Guided scenario
Cheapest VPS for a side project
A side project or small app doesn't need a full cloud platform, just an affordable, predictable virtual server with root access. This shortlist ranks VPS hosts by starting price, surfacing cheap plans for hobby projects, staging boxes, and lightweight services. Also weigh the resources you get at that price, region reach and uptime, and low lock-in so the workload can move as it grows.
Amazon Lightsail
aws.amazon.com/lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is AWS's simplified virtual private server offering, bundling compute, SSD storage, and data transfer into flat monthly plans aimed at developers, small businesses, and simple workloads such as websites, blogs, and small apps.
Atlantic.Net
www.atlantic.net
Atlantic.Net is a cloud hosting provider offering VPS, dedicated, and GPU servers, including audited HIPAA, PCI, and SOC compliant managed hosting.
Cherry Servers
www.cherryservers.com
Cherry Servers is a bare-metal and cloud VPS provider with hourly or fixed-term billing across European, US, and Asian regions.
Civo
www.civo.com
Civo is a UK-based cloud provider (founded 2018) built around managed Kubernetes, offering K3s-based clusters that launch in under 90 seconds with a free control plane and pay-only-for-nodes billing.
Contabo
contabo.com
Contabo is a German (founded 2003) budget-focused hosting provider best known for high-RAM, low-cost VPS and dedicated servers.
DigitalOcean
www.digitalocean.com
DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual machines (Droplets), managed databases, Kubernetes, and object storage with flat, predictable pricing.
Hetzner
www.hetzner.com
Hetzner is a German hosting provider offering low-cost dedicated servers, cloud VMs, and storage from European and US data centers.
Hostinger
www.hostinger.com
Hostinger is a Lithuania-based web hosting provider founded in 2004, offering shared web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and KVM-based VPS/cloud servers aimed primarily at individuals, freelancers, and small businesses.
Hostwinds
www.hostwinds.com
Hostwinds is a US-based hosting provider founded in 2010, offering managed and unmanaged Linux and Windows VPS alongside shared, cloud, and dedicated hosting.
IONOS
www.ionos.com
IONOS is a large European hosting and cloud provider (part of the United Internet group, with roots in the 1&1 business; the IONOS brand emerged from the 2018 1&1/ProfitBricks combination).
Kamatera
www.kamatera.com
Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure provider whose parent (OMC Group) has operated since 1995, offering configurable cloud VMs/VPS, virtual private cloud, and fully managed Kubernetes across 20+ data centers on four continents.
Leaseweb
www.leaseweb.com
Leaseweb is a Netherlands-founded (1997) Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider offering dedicated servers, public and private cloud, VPS, CDN, and managed Kubernetes across a global network of around 25 data centers in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
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