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Hosting calculator: how much server does your website need?

Answer three questions. You'll see the CPU, memory and storage your site needs, what each one means with real examples, and the plan that fits — for a WordPress site, an online store or your own app.

  • $0 renewal price hike
  • Free migration
  • MERN, Laravel, Django, .NET, WordPress or Docker
1. What are you building?
2. Roughly how many visits a month?

That's about up to 330 visitors a day — like a quiet café: rarely more than a few people at once. Not sure? Pick the lowest. You can upgrade later.

3. Who will look after it?

Your result · updates as you answer

Cloud WordPress hosting

$2.49/mo

Flexible monthly billing

Processing (CPU)
2 vCPU cores

Two chefs: logins, carts and uncached pages are prepared side by side without queueing.

Memory (RAM)
1 GB RAM

Room for one WordPress site with its cache, or a small app plus background jobs.

Storage (NVMe SSD)
5 GB NVMe

Your code, database and files. For scale: about 10,000–25,000 typical photos.

Why this plan

A single WordPress site at this traffic doesn't need a VPS. Caching does the heavy lifting, so a small private plan is fast and the cheapest correct answer. Our team keeps the server tuned and updated for you.

Included: AI Workspace — VS Code in your browser with Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, already connected to your app.

Start with Cloud WordPress hosting See the dashboard you'll get

Server specs, explained

Think of your website as a restaurant

Every visitor is a customer ordering a page. The server is the kitchen that prepares it. Here's what each spec means in that kitchen — and what size real websites need.

CPU · vCPU cores

CPU is the number of chefs

Every time someone opens a page, a chef has to prepare it. One vCPU is one chef. More chefs means more orders cooked at the same moment, so nobody waits.

When it runs out: Orders queue up. Pages take seconds to load, and at checkout people give up.

In real life

0.5–1 vCPUA bakery website or portfolio. A few visitors at a time, mostly reading pages.
2 vCPUA WooCommerce shop or a small SaaS. Several people logging in, searching and paying together.
4–8 vCPUA store running a flash sale. Dozens of people adding to cart at the same moment.

RAM · memory

RAM is the kitchen counter

It's the workspace where the chefs keep everything they're using right now: your site, its database and the cache. A bigger counter means less running back and forth to the storeroom.

When it runs out: The kitchen grinds to a halt. Pages crash with errors or stop loading.

In real life

512 MB–1 GBOne small app or one WordPress site. A Node API, a Laravel app or a cached blog.
2–4 GBAn app plus its own database. Or a store with many plugins and products.
8–16 GBSeveral sites or a big database. Thousands of products, search and reports.

Storage · NVMe SSD

Storage is the storeroom

Everything your site keeps lives here: code, images, the database and backups. NVMe is the fastest type of storage, so the chefs find what they need quickly.

When it runs out: You can't upload new images, the database stops saving orders, and backups fail.

In real life

5 GBAn app's code and a small database. Fine when images live on a CDN.
15–40 GBA business site with lots of images. A typical photo is 200–500 KB, so 10 GB holds about 20,000–50,000 of them.
80–160 GBBig catalogues and media libraries. Plus years of orders and backups.

Quick rule of thumb

A blog or business site is mostly cached, so it needs little CPU. A store or app works out every page fresh — carts, logins, dashboards — so it needs more CPU and memory than its visitor count suggests.

For developers & builders

Cloud App Hosting: bring your code, we run it

Connect a GitHub repo, add your domain and press Deploy. HTTPS, the database and the server are handled for you — and your own AI agent can build and fix the app with you.

Runs your stack

We detect it from your files and build it for you.

MERN / Node.jsLaravel / PHPDjango / PythonASP.NET CoreWordPressYour own Dockerfile

Private database

MongoDB, MySQL or Postgres, created for your app with the connection details already filled in as DATABASE_URL.

  • MERN → MongoDB · Laravel & WordPress → MySQL
  • Django & .NET → Postgres · Dockerfile → your choice
  • Larger plans can get their own dedicated database server

AI Workspace

VS Code in your browser with Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI. Your AI sees your app's files, database and logs — so you can just ask.

“Add a contact page with a form, then deploy it.”“My site shows an error. Check the logs, fix it, and deploy.”

Dashboard tour

See exactly what you're buying

This is the control panel you get after checkout. Click through the tabs.

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Overview

Last deployed 2 hours ago from main.

Status

Live

Memory

430 MB of 1 GB

CPU

Up to 1 vCPU

Database

MongoDB

Private · connected

Getting started

Put your app online in 3 steps

Connect your codeGitHub, GitLab or a template
Add your domainHTTPS is automatic
DeployWe build it and put it online

Example data shown. Also included: environment variables, files, SFTP, backups, database admin, domains & redirects, firewall, cron jobs and logs.

Every plan, side by side

Your calculator match is highlighted.

