Virtual Private Servers.... There's a little bit to know here. I was trying to find a good comparison site. Didn't see one so thought I'd toss my notes up here. These prices were as of December, 2024.

1. Not all hosts are the same.

2. Shared vCPU = Allowing multiple customers to compete for the same vCPU

3. Dedicated vCPU = No one else can have it

4. vCPU = # processors ✖️ ( # cores ✖️ # of threads ). E.g. my home computer has 1 processor with 8 cores, and 8 threads. = 64vCPU

Let's start making some notes....

🧩 Best Value Shared Hosting (1 vCPU / 1GB RAM)

🥇 IONOS — $2/mo

🥈 CloudFanatic — $3/mo

🥉 Vultr / Linode — $5/mo

🏷️ Honorable Mention:  DigitalOcean / DreamHost / fly.io — $6/mo

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🧩 Best Value Shared Hosting (4 vCPU / 8GB RAM)

🥇 Hetzner — $8/mo

🥈 CloudFanatic — $18/mo

🥉 IONOS — $10/mo

💸 Others: Vultr ($40), Linode/DO/DreamHost ($48), fly.io ($42)

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🖥️ Best Value Dedicated Hosting (4 vCPU / 8GB RAM)

🥇 Hetzner — $27/mo

🥈 IONOS — $60/mo

🥉 Linode — $72/mo

💸 Others: Vultr ($80), DO ($84), Hostgator ($93), fly.io ($124)

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🏗️ Best Value Bare Metal

🥇 Hetzner (6c/12t/72vCPU, 64GB) — $42/mo

🥈 Vultr (4c/8t/64vCPU, 32GB) — $120/mo

⚠️ Most others: N/A or not listed

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🎮 Best Value GPU Hosting

🥇 Vultr A16 (1/8 GPU, 2GB VRAM, 8GB RAM) — $44/mo

🥈 Hetzner i5 + RTX4000 (64GB) — $205/mo*

🥉 Vultr A100 (1/8 GPU, 4GB VRAM, 15GB RAM) — $254/mo

💸 Big spenders: Vultr A100 full — $1783/mo, fly.io — $2604/mo, DO H100 — $2522/mo

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