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Resposta curta: A Hivelocity vende servidores bare metal sólidos com rapidez, apoio humano, e clientes antigos ainda avaliam isso bem. O problema é o que aconteceu em torno do hardware. Propriedade mudou duas vezes em menos de um ano, the published contract carries no uptime number, and dedicated servers carry no refund rights at all.
Esta revisão baseia-se 297 avaliações públicas de clientes, plus Hivelocity’s own pricing pages and legal terms read on 12 agosto 2026. Ao contrário das análises pesadas de afiliados, we counted the data centers ourselves and checked the advertised SLA against the contract that actually binds it. We also read what network operators say about Hivelocity’s address space, which is where the sharpest criticism sits.
Avaliação geral: Hivelocity scores 3.7/5 através 297 avaliações. Strengths are genuine bare metal at fair prices, 44 Localizações, and a support desk customers repeatedly praise. The most common complaints involve an unresponsive abuse department and service drift after the takeover. Best suited for technical teams who manage their own servers.
Important context on older reviews: Colohouse bought Hivelocity on 2 abril 2024, then renamed itself Hivelocity in February 2025. Qualquer comentário escrito antes 2025 describes a different company operating under the same name.
Última atualização: agosto 2026. Dados de preços e avaliações verificados.
| Nome | Hospedagem Hivelocity |
| Resenhas totais | 296 |
| Pontuação Média | 4.7 |
| telefone | 888-869-4678 |
| O email | [email protected], [email protected] |
| Local na rede Internet | http://hivelocity.net |
| Endereço | 8010 Avenida Woodlands Center. Suíte 700 Tampa, FL 33614 |
| Locais do servidor | |
Número de avaliações
Média. Pontuação de revisão
Suporte ao cliente
Recursos e serviços
Hivelocity started in Tampa, Florida in 2002 and sells infrastructure rather than website hosting. There’s no shared hosting here and no cPanel-and-domain bundle. Você aluga uma máquina e a opera.
Tipos de hospedagem oferecidos
- Servidores dedicados bare metal – a whole physical machine, not a slice of one, deployed instantly or built to spec
- VPS and VDS – Servidores virtuais, where VPS shares CPU cores and VDS gives you unshared ones
- Colocação – you own the hardware, Hivelocity provides the rack, poder e rede
- Enterprise cloud, redes privadas, and managed add-ons like firewalls and backups
Principais recursos destacados pelos clientes
Reviewers rarely praise the specs. They praise the people and the network, so that’s where the real story sits.
- Suporte que responde – the single most repeated theme across five years of reviews, often naming individual engineers and account reps.
- Instant deployment with an API – servers provision in minutes, and there’s a documented API plus a Terraform provider for automated builds.
- IPMI and full root access – you get out-of-band hardware control, which matters when a machine stops responding.
- Generous transfer – every server includes at least 10TB of outbound transfer, and inbound plus private traffic between your servers is free.
Overage past your allowance costs USD 0.05 por GB. Extra IP addresses are USD 2.50 cada por mês.
Locais de data centers
Hivelocity lists 44 Localizações, and we counted all 44 codes on its data center page. That part checks out. The regional grouping doesn’t.
The page splits those 44 into three tabs: América do Norte 22, Europa 13, Ásia-Pacífico 9. Three sites are filed on the wrong continent. São Paulo, Brazil sits under North America. Joanesburgo, South Africa and Lagos, Nigeria both sit under Europe.
Those three are precisely the sites Hivelocity gained when it bought UK provider Heficed in January 2023. They appear to have been bolted onto the existing tabs rather than given regions of their own. O separado “6 continentes” claim is accurate, but only because of the three sites the tabs misplace.
Sites are tagged CORE or EDGE. Core sites hold on-demand hardware and the fuller network blend; edge sites carry a thinner set of configurations.
Colocation is a smaller, Pegada apenas nos EUA, and here the site contradicts itself again. The data center page and the colocation page each list nine sites, but they agree on only six. The data center page offers Atlanta, Miami and New York City 1. The colocation page instead offers Chicago, Dallas and New York City 4. Which nine you get depends on which page you land on.
Expectativas de desempenho
The network claims are substantial: sobre 2 Tbps de capacidade, mais que 1,000 peering connections, and a private backbone between sites. Peering means direct links to other networks, which cuts the number of hops your traffic takes.
Independent benchmark data for Hivelocity is thin, so treat the marketing figures as unverified. What we can report is that customer accounts of network quality have diverged sharply since 2025, e abordamos isso abaixo.
Experiência do cliente
Hivelocity holds 3.7/5 através 297 avaliações públicas, and the shape of that score is unusual. Do 278 reviews with a visible rating, 231 (83%) são 5 estrelas e 33 (12%) são 1 estrela. Only two reviews in the entire corpus are 3-star.
