Best VPS for a personal site.
prices as of · re-ranked daily · 371 qualifying plans
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 371 of the 524 plans qualify, and the top pick costs $0.51/mo. They're ranked by price, cheapest first.
The plan to start with is Scaleway STARDUST1-S at $0.51/mo, 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM, picked from 371 plans that clear the minimums, checked 16 Sept 2026.
What actually matters here
- 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.
- 1
$0.51/mo
- 2
$2/mo
- 3
$2.48/mo
- 4
$2.50/mo
- 5
$2.84/mo
- 6
$2.87/mo
- 7
$3.46/mo
- 8
$3.49/mo
- 9
$3.50/mo
- 10
$3.50/mo
One-click stacks for this workload
Everything below runs on any VPS if you set it up yourself. These providers also offer it as a one-click install in their official catalog (verified 20 Jul 2026).
- 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
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest VPS that qualifies for a personal site?
- Scaleway STARDUST1-S at $0.51/mo (excl. VAT) meets the minimum requirements as of 16 Sept 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 re-fetched from all 26 providers daily and this ranking recomputes automatically. Last refresh: 16 Sept 2026.