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'We support all major credit and debit cards available to date', so a debit card is accepted. A card is one route and not the only one: Cloud Credits can be funded by PayPal, AliPay, card on file or a promotional code, and PayPal and AliPay need no card. No minimum top-up amount is published. The account creation form itself was not read.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"price, shape, bandwidth and address count quoted from the plan page read today; the payment rails, the debit acceptance and the USD 1 authorisation hold are quoted from three first-party help-centre articles read today. The account creation form was not read, so whether the signup itself demands a card is unverified.","evidence":[{"url":"https://cloudcone.com/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'SSD VPS 1 **$2.33 /MO** Billed **$28** per year, USD' with '2 vCPU Cores', '1 GB Dedicated RAM', '30 GB Pure SSD Disk', '4 TB/Mo Bandwidth at 1 Gb/s', '1x IPv4 and 3x IPv6', 'Virtualization: KVM'"},{"url":"https://cloudcone.com/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Datacenters in USA' on every plan on the page, so the endpoint is US-only at this tier"},{"url":"https://help.cloudcone.com/en-us/article/i-was-charged-when-adding-a-card-to-the-system-99n9q7/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the authorisation hold, quoted: 'When you add a debit/credit card under your billing profile, an authorization fee of usually about $1 USD, will be placed against your card. This fee is placed in order to verify the card being used. This fee will be automatically refunded within 7 days.'"},{"url":"https://help.cloudcone.com/en-us/article/how-to-link-a-credit-or-debit-card-to-my-account-6khv9z/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"debit acceptance, quoted: 'As parts of our payment methods, we support all major credit and debit cards available to date.' and the hold restated: 'Once we verify the card via a $1 authorization fee, the card will be added and ready for future payments'"},{"url":"https://help.cloudcone.com/en-us/article/how-to-add-funds-to-your-account-1n6vknv/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the rails, quoted: 'Add funds to your account by using 4 methods: PayPal, AliPay, Card on file or Promotional Codes.' with sections for PayPal, AliPay, Card on file and Promotional codes; no minimum top-up amount is stated on the article"},{"url":"https://help.cloudcone.com/en-us/article/how-billing-works-for-promotional-plans-and-virtual-private-servers-19bj5lr/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the charge itself is not refundable, quoted: 'All payments for VPS and promotional servers are non-refundable', with a refund in cloud credits only for 'a verified technical issue on our side ... within the first 7 days of deployment'"},{"url":"https://cloudcone.com/policies/terms/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'CloudCone may increase its fees for services effective the first day of a renewal term by giving notice to the customer of the new fees at least forty-five (45) days prior to the beginning of the renewal term, and if the customer does not give a notice of non-renewal as provided in Section 2 above, the customer shall be deemed to have accepted the new fee for that renewal term and any subsequent renewal terms'"},{"url":"https://cloudcone.com/policies/terms/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Upon expiration of the initial term, this agreement shall automatically renew for the same length as the initial term unless CloudCone or the customer provides the other with written notice of non-renewal at least one (1) days prior to the expiration of the initial term'"},{"url":"https://cloudcone.com/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'SSD VPS 1 $2.33 /MO Billed $28 per year, USD' and 'SSD VPS 2 $3.83 /MO Billed $46 per year, USD'; neither card carries a strike-through, a promo code or a renewal rate"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-24T03:20:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"USD 28 a year divided by 12 is USD 2.33 a month, which is the vendor's own figure, and USD 28 is the money out of pocket. This is above the USD 1 line and is recorded because it is the cheapest verified machine that needs no shared address and no port forwarding at all. A WireGuard listener on UDP 51820 works on any port here because the IPv4 is dedicated. Payment: the USD 1 authorisation is real and first-party, but it is a card-verification fee placed when a card is added, not a signup deposit, and it is refunded automatically within 7 days rather than on request. The money actually spent on the plan is non-refundable. Whether the signup flow itself requires a card was not established: the account creation form was not opened, and the help-centre articles describe the billing profile after an account exists. RENEWAL PASS 2026-10-24: the annual figure is the standing product price, not a promo, so the renewal is the same USD 28 absent a notified increase. the provider do permit that increase at the start of a renewal term on 45 days' notice, and the agreement auto-renews for the same term unless cancelled at least one day before expiry. The two SSD VPS records now carry the same renewal treatment; the SSD VPS 1 record previously left renewal_usd null while SSD VPS 2 carried it, although both are priced the same way on the same page.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":1,"disk_gib":30,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"annual","term":"annual prepay","m10h_usd":2.33,"m24h_usd":2.33,"price_arithmetic":"USD 28 a year divided by 12 = USD 2.33 a month, annual prepay; a VPS bills whether it runs, so 10 h/day and 24/7 are the same bill","free_tier_kind":"none","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"all; the IPv4 is dedicated","static_ip":true,"ipv6":true,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"none; it is a VPS"},"ipv6_prefix":"3 IPv6 addresses, not a stated routed prefix; whether one of them is a /64 is not stated on the plan page","renewal_usd":2.33,"renewal_note":"the page prices the plan as 'Billed $28 per year', a standing annual rate rather than a discount off a higher monthly list, so the same USD 2.33 is the recurring charge. 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