Best VPS for e-commerce.
September 2026 · re-ranked daily · 119 qualifying plans
Carts and checkouts are the least forgiving workload here: every uncached, personalized request hits PHP/Node and the database, and slow checkouts are abandoned checkouts. We filter the index to plans with 4 GB+ RAM, 2+ vCPU, NVMe storage — 119 of 280 qualify today, with the top pick at $46.83/mo. Ranked by how much of the hardware this workload actually stresses each dollar buys.
What actually matters here
- 4 GB+ RAM, NVMe required
- WooCommerce/Medusa + MySQL/Postgres + Redis want memory, and checkout queries are disk-latency-sensitive — this list filters to NVMe plans only.
- Dedicated vCPU at peak
- Black-Friday-style bursts on shared cores mean throttled checkouts exactly when it hurts most.
- Plan for backups
- Whatever you pick, budget the provider's snapshot/backup addon — order data is the one thing you can't refetch.
- 1
$46.83/mo
- 2
$31.66/mo
- 3netcup
RS 8000 G12 · 16 dedicated cores · 64 GB
16 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 2048 GB NVME · value 96/100
✓ dedicated vCPU✓ NVMe
$69.70/mo
- 4netcup
RS 2000 G12 · 8 dedicated cores · 16 GB
8 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 512 GB NVME · value 96/100
✓ dedicated vCPU✓ NVMe
$20.93/mo
- 5netcup
RS 4000 G12 · 12 dedicated cores · 32 GB
12 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 1024 GB NVME · value 95/100
✓ dedicated vCPU✓ NVMe
$38.99/mo
- 6
$18.80/mo
- 7
$10.12/mo
- 8
$5.78/mo
- 9netcup
RS 1000 G12 · 4 dedicated cores · 8 GB
4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 256 GB NVME · value 95/100
✓ dedicated vCPU✓ NVMe
$12.49/mo
- 10
$5.35/mo
One-click stacks for this workload
Everything below runs on any VPS with manual setup — these providers ship it preinstalled from their official catalog (verified 20 Jul 2026).
- WordPress
- one-click on Hetzner, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, Scaleway, AWS Lightsail, Hostinger
- Docker
- one-click on Hetzner, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Contabo, Hostinger, IONOS
- PostgreSQL
- one-click on DigitalOcean, Linode, Hostinger
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest VPS that qualifies for e-commerce?
- VPS-1 2027 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB at $5.35/mo (excl. VAT) meets the minimum requirements as of 5 Sept 2026.
- How are these requirements chosen?
- The minimums (4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, NVMe storage) reflect what the workload actually stresses — explained in the "what matters" section — and the ranking weights those dimensions rather than raw price.
- How fresh is this list?
- Prices are re-fetched from all 11 providers daily and this ranking recomputes automatically. Last refresh: 5 Sept 2026.