Average those raw scores and you get 4.43. The live score is 3.7, well below it. That gap exists because the platform weights recent reviews more heavily, and the recent reviews are the angry ones. Aproximadamente 38% of reviews arrived through company invitations, while every one of the eight most recent negative reviews came in organically. Hivelocity pays for its profile and answers about two thirds of negative reviews, usually within two days.
O que os clientes elogiam
Support dominates the positive reviews and has for years. Reviewers name individual engineers and account reps, which is rare and hard to fake. Um janeiro 2026 reviewer marked more than ten years as a customer. They cited “desempenho estável, tempo de inatividade mínimo, and a customer-focused support team that actually resolves issues.”
The second theme is suitability for demanding, unattended workloads. A blockchain validator operator reported six months without a single issue. Colocation customers describe multi-year relationships and praise 24/7 equipe no local.
Reclamações Comuns
The abuse department is the sharpest and most specific complaint. Um maio 2026 reviewer reported an active phishing campaign running across six Hivelocity IP addresses. They filed through SpamCop, Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB and Hivelocity’s own abuse contact. Their account of the response: “Nenhum. Not a single acknowledgement, ticket number, or reply in 5 dias.” Um julho 2025 review makes the same charge under the heading “Shockingly Lax Response to Phishing Report”.
Service drift after the takeover is the second theme. Um abril 2026 reviewer wrote that the company “went downhill in a huge hurry.” They were told packet loss and high gateway pings were normal, on a server that had run clean for seven months.
Data loss and unannounced moves form a smaller but severe group. Um fevereiro 2026 reviewer says a virtual machine was deleted during a migration, unrecoverable, with six years of data gone. Um dezembro 2025 reviewer found their New York server had been moved without notice and was down for hours. Direct exchange sessions to NYIIX and DE-CIX had disappeared.
Feedback da comunidade (Reddit & Fóruns)
The most consequential community signal isn’t a review at all. Em 17 abril 2026, the operator of email host MXroute announced a change. Hivelocity and Vultr had “been added to ranges caught by Expert Spam Filtering, requiring whitelisting to reach any user with that enabled.” They added: “I held out on those two for as long as I could.”
That’s a third party taking operational action against Hivelocity’s address space, and it corroborates the abuse-desk complaints from a completely different direction. Com justiça, the same post names Vultr, so this isn’t unique to Hivelocity.
The second theme comes from customers inherited through acquisitions. One Chicago customer of 17 years came over from Steadfast. They described the aftermath as “the typical acquisition process, lay off people, lower standards and raise prices.” Their grandfathered server was reclassified as self-managed. Support then declined to help with a cPanel error, despite Hivelocity being the first-line cPanel contact.
A separate thread offers the blunt version. Why were sales replies so slow? One commenter answered that “Hivelocity has been acquired by colohouse which is why you are getting less than ideal sales responses.”
Qualidade de suporte
Execuções de suporte 24/7/365 por telefone, ticket and chat, staffed in the United States. The praise is consistent and well evidenced, and even critical reviewers concede it. A balanced February 2026 review captures the current state: “Support is still responsive and quick to answer tickets, but it feels more corporate now”. The same reviewer described “a bunch of leadership turnover and changes in the past year or so”, which matches the record.
The pattern is clear enough. Ask a technical question and you get a fast, competent answer. Ask for something requiring judgment, like an abuse takedown or a cancellation, and the record gets patchy.
When to Use Hivelocity
Hivelocity is a strong choice in specific scenarios:
Ideal para
Teams that manage their own infrastructure: Got someone who knows Linux, IPMI and networking? You get real hardware, root access and an API at a fair price, and the self-managed default stops being a drawback.
Latency-sensitive global workloads: Com 44 sites across six continents, you can put servers near users in markets many US providers skip. Índia, Brazil and Nigeria are all covered.
Steady, unattended workloads: Validators, game servers and streaming backends come up repeatedly in positive reviews. These are jobs where a whole machine beats a shared one.
Você vai gostar se
- Você quer um faturamento previsível, because there’s no promotional rate that jumps later
- You need hardware built to spec, because custom configurations are a core offering
- You value reaching a human fast, because that’s the most praised part of the service
- You’re deploying by code, because the API and Terraform provider are documented
When NOT to Use Hivelocity
No provider suits everyone. Hivelocity isn’t the right choice if:
Procure em outro lugar se
You need to be able to walk away: Dedicated servers carry no refund rights under any circumstance. If the hardware disappoints in week three, that’s your problem, não é deles.
You need a contractual uptime figure: The published SLA names no percentage and no credit schedule. If your own customers hold you to an availability number, you can’t pass that obligation upstream on paper.
