Saturday, January 24, 2026

VPS price comparison September 2024

Other posts in this series:

Netcup

https://www.netcup.com/en

German company. Has US hosting capability.

as of 2024-09-02, lowest cost relevant configuration: "VPS 250 G11s"

3.35 eur is currently $3.71 usd
2 vCore (x86)
2 GB ECC RAM
64 GB SSD
Traffic included
  

Unfortunately, the US-based servers are only available for beefy configurations. The "VPS 250 G11s" is hosted in Germany; see https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps

Namecheap

https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/

Is not a VPS. Provides disk space and pre-configured web services. Not suitable for running Docker.

hetzner

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

Servers hosted in Germany or Finland

CX22 is

2 vCPU
4GB RAM
40 GB SSD

for 4.51 eur ($5 USD) per month

AWS S3

AWS S3 is suitable for static sites only. Dynamic content would need to live in lambdas for on-demand execution.

As per https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/mfbgot/is_aws_a_good_alternative_to_a_20mo_vps_for/

AWS LightSail

AWS VPS is "LightSail"

https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/Lightsail

The configuration "Bundle:2GB" features

Storage: 60GB
vCPU: 2
Memory: 2GB
Data Transfer Quota: 3TB
and costs $11.77/month

Google Cloud (GCP)

https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing#general-purpose_machine_type_family

"e2-standard-2"

2 vCPUs
8GB RAM
for $55.08726/month in Virgina, or $48/month in Iowa. Cheaper if you sign up for 1 or 3 years.

linode

https://www.linode.com/pricing/ as of 2024-11-29 offers

1GB RAM, 25GB storage for $5/month
2GB RAM, 50GB storage for $12/month

ioflood

https://ioflood.com/bare-metal-cloud-server.php

Dual Intel Xeon E5-2695v4 CPUs
36 CPU cores
64GB RAM
960GB NVMe SSD
100TB @ 10Gbps (Inbound unmetered)
for $99/mo monthly

https://manage.ioflood.com/orderform/index.php?form=Max-95v4-September-2024

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