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What decides the real cost
Whether you truly need a full physical machine, or a large VPS with reserved resources would do.
Hardware generation and whether the disks are NVMe.
Setup fees and contract length, which are common on cheap dedicated plans.
Bandwidth allowance and the cost of going over it.
Plans and renewal prices, side by side
Every price and spec below comes from our provider data, checked September 2026. Full detail is on each host’s review page.
| Host | From | RAM | vCPU | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | €4.59/mo | 4 GB | 2 | 40 GB NVMe |
| Contabo | €4.50/mo | 8 GB | 4 | 100 GB NVMe or 200 GB SSD |
| Cloudways | $11/mo | — | — | 25 GB |
Our best-value picks, ranked
Hetzner's auction of used dedicated servers regularly lists capable machines from around €30 to €40/mo, the cheapest credible dedicated hardware anywhere.
From €4.59/mo (pay hourly or monthly, no contract)4 GB RAM4 datacenter regions
Best for: Developers who want the fastest cheap VPS and are fine with EU-centric infrastructure
Entry dedicated servers from roughly €50/mo with high RAM, plus large VPS plans that serve as a cheaper stand-in.
From €4.50/mo (pay monthly, no contract)8 GB RAM6 datacenter regions
Best for: Developers and self-hosters who want maximum resources for the money
Not dedicated hardware, but a large managed cloud server (16 GB and up) gives you isolated resources you can scale, without a datacenter contract.
From $11/mo (pay monthly, no contract)25 GB1 datacenter regions
Best for: Growing WordPress and WooCommerce sites, and freelancers running client sites
How we scored these hosts
We keep a data sheet of every provider in the comparison: current intro and renewal pricing, datacenter locations, storage, backups and money-back terms, each with the sources we checked it against. The ranking on this page is our judgement about which of those providers fits cheap dedicated server best, weighted by the criteria above. A provider only appears once its current data is verified; where we could not confirm a number, that host is left off rather than guessed.
Learn the fundamentals behind this comparison
Plain-English guides to the parts of hosting that decide whether a plan performs for this use case or falls over.
- Intro Price vs Renewal Price: The Hosting Discount TrapAlmost every shared host advertises a low first-term price and renews well above it. The headline number is a discount to win you. The renewal is what you pay for most of the time you own the site.
- Shared vs VPS vs Cloud vs Dedicated Hosting: How to ChooseThe four hosting types are really one question: how much of a server is yours, and who keeps it running. Here is what each gives you and the signs it is time to move up a level.