ScalaHosting vs hosting.com: Which Reseller Plan Can You Actually Price Out?

ScalaHosting's reseller ladder is fully priced end to end: Entry Cloud starts at $14.95/mo and renews at $39.95/mo, a 2.67x jump. hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting) publishes a detailed Reseller 30/60/120/150 spec table (accounts, disk, IOPs, LVE limits), but its own pricing page renders every tier's price cell as a bare "Buy" button with zero dollar figures attached, confirmed across two independent captures of the same page, including a real-Chrome-browser retry. That is the buyer question this page answers: between the two classic budget cPanel/WHM reseller programs, which one can you actually price out today, and which one makes you call sales to find out.

Quick Comparison

ScalaHosting: Full Spec Breakdown

ScalaHosting runs two parallel reseller lineups on two separate pages, and the pricing is fully disclosed on both. The SPanel/cloud line (Entry Cloud, Build #1, Build #2, Build #3) is built around ScalaHosting's own proprietary control panel and an unlimited-accounts pitch. The cPanel line (Scala 1/2/3) uses standard cPanel/WHM with hard account caps.

The account-cap split matters as much as the price: Entry Cloud and the three Build tiers all carry an unlimited-accounts claim, because they're SPanel cloud instances rather than shared cPanel slots. Scala 1/2/3, by contrast, cap you at 20, 40, and 60 managed cPanel accounts respectively: disk allocations of 50GB, 100GB, and 150GB per tier, shared CPU and RAM, and standard (not advanced) security. ScalaHosting's own site copy steers buyers toward SPanel over cPanel for growth: "SPanel-powered cloud hosting is the superior, modern choice," while cPanel reseller hosting is framed as workable only "for very small setups."

White-label depth on ScalaHosting is control-panel-level: buyers can mask the control panel URL and interface entirely, add their own logo and favicon, and set up private nameservers via a private DNS feature. That's meaningfully deeper than nameserver-only branding, since your clients never see a ScalaHosting- or SPanel-branded login screen. Migration is free and handled by ScalaHosting's own migration specialists, covering files, databases, email, and full hosting accounts, with no stated downtime. A WHMCS module ships free with every reseller deal (a separate WHMCS license is still required), plus a Softaculous one-click installer for 350+ apps and a domain-reseller add-on for an extra revenue line.

hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting): Full Spec Breakdown

The spec table itself is complete and worth comparing on its own terms:

Every tier is capped, not unlimited: 30 accounts on the entry plan up to 150 on the largest listed tier, with bandwidth described only as "unlimited" in surrounding marketing copy rather than as a per-tier structured value. (hosting.com's own FAQ on the same page separately claims a "15 on our entry plan up to 300 on our largest" account range, which does not match the 30/60/120/150 table directly above it, an internal inconsistency on hosting.com's own page that we're flagging, not reconciling.) Every account on every tier gets the same stack regardless of size: LiteSpeed with a paid license, CloudLinux account isolation, Monarx malware scanning, Softaculous auto-installers, and support for multiple PHP versions plus Node.js and Laravel.

White-label on hosting.com is nameserver- and messaging-level rather than interface-level: private nameservers so "your customers see your business, not ours," full branding control over hosting packages and pricing, but the control panel itself is standard cPanel and WHM ("the market-leading control panel you already know"), with no stated option to mask or re-skin the panel URL the way ScalaHosting does with SPanel. Migration is free and handled by a dedicated migrations team for both single-account moves and large-scale reseller transfers, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. WHMCS, Blesta, and Upmind all integrate through hosting.com's documented API for automated provisioning and billing.

Head-to-Head: Pricing Is the Real Split

This is the buyer-relevant finding of this page: one vendor's numbers are fully known, and the other's are not. ScalaHosting shows a complete intro-to-renewal ladder across seven tiers, with the renewal-shock pattern clearly visible on four of them (1.83x to 2.67x) and a separate, flagged pricing anomaly on the other three (badge says "save," price doesn't move). hosting.com shows a complete feature and resource-limit spec table across four tiers, and zero pricing on any of them. If you're comparing these two on price alone, you can't: one side of the comparison doesn't exist yet. That's not a minor gap to paper over; it's the deciding fact for a buyer who wants to budget before they commit to either program.

Head-to-Head: White-Label Depth

ScalaHosting goes further on white-label mechanics: masking the control panel URL and interface itself means a client who logs in to manage their own account never sees a ScalaHosting or SPanel watermark. hosting.com's white-label promise is real but shallower by design: private nameservers and brand-forward marketing copy, sitting on top of an unmodified, recognizable cPanel/WHM interface. For an agency that wants clients to never encounter a vendor's control-panel branding, ScalaHosting's SPanel masking is the stronger claim on paper. For an agency whose clients (or whose own techs) specifically want the familiarity of stock cPanel/WHM, hosting.com's "same panel you already know" is the point, not a limitation.

