VPS in the United States for small projects
Virtual Servers in the United States for small projects
Affordable entry-level virtual servers for startups and personal projects
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Same hardware. Same price. All 7 locations.
Choose your location by ping, not by price tag.
VPS Configurator
Build your perfect virtual server
CPU Cores
Processing power for your applications
RAM Memory
Fast memory for running OS and applications
SSD Storage
High-speed SSD storage for your data
HDD Storage
Additional storage for cold data like backups and archives
Configuration Summary
These parameters can still be changed during server usage
What the price includes — compared with the big clouds
Our Duo plan (2×3.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, unlimited traffic) costs €12/mo in every city we operate in. The price already includes a high-availability cluster — if a node fails, your server is restarted on another one automatically — and free snapshots. Pick a location and compare.
| Provider · comparable plan | Price in Miami, Florida | Restart on hardware failure | Snapshots | Included traffic | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XServer Duo — 2×3 GHz / 4 GB / 40 GB SSD | €12✓ same in all 7 | ✓ included | ✓ free (kept up to 24 h) | Unlimited | |
| DigitalOcean Basic Droplet — 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB SSD | $24 | not stated | $0.06/GB/mo | 4 TB | nearest DC: New York / Atlanta — no Miami location |
| Vultr Cloud Compute (Regular) — 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB SSD | $20 | not stated | $0.05/GB/mo | 3 TB | |
| UpCloud Starter — 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 30 GB SSD | €12 | ✓ included | €0.056/GB/mo | Unlimited | nearest DC: New York — no Miami location |
| AWS EC2 t3.medium — 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $30.37 | ✓ included | $0.05/GB/mo | none — egress paid per GB | nearest DC: N. Virginia — no Miami region |
Our price does not go up at renewal, and we have not raised prices since 2007.
Prices checked on October 19, 2026.
“Not stated”: the provider’s official documentation does not describe an automatic restart on another host after a hardware failure (as of the check date). Snapshot prices are the providers’ list prices.
Reference tier ≈ 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM · monthly, excl. VAT · prices from public price lists; “nearest plan” shown where no exact 2c/4GB tier exists — verify before relying on a figure. Prices are taken in each provider’s own currency (EUR or USD) and shown in EUR at the current exchange rate (change the currency in the site header).
Every VPS includes
All our virtual servers come with these features at no extra cost
Advanced features
Snapshots
Before making changes on your cloud VPS server, you can create a snapshot. If something goes wrong, you can roll back to a stable state in just a few clicks. This feature is included in the server price.
Web Console
Access your virtual server's console directly from the browser, without plugins, even from a mobile device. With the web console you can install an OS or manage the server if RDP/SSH access is unavailable.
Virtual Private Networks
Combine VPS servers into private networks to build high-availability clusters. By default, each server is isolated, but we provide the option to unite them into an L2 network, even across different XServer locations.
Automatic Backups
Virtual servers are backed up automatically. To restore, simply choose a date and click the button. Daily backups are also available for just $5 per month — reliable protection for your data and services.
Technology Stack
When a server breaks, your VPS is back within a few minutes
Every part of our cloud has a twin: two internet providers, two routers, a storage system with two controllers and a spare server. At a typical VPS host, a VPS lives inside one physical server, together with its disks.
XServer Cloud
A typical VPS host
A breakdown is a reboot, not a day offline
If a physical server fails, your VPS restarts on another one within a few minutes.
Your disks aren't inside the server
They live on a storage system with two controllers and RAID10, so a broken server doesn't take your files with it.
There is always room to restart
We keep one server's worth of capacity free (N+1), so the cluster always has somewhere to start your VPS.
Hardware
External Data Storage
Cloud VPS run on HPE MSA2060/2050 with dual redundancy. Enterprise SSD RAID10 and SAS HDDs with SSD tiering deliver reliable, high-performance storage.
Powerful Servers
Powered by HPE DL360 Gen10 and Dell R640 with dual Intel Xeon Gold processors, our clusters deliver outstanding performance and N+1 high availability.
Reliability
Redundant power, dual uplinks, Active-Active storage, and multi-path networking ensure there are no single points of failure across our infrastructure.
Software
Virtualization type
VPS on VMware vSphere 8 delivers full resource reservation, stable operation, and downtime protection, exceeding entry-level physical server performance.
Load balancing
High-speed shared storage enables intelligent load balancing, guaranteed resources, and zero overselling.
High Availability Cluster
If a node fails, VMware HA automatically restarts its virtual machines on the other nodes within a few minutes. The disks live on the shared storage, so the server boots with all its data.
Automatic restart on another server applies to Standard VPS. Hi-perf VPS run on a single high-frequency server with local NVMe disks and have no shared storage yet.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to the most common questions about our services
VPS Hosting in the USA
Miami is an unconventional but highly practical choice for a VPS in the United States. From here, routes are short not only along the US East Coast but also into the Caribbean, Central, and South America: a significant share of traffic between North and Latin America passes through Miami. Virtual servers here run on the same VMware vSphere platform as the rest of our locations: a new server deploys within minutes, and resources can be adjusted without moving to different hardware.
