Running a small Magento shop on AWS in Frankfurt costs from about USD 204 to about USD 804 a month, according to AWS price lists as of 12 October 2026 . Where you land depends on how many services you hand to AWS and whether you pay for a standby in a second zone. On shared hosting, Magento 2.4 usually won't even install, because it needs a search engine that cheap plans don't include.

I assumed a shop with up to about 10,000 products and about 30 people browsing at once, with most pages served from the Varnish cache, so 4 vCPU and 16 GB of RAM in total are enough.

Magento 2.4 needs a separate search engine

Since Magento 2.4, Adobe requires Elasticsearch or OpenSearch in every installation. For the latest release, 2.4.9, the system requirements table lists only OpenSearch 3.

Hostinger's help centre says Elasticsearch isn't available on its web and cloud plans, so Magento 2 needs a VPS.…