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The page read today states no card hold and lists no payment methods, so the accepted card, PayPal or crypto routes are not established.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The offer is a June 2026 advertising page still served in October, so the price is a campaign that can end without notice.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Price, code, shape and the unmetered claim are quoted from the vendor's page read today. 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Pick your platform and billing term - every plan ships unmetered.'"},{"url":"https://serverhost.com/vps-hosting.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted FAQ answer to 'How much does a VPS cost?': 'Plans start at $3/mo for Xeon Linux and $9/mo for Ryzen/i9; Windows starts at $14/mo.'"},{"url":"https://serverhost.com/vps-hosting.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the page's own price ladder, window.SH_VPS, the Xeon Linux 1 GB entry: '{\"name\":\"1 GB\",\"base\":3,\"annualOnly\":true,\"annualPrice\":36,\"specs\":[\"1x Intel E5\",\"15 GB NVMe\"]}'. The same ladder prices 2 GB at 6, 4 GB at 12, 8 GB at 24, 16 GB at 48, 32 GB at 96 and 64 GB at 192"},{"url":"https://vpshostingservice.co/order/linux-performance-vps/linux-vps-1-gb-25","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted order page for the same SKU: 'Linux VPS - 1 GB ... 1 Intel Xeon CPU Cores @ 2.0 GHZ+ ... 1 GB Guaranteed Memory ... 15 GB NVME Drive Space ... Unmetered Bandwidth ... 1 Gbps Shared Network Port ... Starting from $5.00 Monthly'"},{"url":"https://serverhost.com/sale/2026/serverhost-fb-ad-june.html","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted order link: 'https://vpshostingservice.co/order/linux-performance-vps/linux-vps-2-gb-25?billingcycle=annually&promocode=FBAD2GB2026', so the annual figure is a promo-code price rather than a list price"},{"url":"https://vpshostingservice.co/order/linux-performance-vps/linux-vps-8-gb-25","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '2 GB Guaranteed Memory 30 GB NVME Drive Space Unmetered Bandwidth 1 Gbps Shared Network Port' and 'Starting from $6.00 Monthly'"},{"url":"https://vpshostingservice.co/order/linux-performance-vps/linux-vps-8-gb-25","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Starting from $24.00 Monthly' for the 8 GB rung; the ladder read the same way is 1 GB $5.00, 2 GB $6.00, 4 GB $12.00, 8 GB $24.00, 10 GB $30.00, 16 GB $48.00, 32 GB $96.00, 64 GB $192.00 a month"},{"url":"https://serverhost.com/sale/2026/serverhost-fb-ad-june.html","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '8 GB KVM VPS $59.99 /year' against a list rate of USD 24.00 a month for the same shape"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-24T03:20:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"This refutes the framing that ServerHost's USD 16.99 a year is a sub-USD-1-a-month machine. It is USD 1.42 a month, and the renewal price is not published, so even that figure is a first-term figure. RENEWAL PASS 2026-10-24: this is the clearest first-term promo. The discount arrives as a promo code on an annual billing cycle, and the same billing system publishes a monthly list price for the identical shape at 4.2x the promo's effective rate. Nothing read today says what year 2 costs, so the row stays paid-only and the renewal stays unpublished. Note the read caveat: the sale page came from a stored snapshot dated 2026-10-22, not a live fetch.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":30,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"annual","term":"12 months","m24h_usd":1.42,"m10h_usd":1.42,"price_arithmetic":"USD 16.99 a year / 12 = USD 1.4158 a month. 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The promo is delivered by a code in the order URL (`promocode=FBAD2GB2026` with `billingcycle=annually`), against a published monthly list price of USD 6.00 for the same 2 GB shape. No page read states what the second year costs, so the exposure is up to the list rate of USD 72.00 a year against the USD 16.99 first payment, a 4.2x jump.","renewal_evidence":"no renewal statement found; list price read from the order form","promo_code":"FBAD2GB2026","list_price_usd_month":6,"list_price_note":"read from the order form at vpshostingservice.co, the billing system the sale page links to: 'Linux VPS - 2 GB ... Starting from $6.00 Monthly'. The full list ladder read the same way is 1 GB $5.00, 2 GB $6.00, 4 GB $12.00, 8 GB $24.00, 10 GB $30.00, 16 GB $48.00, 32 GB $96.00, 64 GB $192.00 a month.","list_ladder_usd_month":{"1 GB":5,"2 GB":6,"4 GB":12,"8 GB":24,"10 GB":30,"16 GB":48,"32 GB":96,"64 GB":192},"promo_vs_list":"the June promo is 76% below list on the 2 GB rung (USD 16.99 a year against USD 72.00 at the monthly list rate) and 79% below list on the 8 GB rung (USD 59.99 a year against USD 288.00)","read_caveat":"the sale page was served from a stored snapshot dated 2026-10-22T16:20:54Z rather than read live today; the list ladder on vpshostingservice.co was read live on 2026-10-24"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":1.42,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":1.42,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":1.42,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":1.42,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/serverhost","other":"compute/serverhost-2gb-promo","field":"identity_kind","a":"card","b":"email","detail":null}]}