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The same plans and prices are offered in all eight locations: Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Singapore and Tokyo. KVM4GB is AUD 50 / month with 4 cores, 4 GB, 50 GB SSD and 1.5 TB; KVM8GB is AUD 95 with 4 cores, 8 GB, 100 GB and 2 TB.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://ransomit.com.au/vps/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://ransomit.com.au/vps/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://ransomit.com.au/vps/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"1 TB a month on KVM2GB, counted in both directions, with the plan speed-restricted on exhaustion rather than suspended; no per-TB overage price is published, only 'contact us'","metered":true,"free_allowance":"1 TB a month, inbound and outbound counted equally","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://ransomit.com.au/vps/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"KVM with a VPS control panel, self-service reverse DNS, custom ISO on request and resizing at any time; no API was read","chaining":"The only Australian and APAC presence, at one price across eight cities including Singapore and Tokyo, which makes it the node to place where latency to an Asia-Pacific target matters. At 1 TB counted both ways it is a front end with a presence, not a transfer or storage node.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"1 TB a month, and the page states 'Inbound and outbound data count equally. When a VPS reaches its data limit, its speed is restricted.' The allowance therefore throttles rather than suspends, but it counts both directions, so a mirror or a serving node spends it twice as fast as a pull-only crawler.","source":"https://ransomit.com.au/vps/"}],"limits_note":"1 TB a month, and the page states 'Inbound and outbound data count equally. When a VPS reaches its data limit, its speed is restricted.' The allowance therefore throttles rather than suspends, but it counts both directions, so a mirror or a serving node spends it twice as fast as a pull-only crawler.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"1 TB a month, and the page states 'Inbound and outbound data count equally. When a VPS reaches its data limit, its speed is restricted.' The allowance therefore throttles rather than suspends, but it counts both directions, so a mirror or a serving node spends it twice as fast as a pull-only crawler.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed the provider states it has run since 2008 on hardware it owns","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://ransomit.com.au/vps/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"KVM2GB plan card, quoted as label and value pairs: '$20' 'AUD/mo', 'CPU cores' '2', 'Memory' '2 GB', 'SSD storage' '30 GB', 'Data' '1 TB/mo', 'IP addresses' '1 IPv4, routed /64 IPv6'; the page states 'Prices in AUD, including GST' and 'KVM virtual servers in eight locations, with the same plans and prices everywhere'"},{"url":"https://ransomit.com.au/vps/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"data policy, quoted verbatim: 'Inbound and outbound data count equally. When a VPS reaches its data limit, its speed is restricted. If you need more data, contact us and we'll set up a plan that fits.'"},{"url":"https://ransomit.com.au/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"location list quoted from the homepage: 'Perth Adelaide Melbourne Sydney Brisbane Auckland Singapore Tokyo', with VPS 'from $20 AUD/mo'"},{"url":"https://vpspricetracker.com/provider/ransomIT/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"tracker row, cells in page order: '2 Intel Cores (shared)', '2,048 MB RAM', '30 GB SSD', '1,024 GB/month bandwidth', '0.05 Gbps port speed', 'IPv4 + IPv6', 'Brisbane Australia', price '$20.00 / month'; repeated at the same price for Sydney and Melbourne"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Currency is the finding here: the tracker prints '$20.00 / month' with no currency marker on a site that converts everything to USD for sorting, while the vendor states 'Prices in AUD, including GST'. The figure is recorded as AUD and was not converted, so it is not comparable with the USD figures without an exchange rate taken on the day. The tracker's '0.05 Gbps port speed' is not stated anywhere on the vendor's VPS page, so the port is reported only. Not in dossier/compute: no record under ransomit, searched the whole dossier tree. would-settle: what the plan's actual port rate is, and whether extra data is priced or discretionary.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":30,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}