WordPress hosting

Fully managed WordPress
YOUR MATCH

Cloud WordPress hosting

$2.49/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 1 GB Dedicated RAM
  • 2 vCPU Cloud Power
  • 5 GB NVMe Ultra-Fast Storage
  • 5 GB Automated Backups & Restore
  • Full RackUp Dashboard Suite Included
Select Plan

Enterprise Wordpress VPS

$25.00/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 4 vCPU Cores
  • 4 GB RAM Allocation
  • 40 GB NVMe Storage
  • Managed WordPress & Caching
  • Free Site Migration
Select Plan

Cloud App hosting

MERN, Laravel, Django, .NET, WordPress or your own Dockerfile

Cloud Starter

$2.44/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 1 GB RAM
  • 1 vCPU
  • Dedicated 5 GB SSD storage
  • MERN, Laravel, Django, .NET or your own Dockerfile
  • Private database (MongoDB, MySQL or Postgres)
Select Plan

Cloud Pro

$5.69/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 2 GB RAM
  • 1 vCPU
  • Dedicated 15 GB SSD storage
  • MERN, Laravel, Django, .NET or your own Dockerfile
  • Private database (MongoDB, MySQL or Postgres)
Select Plan

Cloud Business

$12.25/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 2 GB RAM guaranteed
  • 2 vCPU
  • Dedicated 30 GB SSD storage
  • MERN, Laravel, Django, .NET or your own Dockerfile
  • AI Workspace: VS Code + Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI
Select Plan

Cloud VPS

Your own server with full control

Developer VPS 1

$35.00/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 8 vCPU Cores
  • 12 GB RAM Allocation
  • 150 GB NVMe Storage
  • Managed Next.js & React Setup
  • Dedicated IP Address
Select VPS

Developer VPS 2

$69.95/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 16 vCPU Cores
  • 32 GB RAM Allocation
  • 250 GB NVMe Storage
  • Managed Next.js & Wordpress Setup
  • Dedicated IP Address
Select VPS

Developer VPS 3

$99.00/mo

Growing apps and stores with real users everyday

  • 18 vCPU Cores
  • 96 GB RAM Allocation
  • 300 GB NVMe / 600 SSD Storage
  • Managed Next.js, Php/Laravel, Django & Wordpress Setup
  • Dedicated IP Address
Select Plan

The costs other hosts don't put on the price tag

A low first-month price isn't the real price. Compare what you pay over time.

What you getRackUp ITTypical budget host
Server resourcesReserved CPU & RAM, just for youShared with other sites
Renewal priceSame as today — $0 increaseOften higher after the first term
Moving your siteFree, done by our teamOften paid or do-it-yourself
AI coding helpAI Workspace with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLINot offered

Questions people ask before choosing

I'm starting a new business and don't know my traffic. What should I pick?

For a WordPress site, start with Cloud WordPress hosting ($2.49/mo). For your own app, start with Cloud Starter ($2.44/mo). You can move up a tier later, and we handle the switch for you.

What happens if I pick the wrong plan?

Nothing breaks. You can move to a bigger or smaller plan at any time and we handle the switch for you, so it's safe to start small.

Cloud App or VPS — which one is for me?

Choose Cloud App if you want to push code and have it run: we handle the server, HTTPS and database. Choose a VPS if you want a whole server with full control over everything installed on it.

What is the AI Workspace?

VS Code in your browser with Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, connected to your app. Your AI can read the code and logs, run commands and deploy changes. AI usage is billed by the AI provider on your own account.

Which databases can I use?

MongoDB, MySQL or Postgres. It's created privately for your app and the connection details are added for you as DATABASE_URL.

Is cloud hosting cheaper than an on-premise server?

Usually, once you count everything. This calculator compares hosting plans only. An on-premise server also means buying the hardware and replacing it every few years, paying for power and cooling, a business-grade internet line with a static IP, and staff time for security patches, backups and fixing failures. With cloud hosting those are included in the monthly price.

Will my price go up when I renew?

No. The price you sign up at is the price you renew at — a $0 renewal increase, unlike the big renewal jumps common at budget hosts.

Your match: Cloud WordPress hosting

2 vCPU cores · 1 GB RAM · 5 GB NVMe at $2.49/mo. Start today — move up or down any time.

Start with Cloud WordPress hostingTalk to us first

How this calculator works

The calculator uses two answers: what you’re building and how many visits you get a month. Together they decide the size of server you need. Each RackUp plan covers one size, and the plans, specs and prices come straight from our live pricing, so the recommendation always matches what you can buy.

Online stores and agencies are sized up compared with a blog of the same traffic: carts, checkouts and many client sites can’t be served from a cache, so they need more CPU and memory. If there’s no plan at exactly the right size, the calculator picks the next size up, so it never recommends a plan that’s too small.

A visit is one person browsing your site, usually several pages. These are the results for every combination:

What you’re buildingUnder 10k visits/month10k – 50k visits/month50k – 150k visits/month150k + visits/month
WordPress site or blogCloud WordPress hosting
$2.49/mo		Enterprise Wordpress VPS
$25.00/mo		Enterprise Wordpress VPS
$25.00/mo		Enterprise Wordpress VPS
$25.00/mo
Online storeDeveloper VPS 1
$35.00/mo		Developer VPS 1
$35.00/mo		Developer VPS 2
$69.95/mo		Developer VPS 3
$99.00/mo
Your own appCloud Starter
$2.44/mo		Cloud Pro
$5.69/mo		Cloud Business
$12.25/mo		Developer VPS 3
$99.00/mo
Agency or many sitesDeveloper VPS 2
$69.95/mo		Developer VPS 2
$69.95/mo		Developer VPS 2
$69.95/mo		Developer VPS 3
$99.00/mo

Prices are shown in your currency and are the same at renewal. Not sure? Start small: you can move to a bigger plan later.

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