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Current VPS, cloud and shared hosting prices, checked against each provider’s own pricing page and dated. Real 12-month cost, renewals and hidden fees included.
KEY FINDING. The lowest Cloudways price is $11.00 per month, for a 1 GB DigitalOcean server on the Standard tier. The pricing page does not open there: it opens with the Premium toggle on, which shows $14. The same 1, 2, 4 and 8 GB ladder costs $11 to $88 on DigitalOcean Standard, $14 to … Read more
Cloudways bills by server, Kinsta bills by bandwidth or visits. Official 2026 prices, overage rates and add-ons side by side, checked 3 September 2026.
On 2 September 2026, every plan on Hetzner’s cost-optimized page showed a “not available” badge with the Create button disabled. That is all eight CX and CAX plans, from CX23 up to CAX41. The CPX line was orderable the same day. Swapping to the nearest CPX plan with the same vCPU and RAM costs 3.1 … Read more
Compare VPS backup pricing across 9 providers: automatic fees, snapshot costs, retention, deletion rules, and 100GB examples checked September 2026.
Compare Hetzner Cloud’s 20% backup fee with €0.0143/GB snapshot storage. See 2026 break-even points for CX23, CAX11, CX33, CPX22 and CPX32.
On our 2 GB VPS the WordPress stack uses 262 MiB and the whole machine uses 753 MiB, measured on one low-traffic instance. Summed per-process RSS read about 1.9-2x the container’s own figure, most likely because RSS counts shared pages once per worker.
We self-host this site on a small VPS with Docker, Caddy and WordPress. In the first 72 hours, four things broke that no setup guide mentions. Here is each one, why it happened, and the exact fix.
Cloudways costs $5-$40 more per month than matching DigitalOcean plans. Compare current prices, backups, support, and the premium per admin hour.
The same terabyte of outbound traffic costs $5 at Akamai and $150 at AWS Lightsail in São Paulo. Two providers never bill for it at all. Here is the marginal price of a TB at every major host, and why the included allowance printed on the pricing page is not comparable across providers.
The same gigabyte of memory costs $0.56 at one provider and $6.00 at another, an eleven-fold spread. Here is the full table, computed from current prices, with the four things that make cheap memory expensive.