On 2 Oct 2026, about $6 a month bought 1 GB of RAM at DigitalOcean and 4 GB at OVHcloud or Database Mart. These are listed prices; we have not benchmarked those servers.
The checklist before you buy
- CPU: shared or dedicated, and how many vCPUs.
- Transfer: the monthly bandwidth limit and what happens above it.
- Term: monthly, or only cheap on a 12- or 24-month prepay; check the renewal price.
- IP: a dedicated IPv4 address, or shared.
- Region: close to your users.