Best VPS for a personal site.
September 2026 · re-ranked daily · 280 qualifying plans
A portfolio, blog or homepage needs almost nothing: a static site behind Caddy or nginx serves thousands of visitors a day from the smallest box in this index. We filter the index to plans with 512 MB+ RAM, 1+ vCPU — 280 of 280 qualify today, with the top pick at $0.51/mo. Ranked by price, cheapest first.
What actually matters here
- Any spec works
- Static HTML or a small SSG needs ~100 MB of RAM at runtime. Even 512 MB plans leave headroom for a CMS like a small WordPress.
- Pay for reliability, not size
- At this tier the differentiators are the provider's network quality and your backups — not another vCPU.
- Traffic allowances dwarf reality
- 1 TB/month ≈ 1.3 million page views of a 750 KB page. You will not hit it.
- 1
$0.51/mo
- 2
$2.50/mo
- 3
$3.50/mo
- 4
$4/mo
- 5
$5/mo
- 6
$5/mo
- 7
$5/mo
- 8
$5.35/mo
- 9
$5.78/mo
- 10
$6/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
- Node.js
- one-click on Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS Lightsail, Hostinger
- Docker
- one-click on Hetzner, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Contabo, Hostinger, IONOS
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest VPS that qualifies for personal site?
- STARDUST1-S at $0.51/mo (excl. VAT) meets the minimum requirements as of 5 Sept 2026.
- How are these requirements chosen?
- The minimums (512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU) 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.