{"rid":"compute/dataforest","card":{"rid":"compute/dataforest","eid":"vpsbenchmarks","topic":"compute","slug":"dataforest","provider":"dataforest","url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","domain":"vpsbenchmarks.com","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"reported","binding":"volume-quota","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":1,"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 4.07/month for Entry S in Frankfurt, Germany: 1 shared Intel Xeon Gold vCPU, 2 GB ECC RAM, 20 GB on Ceph with three-way replication, 10 TB of traffic inc...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":8},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"dataforest","provider":"dataforest","url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"EUR 4.07/month for Entry S in Frankfurt, Germany: 1 shared Intel Xeon Gold vCPU, 2 GB ECC RAM, 20 GB on Ceph with three-way replication, 10 TB of traffic included, 19% VAT included in the printed price. Next rows: Entry M at EUR 7.13 with 2 cores, 4 GB and 40 GB; Entry L at EUR 13.26 with 4 cores, 8 GB and 80 GB; Entry XL at EUR 21.09 with 8 cores, 16 GB and 160 GB. The Performance line is dedicated AMD EPYC 9575F with 20 TB included and starts at EUR 38.00 for 2 cores, 16 GB and 80 GB.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"10 TB a month included on the Entry line and 20 TB on the Performance line, stated in the instance-type description. No overage price is printed","metered":true,"free_allowance":"10 TB per month (Entry line); 20 TB per month (Performance line)","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated on the page read","chaining":"EUR 4.07 for 2 GB with 10 TB a month included is the best transfer-per-euro row: the 500 GB to 1 TiB a day workload fits inside it with room, and the 20 GB disk forces the bytes out to storage rather than accumulating on the box, which is the shape the corpus's stated workload wants","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"10 TB a month on the Entry line and 20 TB on the Performance line, stated on the page as '10 TB traffic included' and '20 TB traffic included'. That is the largest included allowance of any small VPS row, and it is the constraint that would end a sustained crawl: 10 TB is about 333 GB a day.","source":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud"}],"limits_note":"10 TB a month on the Entry line and 20 TB on the Performance line, stated on the page as '10 TB traffic included' and '20 TB traffic included'. That is the largest included allowance of any small VPS row, and it is the constraint that would end a sustained crawl: 10 TB is about 333 GB a day.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"10 TB a month on the Entry line and 20 TB on the Performance line, stated on the page as '10 TB traffic included' and '20 TB traffic included'. That is the largest included allowance of any small VPS row, and it is the constraint that would end a sustained crawl: 10 TB is about 333 GB a day.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"instance type quoted: 'dataforest cloud Seeds Entry line: affordable cloud VPS for low CPU load. Shared Intel Xeon Gold vCPUs, ECC memory, 3-way replication via Ceph, 10 TB traffic included. Frankfurt, Germany. Prices on the site include 19% VAT.'"},{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"plan rows, transcribed and joined by me (unquoted values are not verbatim): [Entry S] 1 2.0GB 20GB 4.07 EUR / month, [Entry M] 2 4.0GB 40GB 7.13 EUR / month, [Entry L] 4 8.0GB 80GB 13.26 EUR / month, [Entry XL] 8 16.0GB 160GB 21.09 EUR / month"},{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/dataforest_cloud","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Performance line quoted: 'Dedicated AMD EPYC 9575F (Turin) vCPUs, ECC memory, 3-way replication via Ceph, 20 TB traffic included. Frankfurt, Germany', with [Performance S] 2 16.0GB 80GB 38.00 EUR / month"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Found via vpsbenchmarks. Not in dossier/compute (searched: dataforest, no record; the two grep hits are other records that mention the name, at dossier/compute/avoro.json and dossier/compute/linceris.json). Prices are quoted with VAT included, as the page states, and no figure here has been adjusted. would-settle: the vendor's own price list at cloud.dataforest.net, which the benchmark page links, for the overage rate past 10 TB.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":10,"unit":"TB","per":"month","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":[]}