HostSailor alternative — Cryptoservers

Looking for an alternative to HostSailor? HostSailor is a UAE-registered host running DCs in Romania, Netherlands and Los Angeles; Cryptoservers operates from Saint Kitts & Nevis with regions in Iceland, Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. Cryptoservers is an offshore VPS and dedicated bare-metal host incorporated in Saint Kitts and Nevis, with hosting in Iceland, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. We accept 20+ cryptocurrencies, ship 1 Tbps of DDoS absorption included on every plan, and provision a VPS in 41 seconds median from confirmed payment to SSH login.

Side by side

HostSailor vs Cryptoservers — the spec table

Numbers and facts only. Where the competitor wins, the table says so.

Specification	HostSailor	Cryptoservers
Datacenter regions	3 (Netherlands, Romania, Los Angeles USA)	Iceland, Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland
Corporate jurisdiction	UAE (Dubai) — outside 14-Eyes but a cooperative MLAT signatory	Saint Kitts & Nevis (outside 14-Eyes)
Payment coins	BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP and ~50 altcoins (no Monero on public list)	BTC, XMR, ETH, USDT, USDC, SOL, LTC, XRP, TRX, TON, DOGE, POL, BCH, DASH, ZEC and more (20+)
KYC at signup	Light for crypto-paying customers	None — payment-only signup
DDoS protection	~20 Gbps default; paid upgrade ($20/mo) on NL only	1 Tbps anycast, included on every plan
Provisioning median	Minutes to hours depending on tier and review	41 seconds
Entry VPS price	$4.99/month (entry KVM NVMe)	$16.99/month (2 vCPU, 4 GB ECC, 60 GB NVMe)
Warrant canary	No	Weekly, PGP-signed at /canary/
Public network details	Marketing-level only; ASN AS60117 visible in BGP tools	Full ASN + live peering matrix on /network/
Years operating	Since 2013/2014 — ~12 years	Newer entrant — operator-grade transparency in lieu of tenure
Trustpilot score	Around 2.0/5 (120+ reviews)	See /reviews/ — refund and SLA terms published
Authentication	Standard password + optional 2FA	Argon2id + TOTP/WebAuthn 2FA + optional PGP-signed support

Honest assessment

What HostSailor does well — and where it falls short

Each competitor gets real credit for what they do well. The cons section reflects published facts and recurring customer feedback, not marketing FUD.

Strengths of HostSailor

Operating since 2013/2014 with reportedly 70,000+ customers, HostSailor is one of the older surviving DMCA-tolerant hosts and runs its own ASN (AS60117) with multi-Tbps capacity into Bucharest and Amsterdam.
Very deep product catalog — KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, storage VPS, shared cPanel, dedicated servers and a Los Angeles region — useful when you want one provider for unrelated workloads in one billing account.
Aggressive entry pricing on shared and small VPS tiers (KVM NVMe from $4.99/month, shared from under $1/month) is hard to beat for low-stakes side projects.
Accepts a broad set of cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP and 50+ altcoins, and KYC at signup is generally light for crypto-paying customers.
UAE corporate registration sits outside the Five/Nine/Fourteen-Eyes signals-intelligence alliances, which some buyers genuinely prefer over EU-only providers.

Limitations of HostSailor

Trustpilot score sits around 2.0/5 across 120+ reviews, with a recurring pattern of refund disputes, store-credit-only resolutions and accounts cancelled after PayPal chargebacks.
No public warrant canary and limited transparency about how UAE-based corporate cooperates with takedown or law-enforcement requests against EU-hosted servers.
DDoS protection on most VPS tiers is basic (around 20 Gbps on shared); upgraded protection is a paid add-on at roughly $20/month and only on the Netherlands network.
LowEndTalk threads have repeatedly cited multi-day packet loss windows on the Amsterdam location and slow ticket response on weekends.
No Monero (XMR) on the public crypto list at the time of writing — a real gap for buyers who specifically need a privacy coin.
No published peering matrix or per-region transit list; the network section is a marketing page rather than an operator-grade transparency document.

