everywhere: traffic between VPS machines goes over the internet, each location is sold by a local Leaseweb entity at its own price, and traffic past the pack is billed per GB at an unpublished rate.

## iScore

58 / 100 (80% interval 50–65), rank 7 of 16 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/leaseweb/alternatives/

- Price: 33 (16–51), weight 29%, 3 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, free_card_required
- Capacity and limits: 62 (51–73), weight 29%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: backup_retention, file_count_limit
- Capabilities: 77 (71–84), weight 10%, 3 of 11 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: connection_pooling, docker_deploy, edge_network, git_deploy, managed_databases, persistent_processes, scale_to_zero, scheduled_jobs
- Trust and compliance: 73 (65–81), weight 14%, 9 of 13 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys, encryption_at_rest, gdpr_data_residency, uptime_sla
- Evidence: 84 (84–84), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 51 (9–94), weight 10%, 0 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No — The only free offer is a 30-day €200 trial credit for Public Cloud; VPS is not among the eligible products. ([source](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/public-cloud/public-cloud-credit-trials/), read 2026-09-27)
- Kind of free offer: Free credit — €200 for 30 days, Public Cloud only; VPS is not among the eligible products. ([source](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/public-cloud/public-cloud-credit-trials/), read 2026-09-27)
- Entry paid plan: €4.99/month excluding VAT for Leaseweb VPS 1 (4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe, 30 TB traffic) in Amsterdam: the monthly base price before any contract-term discount, with a €0.00 set-up fee. The configurator defaults to a 1-year contract at 10% off, which brings it to €4.49. Converted for comparison at the ECB reference rate of 1 EUR = 1.1403 USD (2026-09-25, api.frankfurter.dev), which puts it at about $5.69/month. The conversion is ours and moves with the rate. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/configure/vc/product/entityKey/VPS02_1), read 2026-09-27)
- Pricing model: Fixed monthly fee per VPS on a contract term, with a contract-and-billing-term discount; the configurator defaults to a 1-year contract billed monthly at 10% off the base price, and quotes prices excluding taxes. Traffic beyond the included allowance is billed separately. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/configure/vc/product/entityKey/VPS02_1), read 2026-09-27)
- Egress over allowance: No public per-GB rate: surcharges are billed per GB at the fee agreed in the order form, which depends on network type and traffic commitment. For Leaseweb VPS only egress is counted. ([source](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/network/network-metering-and-billing/), read 2026-09-27)
- When you exceed a cap: Billed automatically: each GB of traffic beyond the included amount is charged at the end of the month. An optional traffic notification can power the VPS off when a threshold you set is crossed. ([source](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/leaseweb-vps/setting-leaseweb-vps-data-traffic-notifications/), read 2026-09-27)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 100 GB local NVMe on Leaseweb VPS 1, the smallest plan; up to 1 TB more can be added as a disk add-on ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/virtual-private-server), read 2026-09-27)
- Memory (entry plan): 6 GB on Leaseweb VPS 1, the smallest plan (the configurator shows it as 6 GiB) ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/virtual-private-server), read 2026-09-27)
- Included bandwidth: 30 TB of outgoing traffic per month on every plan in the European, US and Singapore listings; incoming traffic is free. Leaseweb's knowledge base says VPS traffic packs range from 5 to 30 TB depending on plan and location (the Sydney configurator shows 5 TB). ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/virtual-private-server), read 2026-09-27)

### Deployment

- Containers: Supported ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/kubernetes), read 2026-09-27)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent storage: Supported ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/virtual-private-server), read 2026-09-27)
- Autoscaling: Limited — Autoscaling groups (manual, scheduled, CPU-based) are documented for Public Cloud instances, not for VPS. ([source](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/public-cloud/public-cloud-autoscaling-a-public-cloud-instance/), read 2026-09-27)
- Regions: Amsterdam (AMS-01); Frankfurt am Main (FRA-01); London (LON-01); Montreal (MTL-02); San Francisco (SFO-12); Singapore (SIN-01); Sydney (SYD-12); Tokyo (TYO-11); Washington DC (WDC-02). Each location is sold by its local Leaseweb sales entity. ([source](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/leaseweb-vps/ordering-api-for-vps/), read 2026-09-27)

### Data

- Backup retention: One snapshot per VPS is included free; backups are a separate Acronis Backup add-on, and no backup retention period is stated for the VPS line. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/virtual-private-server), read 2026-09-27)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: Basic SLA included with every VPS at no charge: 24/7 phone support and a 12-hour response time. Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum SLAs cost extra (€31.00 to €129.00 a month in the Netherlands table). ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/service-level-agreements), read 2026-09-27)
- Response time commitment: 12 hours on the included Basic SLA; 4 hours on Bronze, 2 on Silver, 1 on Gold and 30 minutes on Platinum, which are paid upgrades. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/service-level-agreements), read 2026-09-27)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: SOC 2 Type II only for Leaseweb Canada, Inc.; the Netherlands, Germany, UK, USA and Singapore entities list SOC 1 Type 2 instead. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/about-us/security-certifications), read 2026-09-27)
- ISO 27001: ISO 27001:2022 certified for all six sales entities listed: Netherlands, Germany, UK, USA, Singapore and Canada; certification by EY CertifyPoint. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/about-us/security-certifications), read 2026-09-27)
- HIPAA: No HIPAA certification exists for providers; EY issued Leaseweb a third-party statement that its platform meets the HIPAA requirements for its security and operations building blocks. The certifications table lists HIPAA for Leaseweb USA, Inc. only. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/about-us/security-certifications), read 2026-09-27)
- GDPR / data residency: Data is stored in the region you choose under local law, through the local Leaseweb sales entity; GDPR principles are applied wherever possible, with local frameworks deciding compliance in Canada, Singapore, the US, Australia and Japan. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/about-us/sovereignty), read 2026-09-27)
- PCI DSS: PCI DSS certified for requirements 9 and 12 at AMS-01, FRA-01, WDC-02, SIN-01 and LON-01; scope is limited to physical security access to customer equipment, not customer workloads. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/about-us/security-certifications), read 2026-09-27)
- Role-based access control: Master or Admin users add Customer Portal users and assign them roles, each role carrying its own permissions; two-factor status is shown per user. ([source](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/managing-users/customer-portal-api-account-management-managing-users-adding-and-removing-users/), read 2026-09-27)
- Private networking / VPC: Not for the VPS line: the product sheet states that communication between VPS machines always goes over the internet. ([source](https://shop-api.leaseweb.com/medias/VPS-EN.pdf?context=bWFzdGVyfGltYWdlc3wyOTYwOTZ8YXBwbGljYXRpb24vcGRmfGFEQmlMMmd6TkM4NU1UVXpPRE16TlRBd056QXlMMVpRVTE5RlRpNXdaR1l8NzgxMWI2ZDhmMGIyZWEyMTY2N2RhMzc0ZDM0M2RiYzcwOWFlYjc4ZDUwZDAzZTdlZTZiYzA0NmUyNTIyOGQwYQ), read 2026-09-27)
- Dedicated infrastructure: Leaseweb sells dedicated servers alongside the VPS line; the VPS itself runs on a hypervisor that shares the physical server's resources. ([source](https://www.leaseweb.com/en/products-services/cloud/virtual-private-server), read 2026-09-27)