Cherry Servers Review
Cherry Servers in its own words
Cherry Servers is a leading European cloud infrastructure provider, that respects freedom of choice and privacy of the user. We are determined to offering simple, secure and cost-effective cloud services to small and medium businesses world-wide, including public and private cloud compute infrastructure, reliable cloud storage, robust cloud networking and 24/7 technical support.
Cherry Servers was founded as a VPS provider in 2002.
It is headquartered in Lithuania.
It offers VPS and Dedicated servers hosting products.
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Singapore
- Sweden
- United States
Quick Links
| Cherry Servers plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Cherry Servers instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Cherry Servers servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Cherry Servers trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Cherry Servers trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Cherry Servers VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Cherry Servers yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Cherry Servers VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
Cherry Servers provides data center level DDoS protection and AI-based IP scrubbing protection is also available. |
| Backups | No |
Backup storage is available for a fee (3€ for 50GB) on VPS servers. |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 4 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 3 | |
| Monitoring Charts | No | |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes |
Set PTR record in Network / Management IPs. |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, Cryptocurrencies, Paysera | |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | Yes | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Fast, intuitive, powerful management UI.
- Large set of features.
- Backups included
Cherry Servers Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Cherry Servers also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Cherry Servers VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 153s | 130s | 180s | 10 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Cherry Servers for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
|---|---|
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 1 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
Cherry Servers networking
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0.001€/GB |
Cherry Servers Instance Types and Plans
All Cherry Servers instance types
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: Dedicated Resources Instance Type: Memory Optimized - Premium VDS |
Premium VDS 2 servers are next-generation Cloud VDS which are up to 50% faster than current VDS servers and are optimized for compute and memory performance. With fully dedicated resources it eliminates the noisy neighbour's problem, and is ideal for e-commerce platforms, data processing jobs and other CPU and memory-intensive applications where stable performance is a must.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers/premium_vds_2
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| Premium VDS 2 | 4 | 16.0GB | 100GB | $74.52 / month |
| Premium VDS 4 | 8 | 32.0GB | 200GB | $118.00 / month |
| Family: Dedicated Resources Instance Type: CPU Optimized - Performance VDS |
The Performance VDS 2 server is up to 70% faster than Premium VDS servers and is optimized for compute performance. With fully dedicated resources it eliminates the noisy neighbour's problem, and is ideal for data processing jobs and other CPU intensive applications where stable performance is a must.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers/performance_vds_2
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| Performance VDS 2 | 4 | 16.0GB | 200GB | $96.12 / month |
| Family: Shared Resources Instance Type: General purpose - Cloud VPS |
The Cloud VPS 2 is a light KVM-based cloud server, perfectly suited to handle small workloads like low-traffic websites, microservices or development testbeds. Small, swift and really cheap to help you kick-start your project like a breeze.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers/cloud_vps_2
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| Cloud VPS 1 | 1 | 1.0GB | 20GB | 9.00€ / month ($9.90 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 2 | 2 | 2.0GB | 40GB | 19.00€ / month ($20.90 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 4 | 4 | 4.0GB | 80GB | 29.00€ / month ($31.90 / month) |
| Cloud VPS 6 | 6 | 6.0GB | 100GB | 39.00€ / month ($42.90 / month) |
| Family: Dedicated Resources Instance Type: General purpose - Cloud VDS |
The Cloud VDS 2 server is optimized for compute and memory performance. With fully dedicated resources it eliminates the noisy neighbour's problem, and is ideal for e-commerce platforms, data processing jobs and other CPU and memory-intensive applications where stable performance is a must.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers/cloud_vds_2
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| Cloud VDS 2 | 4 | 16.0GB | 100GB | 49.00€ / month ($53.90 / month) |
| Cloud VDS 4 | 8 | 32.0GB | 200GB | 89.00€ / month ($97.90 / month) |