Your server. Your stack. Managed around the work.
Choose the resources and operating system you need. StackHost handles routine infrastructure and server operations while you stay in control of your applications and code.
Routine platform operations are included: monitoring, operating-system maintenance, standard security updates and health checks. Root access stays yours where your software needs it. Managed does not mean we own your application — the code, the data and the business logic remain your side of the line.
Priced from the resources you set. Work the number out on the pricing page while you choose them.Region Available in Dallas and Denver
Configure the shape, then log in and run it.
Build the server the workload needs.
Choose the resources you need instead of buying the nearest preset.
Each of these is set per server, so the quote follows your numbers.
The useful infrastructure basics are already there.
You administer the operating system. You should not also have to build the floor it stands on.
Three shapes people start from. None of them binding.
The presets exist to make the first decision easier. Start from one or set your own numbers — either is a normal request.
Utility boxes, single applications, a clean environment for one job — the kind of server you set up once and forget about.
The general-purpose choice: busier applications, admin panels, a development environment several people push to.
Heavier single workloads, with routine operations handled and room for several services on one machine.
A mix that fits the workload rather than the menu. Send the numbers you want and we will tell you whether they are sensible.
Backups, extra IPv4 addresses and additional storage are added when a workload needs them, so a small server is priced like a small server.
Managed from day one.
The boundary is the product: routine operations are ours, the application stays yours. Written out before you order rather than discovered during an incident.
Routine server operations
Operating-system baseline, routine security patching, the standard firewall baseline, health checks and automated maintenance, run on a schedule by our tooling.
Infrastructure and network path
VM provisioning, hypervisor health, storage, physical placement, and the routing and capacity decisions behind how traffic reaches the machine.
Applications and data
What the machine is for: the site, the API, the worker, the database, the files, the business logic, third-party licences and who is allowed near them.
The routine operations around your server
- VM provisioning and the operating-system baseline
- Routine security patching
- Infrastructure and server health monitoring
- The standard firewall and security baseline
- Automated remediation and maintenance scripts
The application and everything it means
- Application code, bugs and business logic
- WordPress and plugin behaviour
- Custom integrations
- Application data correctness
- Third-party application licences
- Development work
Hands-on troubleshooting, recovery and custom work beyond the routine operations draw on your included intervention allowance or support balance — how that is metered.
Buy Cloud VPS when the real question is control.
If what you keep coming back to is root access, a specific operating system, or software a managed plan is not built to run, a VPS is the honest answer. Buying one for anything else usually just adds work.
The test is simple: do you want to decide what is installed on this machine? If yes, this lane is for you.
You need to own the machine
- Your application needs a specific OS or distribution
- You run software managed hosting is not designed to install
- You want to script the server yourself, end to end
- You have someone on the team who takes the patching seriously
Control is not actually the goal
- You are hosting a website or app and would rather not administer a server
- The workload needs a private pool of CPU and memory, managed for you
- You want backups, staging and deploys handled as part of the plan
- Nobody on your side wants the 11am phone call about a kernel update
This is a server product, not a cloud maze.
You are not buying a sprawling menu of primitives you have to assemble into a machine. You are buying a usable virtual server from a company that also understands the next step, if the workload later needs managed compute.