Hetzner CPX22
Scenario score 78.3 · Confidence 93%
Why this ranked here: Highest weighted fit for high-traffic-website under the hard constraints.
- Storage 80 GB is below the 100 GB scenario target.
A content or storefront site with at least 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs, 80 GB storage and 3 TB of monthly transfer.
Keep the effective monthly cost at or below $30.
Application workers and caching need at least 4 GB RAM.
Media, logs and application data need at least 80 GB.
A confirmed allowance of at least 3 TB is required.
Web and database processes need at least two vCPUs.
Last verifiedOct 24, 2026 · Methodology review-methodology-v1
This is a verified validation corpus of 30 providers and 210 offers, not a market census. Coverage goals are tracked separately.
Suitable for: Content sites with growing traffic; Small storefronts with a database on the same host; Regional media or community sites
Not suitable for: Global CDN-scale traffic; High-availability multi-node setups; Workloads with measured throughput requirements
The ranking is reproducible from the stated constraints and the current verified dataset. Built from dataset 2026.10.25-v7; last verified Oct 24, 2026.
Scenario score 78.3 · Confidence 93%
Why this ranked here: Highest weighted fit for high-traffic-website under the hard constraints.
Scenario score 75.83 · Confidence 90%
Why this ranked here: Ranked below hetzner-cpx22 by 2.47 points; the largest weighted gap is flexibility.
Scenario score 73.8 · Confidence 86%
Why this ranked here: Ranked below linode-4gb by 2.03 points; the largest weighted gap is evidence.
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