According to iKS-Consulting, in 2023, Selectel ranked 3rd among cloud infrastructure providers in Russia with an 8.5% market share and led the bare metal server rental segment with 56%.

[4] The company was founded in 2008 by Vyacheslav Mirilashvil and Lev Binzumovich Leviev, former investors of the Russian social network VKontakte.

[5] In order to meet the growing needs of VKontakte, they registered Selectel and launched the first data center in St. Petersburg, Russia.

[9] On October 10, 2017, Selectel announced a non-financial partnership with Russian-Singapore joint venture SONM by sharing the use of blockchain technology.

[17] In 2019, Selectel was announced as the winner of the National Data Center Awards (Russian: «Национальная премия ЦОДы.