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Plan transfer allowances: 1 TB plan = 3 TB/mo, 2 TB plan = 6 TB, 4 TB = 10 TB, 8 TB = 20 TB, 16 TB = 40 TB, all on ports 'up to 10 Gbit'. We charge 3.0EUR additional per TB over the allowance, unless otherwise agreed upon.' (https://alphavps.com/terms). The backup-storage landing page separately advertises 'No egress fees, no vendor lock-in' and 'EGRESS €0 - FLAT' — that is marketing copy contradicted and the provider are the binding document. Treat egress as €3/TB metered.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"3 TB per month","price_per_tb":"€3/TB","source_url":"https://alphavps.com/terms"},"interface":["s3","rest","webdav","sftp","rsync","nfs","rclone"],"interface_detail":"sftp, rsync, nfs, rest (self-hosted: MinIO/SeaweedFS/Nextcloud on the VPS, or WebDAV)","tooling":"rclone over SFTP/WebDAV, BorgBackup, Restic, rsync. No native S3 — you host your own gateway.","chaining":"Best of the VPS class for the archive half: root KVM, so AList/OpenList or MinIO can be installed and fronted by Cloudflare for cache-covered egress. Not usable as a raw S3 origin without running MinIO.","limits":[],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: none (block device). RAID-60 with NVMe read cache. 14-day money-back on FIRST order only, excludes promos, crypto, and orders from China.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"Bulgarian operator (DA International Group Ltd.), own AS203380 since 2013, 99.9% uptime SLA in the published SLA. Long-running positive sentiment on LowEndTalk; one 2022 thread documents a bad provisioning experience but not data loss.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://alphavps.com/storage-vps","date":"2026-10-21","proved":null},{"url":"https://alphavps.com/terms","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'We charge 3.0EUR additional per TB over the allowance'"},{"url":"https://alphavps.com/solutions/backup-storage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'zero egress fees' / 'EGRESS €0 - FLAT' marketing claim, contradicted above"},{"url":"https://alphavps.com/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=521","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"order page for the 16 TB SKU, loads and configures"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$3.74/TB/mo (€3.33). At 5 TB: not a ladder rung — cheapest 5 TB shape is 4 TB + 2 TB = €20.00/mo = €3.33/TB = $3.74/TB. At 20 TB: exceeds the 16 TB per-VPS ceiling, so cheapest shape is 16 TB (€53.33) + 4 TB (€13.33) on a second VPS = €66.66/mo = €3.33/TB = $3.74/TB. Price is flat from 1 TB to 16 T…","notes":"256 GB / 512 GB / 1 TB / 2 TB / 3 TB / 4 TB / 8 TB / 16 TB. 16 TB is the ceiling on a single VPS; the ladder is flat-priced, so €/TB does not improve above 1 TB.","extras":{"price_verbatim":"$3.74/TB/mo (€3.33). At 5 TB: not a ladder rung — cheapest 5 TB shape is 4 TB + 2 TB = €20.00/mo = €3.33/TB = $3.74/TB. At 20 TB: exceeds the 16 TB per-VPS ceiling, so cheapest shape is 16 TB (€53.33) + 4 TB (€13.33) on a second VPS = €66.66/mo = €3.33/TB = $3.74/TB. Price is flat from 1 TB to 16 TB, so no volume discount exists."},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":256,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":3.74,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":3.74,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.evidence[0].proved","withheld"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}