Understand what good prices are for VPS and shared hosting

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• DP Administrator, The Domain Guy

  October 22

  1. What price points are considered very good deals?

  < $7/year.

  2. What price points are considered excellent deals

  From $7/year to free, lifetime.

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• zomby1 Member

  October 23

  @DP said:

  1. What price points are considered very good deals?

  < $7/year.

  2. What price points are considered excellent deals

  From $7/year to free, lifetime.

  I would appreciate a genuine, non-cynical response. Thanks, Admin.

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• rpqu Member

  October 23

  @zomby1 said:

  @DP said:

  1. What price points are considered very good deals?

  < $7/year.

  2. What price points are considered excellent deals

  From $7/year to free, lifetime.

  I would appreciate a genuine, non-cynical response. Thanks, Admin.

  state your budget

  Thanked by 1zejjnt
• RAVNIX Member, Patron Provider

  October 23

  @zomby1 said:
  Hey, how’s it going?
  I’d like to ask about VPS pricing; I haven’t kept up to date for a long time.
  1. What price points are considered very good deals? (Please include the specifications: number of cores and CPU type, RAM, and storage capacity.)
  2. What price points are considered excellent deals—on the level of Black Friday offers?

  3. Also, I’d appreciate some information regarding shared hosting via cPanel or DirectAdmin (DA).

  Please without trolling, just try to know the prices
  Thanks!

  Its like the stock market right now, this month its X, next month it'll be Z
• lovelyserver Member

  October 23

  Good deals for VPS:

  • around 20-23 usd per year for 2vCPU Intel i9-1400K or Ryzen 9950X with at least 2GB of RAM and between 30-50GB NVMe. A good deals can be 55-60 usd triennially.
  • for Intel Gold maybe between 10-13 usd per year for 1vCPU 1GB Ram 10-15 GB disk.
  • also for Intel Gold maximum 20 usd (usually 17-18) per year for 2vCPU 2-3GB RAM, and 25-30GB disk.

  For shared hosting:

  • Direct Admin is recommended at 10usd/y for 100GB space and unlimited features. Probably between 18-22/y for 200-250GB space. It can be more, but good deals have these prices. Also 4 to 6 usd per year for smaller plans.
  • StackCP is another option - many 20i resellers with various prices from 5 to 10 eur lifetime or 3 gbp per year for 10GB space. For 20GB space the price can be 5GBP or 6-7 usd depending on provider. Sometimes, for BF , 12 usd per year can be found for "unlimited" space and domains.
  • CPanel is... gambling. New prices this year after WebPros has incresed annual prices.

  Of course for Black Friday we can found 1 or 3 or 7 usd per year. Rarely and limited stock. We never know...

  These are good deals that can be found occasionally because a provider has a promo or during Easter, 4th July etc

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• kukara4 Member, Patron Provider

  October 23

  I would look at lower limit. If price is less than €1 for 1 GB RAM, it’s on the edge of fail. There are cheaper options of course, Black Friday or when providers sell leftovers. But from this price risks of deadpool and overselling are growing.
• Daniel15 Veteran

  October 23

  @zomby1 said: What price points are considered excellent deals

  Whatever GreenCloudVPS are offering when they have sales.

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• jcn50 Member

  October 23 edited October 23

  @zomby1 last time I checked (one week ago):

  • @DediRock had the cheapest/best value VPS offer with a <$10/year offer in NY or LAX (although they frequently get out of stock)
  • HostBrr (@labze) and HostMayo (@HostMayo) had the cheapest web hosting DirectAdmin offers (including for resellers) with the most features (read best value) starting from $10/year
  • @PulseMedia for storage with <$10/year offers

  Thanked by 1DediRock
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  October 23 edited October 23

  2026 Black Friday pricing guidelines for compute nodes:

  • No IPv6: $0
  • Less that /64 subnet: $0
  • CPU older than a decade: $0
  • Provider refuses to publish a concrete number of persistent CPU allowance: $0
  • Excessive CPU usage causes suspension instead of throttling: $0
  • Less than 2GB RAM: $0
  • 2GB RAM: $18/year
  • 4GB RAM: $30/year
  • 8GB RAM: $50/year

  Yes, the suggested prices are higher than previous years, because hardware is expensive now.
  The best course of action is renewing existing dealz, rather than hoping to buy new ones.

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• dbadude Member

  October 23

  @yoursunny said:
  2026 Black Friday pricing guidelines for compute nodes:

  • No IPv6: $0
  • Less that /64 subnet: $0
  • CPU older than a decade: $0
  • Provider refuses to publish a concrete number of persistent CPU allowance: $0
  • Excessive CPU usage causes suspension instead of throttling: $0
  • Less than 2GB RAM: $0
  • 2GB RAM: $18/year
  • 4GB RAM: $30/year
  • 8GB RAM: $50/year

  Yes, the suggested prices are higher than previous years, because hardware is expensive now.
  The best course of action is renewing existing dealz, rather than hoping to buy new ones.

  what for $6 per year then??
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  October 23

  @dbadude said:

  @yoursunny said:
  2026 Black Friday pricing guidelines for compute nodes:

  • No IPv6: $0
  • Less that /64 subnet: $0
  • CPU older than a decade: $0
  • Provider refuses to publish a concrete number of persistent CPU allowance: $0
  • Excessive CPU usage causes suspension instead of throttling: $0
  • Less than 2GB RAM: $0
  • 2GB RAM: $18/year
  • 4GB RAM: $30/year
  • 8GB RAM: $50/year

  Yes, the suggested prices are higher than previous years, because hardware is expensive now.
  The best course of action is renewing existing dealz, rather than hoping to buy new ones.

  what for $6 per year then??