You’re a beginner or want a managed website: There’s no shared hosting and no hand-holding. Servers are self-managed unless you pay more. Veja nosso managed dedicated hosting guide em vez de.
You send bulk email: At least one email provider now filters Hivelocity ranges by default. Deliverability from this network needs testing before you commit.
Bandeiras vermelhas para sua situação
- You depend on a fast abuse response: Multiple dated reports describe reports going unanswered for days.
- You’re on a legacy plan from an acquired brand: Steadfast and Heficed customers report reclassification and reduced support.
- You’re colocating outside the US: Colocation is US-only, and Hivelocity’s own two lists of sites don’t match.
- You cancel late: Requests inside five days of renewal are billed for another full term.
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity dos Estados Unidos
| Pontuação média | 4.80 |
| Número de avaliações | 172 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Brasil
| Pontuação média | 4.48 |
| Número de avaliações | 21 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity Do Reino Unido
| Pontuação média | 4.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 12 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da India
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 9 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Canadá
| Pontuação média | 4.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 8 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do México
| Pontuação média | 4.63 |
| Número de avaliações | 6 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Argentina
| Pontuação média | 4.83 |
| Número de avaliações | 6 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Colômbia
| Pontuação média | 4.33 |
| Número de avaliações | 6 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity De israel
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 3 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Australia
| Pontuação média | 4.93 |
| Número de avaliações | 3 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Croácia
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 3 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity de portugal
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Itália
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity de Bangladesh
| Pontuação média | 3.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity das Filipinas
| Pontuação média | 3.40 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Paquistão
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity Da Russia
| Pontuação média | 4.50 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Panamá
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity Do Peru
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity de Singapura
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Alemanha
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Afeganistão
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 2 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da França
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity de Fiji, Ilhas Fiji
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Grécia
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Iêmen
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da Dinamarca
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Nepal
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity da República Dominicana
| Pontuação média | 5.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
- Avaliações de hospedagem Hivelocity do Egito
| Pontuação média | 1.00 |
| Número de avaliações | 1 avaliações |
Hivelocity Plans and Pricing
Pricing is transparent by the standards of this market. Prices are published, there’s no setup fee on standard builds, and there’s no promotional rate that doubles in month two. What you see is close to what you keep paying.
⚠️ Refund Warning: Hivelocity’s terms state plainly that it “does not offer refunds for dedicated servers under any circumstance.” Credits are discretionary. Cancellation must be filed through the control panel at least five days before renewal, or you’re charged for the next term. Test the hardware hard in week one.
Bare Metal Dedicated Servers
Preço de entrada: USD 75.00/mo for an Intel E-2336, 6 núcleos, 32GB de memória, 480GB SSD, 20Transferência de TB
Renova em: USD 75.00/mo
Higher tiers run to USD 682.00/mo and USD 750.00/mo for an AMD Threadripper 7965WX with 24 cores and 1TB of memory. A site-wide banner advertises 50% off dedicated servers, and one listed plan shows USD 129.00 struck through at USD 97.00. Custom builds are quoted separately.
VPS and VDS
Começando às: US$ 10,00/mês (VPS) and USD 21.00/mo (VDS)
- PRO.SM.AMD: US$ 10,00/mês, 2 vCPUs, 4GB de memória, 40GB de armazenamento NVMe
- PRO.MD.AMD: US$ 20,00/mês, reduced to USD 15.00/mo, 4 vCPUs, 8GB de memória
- VDS.SM.INTEL: USD 21.00/mo, 2 vCPUs, 4GB de memória, 80GB de armazenamento
- VDS.MD.INTEL: USD 42.00/mo, reduced to USD 37.00/mo, 4 vCPUs, 8GB de memória
VDS costs roughly double VPS for the same core count. You’re paying for cores nobody else touches. Para uma visão mais ampla do mercado, veja nosso Comparação de hospedagem VPS.
Custos ocultos a serem observados
- Excesso de largura de banda: USD 0.05 per GB above your allowance
- Endereços IP adicionais: USD 2.50/mo each
- Returned check: USD 25.00 reactivation fee, with service suspended immediately
- Gestão: servers are self-managed by default, and managed support costs extra
The SLA Gap
Here’s the finding that matters most. The dedicated servers page advertises “uma 99.99% uptime SLA.” Um SLA, ou Acordo de Nível de Serviço, is a contractual uptime promise with a penalty attached when it’s missed.
We read Hivelocity’s published legal and SLA page in full, todos 42,620 characters of it. It contains no uptime percentage anywhere. The only percentage on the page is the 50% promotional banner. o “SLA de rede” section describes redundant Juniper and Brocade hardware, backup generators and cooling, then stops. There is no availability commitment and no service credit schedule.
