Cheap VPS Alternatives

Comments criticize the pricing of a cloud or VPS service and recommend cheaper alternatives like DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway, and Linode, emphasizing better specs for lower costs.

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Sample Comments

tomschlick Oct 1, 2016 View on HN

You'd be better off with a $5/mo digital ocean VM.

rabino Apr 4, 2014 View on HN

This looks 3x as expensive as Digital Ocean. What am I missing?

jacooper Jun 6, 2022 View on HN

Check out more affordable cloud providers like hetzner or OVH.

a_lifters_life Aug 30, 2016 View on HN

Digital Ocean $5 per month does fine for many of the applications i build.

astrodust Apr 17, 2014 View on HN

If you're that cost sensitive, move to Digital Ocean. They have a better deal.

wkat4242 Dec 6, 2024 View on HN

If you're in Europe, just take a scaleway stardust for €4/month with unlimited traffic :)

sharmi May 14, 2021 View on HN

Cheaper than Digital Ocean too.. Recently moved my projects there and quite happy.

andyp-kw Dec 5, 2022 View on HN

The prices seem cheaper than Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail. What's the catch ?

sauercrowd Sep 5, 2025 View on HN

there's a lot of affordable examples such as hetzner - what's missing?

ccmcarey Dec 14, 2020 View on HN

This is unbelievably overpriced.For $25/m you can get a VPS from Hetzner that has 8vCPU, 16GB mem, 240GB disk, and 20TB traffic.For $3/m on Heztner you can get a VPS with 20GB disk and 20TB traffic, which is still a 4x multiple for storage and 100x multiple for traffic.