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The provider is US-registered and sells in USD, and the front page states no verification requirement.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://bandwagonhost.com/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"front page lists 20G KVM VPS with 20 GB SSD, 1024 MB RAM, 2x CPU, 1 TB/mo, 1 Gbps at $49.99/year, quoted"},{"url":"https://bandwagonhost.com/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the 320G shape is 320 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, 6x CPU, 5 TB/mo at $79.99/month, quoted"},{"url":"https://bandwagonhost.com/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the page states the service is self-managed KVM on KiwiVM with snapshots, datacenter migration, rDNS and API"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"New to the corpus: 805 compute records and no BandwagonHost record, although Chinese-language forums name it constantly and resellers price it in CNY. USD 49.99 a year is not the floor (DediOne at USD 3.99 a month and Tencent at CNY 99 a year are both cheaper), so this is recorded as the reference mid-price annual host with a migration feature, not as a bargain. The CN2 GIA plans that Chinese buyers actually pay for are on a separate store and were not read.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-floor-price","free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":1,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null,"disk_gib":20}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":20,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}