phoenixNAP vs Cherry Servers
A detailed comparison to help you choose between phoenixNAP and Cherry Servers.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
phoenixNAP
0 reviews
4.0/5
Cherry Servers
0 reviews
Cherry Servers is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.9). phoenixNAP offers on-demand bare metal servers, colocation, and IaaS in Phoenix, Ashburn, Atlanta, Amsterdam, and Singapore. HIPAA-compliant infrastructure available. From $100/month. Cherry Servers offers dedicated bare metal and cloud VPS from Vilnius, Lithuania and Amsterdam, Netherlands. API-driven infrastructure with hourly billing and GDPR-compliant EU hosting.
phoenixNAP Bare metal cloud in North America and Europe | Cherry Servers Lithuanian bare metal and cloud at EU pricing | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $38.81/mo | From $3.51/mo✓ |
| Best for | Teams that need dedicated-server performance with cloud-style hourly provisioning — CI/CD fleets, game servers, database nodes, and Kubernetes on bare metal in the US, EU, or Singapore | EU-based teams and operators who want configurable bare metal, BGP-level networking, and honest published pricing without hyperscaler overhead |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 4 vCPU✓ | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 16 GB✓ | 1 GB |
| Storage | 480 GB✓ | 20 GB |
| Bandwidth | 15 TB/mo✓ | 1 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 100%✓ | 99.97% |
| Data-center count | 6 | 7✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €9.70 | €3.51✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €2.43✓ | €3.51 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Phoenix, Ashburn, Chicago, Seattle, Amsterdam, Singapore | Šiauliai LT, Amsterdam NL, Frankfurt DE, Stockholm SE, Chicago US, Singapore SG, Tokyo JP |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapi access | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacentergdpr compliantapi access |
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phoenixNAP
Pros
- + Dedicated physical hardware provisioned in about a minute via API, CLI, or Terraform
- + Transparent pricing: hourly billing, published per-instance rates, $0.01/GB bandwidth overage
- + 15 TB bandwidth and 20 Gbps DDoS protection included; 20/50 Gbps bonded network ports
- + Network depth: BYO IPv4/IPv6, BGP local and global, Anycast, Netris VPC-like networking
- + Concrete SLAs — 100% power/network target with service credits, defined hardware replacement terms
Cons
- - Only six BMC deployment locations despite a larger company network footprint
- - Entry s0.d1.small runs a Haswell-era Xeon E3-1240v3; modern instances cost several times more
- - No snapshots, no included backups, no resizing — scaling means redeploying
- - Public IPv4 allocations billed separately and reserved instances keep billing after deletion
Cherry Servers
Pros
- + Two decades of operating history, own data center in Lithuania, ISO 27001 / SOC-attested colo sites
- + Clear published price lists: VPS from $3.51/mo, bare metal from $57.33/mo, hourly rates everywhere
- + Operator-grade networking: 10 Gbps uplinks, 100 TB+ free egress on dedicated, BGP, BYOIP, floating IPs
- + Seven locations across EU, US, and APAC, with EU jurisdiction for GDPR-sensitive work
- + Free IPv6 /64 (expandable to /56) on bare metal, standard DDoS protection included
Cons
- - Own pages publish conflicting entry prices ($3.51 vs $3.24 vs $5.83 on the same page)
- - Hourly billing on entry VPS plans costs roughly 4x the monthly rate over a full month
- - Entry Gen 2 VPS plans bundle only 1 TB transfer and have no annual discount
- - No real managed hosting tier — support is 24/7 but servers are self-managed
- - IPv6 is bare metal only; VPS/VDS get none, and regional stock is uneven
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