Best VPS under $5

ThankReview evaluated and assessed 16 VPS hosting plans ranging from $0 to $5 in the previous 12 months. We assessed their CPU power, network performance, disk speed, web performance, and stability.

How the scores are calculated

Each of the five categories is graded: web, CPU, disk, network, and stability. Each category grade is composed of one or more metrics selected from appropriate test kinds. Given a plan and a test measure, the grade for that metric is calculated relative to the same metric from all other plans. A plan with a measure in the top 18% of all plans receives an A, while a plan with a metric in the bottom 18% receives an F. A grade is a numeric value between 0.0 and 6.0 under the hood. The total score is the average of all grades placed into the [0 – 100] range. The price of the VPS package is not taken into account while calculating the grades.

Web Performance	The Web Performance grade is based on the average response time of the Web test, the 99th percentile response time, and the highest rate of requests without error.
Raw CPU Power	The Raw CPU Capacity grade is calculated using the Sysbench CPU test number of operations per second and the Endurance test number of iterations per hour.
Performance Stability	The Web test average reaction time standard deviation, the difference between the 99th percentile and average response times, and the Endurance test number of iterations per hour standard deviation all contribute to the Performance Stability grade.
Disk IO Performance	The Sysbench test sequential disk write speed and random read/write performance are used to calculate the Disk IO Performance grade.
Network Performance	Large file network upload and download transfer speeds comprise the Network Performance grade.

All VPS scores we tested in one chart

In the figure below, each horizontal bar segment reflects a grade value: A: [16-20], F: [0-3]. The Score is the overall length of the bars.