Comparisons

Start from the limit, not the price

When two options look alike the first thing people compare is the monthly amount, but the decision is not made there. A cheaper option is not cheap if it hits the limit your workload fills first: three months later it comes back as a migration, a rebuild and downtime. That is why every table on these pages shows the limit next to the price.

The practical order is this: work out which resource your workload exhausts first (memory, cores, storage latency or concurrent connections), then look at how far each option can go on that resource, and compare price last. If the same amount buys you two different ceilings, the difference is the ceiling, not the price.

Then there are the one-off lines: a setup fee on dedicated servers, power and uplink in a cabinet, a domain on hosting. Comparing monthly amounts and skipping these is the most common arithmetic mistake.

Choose for the cost of moving, not for today's need

Where the options really diverge is the growth path. On a virtual server adding resources is a reboot away; on shared hosting the answer to a full plan is a bigger plan, but past a certain point the hosting architecture itself is the limit. A dedicated server has a high ceiling, but raising it is hardware work, which means it has to be planned.

So "is this enough for me right now" is not a sufficient question on its own. The second question should be: when I hit this option's ceiling, what will I have to do, and how many hours of downtime is that? An option that stretches upwards is usually cheaper in the end, even when it costs a little more today.

Frequently asked questions

I do not know which comparison page applies to me.

Start from what you have today. If you have nothing yet and want to publish a website, the web hosting versus VDS comparison answers your question. If you already run a VDS and it is no longer enough, look at VDS versus dedicated server. If you own hardware, the colocation comparison is the right page. If you are setting up a game or voice server, the managed-versus-your-own question is covered on the TeamSpeak page.

Are the prices on these pages current?

Yes. Every amount is read from the same product catalogue used at checkout; not one price on these pages is typed by hand. The figure in the configurator comes from the same calculation, so the number on the page and the number at checkout do not drift apart. Tax treatment differs by product, so each price line states separately whether VAT is included.

Why is there no comparison against other providers?

Because publishing another company's pricing and hardware without a verified source would be producing misinformation: that data changes and we cannot measure it. Our own catalogue we can show line by line. If you are comparing against other providers, use the limits and one-off cost lines on these pages as a checklist.

What should I do if I cannot decide?

If you are genuinely torn between two options, picking the one that stretches upwards is usually the lower-risk choice: if it turns out wrong, growing is cheaper than migrating. If you are unsure about sizing, describe your workload and ask us; a recommendation based on your actual numbers gets you there faster than rereading the table.