How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9 cost?

$214.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $3.36 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.

What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9?

12 shared vCPU, 64 GB of RAM, 500 GB SSD of disk and 8 TB of traffic a month.

Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9 run?

In 3 locations: Seattle, US, Dallas, US, Amsterdam, NL.

How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9 compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 5% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 36% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 55/100 on hardware per dollar, #205 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9 costs $214.99 a month for 12 vCPU, 64 GB of RAM and 500 GB SSD, cheaper than 5% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Unmanaged Linux VPSshared vCPU

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Price

Hostwinds

$214.99/mo

$3.36 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 5% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

55/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #205 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Unmanaged Linux VPSshared vCPU

Compare withvs Gcore g2-standard-16-64 vs Vultr VX1 8C or any plan

What you get

RAM: 64 GBmore than 94% of plans
vCPU: 12 sharedmore than 87% of plans
Disk: 500 GB SSDmore than 91% of plans
Traffic: 8 TB a month

3 locations

Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included

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How it scores

Value 55/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.47 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 64 GB: 64.0
vCPU, 12: 18.0
Disk, 500 GB SSD: 16.0
Traffic, 8 TB: 2.4
100.4 points for $214.99: 0.47 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.

Or a whole server

At 64 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 8 to 15 cores starts at $65 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 119 servers from 6 providers. every server with 8 to 15 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 64 GB with room to spare, on its 12 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Llama 3.3 70B, about 0.6–1.1 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama 70B, about 0.6–1.1 tok/s Qwen3 32B, about 1.2–2.4 tok/s Qwen2.5-Coder 32B, about 1.2–2.4 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B, about 1.2–2.4 tok/s Gemma 3 27B, about 1.4–2.9 tok/s Mistral Small 3.2 24B, about 1.6–3.3 tok/s Devstral Small 24B, about 1.7–3.4 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9 cost?: $214.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $3.36 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.
What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9?: 12 shared vCPU, 64 GB of RAM, 500 GB SSD of disk and 8 TB of traffic a month.
Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9 run?: In 3 locations: Seattle, US, Dallas, US, Amsterdam, NL.
How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 9 compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 5% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 36% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 55/100 on hardware per dollar, #205 of the 374 plans that include a disk.