  Above pricing is IPv6 /64 only.
  $6/year per IPv4 extra cost.
• SodaWithoutSparkles Member

  October 23

  Works good enough for small budgets.
  https://dontbeadick.lol/vps-budget/
• dbadude Member

  October 23

  @yoursunny said:

  @dbadude said:

  @yoursunny said:
  2026 Black Friday pricing guidelines for compute nodes:

  • No IPv6: $0
  • Less that /64 subnet: $0
  • CPU older than a decade: $0
  • Provider refuses to publish a concrete number of persistent CPU allowance: $0
  • Excessive CPU usage causes suspension instead of throttling: $0
  • Less than 2GB RAM: $0
  • 2GB RAM: $18/year
  • 4GB RAM: $30/year
  • 8GB RAM: $50/year

  Yes, the suggested prices are higher than previous years, because hardware is expensive now.
  The best course of action is renewing existing dealz, rather than hoping to buy new ones.

  what for $6 per year then??

  Above pricing is IPv6 /64 only.
  $6/year per IPv4 extra cost.

  insane when you think about it, why are ip addresses so expensive, its just a number on a ledger.
• rpqu Member

  October 23 edited October 23

  @dbadude said:

  @yoursunny said:

  @dbadude said:

  @yoursunny said:
  2026 Black Friday pricing guidelines for compute nodes:

  • No IPv6: $0
  • Less that /64 subnet: $0
  • CPU older than a decade: $0
  • Provider refuses to publish a concrete number of persistent CPU allowance: $0
  • Excessive CPU usage causes suspension instead of throttling: $0
  • Less than 2GB RAM: $0
  • 2GB RAM: $18/year
  • 4GB RAM: $30/year
  • 8GB RAM: $50/year

  Yes, the suggested prices are higher than previous years, because hardware is expensive now.
  The best course of action is renewing existing dealz, rather than hoping to buy new ones.

  what for $6 per year then??

  Above pricing is IPv6 /64 only.
  $6/year per IPv4 extra cost.

  insane when you think about it, why are ip addresses so expensive, its just a number on a ledger.

  Because there's 8B people in the world, and there's only 3.75B routable IPv4
  And, there's interest to get IPv4 assignment as much as possible since 2000s
• dbadude Member

  October 23

  @rpqu said:

  @dbadude said:

  @yoursunny said:

  @dbadude said:

  @yoursunny said:
  2026 Black Friday pricing guidelines for compute nodes:

  • No IPv6: $0
  • Less that /64 subnet: $0
  • CPU older than a decade: $0
  • Provider refuses to publish a concrete number of persistent CPU allowance: $0
  • Excessive CPU usage causes suspension instead of throttling: $0
  • Less than 2GB RAM: $0
  • 2GB RAM: $18/year
  • 4GB RAM: $30/year
  • 8GB RAM: $50/year

  Yes, the suggested prices are higher than previous years, because hardware is expensive now.
  The best course of action is renewing existing dealz, rather than hoping to buy new ones.

  what for $6 per year then??

  Above pricing is IPv6 /64 only.
  $6/year per IPv4 extra cost.

  insane when you think about it, why are ip addresses so expensive, its just a number on a ledger.

  Because there's 8B people in the world, and there's only 3.75B routable IPv4
  And, there's interest to get IPv4 assignment as much as possible since 2000s

  most people don't need ipv4.
• LEBUserJoe Member

  October 23

  @yoursunny said:
  2026 Black Friday pricing guidelines for compute nodes:

  • No IPv6: $0
  • Less that /64 subnet: $0
  • CPU older than a decade: $0
  • Provider refuses to publish a concrete number of persistent CPU allowance: $0
  • Excessive CPU usage causes suspension instead of throttling: $0
  • Less than 2GB RAM: $0
  • 2GB RAM: $18/year
  • 4GB RAM: $30/year
  • 8GB RAM: $50/year

  Yes, the suggested prices are higher than previous years, because hardware is expensive now.
  The best course of action is renewing existing dealz, rather than hoping to buy new ones.

  hello providers i pick keep deadpooling how to renew
• DediRock Member, Patron Provider

  October 24

  @jcn50 said:
  @zomby1 last time I checked (one week ago):

  • @DediRock had the cheapest/best value VPS offer with a <$10/year offer in NY or LAX (although they frequently get out of stock)
  • HostBrr (@labze) and HostMayo (@HostMayo) had the cheapest web hosting DirectAdmin offers (including for resellers) with the most features (read best value) starting from $10/year
  • @PulseMedia for storage with <$10/year offers

  thx for the mention @jcn50

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• rpqu Member

  October 24

  @LEBUserJoe said:
  hello providers i pick keep deadpooling how to renew

  You're supposed to bring (normal rate) customers to them
• LEBUserJoe Member

  October 24

  @rpqu said:

  @LEBUserJoe said:
  hello providers i pick keep deadpooling how to renew

  You're supposed to bring (normal rate) customers to them

  ohhhhh yh no i dont got time for that
• rpqu Member

  October 24

  @LEBUserJoe said:

  @rpqu said:

  @LEBUserJoe said:
  hello providers i pick keep deadpooling how to renew

  You're supposed to bring (normal rate) customers to them

  ohhhhh yh no i dont got time for that

  Then don't pick deadpool deals?
• Jency Member

  October 25

  For a monthly VPS, InterServer currently lists 1 CPU core, 2 GB RAM and 40 GB SSD for $2.4/month. That’s one useful starting point for comparing prices.

  For annual deals, RackNerd currently lists 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM and 20 GB SSD for $21.99/year, or 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM and 35 GB SSD for $35.99/year. These are current specials, rather than confirmed Black Friday offers.