The US location covers the typical range of workloads: websites and online stores for American audiences, SaaS platforms, API services, corporate VPNs, staging and production environments.
Why Choose a VPS in the USA
If your project targets the American market, the server should be in the US — from European sites, the transatlantic hop adds 80–100 ms of latency, and users feel it with every click. Miami delivers solid response times across the entire East Coast, home to a large share of the country's population and business activity.
But the location's real specialty is Latin America. Miami has historically served as the traffic exchange point between the US and the south: submarine cables from the Caribbean, Brazil, Colombia, and other countries in the region land here. For projects with Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences, this is effectively the only spot in the US that works equally well for both American and Latin American users. Fintech services and payment platforms operating across both markets value this especially.
And then there's cloud flexibility: vCPU, RAM, and disk space can be scaled on demand, with no hardware procurement or lengthy migrations. Handy during seasonal peaks, new service launches, or active development.
VMware Cloud Platform
As in our other locations, the cloud in Miami is built on VMware vSphere — an enterprise virtualization platform, not a free hypervisor. The difference shows in critical moments: if a physical node fails, the HA cluster automatically restarts virtual machines on healthy servers, and planned maintenance is handled via live migration — the VPS moves between nodes without service interruption.
The storage layer is built on SSD and NVMe: fast OS boot times, responsive databases, smooth handling of CI/CD and container environments. There's enough headroom not just for standard web hosting, but also for high-traffic web projects, business applications, and multi-tenant SaaS services.
About the Digital Realty Data Center
Servers are housed in the Digital Realty data center, a TIER III+ facility in Miami operated by one of the largest data center providers in the world. Power, cooling, and network components are redundant, the facility is monitored around the clock, and physical access is controlled at multiple levels with video surveillance.
The site's network environment is an advantage in its own right: Digital Realty in Miami sits at the center of the region's international traffic exchange, which simplifies circuit provisioning and provides short routes both north and south across the continent.
XServer Cloud has been in business since 2007. If your project needs a US presence with fast response times along the East Coast and a short hop to Latin America — spin up a VPS in Miami and see for yourself.
Basic VPS
A basic VPS is the smartest way to launch your project: a full-fledged virtual server with root access, your own operating system, and a dedicated IP at a modest price. One important point: "basic" here refers to the amount of resources, not the quality. These servers run on the same VMware vSphere platform, in the same data centers, and on the same hardware as our most powerful configurations — with HA clusters, live migration, and SSD/NVMe storage.
In our experience, a basic VPS is all most projects on the internet will ever need: not every website is destined to grow into workloads that demand serious hardware. And if yours does — resources can be added in a couple of clicks, no migration required.
What You Can Host on a Basic VPS
The range of workloads is wider than you might think:
- Websites and blogs — WordPress, Joomla, or static sites run comfortably on a basic configuration and handle several thousand visitors a day.
- Landing pages and business card sites — fast, on your own IP, with no shared hosting neighbors.
- Small online stores — OpenCart, PrestaShop, or WooCommerce at the early stage of sales.
- Telegram bots and small APIs — services like these don't need much power; what matters is stability.
- Personal VPN or proxy — WireGuard or OpenVPN set up in a matter of minutes.
- Test and learning environments — try out a new stack, deploy a pet project, or practice Linux administration on a real server.
- Utility services — monitoring, a control panel, a Git repository, a personal file cloud.
Why a VPS Beats Regular Hosting
Classic shared hosting is cheaper, but there you're one of hundreds of clients on a common server: someone else's script can slow down your site, and someone else's spam can ruin the reputation of the shared IP. On a VPS, the resources are yours, the IP address is yours alone, and you're free to install any software: the exact version of PHP, Node.js, Python, databases, Docker — anything at all, right down to your choice of operating system.
And Why Not a Dedicated Server
A dedicated server is a great thing when the load is consistently high. But for a project that's just starting out, it's overkill: paying several times more for capacity that will sit idle makes no economic sense. A VPS also has a practical edge: an upgrade takes minutes with a button in the panel, while changing a dedicated server's configuration means sourcing hardware and moving data. Start small — and when your project genuinely hits the ceiling of virtualization, we'll help you move to a dedicated server without losses.
When a Basic VPS Won't Be Enough
Honestly: a basic VPS isn't for everything. If you're running a heavily loaded database, analytics, or a high-traffic portal — look at the High Performance configurations. If you need to store hundreds of gigabytes of files, a media library, or archives — a VPS with storage on inexpensive HDDs is the better deal. And for projects with critical data, where losing information is not an option, there's a VPS with daily backups and one-click restore.
Try It Now
Start with a basic VPS from XServer Cloud — the server deploys in a couple of minutes, and you can outgrow it whenever you're ready: upgrade the resources, switch to a different scenario, or move to a dedicated server when the time comes. Pay for what you need now, not for headroom "just in case".