RackNerd
Bottom-of-market VPS prices for projects that just need to run — plus an aggressive line of cheap older-generation dedicated servers.
RackNerd is the answer to "how cheap can a VPS get?" — annual plans price out at well under $2/mo for a 1 GB KVM. They primarily resell capacity from regional datacenters in the US, which means the network and disk performance you get depends on which location you pick.
Treat it as a tinkering host: dev environments, Tor relays, side projects whose downtime nobody notices. Not the place to put a SaaS with paying customers.
Pros & cons
- + Annual VPS plans below $20/year for usable specs
- + Older-generation dedicated servers from $139/mo (16 GB / SSD / 35 TB bandwidth)
- + Multiple US datacenters plus Amsterdam, with Asia-optimized routing on some SKUs
- + KVM virtualisation on VPS (full kernel control); IPMI on dedicated
- − Resold infrastructure — not all DCs are equal in performance or uptime
- − Support and dashboard polish reflect the price
- − No managed services of any kind
- − Dedicated SKUs are previous-generation hardware (Ivy Bridge / Haswell Xeons) — value is in $/RAM, not $/per-core throughput
- − Niche use only — not suitable for production SaaS with paying customers
Plans & pricing
| Plan | Price | CPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB KVM (annual) | $1.5/mo | 1 vCPU | 1 GB | 20 GB | 1.5 TB |
| 2 GB KVM (annual) | $2.5/mo | 2 vCPU | 2 GB | 35 GB | 4 TB |
| 4 GB KVM (annual) | $4/mo | 2 vCPU | 4 GB | 70 GB | 7 TB |
| Xeon E3-1230 v2 dedicated · 480 GB SSD · 5 IPs | $139/mo | Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2 4c/8t | 16 GB | 480 GB | 35 TB |
| Xeon E3-1270 v3 dedicated · 2× 1 TB SSD · 5 IPs | $169/mo | Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 4c/8t | 32 GB | 2048 GB | 35 TB |
| Dual Xeon E5-2650 v2 dedicated · 1 TB SSD · 5 IPs | $199/mo | Dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 16c/32t total | 64 GB | 1024 GB | 100 TB |
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