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Individuals and legal entities both qualify, the second with a scanned application stamped and signed by the company head. The test server is suspended after three days. The cheapest tariff is 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM and 20 GB SSD at RUB 380 a month, or RUB 3,800 a year presented as RUB 317 a month, with extra RAM at RUB 6 per GB a month.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"deposit-gated-trial"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"A RUB 100 deposit that is withdrawable makes this the cheapest test of a Russian Tier III host found, and the RUB 6 per GB monthly RAM price composes with the cheapest shape at AdminVPS: adding 8 GB to a RUB 250 plan costs less than buying a bigger plan anywhere in this set.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"Three days and a RUB 100 refundable deposit are the whole offer, so nothing about it reaches a user's  scale; on the paid side the same tariff is RUB 380 a month for 1 vCPU and 1 GiB, which is dearer per core than AdminVPS or WebHOST1 and cheaper only in the RAM add-on at RUB 6 a GB a month.","source":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html"}],"limits_note":"Three days and a RUB 100 refundable deposit are the whole offer, so nothing about it reaches a user's  scale; on the paid side the same tariff is RUB 380 a month for 1 vCPU and 1 GiB, which is dearer per core than AdminVPS or WebHOST1 and cheaper only in the RAM add-on at RUB 6 a GB a month.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"Three days and a RUB 100 refundable deposit are the whole offer, so nothing about it reaches a user's  scale; on the paid side the same tariff is RUB 380 a month for 1 vCPU and 1 GiB, which is dearer per core than AdminVPS or WebHOST1 and cheaper only in the RAM add-on at RUB 6 a GB a month.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'To activate the trial you need to top up the account by at least RUB 100: the money will not be charged and will not disappear. You will be able to withdraw it after the free test ends', quoted and translated"},{"url":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"after three days the test is suspended, and if the offer terms were not breached the funds can be withdrawn or used for any other order; legal entities supply a stamped application, quoted and translated"},{"url":"https://www.ihc.ru/vps-test.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"cheapest tariff ssdVPS:1 at RUB 380 a month, RUB 3,800 a year or RUB 317 a month annually, with 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM and 20 GB SSD and extra RAM at RUB 6 per GB, quoted"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"New provider for the corpus. The trial is honest about its gate, which is unusual in this set: the page says the deposit is refundable before the reader has to ask. Arithmetic: 380 x 12 = 4,560 against the RUB 3,800 annual price, so the annual term is a 17 percent discount; 3,800 / 12 = 316.7. Not established: the accepted payment methods, which the page does not name, and therefore whether a foreign card reaches the deposit.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-trial","free_tier_kind":"deposit-gated-trial","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0,"disk_gib":20}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":1,"unit":"GiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}