48 vCPU, 192 GB RAM VPS from $1844.90 a month

From $1844.90 a month (C48-192 in Frankfurt) to $2411.90 (C48-192-2880 in Seattle). There is no setup fee, and every plan renews at the figure you ordered it at.

Cheapest today: C48-192 in Frankfurt at $1844.90 a month, or $2.5273/hr by the hour. 960 GB of disk and 9 TB of transfer. Most disk: C48-192-2880 carries 2880 GB, from $2411.90 a month in Amsterdam. Where the city changes the price: C48-192 is $1844.90 a month in Frankfurt and $2239.90 in Singapore: one plan, compared against itself. Every row on this page is its city's own figure.

Not always. C48-192 is $1844.90 a month in Frankfurt and $2239.90 in Singapore. The table prints every city separately, so the figure beside a city is the figure that city is invoiced at.

Yes, on 9 of the 9 rows, from $2.5273/hr. An hourly machine is billed for the hours it runs and stops costing when you destroy it. The rows marked "Not offered" are machines whose supplier bills us a whole month up front, so we cannot honestly meter them.

In 9 cities across Europe, Americas and Asia-Pacific: Frankfurt, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Ashburn, Singapore, Hillsboro (OR), Nuremberg and Chicago and 1 more. The table names the city on every row.

Flex: Every shape we can build, priced at what the machine costs us plus our margin, across more cities than any other line reaches. The list is long because it is the supplier catalogues themselves — sizes here are named for their shape, not chosen by us. Come here knowing the cores, memory and disk you want; if you do not, Standard is the shorter answer to the same question.

In under an hour. You get the address, the root password and the details in your account, and if anything about the build needs a second look we tell you rather than leave you refreshing a page.