Cheap VPS guides (5)
Each guide answers one question on this page. Across 25 tracked plans with a published price, here is what the provider pages themselves do not tell you.
Download the comparison table (CSV)
Every number on this page is published by the provider or computed from a published number with the formula shown. Nothing here is estimated. Source page and UTC read time are next to each figure.
Cheap VPS comparison table you can download (CSV, with per-GB RAM prices)
Download unit-price.csv: every tracked plan with a published price, plus the RAM and vCPU figures that were published next to it, and a computed price per GB of RAM and per vCPU.
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How to pick a cheap VPS plan, deploy it, and connect (numbered steps)
Pick by RAM per dollar and published bandwidth, deploy from the provider panel, then connect over SSH (Linux) or RDP (Windows). The whole sequence is eight steps below.
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How VPS pricing actually works: per-GB RAM, egress and the licence that is not in the headline price
Rank plans by price divided by published RAM in GB. Where RAM is not published next to the price, the per-GB figure is unknown — a headline price alone cannot rank two plans.
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Cheap VPS price table to download - IONOS plans, 2026-09-21 snapshot
5 tracked IONOS plans with a published price, 5 of them carry a per-GB figure; cheapest per GB is VPS XXL+ at 0.8333 USD/GB. The full 15-plan table is downloadable as CSV.
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Cheapest VPS per GB of RAM: Hostwinds - 2026-09-22 ranking from 10 computable plans
Hostwinds: cheapest RAM per unit is Unmanaged Linux VPS Hosting - 12 CPU / 64 GB RAM / 500 GB at 3.3592 USD per GB (214.99 USD / 64 GB), computed from the published price only.
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What this page is filling
This index fills nothing by itself; each guide below fills exactly one gap.
Sources: each guide lists its own.