Decision guide

Which one fits your use case?

Sometimes the competitor is the right answer. We say so when it is.

Pick HostSailor if…

You need shared cPanel hosting for under $2/month and DDoS resilience is not in your threat model.
You specifically want a Los Angeles datacenter footprint for North American latency, which Cryptoservers does not currently offer.
You are running a low-budget OpenVZ or storage VPS workload where HostSailor's catalog breadth and 12-year tenure matter more than canaries or peering transparency.

Pick Cryptoservers if…

Your threat model includes volumetric DDoS — Cryptoservers includes 1 Tbps anycast on every plan, vs. HostSailor's ~20 Gbps default plus paid upgrade.
You need Monero acceptance — Cryptoservers takes XMR natively alongside 19+ other coins; HostSailor's public list omits XMR.
You want a weekly PGP-signed warrant canary and a published peering matrix — Cryptoservers ships both at /canary/ and /network/.
You want sub-minute provisioning — Cryptoservers' 41-second median beats HostSailor's minutes-to-hours range, especially on tiers that trigger manual review.
You want a non-14-Eyes domicile (Saint Kitts & Nevis) without the UAE's MLAT footprint, which has cooperated on cross-border requests in past cases.

Cryptoservers in 4 facts

What's different about Cryptoservers

VPS from $16.99

Five tiers of KVM virtual servers on AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon Gold with DDR4/DDR5 ECC and NVMe storage.

Dedicated bare-metal

Five single-tenant tiers from $79/mo — full IPMI, 4-hour hardware-swap SLA, no neighbours.

4 jurisdictions

Iceland, Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. Real legal redundancy across regimes.

1 Tbps DDoS

Anycast scrubbing fabric included on every plan. Public ASN and peering matrix.

FAQ

HostSailor vs Cryptoservers — questions answered

Is HostSailor really DMCA-ignored?

HostSailor is DMCA-tolerant rather than fully DMCA-ignored — its Acceptable Use Policy still prohibits child-abuse material, phishing and certain spam categories, and it has historically forwarded takedowns for explicitly illegal content. It is more permissive than EU mainstream hosts but not a no-rules bulletproof provider.

Where is HostSailor actually based?

HostSailor Ltd. is registered in Dubai, UAE, with offices listed in the Burj Khalifa area. Its physical hosting infrastructure is in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Los Angeles (USA), connected over its own ASN AS60117.

Does HostSailor accept Monero?

At the time of writing HostSailor's public payment-methods page lists Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP and many altcoins, but does not advertise Monero. Cryptoservers accepts XMR natively as one of 20+ supported coins.

Why does HostSailor have a low Trustpilot score?

The recurring complaints concern refund handling — service paid for via PayPal sometimes resolved as store credit only, and accounts cancelled after disputes. Server uptime and pricing reviews are generally more positive, so the score reflects post-sale friction more than infrastructure quality.

Is UAE jurisdiction better than EU for privacy?

It depends on your threat model. The UAE is not a Five/Nine/Fourteen-Eyes member, but it is an MLAT signatory and has cooperated on cross-border requests. Saint Kitts & Nevis (Cryptoservers' domicile) has a narrower legal-assistance footprint.

Does HostSailor include DDoS protection?

Basic DDoS protection (around 20 Gbps) is included by default on most tiers, but enhanced mitigation is a $15 setup plus $20/month add-on and is only available on the Netherlands network. Cryptoservers ships 1 Tbps anycast on every plan with no add-on tier.

How fast is HostSailor provisioning?

For KVM NVMe tiers paid in crypto, provisioning is usually completed within minutes; some plans trigger manual review and can take hours. Cryptoservers' median is 41 seconds from confirmed payment to SSH login.

Does HostSailor publish a warrant canary?

No. There is no public canary or transparency report at hostsailor.com. Cryptoservers publishes a weekly PGP-signed canary at /canary/ and full peering data at /network/.

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