7 hosts with a live product page for this stack
VPS hosting: hosts compared on printed prices
A VPS is a slice of a server with guaranteed resources and, on unmanaged plans, root access. The specialists price monthly with short promotions; the shared hosts sell VPS plans on the same long-term intro shape as their shared plans; the cloud providers price by the hour with a monthly cap. Every host below has a live VPS page on its own domain and a printed price, quoted verbatim with the date, with the term and renewal beside it.
- median printed entry price, per month
- $4
- printed entry-price range across hosts
- $1.95 to $36
- hosts with an evidenced VPS hosting product
- 7
Hosts with an evidenced VPS hosting product
| Host | Entry price | VPS hosting product | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChemiCloud | $1.95/mo | ChemiCloud's own product page | chemicloud.com | September 2026 |
| DreamHost | $2.89/mo | DreamHost's own product page | dreamhost.com | September 2026 |
| Hostinger | $2.99/mo | Hostinger's own product page | hostinger.com | September 2026 |
| IONOS | $4/mo | IONOS's own product page | ionos.com | September 2026 |
| TMDHosting | $9.52/mo | TMDHosting's own product page | tmdhosting.com | September 2026 |
| ScalaHosting | $29.95/mo | ScalaHosting's own product page | scalahosting.com | September 2026 |
| Liquid Web | $36/mo | Liquid Web's own product page | liquidweb.com | September 2026 |
A host appears here when its own live page for VPS 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 VPS hosting
Managed or unmanaged decides the price more than the resources. A managed VPS includes patching, monitoring and a control panel; an unmanaged one is a machine. The table's entry price is the host's flagship VPS as printed; the host's page states which kind.
Read the promotion's length. Several hosts print a discounted monthly price for the first two months or the first term; the term column and the renewal show what the same plan costs afterwards.
Size by RAM and disk, not by the plan name. Entry VPS plans in the index carry 1 to 4 GB of RAM; a WordPress site with a cache runs on the small end, a store or several sites on the larger.
Common questions
- What is the cheapest VPS hosting?
- By printed entry price, the cloud providers' smallest instances and the shared hosts' intro VPS plans; by renewal, the order changes. The table ranks the verified figures and shows the term each requires.
- Is a VPS better than shared hosting?
- It is more: guaranteed resources, isolation from other sites, and on unmanaged plans root access. It is also more work unless managed. For a site that has outgrown shared hosting it is the usual next step.
- Managed VPS or unmanaged?
- Unmanaged if someone on your side runs servers; managed otherwise. The price difference buys the operator, and a server without one is a liability.
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The median printed entry price per month in VPS hosting was $4 in September 2026, across 7 verified host pricing pages recorded in HostingByStack Web Hosting Price Index.
Cite as: "HostingByStack Web Hosting Price Index: VPS hosting", updated 2026-09-03, https://hostingbystack.com/stacks/vps-hosting/.
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