Best VPS for a personal site.
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For a personal site, Scaleway STARDUST1-S at $0.49 a month is the plan to start with, of 374 that clear the minimums, checked .
Top 10
all 527 plans- 1
STARDUST1-S
Scaleway · 1C · 1 GB · 10 GB SSD$0.49/mo - 2
Slice 512 · 0.5 GB
BuyVM · 1C · 512 MB · 10 GB SSD$2/mo - 3
VPS Essential
Webdock · 1C · 2 GB · 15 GB NVMe$2.40/mo - 4
Cloud Compute 1C · 0.5 GB
Vultr · 1C · 512 MB · 10 GB SSD$2.50/mo - 5
VPS O1I1
Aruba Cloud · 1C · 1 GB · 20 GB NVMe$2.78/mo - 6
Cloud VPS 1 (Gen 2)
Cherry Servers · 1C · 1 GB · 20 GB SSD$3.35/mo - 7
Standard std-min
Binary Lane · 1C · 1 GB · 20 GB$3.44/mo - 8
Cloud Compute 1C · 0.5 GB
Vultr · 1C · 512 MB · 10 GB SSD$3.50/mo - 9
Slice 1024
BuyVM · 1C · 1 GB · 20 GB SSD$3.50/mo - 10
VPS S
STRATO · 1C · 2 GB · 60 GB NVMe$3.75/mo
What matters
- Any spec works
- Static HTML or a small static site generator needs about 100 MB of RAM at runtime. Even 512 MB plans leave room for a small WordPress site.
- Pay for reliability, not size
- At this tier, what sets plans apart is the provider's network quality and your backups, not another vCPU.
- Traffic allowances dwarf reality
- 1 TB a month is about 1.3 million views of a 750 KB page. You won't hit it.
Or run it on a platform
Cheapest place for a hobby project that can sleepA VPS hands you the whole machine and its updates; an app platform runs the app for you and meters the rest. The same job on a platform is Cheapest place for a hobby project that can sleep, which asks for nothing, or under $10 a month. 21 plans clear that, and the cheapest sized runtime is Koyeb eNano · 0.1 vCPU · 256 MB at $1.61 a month, and 5 of the plans are free.
One-click stacks
Full stack-support matrixEverything here runs on any VPS you set up yourself. These providers also offer it as a one-click install, verified 20 Jul.
- WordPress
- One-click on Hetzner, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, Scaleway, AWS Lightsail, Hostinger
- Node.js
- One-click on Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS Lightsail, Hostinger
- Docker
- One-click on Hetzner, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, OVHcloud, Scaleway, contabo, Hostinger, IONOS
How we count
A portfolio, blog or homepage needs almost nothing: a static site behind Caddy or nginx serves thousands of visitors a day from the smallest box in this index. We only include plans with 512 MB+ RAM, 1+ vCPU and a disk included in the price. Today 374 of the 527 plans qualify, and the top pick costs $0.49/mo. They're ranked by price, cheapest first.
Every price is the standard monthly rate for a plan with a disk included, before VAT. A plan whose provider was last read more than three days ago, or that the provider shows as sold out, keeps its place but cannot be first.
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest VPS that qualifies for a personal site?
- Scaleway STARDUST1-S at $0.49/mo (excl. VAT) meets the minimum requirements as of 31 Oct 2026.
- How are these requirements chosen?
- The minimums (512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU) reflect what the workload actually stresses, as explained under "what matters", and the ranking weights those dimensions rather than raw price.
- How fresh is this list?
- Prices are read again from all 25 providers every 3 days and this ranking recomputes automatically. Last refresh: 31 Oct 2026.