Cloud hosting: hosts compared on printed prices

Hosts with an evidenced Cloud hosting product

A host appears here when its own live page for Cloud hosting answered at the linked URL on the date shown. Prices in the table are each host's printed entry price for its flagship stack, the term that price requires and what it renews at; the entry price of a host's other stacks is on its own page, linked beside the figure.

Choosing cloud hosting

Cloud instances are unmanaged by default. The printed price buys the machine; the operating system, the web server and the updates are yours unless the host sells a managed layer on top, which its page states.

The monthly cap is the honest comparison. Hourly billing with a monthly cap means the printed monthly figure is the most you pay for that instance in a month; compare it to the VPS stack's monthly prices at the same RAM.

Bandwidth and storage are metered differently. Cloud providers include a transfer allowance and charge beyond it; read the allowance on the host's page before assuming the printed price is the whole bill.

Common questions

What is the cheapest cloud hosting?

The smallest instances from the cloud providers in the table, printed by the month with hourly billing underneath. Each figure is quoted from the provider's page with the date.

Cloud hosting or VPS?

They overlap. Cloud instances are billed hourly with no term and are unmanaged; VPS plans from hosts may be managed and are billed monthly, sometimes with a discounted term. Choose by who runs the machine and how long you commit.

Is cloud hosting good for WordPress?

With a managed layer or a person to run it, yes; without either, a managed WordPress or managed VPS plan from the other stack pages is the safer purchase.