VPS for a website on your own IP

The thing that trips people up hosting a website on a cheap VPS is the network setup. They grab the cheapest plan, deploy nginx, point a domain at it — and nothing loads. Because the cheapest plan is behind NAT, and a site behind NAT can't be reached from the outside on port 443.

A website is the opposite of a bot. A bot makes outbound calls and never needs an inbound port. A website lives on inbound ports 80 and 443 — the whole point is that strangers connect to it. That requires a public IP of your own, which is exactly what a dedicated-IP plan gives you and a NAT plan doesn't.

What you actually need

For a normal site — a CMS, a landing page with a build step, a small app plus a database — Small-IP ($16/mo) is the comfortable fit: 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 35 GB NVMe, and a dedicated IPv4 with every port open. Point your domain's A record at the IP, run nginx or Caddy, and Let's Encrypt handles HTTPS on its own.

Running several sites, or expecting real traffic? Medium-IP ($20/mo) gives you 6 vCPU / 6 GB and more disk — enough to co-locate a few services behind the one IP.

If your "site" is really just an outbound worker with no public front — a scraper, a bot, an API client — then you don't need any of this; a NAT plan from $3 is the honest answer. Dedicated IP is for things the world connects to.

Setup, briefly

# Ubuntu 24.04, Small-IP — point yourdomain.com A record to your IP first
apt update && apt install -y nginx
# drop your site in /var/www, then HTTPS in one step with Caddy or certbot:
apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-nginx
certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com

Full root, so WordPress, a Node/Next app, a Go binary, a static bundle — whatever your stack is, it runs. Reverse DNS you can set yourself from the dashboard, which matters if you'll also send email from the box.

Why here specifically

Two reasons people pick a no-KYC crypto host for a site instead of a mainstream one: they'd rather not tie the server to a card and an identity, and they want a flat monthly price paid in crypto with no surprises. It's not the cheapest per-gigabyte hosting on earth — it's a real public server you fully control, rented privately. If that's what you're after, Small-IP is where most sites start.