# Aruba Cloud review (2026): is it worth €2.99 a month? > Italian cloud provider with VPS, dedicated servers and public cloud Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Aruba Cloud is the cloud infrastructure brand of Aruba S.p.A., an Italian provider. It rents OpenStack-based VPS and cloud servers, dedicated and bare metal servers, Kubernetes, storage, backup and database services, plus VMware, private cloud and GPU options. Its pages stress data centers in Italy and European data sovereignty. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Aruba S.p.A. - **Website:** https://www.arubacloud.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want shared website hosting, as this is server rental you manage. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Aruba Cloud is a paid product, starting at €2.99 per month ex. VAT and up (Cloud VPS H.1-1), shown as a 3-month launch price. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | VPS H.1-1 | €2.99 per month ex. VAT | 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD and 2 TB monthly traffic. The page gives no original price for this model. | | VPS H.1-2 | €3.99 per month ex. VAT | 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD and 5 TB monthly traffic. The page gives no original price for this model. | | VPS H.2-4 | €5.49 per month ex. VAT, after a first 3 months at €3.00 | 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD and 25 TB monthly traffic. | | VPS H.4-8 | €10.49 per month ex. VAT, after a first 3 months at €5.00 | 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD and 50 TB monthly traffic. | | VPS H.8-16 | €18.99 per month ex. VAT, after a first 3 months at €13.00 | 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD and 100 TB monthly traffic. | | VPS H.16-32 | €37.99 per month ex. VAT, after a first 3 months at €24.00 | 16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 320 GB SSD and 100 TB monthly traffic. | Read from https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Aruba Cloud before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Up to 52% off Cloud VPS for 3 months** (Other savings): A launch promotion discounts newly activated VPS hosting services for the first 3 months; standard prices apply at the next renewal. Source: https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/ ## Key features - **Cloud VPS in Italy:** OpenStack-based virtual servers with 1 public IP, 1 Gb/s connectivity, SSD storage up to 320 GB, and a choice of Linux or Windows. - **Dedicated and bare metal servers:** Dedicated servers, quick-start dedicated servers and Metal Cloud clusters are sold alongside the VPS line. - **Containers and storage:** Managed Kubernetes, a container registry, S3-compatible object storage, block storage and cloud backup are offered. - **Databases and monitoring:** A Database as a Service and a monitoring service are listed in the public cloud menu. - **VMware and private cloud:** VMware hosted private cloud, Azure Local, Red Hat OpenShift, Proxmox and Vates options cover hybrid and private deployments. - **GPU and AI services:** GPU servers, GPU on demand and AI models available through an API are listed in the AI section. ## Good for - Businesses that want servers hosted in Italy under EU rules - Developers who need a low-cost VPS to start - Organizations needing VMware or private cloud in Europe ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros and exclude VAT; the page does not show a US dollar version. - The discounted VPS prices apply to the first 3 months; the standard price applies at the next renewal. - This is infrastructure rental, not shared website hosting; you manage the server yourself unless you buy managed services. - Only the Cloud VPS line is priced here; dedicated, Kubernetes and VMware pricing is configured separately. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Aruba Cloud rents VPS, dedicated and bare metal servers from Italian data centres, plus containers, databases and VMware. Prices are in euros without VAT, the entry VPS price is a 3-month launch rate, and you run the server yourself. - **Value for money: B.** The VPS H.1-1 is 2.99 euros a month ex. VAT as a 3-month launch price, around the $3.00 mark and below the $5.00 cheaper-quarter line. The H.2-4 is 5.49 euros after its first 3 months. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing is free: no free plan and no trial are listed. - **Features: B.** Cloud VPS, dedicated and bare metal servers, containers and storage, databases, VMware, private cloud and GPU services. No gap shows in the rented-server job, though managed services are extra. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. You configure and manage the server yourself unless you buy managed services. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it works with OpenStack, Kubernetes, VMware, Veeam and Proxmox. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Aruba Cloud's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Aruba Cloud's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 49 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on features (B, above 86 of 122) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $3.34 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 18 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Aruba Cloud does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. It costs $40.09 a year. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: It plugs into other products, OpenStack, Kubernetes and VMware among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with OpenStack, Kubernetes, VMware, Veeam, Proxmox **Tags:** Databases, AI features ## Alternatives - [Hetzner](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hetzner): German hosting: web hosting, cloud servers and dedicated servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aruba-cloud-vs-hetzner) - [OVHcloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ovhcloud): VPS, public cloud, web hosting and dedicated servers. 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