If you've been shopping for a VPS and noticed that most providers either charge you for resources you barely touch or lock you into rigid monthly plans, Nube Cloud is worth a serious look. It's a cloud server provider that runs on AMD EPYC silicon, bills you by the minute, and openly claims to undercut comparable services by up to 60%. That's a pretty bold thing to put on your homepage — let's see if it holds up.
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Nube Cloud (nube.sh) is an elastic cloud server provider that's been quietly building out its own IP backbone across the Asia-Pacific region for the past four-plus years. The word "elastic" here isn't marketing fluff — their servers genuinely spin up fast, scale on the go, and stop charging the moment you shut them down. It's the kind of billing model that makes sense if you're a developer who fires up test environments, runs batch jobs, or needs burst capacity without a 730-hour monthly minimum ticking away.
The infrastructure is all in-house. They operate their own network connecting Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Johor Bahru (Malaysia), connected over redundant submarine and terrestrial fiber. Each region peers with multiple tier-1 carriers, and they've been open about the fault-tolerance design — in late 2023, they absorbed a 1.6 Tbps DDoS attack without going down, which is the kind of stress test most providers never have to talk about.
The servers run on AMD EPYC Zen 3 processors — the same generation powering serious workloads at hyperscalers. In Hong Kong, that means AMD EPYC 7713 chips (64-core, server-class); Singapore nodes use AMD EPYC 7663 (56-core). Storage is all-NVMe SAN clusters, not the kind of spinning rust or hybrid setups that quietly torpedo disk-bound applications.
Independent benchmark tests from LetsHosting put I/O speeds on the Hong Kong node at a consistent ~1.5 GB/s in repeated runs. Network throughput? Speedtest.net clocked upload speeds north of 9,500 Mbps and downloads around 9,300 Mbps — these are 10G uplinks doing actual work. Geekbench single-core results came in at 1,716, multi-core at 2,946. Not record-breaking, but genuinely competitive for this price tier.
Virtualization is KVM, AES-NI is enabled, and IPv4 is included by default (IPv6 availability varies by region). All instances run your standard Linux distributions — Debian, Ubuntu, and similar options at deployment.
Nube's entry point is $2.82/month for 1 vCPU on Zen 3 EPYC and 1GB DDR4 RAM. That's the floor. Plans scale from there in configurations that follow a naming scheme like a3s.2c4g (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM) — the plan that's been benchmarked the most in community reviews.
Billing works by the minute, not the month. You also only pay for outbound data transfer, not inbound. That alone changes the math on a lot of use cases — if you're pulling data into your server more than pushing it out, your bandwidth bill could be dramatically lower than with providers who charge both directions.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Port | Starting Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1 | 1 GB | NVMe SSD | 1 Gbps | ~$2.82/mo | Get Started |
| a3s.2c4g | 2 | 4 GB | 50 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps | ~$5–7/mo | Order This Plan |
| Scaled (4 vCPU) | 4 | 8 GB | 100 GB NVMe | 1 Gbps | Custom | Configure & Order |
Prices are billed by the minute and may vary slightly by region. Check the live pricing page after signing up for exact current rates.
Five regions, all strategically placed for Asia-Pacific latency:
- Hong Kong — excellent for mainland China-adjacent applications, media streaming, and Southeast Asia coverage
- Singapore — the default "Asia hub" for most international deployments; housed at Equinix JH1 (Johor Bahru node) for cost efficiency
- Johor Bahru, Malaysia — power costs at roughly 1/3 of Singapore's premium data centers; solid for budget-conscious AP deployments
- Silicon Valley — the US West Coast option, useful for Pacific Rim split-deployment setups
- Tokyo — a newer addition to the lineup, good for Japan and Northeast Asia latency
If your users or workloads are concentrated in Asia-Pacific — or you need a low-latency connection to that region from the US West Coast — the regional spread is genuinely useful and not just a checkbox exercise.
For users targeting Europe or Latin America, the coverage isn't there yet. Nube has mentioned plans to expand, but for now, it's an APAC-first provider.
Nube accepts:
- Credit card — standard and instant
- USDT — useful for international users or those who prefer crypto transactions
- Bank transfer — for larger or enterprise use cases
- Alipay — a deliberate inclusion for their Chinese user base
The Alipay support in particular signals where a chunk of their customer base comes from, and it's a practical touch that many Western-focused providers skip entirely.
Community reactions on LowEndTalk (a forum where the budget hosting crowd tends to be brutally honest) have been positive. Users have called out Nube's server and network stability as consistent, with one noting that the services have grown more professional and efficient over time. The hardware is clearly not cutting corners — AMD EPYC 7713 and 7663 chips in real deployments, not the budget-grade parts you sometimes find in "cheap" VPS tiers.
The one legitimate critique that's come up: the web interface doesn't yet have full mobile browser support. The Nube team has acknowledged this directly and indicated it's on the roadmap. If you're the type to manage servers from your phone, that's worth knowing. If you work from a desktop or laptop like most infrastructure folks, it's a non-issue.
The trust profile looks solid — nube.sh has been live for over four years, is proxied through Cloudflare, and has a clean record on major blacklist databases.
For developers, indie hackers, and technical users who want APAC-focused cloud compute at genuinely competitive prices — especially with minute-level billing and no inbound transfer charges — Nube Cloud is a provider that deserves a real look. The AMD EPYC hardware is legitimate, the benchmark numbers hold up, and the "up to 60% cheaper" claim isn't obviously fictional when you compare against comparable DigitalOcean or Vultr configurations in the same regions.
It's not the right fit for everyone. If you need EU or LATAM regions, or if you're running a mission-critical production stack that needs enterprise SLA guarantees and phone support, the big three providers will serve you better. But for the workloads this platform is clearly built for, the value-to-performance ratio is difficult to argue with.