WordPress / WooCommerce

WordPress site with plugins, cache and backups.

Standard WordPress (~256-512MB PHP-FPM per worker). For 10-50k visits/month, 2GB RAM and an SSD are enough. WooCommerce pushes RAM to 4GB+. Caching (LiteSpeed, Redis) makes more difference than raw CPU.

RAM ≥ 2 GB CPU ≥ 1 cores Storage ≥ 40 GB

Recommended plans

Chosen for fitting the requirements and the price/performance for this workload.

Why: ARM 4GB under €4 — more than enough for plain WP

hetzner/cax11.json 3 regions · Hetzner

Hetzner CAX11

Cheapest ARM VPS. Ideal for light apps and dev.

$0.0054 /hr

~25 ms ★ Featured Best priceARM

4.9

vCPU

2 Ampere Altra

RAM

4 GB

NVME

40 GB

Bandwidth

20 TB

2 vCPU 4 GB RAM 40 GB NVME 20 TB

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Why: 8GB under €5 if you'll run Redis + WooCommerce

contabo/vps-10.json 9 regions · Contabo

Contabo Cloud VPS 10

No longer available

4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 75 GB NVMe from €3.60/mo on 12-month term.

$3.91 /mo

~15 ms ★ Featured Best price<€4

4.2

vCPU

4 Intel/AMD shared

RAM

8 GB

NVME

75 GB

Bandwidth

∞ unmetered

4 vCPU 8 GB RAM 75 GB NVME ∞

Details

Why: 10 global regions if your audience isn't EU-only

digitalocean/basic-4gb.json 13 regions · DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 4 GB

2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD. Sweet spot for small/medium web apps.

$0.036 /hr

~15 ms ★ Featured Popular

4.5

vCPU

2 Intel/AMD shared

RAM

4 GB

SSD

80 GB

Bandwidth

4 TB

2 vCPU 4 GB RAM 80 GB SSD 4 TB

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Operational tips

Enable LiteSpeed Cache or W3 Total Cache + the free Cloudflare CDN
Move uploads to object storage (R2/Hetzner) so you don't pay for more disk
Backups with UpdraftPlus → Hetzner Storage Box (€3.81/TB)