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Best VPS for a production database
Databases do best with guaranteed CPU and plenty of RAM for caching. Dedicated vCPUs avoid the unpredictable latency of shared CPU, and 8 GB of RAM lets PostgreSQL or MySQL keep a working set in memory.
£19.54cheapest that fits
£29.26cheapest in the UK
440plans that fit
15providers
What to look for
- Check whether the provider offers private networking, so your app servers can reach the database without going over the public internet.
- Budget for automated backups, and test restoring them.
Minimum spec used for this list: dedicated CPU, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Cheapest in the UK
| Provider | Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Transfer | Location | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOSTKEY | Dedicated VDS 2 vCPU / 8 GB vds.ryzen-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 100 GB | 3 TB | London, UK | £29.26 |
| Gcore | Standard G2 2 vCPU / 8 GB g2-standard-2-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | London, UK | £47.53 |
| Gcore | Standard G0 4 vCPU / 8 GB g0-standard-4-8 |
4 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | London, UK | £52.88 |
| Linode (Akamai) | High Memory 2 vCPU / 24 GB g7-highmem-1 |
2 dedicated |
24 GB | 20 GB | 5 TB | London, UK | £54.27 |
| Vultr | Optimized Cloud General 2 vCPU / 8 GB voc-g-2c-8gb-50s-amd |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 50 GB | 5 TB | London, UK | £54.27 |
| HOSTKEY | Dedicated VDS 4 vCPU / 16 GB vds.ryzen-16 |
4 dedicated |
16 GB | 200 GB | 3 TB | London, UK | £55.59 |
| DigitalOcean | General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB g-2vcpu-8gb |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 25 GB | 4 TB | London, UK | £56.99 |
| Gcore | Standard G3A 2 vCPU / 8 GB g3a-standard-2-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Chester, UK | £57.75 |
| DigitalOcean | General Purpose 2x SSD 2 vCPU / 8 GB gd-2vcpu-8gb |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 50 GB | 4 TB | London, UK | £61.51 |
| Linode (Akamai) | Dedicated 4 vCPU / 8 GB g6-dedicated-4 |
4 dedicated |
8 GB | 160 GB | 5 TB | London, UK | £65.13 |
Price comparison: cheapest anywhere in Europe
| Provider | Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Transfer | Cheapest location | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infomaniak | VPS Lite 4 vCPU / 8 GB vps-lite-4c-8g |
4 dedicated |
8 GB | 160 GB | Unmetered | Geneva, Switzerland | £19.54 |
| netcup | Root Server 4 vCPU / 8 GB rs-1000-g12.5 |
4 dedicated |
8 GB | 128 GB | Unmetered | Nuremberg, Germany | £24.45 |
| Gcore | Standard G1 2 vCPU / 8 GB g1-standard-2-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Warsaw, Poland | £26.01 |
| HOSTKEY | Dedicated VDS 2 vCPU / 8 GB vds.ryzen-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 100 GB | 3 TB | London, UK | £29.26 |
| Cherry Servers | Cloud VDS 4 vCPU / 16 GB g1-4-16gb-100nv-ded |
4 dedicated |
16 GB | 100 GB | 10 TB | Šiauliai, Lithuania | £29.37 |
| Gcore | Standard G3A 2 vCPU / 8 GB g3a-standard-2-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Frankfurt, Germany | £31.30 |
| Gcore | Standard G0 4 vCPU / 8 GB g0-standard-4-8 |
4 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Warsaw, Poland | £36.20 |
| Gcore | Memory Optimized G1 2 vCPU / 16 GB g1-memory-2-16 |
2 dedicated |
16 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Warsaw, Poland | £36.57 |
| Gcore | Standard G1 4 vCPU / 8 GB g1-standard-4-8 |
4 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Warsaw, Poland | £37.91 |
| Gcore | Standard G2 2 vCPU / 8 GB g2-standard-2-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Paris, France | £38.17 |
| Cherry Servers | Cloud ARM VDS 2 vCPU / 12 GB g1-2-12gb-50nv-arm64-ded |
2 dedicated |
12 GB | 50 GB | 5 TB | Šiauliai, Lithuania | £39.49 |
| HOSTKEY | Dedicated VDS 4 vCPU / 32 GB vds.v1-max |
4 dedicated |
32 GB | 1920 GB | 3 TB | Amsterdam, Netherlands | £42.53 |
| Hetzner Cloud | General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB ccx13 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 80 GB | 20 TB | Helsinki, Finland | £44.04 |
| Gcore | Memory Optimized G3A 2 vCPU / 16 GB g3a-memory-2-16 |
2 dedicated |
16 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Frankfurt, Germany | £44.72 |
| Gcore | Standard G3A 4 vCPU / 8 GB g3a-standard-4-8 |
4 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Frankfurt, Germany | £45.62 |
| Gcore | Standard A1 Arm 2 vCPU / 8 GB a1-standard-2-8 |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Luxembourg | £45.77 |
| netcup | Root Server 8 vCPU / 16 GB rs-2000-g12.5 |
8 dedicated |
16 GB | 256 GB | Unmetered | Nuremberg, Germany | £45.80 |
| Infomaniak | VPS Cloud 4 vCPU / 12 GB vps-cloud-104 |
4 dedicated |
12 GB | 250 GB | Unmetered | Geneva, Switzerland | £46.56 |
| Scaleway | STANDARD2 Arm 2 vCPU / 8 GB STANDARD2-A2C-8G |
2 dedicated |
8 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Amsterdam, Netherlands | £47.97 |
| Gcore | Standard G1 4 vCPU / 16 GB g1-standard-4-16 |
4 dedicated |
16 GB | 10 GB | Unmetered | Warsaw, Poland | £48.46 |