Head-to-Head: Account Caps and "Unlimited" Claims

Neither vendor's "unlimited" claim is truly unlimited-resources unlimited: it means unlimited account count within the plan's underlying disk/CPU/RAM envelope. ScalaHosting's SPanel/cloud line (Entry Cloud through Build #3) carries the unlimited-accounts claim; its own cPanel-branded Scala 1/2/3 tiers do not, and cap out at 20/40/60 accounts instead. hosting.com never claims unlimited accounts on its reseller line at all: every tier is a hard-capped number (30/60/120/150), which is a more conservative, spec-first structure than ScalaHosting's unlimited-on-cloud pitch. A buyer who wants to grow past 150 client accounts on a single reseller plan has a cleaner story with ScalaHosting's SPanel unlimited tiers than with any named hosting.com tier.

Head-to-Head: Migration and WHMCS

Both vendors offer free migration handled by an in-house team rather than a self-serve tool, and both integrate with WHMCS for client billing and provisioning automation: ScalaHosting bundles a free WHMCS module (the WHMCS license itself is a separate purchase either way), while hosting.com's broader API additionally covers Blesta and Upmind out of the box, which matters if your agency isn't standardized on WHMCS specifically.

When to Choose ScalaHosting

• Choose ScalaHosting if: you want a fully priced ladder you can budget from today, including the exact renewal number, and you're comfortable planning around a documented 1.83x-2.67x renewal jump on the SPanel/cloud tiers.
• Choose ScalaHosting if: you want the deepest white-label option: a masked, re-brandable control panel rather than stock cPanel with your nameservers on it.
• Choose ScalaHosting if: you expect to grow past 150 client accounts on one plan and want an unlimited-accounts tier rather than the next-size-up conversation.

When to Choose hosting.com

• Choose hosting.com if: your clients or techs specifically want stock, unmodified cPanel and WHM rather than a proprietary panel.
• Choose hosting.com if: you need WHMCS, Blesta, or Upmind flexibility rather than being locked to one billing platform.
• Skip hosting.com for now if: you need to see a real monthly number before you commit. Its reseller price page does not show one, and you'll need to start checkout or talk to sales to find out what any Reseller 30/60/120/150 tier actually costs.

See the full review for ScalaHosting reseller hosting and hosting.com reseller hosting on HostingDive, with intro vs renewal pricing and support response time data.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why doesn't hosting.com show reseller pricing?

hosting.com's reseller hosting page renders the price cell for all four Reseller tiers (30/60/120/150) as a bare "Buy" button with no dollar amount attached, confirmed across two separate page captures, including one using a real Chrome browser to rule out a bot-blocking issue. This is a page-rendering gap on hosting.com's own site, not a HostingDive omission: we do not substitute a third-party review site's estimated number for hosting.com's own missing figure.

Is ScalaHosting's Entry Cloud renewal price really 2.67x the intro price?

Yes, per ScalaHosting's own pricing page: Entry Cloud lists at $14.95/mo as an "INTRO OFFER - SAVE 63%," then states "$39.95/mo when you renew," a 2.67x increase. Build #1, #2, and #3 on the same SPanel/cloud line show renewal gaps of 1.83x, 2.16x, and 2.44x respectively. One caveat on all of these figures: ScalaHosting's plan cards carry a per-card term-length toggle (36-month, 12-month, and 1-month options), and which of those three states was active when these prices were captured is not confirmed. Treat the numbers above as the price ScalaHosting's page shows by default, not as confirmed 1-month, 12-month, or 36-month rates specifically.

Does ScalaHosting's Scala 1/2/3 cPanel line have the same renewal jump?

No. Scala 1, 2, and 3 each list an "INTRO OFFER" savings badge (SAVE 20%/13%/9%), but the stated renewal price is identical to the intro price on all three tiers ($19.95, $34.95, $49.95 respectively). This is an inconsistency on ScalaHosting's own page (a savings badge with no corresponding renewal-price change), not a typo we're correcting.

Which has deeper white-label control, ScalaHosting or hosting.com?

ScalaHosting goes deeper: its SPanel-based tiers let you mask the control panel URL and interface itself, in addition to private nameservers and custom branding. hosting.com's white-label program covers private nameservers and brand-forward messaging on top of a standard, unmodified cPanel/WHM interface: real branding control, but at the nameserver/marketing layer rather than the control-panel layer.

Are both ScalaHosting and hosting.com eligible for HostingDive's affiliate links?

Yes. Both carry active affiliate rails on HostingDive (/go/scala-hosting/ and /go/hosting-com/) regardless of hosting.com's pricing not being disclosed on-page: button eligibility and pricing certification are tracked separately, and a missing price does not disqualify a merchant link.