Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1.
Prices checked
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1 costs $4.99 a month for 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 30 GB SSD, cheaper than 96% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked .
Price
Hostwinds
$4.99 per GB of RAM a month
Cheaper than 96% of the 527 plans we track.
Value
hardware per dollar
It ranks #116 of the 374 plans that include a disk.
What you get
- RAM
- 1 GBmore than 1% of plans
- vCPU
- 1 sharedmore than 0% of plans
- Disk
- 30 GB SSDmore than 36% of plans
- Traffic
- 1 TB a month
3 locations
Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included
How it scores
Value 77/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.75 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.
- RAM, 1 GB
- 1.0
- vCPU, 1
- 1.5
- Disk, 30 GB SSD
- 1.0
- Traffic, 1 TB
- 0.3
- 3.8 points for $4.99
- 0.75 a dollar
1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.
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Frequently asked
- How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1 cost?
- $4.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $4.99 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.
- What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1?
- 1 shared vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 30 GB SSD of disk and 1 TB of traffic a month.
- Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1 run?
- In 3 locations: Seattle, US, Dallas, US, Amsterdam, NL.
- How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1 compare with other VPS plans?
- It is cheaper than 96% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 5% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 77/100 on hardware per dollar, #116 of the 374 plans that include a disk.