
Bluehost Self-Managed VPS
Bluehost
Bluehost, a US web host owned by Newfold Digital, sells self-managed and managed VPS plans on 1-month to 2-year terms.
- Cheapest, with IPv4
- $4.69/mo
- NVMe 2, 1 vCPU, 2 GB, 50 GB NVMe
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Automatic backups
- Not stated
- Billing
- 24-month term
- Billed in US dollars
- Datacenters
- 11 in 10 countries
- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania
- Run by
- Newfold Digital, LLC
- United States
Entry plans and the real monthly bill
In US dollars, per month, as listed by Bluehost (All regions). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.
Swipe the table sideways for the price and the bill.
| Plan | Server | Traffic | Plan price | With IPv4 | The bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVMe 2One dedicated IP included. On a 1-year term the configurator shows $3.99/month, with no renewal price stated | 1 vCPU, 2 GB, 50 GB NVMeCPU share not stated | Not stated | $4.6924-month term, excl. VATRenews at $5.69 | $4.69 | plan $4.69IPv4 included |
| NVMe 4One dedicated IP included | 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 100 GB NVMeCPU share not stated | Not stated | $9.4924-month term, excl. VATRenews at $11.99 | $9.49 | plan $9.49IPv4 included |
| NVMe 8One dedicated IP included | 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 200 GB NVMeCPU share not stated | Not stated | $12.9924-month term, excl. VATRenews at $28.99 | $12.99 | plan $12.99IPv4 included |
| NVMe 16One dedicated IP included | 8 vCPU, 16 GB, 450 GB NVMeCPU share not stated | Not stated | $25.9924-month term, excl. VATRenews at $49.99 | $25.99 | plan $25.99IPv4 included |
Good to know
- A public IPv4 address is included in every entry plan
- NVMe 2 renews at $5.69, 1.2× the first-term price
- The cheapest price needs a 24-month term
- Listed prices exclude VAT
Where Bluehost has datacenters
11 in 10 countries, as listed by Bluehost.
Europe 4
- London, United Kingdom
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Paris, France
- Madrid, Spain
North America 3
- Phoenix, United States
- Ashburn, United States
- Toronto, Canada
South America 1
- São Paulo, Brazil
Asia 2
- Mumbai, India
- Singapore, Singapore
Oceania 1
- Sydney, Australia
Where it stands among 43
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Monthly VPS 25
Bills in
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Public IPv4 address
In the plan price
In the plan price 36
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Charged on top 5
Not stated 2
Price after the first term
Goes up on renewal
Same price 28
Goes up on renewal 11
Hourly billing
Monthly or longer
Billed by the hour 19
Monthly or longer 21
Not stated 3
Dedicated CPU in entry plans
Not stated
A dedicated-CPU plan 6
Shared CPU only 13
Datacenters on
4 or more
One continent 10
2 or 3 continents 13
ARM servers
Not offered
Add-ons and extra charges
- Public IPv4
- Included One dedicated IP on each plan at no extra cost (not named as IPv4); extra IPs cost an unstated fee
- Automatic backups
- Not stated Self-managed: you run your own backups
- Snapshots
- Not stated Not stated
- Extra traffic
- Unmetered No bandwidth fees for compliant use
How you pay
- Hourly billing
- NoNo Terms of 1 month, 1 year or 2 years, paid upfront
- Minimum term
- 1 month Monthly term available; longer terms are cheaper per month
- Setup fee
- Not stated Not stated
- Always-free server
- None No free VPS listed
- New-account credit
- None No trial credit listed; a 30-day money-back guarantee instead
- Payment methods
- Card, PayPal Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay; checks and wires only for renewals
- Signup checks
- Automated fraud check on new accounts; phone or email verification in rare cases
- Refunds
- 30 days, not on monthly terms Money-back guarantee for VPS on the initial term; card payments only
What you get
- Processors
- AMD EPYC Model and generation not named
- ARM servers
- NoNo No Arm plans listed
- IPv6 included
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
What comes with it
- Block storage
- Not statedNot stated A Brazil knowledge-base article mentions extra block volumes; not offered or priced for the US VPS
- Object storage
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- Private network
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- Cloud firewall
- Not statedNot stated No provider firewall stated; on self-managed VPS you configure your own
- Load balancers
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- DDoS protection included
- YesYes Network-level DDoS protection included
- Managed databases
- Not stated Not offered as a service; databases are the customer's job on self-managed VPS
- Managed Kubernetes
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- API
- YesYes Page says all VPS tiers include API access; public API docs not cited
- Terraform provider
- Not statedNot stated Not stated
- Custom ISO
- NoNo No custom image uploads
- Windows
- Not offered Not in the OS list (AlmaLinux, Rocky, CentOS Stream, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora)
Who you're renting from
- Company
- Bluehost Inc.
- Owned by
- Newfold Digital, LLC
- Based in
- United States Jacksonville, Florida
- Founded
- 2003 Company founded in Provo, Utah in 2003; VPS start year not stated
- Support
- 24/7 chat (account support only on self-managed); phone 7:00-24:00 EST; paid support extra
- Certifications
- Not stated None stated