{"rid":"compute/hostnamaste","card":{"rid":"compute/hostnamaste","eid":"hostnamaste","topic":"compute","slug":"hostnamaste","provider":"HostNamaste","url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php","domain":"hostnamaste.com","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":"OpenVZ-512 at USD 3.49/month: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM plus 512 MB vSwap, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB bandwidth, SolusVM panel, 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6, in Los Angeles, Dallas, Mumba...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":7},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"hostnamaste","provider":"HostNamaste","url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"OpenVZ-512 at USD 3.49/month: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM plus 512 MB vSwap, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB bandwidth, SolusVM panel, 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6, in Los Angeles, Dallas, Mumbai/Pune, Paris or Quebec. The page states \"Plans starting at $3.49/Month\", with the same plan at USD 10.47 quarterly, USD 20.94 semi-annually and USD 41.88 annually. The tracker lists a cheaper row, OpenVZ_256 at USD 2.00/month billed yearly (1 Intel core shared, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD, 256 GB/month, 0.1 Gbps, Los Angeles) and states \"starting at $24.00 per year\", but no 256 MB plan appears anywhere on the vendor page read, so this record leads with the plan the vendor actually sells.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"bandwidth is a plan line item, 1 TB a month on OpenVZ-512, with no overage rate and no post-quota shaping policy published on the page read","metered":true,"free_allowance":"1024 GB per month on OpenVZ-512","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"root OpenVZ container with a SolusVM panel and TUN/TAP/PPP enabled, so any client runs inside it and no wrapper is needed; the vendor documents no API on the page read. OpenVZ is container virtualisation, not KVM, so the kernel is shared and a custom kernel module will not load.","chaining":"At USD 41.88 a year this holds a public IPv4 with root and a SolusVM panel, which makes it a DNS secondary, a mail relay or a cron box; 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk cannot hold a working set, and 1 TB a month moves control traffic only, so the data path belongs on a volume-quota host or an unmetered one.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"1 TB a month on OpenVZ-512 is about 33 GB a day, and the 256 MB tracker row carries 256 GB a month, which is 8.5 GB a day; both are far below a 500 GB to 1 TB a day serving target, and the disk is 20 GB of shared SSD, so this is a controller or a DNS node and never a data node.","source":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php"}],"limits_note":"1 TB a month on OpenVZ-512 is about 33 GB a day, and the 256 MB tracker row carries 256 GB a month, which is 8.5 GB a day; both are far below a 500 GB to 1 TB a day serving target, and the disk is 20 GB of shared SSD, so this is a controller or a DNS node and never a data node.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"1 TB a month on OpenVZ-512 is about 33 GB a day, and the 256 MB tracker row carries 256 GB a month, which is 8.5 GB a day; both are far below a 500 GB to 1 TB a day serving target, and the disk is 20 GB of shared SSD, so this is a controller or a DNS node and never a data node.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the plan block quoted: \"HostNamaste OpenVZ VPS OpenVZ-512\" / \"$3.49/Month\" / \"1 x CPUs\" / \"512 MB Memory\" / \"512 MB vSwap\" / \"20 GB SSD Storage\" / \"1 TB Bandwidth\" / \"1 x IPv4 Address\" / \"1 x IPv6 Address\""},{"url":"https://www.hostnamaste.com/openvz-vps.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"\"Plans starting at $3.49/Month\", and the ladder above it: OpenVZ-1024 $4.99/month, OpenVZ-1536 $6.99, OpenVZ-2048 $9.99, OpenVZ-3072 $14.99, each with quarterly, semi-annual and annual prices"},{"url":"https://vpspricetracker.com/provider/HostNamaste/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the tracker row quoted: \"HostNamaste - $2.00 / month\" / \"yearly Service\" / \"cpu 1 Intel Cores (shared)\" / \"ram 256 MB RAM\" / \"disk 10 GB HDD\" / \"bandwidth 256 GB/month bandwidth\" / \"rj45 0.1 Gbps port speed\" / \"city Los Angeles California U.S.A.\", under the line \"starting at $24.00 per year\""}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The tracker and the vendor disagree on the floor: the tracker sells an OpenVZ_256 row at USD 2.00 a month, and the vendor's own OpenVZ page says plans start at USD 3.49 and lists no 256 MB plan. A record that led with USD 2.00 would have quoted a plan nobody could order from the page read. Not in dossier/compute (searched by filename for hostnamaste: no record, and no document in dossier/ or docs/ mentions the name). would-settle: a read of the vendor's order form to confirm the 256 MB plan is withdrawn rather than filed under another product page, and the post-quota behaviour once 1 TB is spent.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.5,"disk_gib":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":512,"unit":"MB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}