HostwindsUnmanaged SSD Cloud 4 · 2 vCPU · 6 GB
Unmanaged Linux VPS
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 costs $28.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 6 GB of RAM and 100 GB SSD, cheaper than 66% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$28.99/mo
$4.83 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 66% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 6 GB> 29% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 100 GB SSD> 55% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 2 TB/mo
Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included
Value score
52/100
- RAM · 6 GB
- 6.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 100 GB SSD
- 3.2
- Traffic · 2 TB
- 0.6
- 12.8 points ÷ $28.99
- 0.44 per $
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.
The score ranks 0.44 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 3
Data provenance
Hostwinds · Live web · plan JSON embedded in hostwinds.com/vps/unmanaged-linux (standard monthly rate)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $28.99/mo, Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 · 2 vCPU · 6 GB is cheaper than 66% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 6 GB of RAM at $4.83/GB, 11% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 52/100 ranks it #216 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 4th cheapest of Hostwinds's 9 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~2.1–4.1 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~2.5–4.9 tok/s
- Qwen3 1.7B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~6.4–13 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~7.9–16 tok/s
- Qwen3 0.6B~11–21 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 6 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 shared vCPU.
