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Unmanaged SSD Cloud 3 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

Unmanaged Linux VPS

Price

$18.99/mo

$4.75 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 76% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
4 GB> 16% of offers
vCPU
2 shared> 14% of offers
Disk
75 GB SSD> 49% of offers
Bandwidth
2 TB/mo

Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included

Value score

67/100

Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across the 522 tracked VPS plans. Higher = more machine for the money.

Regions · 3

  • Seattle, US
  • Dallas, US
  • Amsterdam, NL

Data provenance

Hostwinds · Live web — plan JSON embedded in hostwinds.com/vps/unmanaged-linux (standard monthly rate)

Fetched 10 Sept 2026

Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.

Where this sits in the market

At $18.99/mo, Unmanaged SSD Cloud 3 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB is cheaper than 76% of the 522 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $4.75/GB — 13% below the $5.43/GB market median. Its value score of 67/100 ranks it #174 among VPS plans, and it is the 3rd cheapest of Hostwinds's 9 tracked plans.

Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference

how we compute this →

Largest two per lineup that fit 4 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 shared vCPU.

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