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The provider's own description on the row reads '256-384MB DEDICATED RAM // 1 vCORE // 10GB SSD (HW RAID 10) // DDoS Protection Available // 500GB BANDWIDTH // 100MBPS - 1GBPS'. Stock is 'Stock unknown'.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.serverhunter.com/offer/virmach-ssd256/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.serverhunter.com/offer/virmach-ssd256/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.serverhunter.com/offer/virmach-ssd256/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"500 GB a month, printed both on the tracker row and in the provider's own description of the plan. 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No overage price is stated.","source":"https://www.serverhunter.com/offer/virmach-ssd256/"}],"limits_note":"500 GB a month is the allowance printed on the row and in the provider's own description, so the byte counter is the first wall; 500 GB on a 100 Mbit port is about 11 hours of line-rate traffic, and the port range the description gives runs to 1 Gbit, which shortens that further. No overage price is stated.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"500 GB a month is the allowance printed on the row and in the provider's own description, so the byte counter is the first wall; 500 GB on a 100 Mbit port is about 11 hours of line-rate traffic, and the port range the description gives runs to 1 Gbit, which shortens that further. No overage price is stated.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"the tracker's own stock history shows this offer last in stock on 30 November 2019 and 'Stock unknown' since 28 February 2022, so availability is unverified","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.serverhunter.com/offer/virmach-ssd256/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"row fields, transcribed and joined by me (unquoted values are not verbatim): Monthly price USD 1.25, 'Product type VPS', 'Virtualization type KVM', 'Stock Stock unknown', 'Processor cores 1 core', 'Memory amount 384 MB', 'Total SSD Capacity 10 GB', 'Uplink 100 Mbit', 'Traffic 500 GB', 'Location Buffalo, New York, United States of America'; provider description quoted above"},{"url":"https://www.serverhunter.com/offer/virmach-ssd256/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the pages own stock-history table reads This offer was last seen in stock on the 30th of November 2019 at 01:08:13 (UTC) (6 years, 10 months, 2 weeks ago), followed by a Stock unknown' row dated 28 February 2022"},{"url":"https://virmach.com/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the vendor homepage returns 200 and describes 'cheap VPS (virtual machine cloud hosting) for a few dollars, in 14 global datacenters' with no plan table in the extract; https://virmach.com/kvm-vps/ returned a 404 body"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Found via serverhunter. Not in dossier/compute (searched: virmach, no record). Recorded despite the stale stock line because the price is what the index publishes and the staleness is itself the finding. would-settle: an attempt to order the plan, which is the only test of whether USD 1.25 is still a purchasable machine.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.375,"disk_gib":10,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":384,"unit":"MB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":500,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/virmach","other":"compute/virmach-black-friday-cyber-monday","field":"verdict","a":"paid-only","b":"dead","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/virmach","other":"compute/virmach-black-friday-cyber-monday","field":"identity_kind","a":"email","b":"card","detail":null}]}