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The next step up, NVMe - 1, is USD 10.00 with 1 core, 4096 MB and 60 GB at 250 Mbps.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"bandwidth is stated per plan and per location: 2000 GB a month on the X plan in most locations, 100 GB on the Taiwan row as listed by the tracker; no overage price was published on the page read","metered":true,"free_allowance":"2000 GB/month on the X plan; 100 GB/month on Taiwan per the tracker","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"WHMCS billing portal at photonvps.com/billing with a client area, registration and knowledgebase; no API was stated on the pages read","chaining":"USD 5.00 for 2 GB and 30 GB of NVMe in Tokyo, Seoul or Singapore is the cheapest APAC capacity and the only one with a 2 GB entry plan. The 100 Mbps port and the 2 TB cap make it a crawler worker rather than a serving host, and it is best option for a source that only answers from an Asian IP.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"2000 GB a month on the X plan at 100 Mbps. The allowance is per location and not uniform: the tracker's Taiwan row for the same X plan states 100 GB/month, twenty times smaller, so a Taiwan box would exhaust its allowance in about three days of continuous 100 Mbps traffic by arithmetic.","source":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html"}],"limits_note":"2000 GB a month on the X plan at 100 Mbps. The allowance is per location and not uniform: the tracker's Taiwan row for the same X plan states 100 GB/month, twenty times smaller, so a Taiwan box would exhaust its allowance in about three days of continuous 100 Mbps traffic by arithmetic.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"2000 GB a month on the X plan at 100 Mbps. The allowance is per location and not uniform: the tracker's Taiwan row for the same X plan states 100 GB/month, twenty times smaller, so a Taiwan box would exhaust its allowance in about three days of continuous 100 Mbps traffic by arithmetic.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"the vendor advertises DDoS protection and a 30-day money-back guarantee on the homepage; no uptime SLA figure was read, and no incident was observed","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"plan table row quoted: 'NVMe - X / SSD - X', '2048', '1', '30', '2000', '100 Mbps', '$5.00' against the column headers 'Dedicated (MB)', 'CPU Cores', 'Disk Space (GB)', 'Bandwidth (GB)', 'Network', 'Price'"},{"url":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"location selector lists 16: 'London (NVMe)', 'Amsterdam (NVMe)', 'Barcelona (NVMe)', 'Moscow (SSD)', 'Johannesburg (NVMe)', 'Mumbai (NVMe)', 'Singapore (NVMe)', 'Sydney (NVMe)', 'Taiwan (NVMe)', 'Tokyo (NVMe)', 'Seoul (NVMe)', 'Los Angeles (NVMe)', 'Dallas (NVMe)', 'Chicago (NVMe)', 'Ashburn (NVMe)', 'Sao Paulo (NVMe)'"},{"url":"https://www.photonvps.com/linux.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"notice quoted: 'For new Los Angeles virtual server orders, we recommend using Psychz Networks, our parent organization ... Current PhotonVPS accounts will remain active and unaffected.'"},{"url":"https://vpspricetracker.com/provider/PhotonVPS/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"cheapest row: '$5.00 / month', '1 Intel Cores (shared)', '2,048 MB RAM', '30 GB NVMe', '2,000 GB/month bandwidth', '0.1 Gbps port speed', Tokyo Japan; the Taiwan row for the same plan states '100 GB/month bandwidth'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Not in dossier/compute or docs/ (searched both trees for photonvps, no hit). The plan table is driven by a location selector and lists three network values per row (100, '100 Mbps', '10 Gbps'), so which figure applies to which location is not resolvable from the extracted table; the 100 Mbps reading is the one in the Network column. Los Angeles orders are redirected to the parent, Psychz Networks. would-settle: the port speed and allowance per location, and whether the X plan really is 30 GB of NVMe in Moscow where the selector says SSD.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":30,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2048.0,"unit":"MB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":2000.0,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}