Vps Provider

calendar Oct 16, 2025 · 2 min read
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Instead of doing review of VPS provider (which is a complex thing), I want to provide here a small questionnaire you can use to understand if your provider is good or not.

+3 Points Questions

Assign 3 points to every question you can answer yes, and it is applicable to your cloud VPS provider (CP) in a positive way. IF the answer is no, do not assign nothing.

  1. Has your CP a firewall management panel, or do you need to manually configure the firewall of every box manually?
  2. Is the web panel easy to use, or it seems an old, 1990-style web interface with lots of menu or confusing setup? Some provider has very ugly login/interfaces and usually it is not a good sign.
  3. Do you have 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) option or OTP one?
  4. Pricing: during VPS configuration, is clear the final cost, VAT included?
  5. There is an ARM-based option and does it cost less the x64 Intel/AMD versions?
  6. K8s control plane is free (Big provider normally ask a price for it, emerging provider does not)?
  7. Using AWS Linux lightsail as benchmark, a VPS with 1 GB 1+ CPU, 40GB disk and 1 TB Transfer (or better) is below 7$/mo ? AWS Lightsail offer 2CPU for this price. Hetzner offer lower price (around 4.62 €). Normally a Provider smaller then AWS should be able to compete with this price tag or sell at equal value. DigitalOcean provide a similar “droplet” around 6 and 12 $ and it is anti-economical
  8. Is backup included?
  9. Is backup a fixed price?

-1 Points questions: bad smell

If the answer is yes for a question below, remove 1 points

  1. If you try to reset your password, the provider send you the password via e-mail (this is not a good idea)?
  2. Provisioning time. Is it more than 5-minute wait on average?
  3. VPS lower price is below 5$ / 6€ ? (very low price normally are a spy of overbooking)
  4. Are you forced to pay on a different currency (i.e. U.S.Dollar instead of €uros)? This can be a currency-related risk if you plan huge investments.

Final score

Compute the final score.

  • Score 24 or better: very good deal
  • Score between 12 and 24: acceptable, need further evaluation.
  • Score below 10: risky business, eval with care