Picking a VPS plan can feel like guesswork — here's a simple way to think about it.
Start with your workload, not the specs
A small WordPress site, a Node.js API, and a game server all have very different resource profiles. Before comparing plans, write down:
- Expected concurrent users/connections
- Whether the workload is CPU-bound (rendering, encoding) or I/O-bound (database, file serving)
- How much of your dataset needs to live on fast NVMe storage
Rules of thumb
- 1-2 vCPU / 2GB RAM — small sites, staging environments, low-traffic APIs.
- 4 vCPU / 8GB RAM — production web apps, small databases, CI runners.
- 8 vCPU+ / 16GB+ RAM — high-traffic apps, larger databases, multiple services on one box.
You can always resize later
Every INIZ VPS can be upgraded in place — see Resizing your VPS — so it's usually better to start close to your needs and scale up rather than over-provision from day one.
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