{"rid":"compute/hosteroid","card":{"rid":"compute/hosteroid","eid":"hosteroid","topic":"compute","slug":"hosteroid","provider":"Hosteroid","url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/","domain":"hosteroid.uk","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","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":"rest","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":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Archive-500GB at EUR 14.14/year VAT included, yearly prepaid only (the vendor states \"Only EUR 1.18/mo when paid annually\"): 1 vCPU, 2 GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 30 GB...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"hosteroid","provider":"Hosteroid","url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"Archive-500GB at EUR 14.14/year VAT included, yearly prepaid only (the vendor states \"Only EUR 1.18/mo when paid annually\"): 1 vCPU, 2 GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 30 GB NVMe RAID10 boot plus 500 GB HDD RAID60 cached, 3 TB at 10 Gbps then 100 Mbps, 1 IPv4 and /64 IPv6, Bucharest Romania, stock stated as \"Limited stock: 15 units\". The monthly table starts higher: VM01 at EUR 3.00/month with 1 core, 512 MB, 10 GB SSD and 324 GB. The tracker's own floor is a Comet plan at EUR 1.50/month billed yearly (EUR 18.00/year) with 2 cores, 4,096 MB, 50 GB NVMe and 3,500 GB in Bucharest, which is dearer per year than the vendor's Archive plan.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"3 TB a month on the Archive plan, then shaped to 100 Mbps; the monthly ladder scales the allowance with the plan from 324 GB to 4,860 GB and states no overage price","metered":true,"free_allowance":"3072 GB per month on Archive-500GB","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"KVM with root and NVMe RAID10 boot, sold through a WHMCS storefront; no API documented on the page read.","chaining":"EUR 14.14 a year for 500 GB of cached HDD plus 3 TB a month is the cheapest cold tier, and the 2 GB of RAM is enough to run a transfer agent in front of it it is an archive edge, not a working set, and the 15-unit stock means it is not a plan to build a pipeline on.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"3 TB a month at 10 Gbps then shaped to 100 Mbps after the allowance, so the first wall is bytes and the second is a tenth of the port; 3 TB is about 100 GB a day, a tenth of the 1 TB serving target, against 500 GB of local disk.","source":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/"}],"limits_note":"3 TB a month at 10 Gbps then shaped to 100 Mbps after the allowance, so the first wall is bytes and the second is a tenth of the port; 3 TB is about 100 GB a day, a tenth of the 1 TB serving target, against 500 GB of local disk.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"3 TB a month at 10 Gbps then shaped to 100 Mbps after the allowance, so the first wall is bytes and the second is a tenth of the port; 3 TB is about 100 GB a day, a tenth of the 1 TB serving target, against 500 GB of local disk.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"unverified, passed on: dossier/compute/fossvps.json records a LowEndSpirit post, \"important-buc1-hosteroid-server-termination\", quoting \"node buc1 will terminate on 17th of April 2026 ... all data WILL BE DESTROYED\"; that node was a donated FOSSVPS node in the same Bucharest datacentre as the cheapest plan read here, and the paid plan was not itself observed to be affected.","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the Archive plan quoted from the storage section: \"Archive-500GB\" / \"YEARLY PREPAID ONLY\" / \"EUR 14.14/yr VAT included\" / \"Annual billing required\" / \"Only EUR 1.18/mo when paid annually\" / \"1 vCPU\" / \"2 GB DDR4 ECC RAM\" / \"30 GB NVMe RAID10 Boot\" / \"500 GB HDD RAID60 (cached)\" / \"3 TB @ 10 Gbps -> 100 Mbps\" (the page uses a right arrow, transliterated here) / \"Bucharest, Romania\" / \"Limited stock: 15 units\""},{"url":"https://www.hosteroid.uk/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the monthly ladder as a table: \"VM01 | 1 CPU Cores | 512 MB RAM | 10 GB SSD | 324 GB Bandwidth | EUR 3.00\", \"VM02 | 1 | 1 GB | 20 GB | 810 GB | EUR 5.00\", \"VM03 | 2 | 2 GB | 30 GB | 1620 GB | EUR 8.00\", \"VM04 | 2 | 4 GB | 50 GB | 3240 GB | EUR 16.00\", \"VM05 | 4 | 8 GB | 85 GB | 4860 GB | EUR 29.00\", each marked \"*monthly*\""},{"url":"https://vpspricetracker.com/provider/Hosteroid/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the tracker's floor quoted: \"Hosteroid - EUR 1.50 / month\" / \"yearly Service\" / \"cpu 2 Intel Cores (shared)\" / \"ram 4,096 MB RAM\" / \"disk 50 GB NVMe\" / \"bandwidth 3,500 GB/month bandwidth\" / \"rj45 10 Gbps port speed\" / \"city Bucharest Romania\", under \"starting at EUR 18.00 per year\""}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The vendor's own page is cheaper than the tracker's floor, which is the reverse of the usual direction: EUR 14.14 a year for 500 GB of disk against the tracker's EUR 18.00 a year for 50 GB, so the record leads with the vendor. Two tiers that are not free: VAT is included in the quoted figure, and the plan is annual prepay only, so a failed renewal loses the year. Not in dossier/compute (searched by filename for hosteroid: no record; the name appears only inside dossier/compute/fossvps.json as the sponsor of a donated free node, which is a different product). would-settle: whether the 15-unit stock is per datacentre and what happens to the data at the end of the annual term.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":500,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":500,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":3,"unit":"TB","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":[]}