NVMe connects storage over PCIe instead of an interface designed for spinning disks, which shows up as lower latency under concurrent reads and writes. Whether that is worth paying for depends entirely on your workload — and this page says when it is not.
$9.95/mo
1 Core · 2 GB RAM · 20 GB NVMe
NVMe is solid-state storage connected over PCIe rather than the SATA interface inherited from hard drives. The practical effect is lower latency and higher throughput, and it is most visible under many small concurrent reads and writes — database work, in other words. Our NVMe range is 4 plans from $9.95 to $23.95 a month, carrying 20 GB NVMe up to 50 GB NVMe, all on a 10 Gbps Port with a dedicated IPv4 address. NVMe is also the storage under our Cloud range (replicated three ways) and our VDS range (dedicated RAM), so 12 plans in all run on it, up to $69.95 a month. If your workload is not disk-bound, a Classic plan will feel much the same and cost less — that is a real answer, not modesty.
On this page:
Every NVMe plan ·
NVMe, SSD or SAS ·
NVMe for databases ·
Measuring a disk
Related:
NVMe vs SSD ·
All VPS types ·
KVM virtualization ·
Full pricing ·
Hardware specifications
Generated from the same data as the pricing page. Worth reading before you assume the more expensive range is the faster one on disk — it is not.
| Range | Storage | Sizes | From | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVMe VPS 4 plans | NVMe | 20 GB · 30 GB · 40 GB · 50 GB | $9.95 | 10 Gbps Port |
| Cloud VPS 4 plans | NVMe (triple-replicated) | 30 GB · 40 GB · 50 GB · 60 GB | $13.95 | 10 Gbps Port |
| Classic VPS 4 plans | SAS | 15 GB · 20 GB · 30 GB · 40 GB | $4.95 | 1 Gbps Port |
| VDS 4 plans | NVMe | 50 GB · 60 GB · 100 GB · 150 GB | $24.95 | 10 Gbps Port |
Enterprise NVMe VPS Hosting — every figure generated from our pricing data.
Starter
Perfect for Personal Websites & Small Projects
1 Core · 2 GB RAM
20 GB NVMe
10 Gbps Port
$9.95/mo
+ $1.00 one-time setup
Business
Small business site, hosting panel
2 Cores · 2 GB RAM
30 GB NVMe
10 Gbps Port
$12.95/mo
Professional
High Performance for Professional Workloads
2 Cores · 4 GB RAM
40 GB NVMe
10 Gbps Port
$17.95/mo
Enterprise
Maximum Performance for Enterprise Applications
3 Cores · 8 GB RAM
50 GB NVMe
10 Gbps Port
$23.95/mo
Every plan includes full root access, a dedicated IPv4 address and open Port 25. No plan includes backups. See all 16 plans · ask before you order.
NVMe is not only the NVMe range. Twelve plans across NVMe VPS, Cloud VPS and VDS run on it, cheapest first. Pick the range by what you need besides fast storage.
| Plan | CPU | RAM | NVMe | Bandwidth | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter NVMe VPS NVMe VPS range | 1 Core | 2 GB | 20 GB | 1 TB | $9.95+ $1.00 setup |
| Business NVMe VPS NVMe VPS range | 2 Cores | 2 GB | 30 GB | 1/5 TB | $12.95 |
| Starter Cloud VPS Cloud VPS: storage replicated three ways | 1 Core | 2 GB | 30 GB | 1/5 TB | $13.95 |
| Business Cloud VPS Cloud VPS: storage replicated three ways | 2 Cores | 2 GB | 40 GB | 2 TB | $16.95 |
| Professional NVMe VPS NVMe VPS range | 2 Cores | 4 GB | 40 GB | 2 TB | $17.95 |
| Professional Cloud VPS Cloud VPS: storage replicated three ways | 2 Cores | 4 GB | 50 GB | 3 TB | $21.95 |
| Enterprise NVMe VPS NVMe VPS range | 3 Cores | 8 GB | 50 GB | 3 TB | $23.95 |
| Starter VDS (Xeon E3) VDS: dedicated RAM | 2 Cores | 2 GB Dedicated | 50 GB | 2 TB | $24.95 |
| Enterprise Cloud VPS Cloud VPS: storage replicated three ways | 4 Cores | 8 GB | 60 GB | 4 TB | $28.95 |
| Business VDS (Xeon E5) VDS: dedicated RAM | 2 Cores | 4 GB Dedicated | 60 GB | 3 TB | $32.95 |
| Professional VDS VDS: dedicated RAM | 4 Cores | 8 GB Dedicated | 100 GB | 4 TB | $44.95 |
| Enterprise Dual Xeon VDS VDS: dedicated RAM | 8 Cores | 16 GB Dedicated | 150 GB | 5 TB | $69.95 |
Searching for an “SSD VPS”? An NVMe drive is an SSD. It is the kind that connects over PCIe instead of SATA. Here is the short version.
