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Use cases$30 per month12 Cost horizon

Self-hosted applications

A small always-on host for self-hosted apps, containers and backups.

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Your hard requirements

  • Monthly budget: 30

    Keep the effective monthly cost at or below $30.

  • Minimum RAM: 2048

    Several small services need at least 2 GB RAM.

  • Minimum storage: 50

    Containers, volumes and backups need room.

  • Minimum vCPU: 1

    At least one vCPU is required.

Last verifiedOct 24, 2026 · Methodology review-methodology-v1

Scenario weights

  • cost — 20%
  • resources — 25%
  • location — 5%
  • evidence — 20%
  • flexibility — 30%

This is a verified validation corpus of 30 providers and 210 offers, not a market census. Coverage goals are tracked separately.

Suitable for: Nextcloud, Vaultwarden and similar small services; Single-node Docker hosts; Personal automation and monitoring

Not suitable for: Highly available multi-node clusters; Large media libraries; GPU or transcoding-heavy workloads

Recommendations

Default scenario result

The ranking is reproducible from the stated constraints and the current verified dataset. Built from dataset 2026.10.25-v7; last verified Oct 25, 2026.

1
$3.75 per month

Scenario score 88.64 · Confidence 80%

Why this ranked here: Highest weighted fit for self-hosted-apps under the hard constraints.

  • Storage 60 GB is below the 80 GB scenario target.
  • Evidence confidence is 80%; see known unknowns before relying on it.
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2
$4.92 per month

Scenario score 80.33 · Confidence 85%

Why this ranked here: Ranked below greencloudvps-budget-kvm-3 by 8.31 points; the largest weighted gap is flexibility.

  • Renewal is $6.16/month versus the listed $4.92/month.
  • Only 2 verified location(s); region flexibility is limited.
  • Evidence confidence is 85%; see known unknowns before relying on it.
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3
$6.72 per month

Scenario score 79.07 · Confidence 85%

Why this ranked here: Ranked below contabo-cloud-vps-4 by 1.26 points; the largest weighted gap is cost.

  • Renewal is $8.39/month versus the listed $6.72/month.
  • Only 2 verified location(s); region flexibility is limited.
  • Evidence confidence is 85%; see known unknowns before relying on it.
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Why other plans were excluded

Exclusions are shown so the result is auditable, not hidden.

