CloudCone VPS Specs (2026): Two Plan Lines, Hourly and Annual Prices

1. The two lines, and which one you are buying

CloudCone's VPS page carries six SSD VPS plans, and its homepage carries six SC2 plans. They look like two rungs of the same ladder and are not: the SSD VPS line is priced per month but billed per year, and the SC2 line is priced per hour with a monthly cap. The specification gap between them is wider than the price gap in the other direction.

Put next to each other at a similar monthly figure: SSD VPS 2 is $3.83 a month for 4 vCPU, 2 GB and 60 GB, while SC2 Basic is $10.34 a month for 2 vCPU, 2 GB and 40 GB. The hourly line costs more than twice as much for less hardware, and what it buys is the ability to stop paying.

2. The SSD VPS ladder

As printed on CloudCone's VPS page in September 2026. The monthly column is CloudCone's; the yearly column is what the plan is billed at.

Every plan in that table is a yearly prepayment, and the monthly figure is the yearly price divided by twelve. The arithmetic shows it: $28 ÷ 12 is $2.33, $69 ÷ 12 is $5.75, and five of the six agree to the cent. The exception is SSD VPS 4, printed at $7.66 against $92 ÷ 12 = $7.67, which is a cent of rounding in the display rather than a different price. So the ladder is one price list, not a monthly option with a discount for paying yearly. Every plan also carries 1 IPv4 address and 3 IPv6 addresses, KVM virtualisation, and an option to upgrade the CPU before the server is created.

3. The SC2 ladder

From CloudCone's homepage in September 2026. These are the plans with an hourly rate.

Each SC2 plan also states 3 TB of bandwidth, 1 IPv4 address and 3 IPv6 addresses, KVM virtualisation and Los Angeles as the location, and the panel offers auto-backups and snapshots as switches on the instance. The monthly figures on that ladder are caps at the printed hourly rate rather than a second product: every one of the six divides to 744 hours, which is a 31-day month, so $5.20 is 744 hours at $0.00699 and $63.09 is 744 hours at $0.08480. CloudCone's own arithmetic for the line is in the same block: "starting from the lowest tier at $0.00699/hour all the way up to $63.09/month and to everything in-between".

4. Two billing models, and the refund clause

Hourly on SC2. The instance runs, the meter runs, and the monthly figure is the point at which CloudCone stops charging for that month. That makes the line suitable for work that ends: a migration, a build, a test, a temporary second server.

Yearly on SSD VPS. One payment covers twelve months, and CloudCone's terms state what happens to it: "Fees charged on a prepay basis are non-refundable, this includes all monthly and yearly services." The same section says CloudCone "reserves the right to cancel any service provided at any time", with a prorated refund owed in that case, and none where the customer has breached the terms. There is no money-back window and no trial on the pages read for this one, so the yearly commitment is the whole commitment.

That asymmetry is the decision on this page. The SSD VPS ladder is the cheaper way to run a server that will still exist next year, and the SC2 ladder is the only way to spend a day finding out.

5. Hardware and network, as published

• Processor family: "Intel Xeon® processors clocked for high speed computing". No model and no generation.
• Storage: "Pure SSD Disk On RAID-10 Configuration" on every plan, with the size per plan in the tables above. No IOPS figure.
• Network: a per-plan bandwidth allowance "at 1 Gb/s", from 4 TB a month on SSD VPS 1 and 3 TB on the SC2 plans up to 25 TB on SSD VPS 6. CloudCone describes the network as "a securely monitored network consisting of multiple 1 Gbps links to our internet backbone".
• DDoS protection: included, and described as "On-demand DDoS protection at network level, for free with your cloud server, powered by Voxility". CloudCone's separate DDoS page states "up to 1 TBP/s across the network", which is a claim about the network rather than about a single server's port.
• The datacentre's certifications: "SOC II, HIPAA, PCI Certified", with the redundancy described on the about page as two separate diesel generators, two redundant UPS systems, FM-200 fire suppression and "a bare minimum of 192 lines of dark fiber among each divergent path to numerous carrier buildings".

6. Los Angeles, and what one coast means

Every plan on both lines is in Los Angeles. That is the whole location list on the pages read for this one: the VPS page says "based in Los Angeles, USA", the SC2 cards say "Los Angeles, US", and the about page describes a long-term plan to add datacentres in Europe, Africa and Asia rather than any that exist now. The operator named for the site is Voxility.

For a reader in California, Arizona or the Pacific Northwest, that is the close choice. For a reader whose visitors or staff are on the East Coast or in Europe, it is the far one: a single coast means every request crosses the country or the ocean, and no page CloudCone publishes states a latency figure to compare. The US datacenter guide covers how to test that from where your users are, which is the measurement that decides it.

7. What is on every plan

• 1 IPv4 address and 3 IPv6 addresses, stated on every plan on both lines. Additional IPv4 addresses are a separate product.
• KVM virtualisation and full root access, with VNC access to the console.
• Instant reinstalls from the panel: "Rebuilding a VPS takes about a minute, and can be done in under a few clicks."
• Recovery mode, described as direct SSH access to a server that will not boot, to copy data off it.
• Snapshots, with more than one per server: the product page covers creating, restoring and deleting them, and notes that taking one "does not affect the bandwidth of your virtual server".
• Daily auto-backups, switched on per instance: "Automated Backup your important data effortlessly, simply configure a daily backup & let our platform do the work."
• An option to upgrade the CPU before the server is created, which appears on the SSD VPS plans as "Upgradable CPU Before Creation".

Neither the snapshot page nor the backups page states a price for either feature, and neither appears as a line item in the two ladders above.

8. What CloudCone does not publish

• A processor model or generation. "Intel Xeon® processors" is the whole statement, across both lines.
• Disk IOPS or throughput. RAID-10 SSD is a configuration, not a rate.
• A latency figure to any city, or a second datacentre location.
• A price for snapshots or for auto-backups, both of which are switched on per instance in the panel.
• An uptime figure or SLA on the VPS page, the homepage or the terms page read for this one.
• A monthly term on the SSD VPS line. The price is yearly, and the refund clause above says the prepayment does not come back.

9. Measuring the parts that are not published

The processor, the disk and the achievable throughput are all measurable on the server itself, and the method is the same one used across this site: lscpu for the CPU model, sysbench cpu --threads=1 --time=60 run for single-thread speed, a 4K fio run for the disk, and iperf3 against a machine near your users for the network. The benchmarks hub has the commands and the reasoning, and the storage page and network page show what other providers publish for comparison.

What makes that practical here is the hourly line. The yearly plans are prepaid and non-refundable, so a month of testing on one of them is a month you have bought either way; an SC2 instance can be run for an hour, and the panel reports the CPU model and the disk the same way. The page does not state whether the two lines run on the same hosts, so treat what an SC2 instance reports as evidence about the platform rather than a promise about the plan you finally order. The CloudCone review covers how the two lines compare with the other providers on this site at the same price.