| NVMe SSD | SATA SSD | SAS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connects over | PCIe, built for flash | SATA, built for spinning disks | SAS, the enterprise disk interface |
| Many small reads at once | Handles in parallel | Queues up | Depends on the drives behind it |
| One large file copy | Fast | Fast | Fine |
| Best for | Databases, busy CMSs, builds, queues | Light sites and apps | Capacity and price over speed |
| Our ranges | NVMe VPS, Cloud VPS and VDS | None at present | Classic VPS, from $4.95 |
Why a copy-a-big-file test shows almost no difference, and why a database shows a lot: the full NVMe vs SSD VPS comparison.
We would rather sell you the right plan once than the expensive one twice.
MySQL, PostgreSQL or MongoDB under real concurrency is the textbook case. Many small random reads and writes is exactly where NVMe pulls ahead of SATA.
Segmenting a large subscriber list and building campaign reports is database work first and foremost.
Logging, queues, analytics ingestion — anything where the disk is being written to constantly rather than read from cache.
Compiling, installing dependencies and unpacking archives are all disk-bound in a way that is immediately noticeable.
A brochure site or small blog serves mostly cached content. You will not feel the difference, and a Classic plan costs less.
An MTA spends its life waiting on remote servers, not on disk. Storage speed is rarely what limits it.
Network-bound by definition. Port speed is 1 Gbps on Classic VPS and 10 Gbps on NVMe VPS, Cloud VPS and VDS, so NVMe adds nothing.
If you want the most gigabytes per pound, the Classic range on SAS storage gives more space for the money. Speed and capacity pull in opposite directions here.
The workload NVMe helps most, and the one where memory matters just as much.
A database under real traffic makes a stream of small random reads, and every committed write waits for the disk to confirm it. Both are exactly where NVMe’s parallel queues and low latency show. But the fastest disk read is the one that never happens, so size the plan by memory first. The part of the database you query most should fit in RAM, and NVMe then makes everything that does not fit far less painful.
innodb_buffer_pool_size is commonly set to 50–70% of RAM. Leave the rest
for the operating system and connections.shared_buffers as a starting point. effective_cache_size is usually set
to around half to three-quarters of RAM.Fast storage does not protect you from a bad query or a deleted table, and we hold no copy of your data. Set up your own database backups. More detail: choosing VPS specs for a database server, and installing PostgreSQL or MariaDB.
Do not take our word for it, or anyone else’s. Measure it, the right way.
The test most people run, copying one large file with dd, does one thing at a
time. That is the case where NVMe and older storage are closest, so it tells you almost nothing.
What separates them is many small operations at once, and fio can generate exactly that.
apt install -y fio # Debian / Ubuntu
dnf install -y fio # AlmaLinux / Rocky LinuxRandom 4 KB reads, 32 in flight — roughly what a busy database does:
fio --name=randread --filename=/root/fio-test --size=1G --rw=randread --bs=4k \
--iodepth=32 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --runtime=30 --time_based --group_reportingA 70/30 read/write mix, then remove the test file:
fio --name=mixed --filename=/root/fio-test --size=1G --rw=randrw --rwmixread=70 --bs=4k \
--iodepth=32 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --runtime=30 --time_based --group_reporting
rm -f /root/fio-testread: and write: lines,
and the 99th percentile in clat percentiles, which is how slow the slow requests get under load./dev/vda. The NVMe drives are in the host,
and the measurement is what tells you how they perform.If the numbers do not suit your workload, first orders have a 7-day money-back guarantee.
/dev/vda — rather than as /dev/nvme0n1. The NVMe drives are in the host. The way to see what the storage does is to measure it with a random-I/O test, not to read the device name. Full root access, a dedicated IPv4 address and a 10 Gbps Port on every NVMe plan — plus a 7-day money-back guarantee if the storage was not your bottleneck after all.