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Which VPS should you buy for Coolify? Plans that fit the numbers we measured
Coolify's footprint measured on our own server, turned into a shopping list: the 1, 2 and 4 GB VPS plans that fit and their prices on 2 Oct 2026.
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Short, answer-first posts on hosting and self-hosting. Each one carries at least one fact we checked ourselves on the date shown.
VPS price per GB of RAM: 15 providers' cheapest plans compared (October 2026)
The cheapest VPS plans at 15 providers, read from their own pricing pages on 2 Oct 2026: monthly price, price per GB of RAM, and the terms behind the low ones.
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Uptime Kuma, Better Stack or UptimeRobot: what free uptime monitoring really includes
Better Stack's free plan has 10 monitors, UptimeRobot's has 50 at 5-minute checks, and free Uptime Kuma cost our server a 2.5 GB image and 1 GB of swap.
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sslip.io vs nip.io: free wildcard DNS for test servers, checked
sslip.io and nip.io turn any IP address into a hostname with no DNS setup. We ran the lookups: both are now one service with the same nameservers and formats.
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We crawled the official MCP Registry: 38,212 servers, and what is really in it
We read every entry in the official MCP Registry on 1 Oct 2026: 38,212 servers, 62% remote, 42% published in one month, and a fifth from ten publishers.
DigitalOcean droplet pricing explained: per-second billing, the 672-hour cap and the extras
How a DigitalOcean droplet is really billed in 2026: per second with a monthly cap, pooled bandwidth, backups at 20 or 30 percent, snapshots and idle IPs.
Database Mart VPS pricing explained: eight Linux plans, the $5.99 catch, and what you cannot get back
Database Mart's Linux VPS runs from $5.99 for 4 GB to $63.99 for 32 GB. The cheapest plan has a shared IP, payments are non-refundable, the trial is 24 hours.
Database Mart GPU servers priced per GB of VRAM: which card runs which model, and what it costs a month
Database Mart rents GPU servers from $29 to $2,599 a month. We priced every single-GPU plan per GB of VRAM and matched them to Ollama model sizes.
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Database Mart's 24-hour free trial: how to request it, and what to test before the clock runs out
Database Mart gives new clients a 24-hour free trial with no payment: the three steps to request it, the delivery time, and nine checks to run in a day.
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Coolify ports and firewall rules: what to open and what to close
Coolify needs six inbound ports: 22, 80, 443, 8000, 6001 and 6002. What each one does, which three to close once a domain is set, and why UFW alone fails.
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Cloudways vs your own VPS with Coolify: what the managed layer costs
Cloudways and a DigitalOcean droplet run on the same hardware. On 2 Oct 2026 the managed layer cost $5 to $22 more a month. What it buys, when it pays.
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Can Coolify run on 1 GB of RAM? The docs versus what we measured
Coolify's docs ask for 2 cores and 2 GB, yet call 1 core and 1 GB a fair budget start. We measured a $6 droplet to see where 1 GB holds and where it breaks.