Advin Servers KVM Standard 3 (Advin Servers)
  • Effective monthly cost $32.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Advin Servers KVM Storage 2 (Advin Servers)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Akamai Cloud (Linode) Linode 16 GB (Akamai Cloud (Linode))
  • Effective monthly cost $96.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Akamai Cloud (Linode) Linode 32 GB (Akamai Cloud (Linode))
  • Effective monthly cost $192.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Akamai Cloud (Linode) Linode 64 GB (Akamai Cloud (Linode))
  • Effective monthly cost $384.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Akamai Cloud (Linode) Linode 8 GB (Akamai Cloud (Linode))
  • Effective monthly cost $48.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
AWS Lightsail 16 GB (AWS Lightsail)
  • Effective monthly cost $84.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
AWS Lightsail 1 GB (AWS Lightsail)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
AWS Lightsail 32 GB (AWS Lightsail)
  • Effective monthly cost $164.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
AWS Lightsail 512 MB (AWS Lightsail)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
AWS Lightsail 8 GB (AWS Lightsail)
  • Effective monthly cost $44.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
BlueVPS bKVM 1024 (BlueVPS)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
BlueVPS bKVM 2048 (BlueVPS)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
BlueVPS bKVM 8192 (BlueVPS)
  • Effective monthly cost $34.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
BlueVPS NVMe-bKVM 1024 (BlueVPS)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
BlueVPS NVMe-bKVM 16384 (BlueVPS)
  • Effective monthly cost $60.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
BlueVPS NVMe-bKVM 4096 (BlueVPS)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
BuyVM Slice 1024 (BuyVM)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
BuyVM Slice 2048 (BuyVM)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
BuyVM Slice 512 (BuyVM)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
BuyVM Storage 250 (BuyVM)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 1 (Cherry Servers)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 1 (Gen 2) (Cherry Servers)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 2 (Cherry Servers)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 2 (Gen 2) (Cherry Servers)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 4 (Cherry Servers)
  • Effective monthly cost $33.93 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 6 (Cherry Servers)
  • Effective monthly cost $45.63 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Cherry Servers Storage VPS 4 (Cherry Servers)
  • Effective monthly cost $33.93 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
CloudCone SC2 Basic (CloudCone)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
CloudCone SC2 Premium (CloudCone)
  • Effective monthly cost $63.09 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
CloudCone SC2 Professional (CloudCone)
  • Effective monthly cost $31.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
CloudCone SC2 Starter (CloudCone)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 12 GB (Cloudzy)
  • Effective monthly cost $69.95 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 16 GB (Cloudzy)
  • Effective monthly cost $99.95 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 1 GB (Cloudzy)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 24 GB (Cloudzy)
  • Effective monthly cost $139.95 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 32 GB (Cloudzy)
  • Effective monthly cost $219.95 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 512 MB (Cloudzy)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 64 GB (Cloudzy)
  • Effective monthly cost $399.95 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Cloudzy Cloud VPS 8 GB (Cloudzy)
  • Effective monthly cost $52.95 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Contabo Cloud VPS 16 (Contabo)
  • Effective monthly cost $41.41 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Contabo Cloud VPS 18 (Contabo)
  • Effective monthly cost $54.85 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
DigitalOcean Basic 1 GB (DigitalOcean)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
DreamHost Stack 16 (DreamHost)
  • Effective monthly cost $34.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
DreamHost Stack 32 (DreamHost)
  • Effective monthly cost $59.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Gcore KVM-SSD-1 (Gcore)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Gcore KVM-SSD-2 (Gcore)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Gcore KVM-SSD-6 (Gcore)
  • Effective monthly cost $36.70 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Gcore KVM-SSD-7 (Gcore)
  • Effective monthly cost $57.70 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
GreenCloudVPS BudgetKVM-2 (GreenCloudVPS)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
GreenCloudVPS RyzenLA-1 (GreenCloudVPS)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
GreenCloudVPS RyzenLA-2 (GreenCloudVPS)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
GreenCloudVPS RyzenLA-4 (GreenCloudVPS)
  • Effective monthly cost $40.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hetzner CPX02 (Hetzner Cloud)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Hetzner CPX12 (Hetzner Cloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Hetzner Cloud Hetzner CPX32 (Hetzner Cloud)
  • Effective monthly cost $39.72 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hetzner Cloud Hetzner CPX42 (Hetzner Cloud)
  • Effective monthly cost $77.78 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hetzner Cloud Hetzner CPX52 (Hetzner Cloud)
  • Effective monthly cost $112.48 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hetzner Cloud Hetzner CPX62 (Hetzner Cloud)
  • Effective monthly cost $145.50 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hostens Container VPS Small (Hostens)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Hostens Linux VPS Large (Hostens)
  • Effective monthly cost $31.50 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hostens Linux VPS Medium (Hostens)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Hostens Linux VPS Small (Hostens)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Hostens Storage VPS Small (Hostens)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
Hostens Windows VPS Small (Hostens)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Hostinger KVM 8 (Hostinger)
  • Effective monthly cost $49.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hostwinds 12 GB Unmanaged Linux VPS (Hostwinds)
  • Effective monthly cost $49.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hostwinds 16 GB Unmanaged Linux VPS (Hostwinds)
  • Effective monthly cost $76.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hostwinds 1 GB Unmanaged Linux VPS (Hostwinds)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Hostwinds 32 GB Unmanaged Linux VPS (Hostwinds)
  • Effective monthly cost $124.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Hostwinds 8 GB Unmanaged Linux VPS (Hostwinds)
  • Effective monthly cost $38.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
IONOS VPS XL+ (IONOS)
  • Effective monthly cost $47.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
IONOS VPS XXL+ (IONOS)
  • Effective monthly cost $68.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Kamatera Basic (Kamatera)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Kamatera Pro (Kamatera)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
  • Effective monthly cost $39.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Kamatera Standard (Kamatera)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Linode Nanode 1 GB (Akamai Cloud (Linode))