Para ser justo, Hivelocity’s Master Services Agreement is a PDF neither of our tools could read. A figure may well live there. But the SLA a prospective customer can actually read carries no number, and that’s a real gap between the marketing and the contract.
Veredicto de preços
The prices are fair for genuine bare metal, and the absence of renewal games is worth real money. O problema não é o preço, it’s the terms attached to it. You’re buying a non-refundable product backed by an SLA with no published number, which is a lot of trust to extend upfront.
- CPU 1 testemunho
- RAM 1000 MB
- CPU 1 testemunho
- RAM 1.95 GB
- CPU 2 núcleos
- RAM 3.91 GB
- CPU 4 núcleos
- RAM 7.81 GB
- CPU 8 núcleos
- RAM 15.6 GB
- CPU 8 núcleos
- RAM 31.25 GB
Hivelocity Transparency Score
We assess how upfront Hivelocity is with the information a buyer needs:
- Informações da Empresa: Limitado – the company history page names the Colohouse acquisition but omits the Heficed and Steadfast deals, and never names its private equity owner, Valterra Partners.
- Transparência de preços: Excelente – preços, overage rates and IP costs are published, with no bait rate that jumps on renewal. Among the best in this market.
- Documentação Técnica: Boa – the API docs and developer portal are strong and current. The data center page undercuts this by filing three sites on the wrong continent.
- Termos & Políticas: Misturado – the no-refund rule and cancellation notice period are stated plainly, o que é honesto. O anunciado 99.99% SLA has no matching figure in the published terms, which isn’t.
Transparência geral: Excepcionalmente honesto sobre dinheiro, weaker about ownership and guarantees. Hivelocity tells you exactly what a server costs, and much less about who owns it or what happens when it goes down.
Alternatives to Hivelocity
If Hivelocity doesn’t fit, estes abordam suas lacunas específicas:
For a Real Published SLA: OVHcloud
OVHcloud publishes a product-specific dedicated server SLA with a defined monthly availability commitment, a service credit process and a 60-day claim window. If you need an uptime promise you can point a lawyer at, that’s the difference.
For European Bare Metal: Hetzner
Hetzner’s EX and AX lines are the price benchmark for European dedicated hardware. EU consumer rules also give buyers a genuine cancellation right that Hivelocity’s terms refuse. Expect a setup fee. Veja nosso European dedicated hosting guide.
For Colocation: A Specialist
Hivelocity sold its 350 E. Cermak Chicago and Miami colocation facilities to Digital Realty on 27 agosto 2025, and what remains is US-only. If colocation is the main event rather than a side order, compare dedicated providers in our colocation hosting guide.
Hivelocity earns 3.7/5 através 297 reviews and remains a capable bare metal provider with a support desk people genuinely like. The hardware and the pricing are not the problem.
O resultado final
Buy the servers, read the contract twice. You’re getting fair prices, 44 locations and fast technical support. You’re also accepting no refunds, an SLA with no published number, and an abuse department that dated complaints say goes quiet when it matters.
Com 3.7/5 através 297 reviews and a score falling as the corpus grows, Hivelocity suits technical teams who can absorb that risk. It’s a poor fit for anyone who needs a guarantee in writing or the option to change their mind.
Para mais opções, veja nosso dedicated server hosting guide.
perguntas frequentes
Is Hivelocity good for beginners?
Não, and it doesn’t try to be. Não há hospedagem compartilhada, nenhum construtor de sites, and servers are self-managed by default. You need someone comfortable with Linux and server administration.
Does Hivelocity offer refunds?
Não. The terms state it “does not offer refunds for dedicated servers under any circumstance.” Credits are granted case by case at management’s discretion. Cancel at least five days before renewal or you’re billed for another term.
Is Hivelocity’s 99.99% uptime SLA real?
The claim appears on the dedicated servers page, but the published SLA page contains no uptime percentage and no service credit schedule. We could not read the linked Master Services Agreement PDF, so ask sales for the figure in writing before buying.
Do que os clientes mais reclamam?
Três coisas. An abuse department that reviewers say ignores phishing reports for days. Service quality slipping after the ownership change. And unannounced server moves, with one reviewer reporting permanent data loss during a migration.
Who owns Hivelocity now?
Colohouse, a portfolio company of private equity firm Valterra Partners, bought Hivelocity on 2 abril 2024. Colohouse then took the Hivelocity name in February 2025. Hivelocity’s own history page doesn’t mention Valterra.
How many data centers does Hivelocity have?
44, and we verified the count. Be aware the regional tabs misfile three of them: São Paulo appears under North America, while Johannesburg and Lagos appear under Europe.
