{"rid":"compute/aruba-cloud","card":{"rid":"compute/aruba-cloud","eid":"vpsbenchmarks","topic":"compute","slug":"aruba-cloud","provider":"Aruba Cloud","url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","domain":"vpsbenchmarks.com","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-05","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"EUR 2.49/month for VPS O1I1 on the OpenStack Cloud VPS line: 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe on software-defined storage, hourly billing, unlimited traffic, 99....","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":8},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"aruba-cloud","provider":"Aruba Cloud","url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"EUR 2.49/month for VPS O1I1 on the OpenStack Cloud VPS line: 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe on software-defined storage, hourly billing, unlimited traffic, 99.90% SLA. The instance type is described as 'AMD processors, SDS (Software-Defined Storage) NVMe and a 99.90% SLA. Window Server license is included.' The next rows step up cleanly: O1I2 at EUR 4.49 with 1 GB and 40 GB, O2A4 at EUR 6.29 with 2 and 4, O4A8 at EUR 11.79, O8A16 at EUR 19.89, O16A32 at EUR 38.90.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"no bandwidth charge, per the page, and 'Unlimited traffic' on the virtual-data-center type. No port speed is printed","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unlimited traffic; no figure stated","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated on the page read","chaining":"EUR 2.49 for 1 GB with unlimited traffic is the second-cheapest paid VPS row after VirMach, and unlike that offer it is a current hourly-billed cloud product. 20 GB of disk is the limit, so it is a relay, a scheduler or a TLS terminator rather than a host that keeps what it fetches","limits":[],"limits_note":"The page states 'This provider does not charge for bandwidth' and the virtual-data-center instance type is described as offering 'Unlimited traffic', so no byte allowance caps this plan. Nothing else on the row is a quota: the wall is the 1 GB of RAM and the 20 GB of disk.","binding":"none","binding_note":"The page states 'This provider does not charge for bandwidth' and the virtual-data-center instance type is described as offering 'Unlimited traffic', so no byte allowance caps this plan. Nothing else on the row is a quota: the wall is the 1 GB of RAM and the 20 GB of disk.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"plan row fields, transcribed and joined by me (unquoted values are not verbatim): [VPS O1I1] 1 1.0GB 20GB 2.49 EUR / month; the networking line reads 'This provider does not charge for bandwidth.'"},{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"instance type quoted: 'Built on top of OpenStack, those preconfigured servers offer AMD processors, SDS (Software-Defined Storage) NVMe and a 99.90% SLA. Window Server license is included.'; the Public Cloud type reads 'Latest generation hardware, data centers in Italy and guaranteed resources starting from EUR 9.49/month + VAT'"},{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/aruba_cloud","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the pages data-center list reads - Czech Republic - France - Germany, while the Public Cloud instance-type description says data centers in Italy'. Both are quoted because they disagree"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Found via vpsbenchmarks. Not in dossier/compute (searched: aruba, no record). The data-center list and the instance-type description disagree on country, and both are recorded rather than one being chosen. would-settle: the vendor's VPS order page for the location list and the port speed.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"disk_gib":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}