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Liquid Web Cloud VPS Compute 16 GB (Liquid Web)
  • Effective monthly cost $90.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Liquid Web Cloud VPS Compute 8 GB (Liquid Web)
  • Effective monthly cost $45.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Liquid Web Cloud VPS Memory 16 GB (Liquid Web)
  • Effective monthly cost $78.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Liquid Web Cloud VPS Memory 8 GB (Liquid Web)
  • Effective monthly cost $34.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Melbicom KVM-1-EU (Melbicom)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Melbicom KVM-2-EU (Melbicom)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Melbicom KVM-6-EU (Melbicom)
  • Effective monthly cost $34.92 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Melbicom KVM-8-EU (Melbicom)
  • Effective monthly cost $69.84 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Netcup VPS 2000 G12.5 (netcup)
  • Effective monthly cost $34.65 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Netcup VPS 4000 G12.5 (netcup)
  • Effective monthly cost $58.38 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Netcup VPS 8000 G12.5 (netcup)
  • Effective monthly cost $86.37 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
OVHcloud VPS-1 2027 (OVHcloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
RackNerd 12 GB KVM VPS (RackNerd)
  • Effective monthly cost $55.99 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
RackNerd 1 GB KVM VPS (RackNerd)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
RackNerd 8 GB KVM VPS (RackNerd)
  • Effective monthly cost $36.59 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Scaleway Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-4G (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
Scaleway Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
Scaleway Scaleway BASIC2-A4C-16G (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
  • Effective monthly cost $56.30 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Scaleway Scaleway BASIC2-A4C-8G (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
  • Effective monthly cost $42.24 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Scaleway DEV1-L (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
  • Effective monthly cost $35.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Scaleway DEV1-M (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
Scaleway DEV1-S (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
Scaleway GP1-XS (Scaleway)
  • Storage is unknown.
  • Effective monthly cost $75.84 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Scaleway STARDUST1-S (Scaleway)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is unknown.
UpCloud UpCloud Starter 16gb / 4core (UpCloud)
  • Effective monthly cost $31.34 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
UpCloud Starter 1gb (UpCloud)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
UpCloud Starter 2gb (UpCloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
UpCloud Starter 2gb / 2core (UpCloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
UpCloud Starter 4gb (UpCloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
UpCloud Starter 4gb / 2core (UpCloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
UpCloud Starter 8gb / 2core (UpCloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
UpCloud UpCloud Starter 8gb / 4core (UpCloud)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
VPSBG Cloud VPS 16 vCPU / 64 GB (VPSBG)
  • Effective monthly cost $402.95 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
VPSBG Cloud VPS 1 vCPU / 1 GB (VPSBG)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
VPSBG Cloud VPS 1 vCPU / 2 GB (VPSBG)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
VPSBG Cloud VPS 2 vCPU / 4 GB (VPSBG)
  • Effective monthly cost $32.74 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
VPSBG Cloud VPS 2 vCPU / 8 GB (VPSBG)
  • Effective monthly cost $54.57 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
VPSBG Cloud VPS 4 vCPU / 16 GB (VPSBG)
  • Effective monthly cost $100.74 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
VPSBG Cloud VPS 4 vCPU / 8 GB (VPSBG)
  • Effective monthly cost $65.48 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
VPSBG Cloud VPS 8 vCPU / 32 GB (VPSBG)
  • Effective monthly cost $201.47 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
VPSDime Linux VPS 4 GB (VPSDime)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
VPSDime Linux VPS 6 GB (VPSDime)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
VPSDime Premium VPS 8 GB (VPSDime)
  • Effective monthly cost $40.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Cloud Compute 16 vCPU · 64 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $320.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Cloud Compute 1 vCPU · 1 GB (Vultr)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Vultr Vultr Cloud Compute 1 vCPU - 512 MB (Vultr)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Vultr Vultr Cloud Compute 1 vCPU - 512 MB (IPv6) (Vultr)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Vultr Cloud Compute 24 vCPU · 96 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $640.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Cloud Compute 4 vCPU · 8 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $40.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Cloud Compute 6 vCPU · 16 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $80.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Cloud Compute 8 vCPU · 32 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $160.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Vultr High Frequency 4 vCPU - 16 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $96.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Vultr High Frequency 8 vCPU - 32 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $192.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Vultr High Performance AMD 12 vCPU - 24 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $144.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr Vultr High Performance Intel 12 vCPU - 24 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $144.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr High Performance AMD 1 vCPU · 1 GB (Vultr)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
Vultr Vultr High Performance AMD 4 vCPU - 12 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $72.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr High Performance AMD 4 vCPU · 8 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $48.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
Vultr High Performance AMD 8 vCPU · 16 GB (Vultr)
  • Effective monthly cost $96.00 exceeds the $30 budget (renewal and setup included).
xTom AMS Nano (xTom)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
xTom FRA EPYC Grit (xTom)
  • Storage is below the minimum.
xTom FRA Mini Pro (xTom)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.
xTom FRA Starter (xTom)
  • RAM is below the minimum.
  • Storage is below the minimum.

Methodology

  • VPSTab editorial scenario profiles and normalizationVPSTab · Editorial analysis · Observed Oct 24, 2026VPSTab-authored use-case profiles, hard requirements, weights, region normalization and scoring rules. Not a provider claim.https://github.com/niceyayale/vpstab/blob/feat/phase-0-foundation/docs/product/recommendation-engine.md
  • VPSTab review and evaluation methodology v1VPSTab · Editorial analysis · Observed Oct 24, 2026Methodology for evidence classes, assessed/not-assessed dimensions, confidence and withheld scores.https://github.com/niceyayale/vpstab/blob/feat/phase-0-foundation/docs/product/review-methodology.md

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