Self-hosting WordPress cost
CMS / Blog
WordPress is the most widely used open-source CMS in the world, powering a large share of the web. Self-hosting it on a tuned LEMP stack with caching is inexpensive at small scale, and cost grows mainly with traffic, media storage, and database size.
The tables below show the recommended minimum specification for WordPress at each user scale, and the cheapest matching plan on each of our tracked providers. Prices are approximate monthly list prices in USD.
Up to 100 users
Recommended minimum: 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM
LEMP stack with page caching handles small sites comfortably.
Up to 500 users
Recommended minimum: 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM
Add Redis object cache + a CDN for media-heavy traffic.
Up to 1,000 users
Recommended minimum: 4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM
PHP-FPM tuning + external MySQL for sustained concurrency.
Up to 5,000 users (Enterprise)
Recommended minimum: 8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM
Enterprise architecture: horizontally scale PHP-FPM across multiple app nodes behind a load balancer, move MySQL/MariaDB to a managed primary-replica cluster, front everything with a full-page cache (Varnish or Nginx FastCGI cache) plus a global CDN, and keep a shared Redis object cache. Store uploads on object storage rather than local disk.
Prices are approximate list prices and may change at any time; verify on the provider's official site before purchasing. Specs are conservative single-node starting points. Deploy links may contain referral codes. Try the interactive calculator.