{"rid":"storage/servarica-storage-vps","card":{"rid":"storage/servarica-storage-vps","eid":"servarica","topic":"storage","slug":"servarica-storage-vps","provider":"ServaRica storage VPS","url":"https://servarica.com/storage-servers-2/","domain":"servarica.com","category":"storage-vps","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-ip-shaping","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest,sftp,rsync,nfs,rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":2,"summary":"Opossum 1 1 TB, Opossum 2 1 TB, Polar Bear 2 TB, Killer Whale 3.5 TB, Horse 3 TB, Penguin 4 TB, Mammoth 8 TB; the 4-20 TB tier adds Chimera Hybrid 4 TB / 8 T...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"servarica-storage-vps","provider":"ServaRica storage VPS","url":"https://servarica.com/storage-servers-2/","category":"storage-vps","free_tier":{"stated":"Opossum 1 1 TB, Opossum 2 1 TB, Polar Bear 2 TB, Killer Whale 3.5 TB, Horse 3 TB, Penguin 4 TB, Mammoth 8 TB; the 4-20 TB tier adds Chimera Hybrid 4 TB / 8 TB / 16 TB at 4-16 TB of HDD plus NVMe. 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The provider states traffic is counted on BOTH directions (LET thread 199994 p9: 'We count traffic from both d[irections]').","metered":false},"interface":["rest","sftp","rsync","nfs","rclone"],"interface_detail":"sftp, rsync, nfs, rest (self-hosted)","tooling":"rclone SFTP, any backup tool, Xen/KVM root","chaining":"Root VPS; AList/MinIO installable. The 250 Mbps unlimited option is the single most valuable egress term found — it is genuinely uncapped, just bandwidth-shaped.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"15 GB/day","source":"https://servarica.com/storage/0-5-4tb/"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: none. 'Unlimited Expanding Storage' plans add +1 to +15 GB/day of disk rather than granting it up front. Xen on the older storage line.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"Long-standing CA provider with a strong LowEndTalk record — 'Have been using servarica for close a year now. Absolutely no issues' (thread 180949), 'I just renewed my storage vps with servarica for the 2nd year never had issue'.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://servarica.com/storage-servers-2/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"Polar Bear 2 TB $5/mo or $48/yr, Killer Whale 3.5 TB $8.50/mo, Penguin 4 TB $11.11/mo, Mammoth 8 TB $20/mo or $220/yr"},{"url":"https://servarica.com/plan/588/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"Polar Bear detail page with BOTH bandwidth options quoted verbatim, plus a published YABS (1,090 GB6 single, 149-657 MB/s disk)"},{"url":"https://servarica.com/storage/0-5-4tb/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"and https://servarica.com/storage/4-20tb/ — every storage row marked 'Out of stock' at time of reading"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/196219/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"provider announcing 'unlimited bandwidth starting at 250 Mbps, with an extra 1 Mbps added daily'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$2.00-2.50/TB/mo. At 5 TB: Killer Whale 3.5 TB ($8.50) + Polar Bear 2 TB ($5) = $13.50/mo for 5.5 TB = $2.45/TB. At 20 TB: 2x Mammoth 8 TB ($40) + Penguin 4 TB ($11.11) = $51.11/mo for 20 TB = $2.56/TB; annual billing on the Mammoths drops it to $2.49/TB. Cheapest per-TB is Polar Bear at $2.00/TB o…","notes":"Opossum 1 1 TB, Opossum 2 1 TB, Polar Bear 2 TB, Killer Whale 3.5 TB, Horse 3 TB, Penguin 4 TB, Mammoth 8 TB; the 4-20 TB tier adds Chimera Hybrid 4 TB / 8 TB / 16 TB at 4-16 TB of HDD plus NVMe. RAIDZ2 on HDD, Montreal CA.","extras":{"price_verbatim":"$2.00-2.50/TB/mo. At 5 TB: Killer Whale 3.5 TB ($8.50) + Polar Bear 2 TB ($5) = $13.50/mo for 5.5 TB = $2.45/TB. At 20 TB: 2x Mammoth 8 TB ($40) + Penguin 4 TB ($11.11) = $51.11/mo for 20 TB = $2.56/TB; annual billing on the Mammoths drops it to $2.49/TB. Cheapest per-TB is Polar Bear at $2.00/TB on annual ($48/yr). **Caveat: out of stock across the entire storage catalogue.**"},"binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":15,"unit":"GB","per":"day","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":2,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":2,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.reliability_note","partly-held"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}