Both sell you a VPS, but not the same thing. We checked prices, specs, and even Cloudzy's own checkout screen to see where they actually pull apart.
Built for people who are comfortable running the server themselves.
*at checkout, monthly billing. The homepage banner says $2.48/mo and 40 Gbps flat, more on that below.
Built to get you set up fast, with room to grow into a dedicated server later.
We ran Cloudzy's own configurator for a Cloud VPS across billing cycles and regions, and checked it line by line against the numbers on its marketing pages.
"50% off all plans" , homepage banner
"50% off all plans" , same banner
"40 Gbps" , pricing, Europe, Frankfurt and Germany pages
Real monthly price, US region
Real monthly price, EU regions
Based on direct testing of Cloudzy's configurator, monthly billing, US and EU regions. Still cheaper than Eldernode's flat $7.77/mo in most cases, just not by the margin the homepage implies, and not at all once you land in Europe.
countries with an Eldernode dedicated server, for when a VPS is not enough
SSD storage, standard on both hosts now, no gap left here
what Cloudzy's own checkout screen lists, even though its landing pages say 40 Gbps
Linux distributions ready to install on Eldernode
No rounding, no cherry picking. Where Cloudzy is ahead, it stays on the page, marked plainly rather than buried.
Cloudzy's own landing pages say 40 Gbps. Its own checkout screen says 10 Gbps. Here is where each number actually lands you.
Light use
Personal sites, small tools, a bot, a test box. Most Eldernode plans in this range cover it without strain.
Regular use
Busier sites, small game servers, a handful of Docker containers at once. Still comfortably inside range.
Heavy use
Video delivery, large scale scraping, GPU or AI pipelines. Where a real 40 Gbps port would matter, if that is genuinely what ships.
A percentage is hard to picture. Here is the same promise, converted into how much downtime it actually allows in a month.
The tighter SLA of the two, backed by a 14 day refund if it does not hold up.
Ahead on this one
About double the downtime allowed on paper, paired with a 7 day refund and live chat if it dips.
Approximate, based on a 30 day month at each host's stated SLA. Fewer minutes is the better number here.
Some projects outgrow shared or virtualized resources entirely. Eldernode lists dedicated server plans across twelve countries, so moving up does not mean starting over somewhere new.
VPS
where most start
Dedicated server
move up when needed
Available in twelve countries
12/12 listedWho tends to need this: sites with traffic a shared VPS cannot absorb, or workloads that need the full resources of one physical machine, without moving to a different provider to get it.
Nobody buys a VPS for a single reason. Most start with one project and grow into two or three more on the same server.
Nextcloud, GitLab, Grafana, Portainer, or a handful of containers running side by side.
A safe copy of a live site to try changes on, without touching what visitors actually see.
Scripts and bots that need to stay online whether you are at your desk or not.
WireGuard or OpenVPN, set up once and managed entirely on your own terms.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Redis, either alongside your app or on its own instance.
The common pattern. One server ends up doing several of these jobs at the same time.
Two things move it. Monthly billing gets 40% off instead of the 50% headline rate, which is reserved for annual billing. On top of that, the discount depends on your region. Switch to a European region in the configurator, and you'll see the full price, no discount at all, even though the banner still says 50% off everything.
On the sticker, yes, Cloudzy's homepage banner is cheaper. At actual checkout on monthly billing though, its entry plan runs $2.97/mo, not the $2.48/mo advertised, the full discount only applies on annual billing. Eldernode's $7.77/mo is the same number whether you are looking at the plan page or the invoice.
Yes. Eldernode runs NVMe SSD storage across its VPS lineup, the same storage class Cloudzy uses. The remaining gap is network port speed and the length of the refund window.
Port speed scales from 1 Gbps up to 20 Gbps depending on the plan you choose. Cloudzy's landing pages promise a flat 40 Gbps, but its own checkout screen for the Cloud VPS line currently reads 10 Gbps. Worth checking which number shows up for your region before you decide it matters.
Yes, across twelve countries: USA, Germany, France, Canada, UK, Singapore, Turkey, Russia, Australia, Netherlands, Japan and Malaysia. That gives you somewhere to move up to if a VPS ever runs out of room.
Cloudzy offers 14 days with no questions asked. Eldernode's Windows VPS plans currently list a 7 day refund window.
Windows and Linux VPS plans start at $7.77 a month, with live chat and ticket support open every hour of every day, and dedicated servers waiting if you ever outgrow a VPS.
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