UpCloud high performance VPS pricing now starts at $5/month
In an announcement on March 1st the company announced a new pricing scheme for it's range of VPSes. The selection starts from a $5/month plan and scales all the way up to a beast with 20 CPU cores, 128 Gigabytes of RAM and 2 Terabytes of fast disk storage.
This covers the full spectrum of VPS needs from hobbyists like me to enterprise grade hosting with servers located in Germany, United Kingdom, USA, Finland, Singapore and the Netherlands. The company offers a 100% SLA with a 50x multiplier for disruptions longer than 5 minutes.
For a risk free trial of the developer and admin friendly VPS service you can get $25 worth free credits without entering credit card details: $25 free UpCloud credits for sign ups
The complete price list of UpCloud VPSes for March 2018 is below:
| Memory | CPU | Storage | Transfer | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | 1 | 25 GB | 1 TB | $5/mo |
| 2 GB | 1 | 50 GB | 2 TB | $10/mo |
| 4 GB | 2 | 80 GB | 4 TB | $20/mo |
| 8 GB | 4 | 160 GB | 5 TB | $40/mo |
| 16 GB | 6 | 320 GB | 6 TB | $80/mo |
| 32 GB | 8 | 640 GB | 7 TB | $160/mo |
| 48 GB | 12 | 960 GB | 9 TB | $240/mo |
| 64 GB | 16 | 1280 GB | 10 TB | $320/mo |
| 96 GB | 20 | 1920 GB | 12 TB | $480/mo |
| 128 GB | 20 | 2048 GB | 24 TB | $640/mo |
PHP Benchmarks on UpCloud VPS
Here are some of the benchmarks I've done in the UpCloud environment:
- PHP 7.1 vs 7.2 Benchmarks (with Docker and Symfony Flex)
- PHP 7.1 vs. 7.0 performance benchmarks with Symfony
- Symfony Benchmarks: Symfony Microkernel, Lumen, Silex, Slim...
- Symfony Benchmarks: PHP-FPM vs. PHP-PM (on PHP 7 and HHVM)
- Symfony Benchmarks: Symfony Proxy vs. Varnish
- Symfony Benchmarks: Scaling PHP by adding CPU & RAM
- Symfony Benchmarks: PHP 5.6, HHVM 3.11 and PHP 7.0.1
- Symfony Benchmarks: Introduction