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At the same USD 8.99 the Powerhouse Mini gives 1 core, 4 GB, 50 GB SSD RAID 10 and 1 TB. The page header states 'Starting from USD 7.49/mo' while the lowest plan card is USD 8.99.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.tier.net/vps","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.tier.net/vps","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.tier.net/vps","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"2 TB a month at 1 Gbps on the Bronze, 1 TB on the Powerhouse Mini; the page states no overage price and no throttle","metered":true,"free_allowance":"2 TB per month","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.tier.net/vps"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated on the page read: the plan table names a 'Simple Management' and an 'Ultimate Management' add-on at USD 15 a month and a cPanel add-on at USD 21, but no API, and the panel product is not named","chaining":"4 GB for USD 8.99 with a stated 2 TB allowance at a named 1 Gbps port, in three US regions the tracker lists, suits a US-region crawl worker or a build node that has to know its port speed before it orders","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"2 TB a month at 1 Gbps is stated on the Bronze card; 1 TB on the Powerhouse Mini at the same price. No overage rate is published on the page read","source":"https://www.tier.net/vps"}],"limits_note":"2 TB a month at 1 Gbps is stated on the Bronze card; 1 TB on the Powerhouse Mini at the same price. No overage rate is published on the page read","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"2 TB a month at 1 Gbps is stated on the Bronze card; 1 TB on the Powerhouse Mini at the same price. No overage rate is published on the page read","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://vpspricetracker.com/provider/TierNet/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"cheapest row repeated for three locations: 'TierNet - USD 8.99 / month', '1 Intel Cores (shared)', '4,096 MB RAM', '30 GB SSD', '2,048 GB/month bandwidth', '1 Gbps port speed', 'Dallas Texas', 'Bend Oregon', 'Charlotte North Carolina'"},{"url":"https://www.tier.net/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Premium table 'VPS Bronze' card, quoted: 'USD 8.99 /per month', 'Cores: 1', '4GB', '30GB SSD RAID 10', '2TB @ 1Gbps', '1x IPv4, /64 IPv6'; the table is headed 'ALL PRICES ARE IN USD'"},{"url":"https://www.tier.net/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Powerhouse 'Mini' card at 'USD 8.99 /month' with 'Cores: 1', '4GB', '50GB SSD RAID 10', '1TB @ 1Gbps'; the next Premium card is USD 12.99 with 2 cores, 6 GB, 50 GB, 4 TB"},{"url":"https://www.tier.net/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the page header says 'Starting from USD 7.49 /mo' and 'VPS Hosting - From USD 7.49/mo', which no plan card on the page repeats; the page also carries the promo text 'TIER-VPS10 ... Valid till May 31, 2025'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Two pricing inconsistencies on the vendor page, recorded rather than resolved: the hero says USD 7.49 while the cheapest card is USD 8.99, and the promo block still advertises a code that expired on 31 May 2025, which is evidence the page carries stale campaign text. The 7-day money-back guarantee is stated on every card. Not in dossier/compute (searched: tier.net, no record). would-settle: whether USD 7.49 is the annual-term rate that the page's billing-cycle tabs hide from a text read. Rendering and provenance: currency symbols are written out (EUR, GBP, RUB, VND), diacritics in place names are folded to ASCII, and a price the page splits across two lines is joined as value/period; the tracker page stated 'Database update: 7 hours ago' when it was read on 2026-10-22.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":4,"disk_gib":30,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":4,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":2,"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":[]}