HostingDive Team Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. Quick verdict: Pick Vultr if entry price is your primary constraint: its cheapest listed tier runs $2.50/mo against DigitalOcean's $4.00 a month, and that gap ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. Quick verdict: Pick Cloudways' Autonomous Micro tier at $14/mo unless you're already comfortable managing a raw server yourself (patching, firewall rules, backups, the whole stack), ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. You're looking at Vultr for a small-business VPS and want to know what else deserves a look before you commit, or before you renew. Vultr's ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. If you already have DigitalOcean open in a pricing tab, you're probably not asking whether DigitalOcean is a decent host. It is. You're asking whether ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. Small-business VPS shopping usually turns into a spreadsheet exercise fast: seven providers, seven pricing pages, seven different definitions of a "starter" plan. Some charge per ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. AWS Lightsail prices its General Purpose Linux/Unix plans as flat monthly bundles: pick a tier, and memory, storage, and a transfer allowance all arrive packaged ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. Cloudways' entry-level Autonomous Micro tier lists at $14/mo, billed in USD per month, or $0.0208/hr if you spin the server up and down by the ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. Quick verdict: The real cost driver on Hostinger VPS isn't the price on the button you click. It's the price the plan settles at once ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. Linode (Akamai), now operating as Akamai Cloud Computing following the acquisition, prices its Shared CPU line on a flat-rate ladder that steps up in compute, ... Read more
Disclosure: HostingDive may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. This does not affect our editorial recommendations, which are based on independent research and testing criteria. Vultr's Cloud Compute pricing looks like a simple ladder: pick a plan, pay a flat monthly rate, move up when you outgrow it. That's mostly ... Read more