BuyVM

buyvm.net · Compute, Storage · 4 records · JSON

BuyVM ComputepaidcardcardDper-ip-shapingdisagrees
BuyVM ComputepaidcardcardDper-ip-shapingdisagrees
BuyVM Computepaidemailno cardDper-ip-shapingdisagrees
BuyVM Block Storage Slabs Storagefails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap

BuyVM Compute

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buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ · cloud VM · compute/buyvm · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: compute/buyvm says card, compute/buyvm-slice-512 says email

Free tier	SLICE 512: 1 core at 3.50+ GHz with fair-share CPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, unmetered bandwidth, 1 IPv4, at USD 24.00 per year. SLICE 1024: 1024 MB, 20 GB SSD, unmetered, USD 3.50 per month. SLICE 2048: 2048 MB, 40 GB SSD, USD 7.00 per month. SLICE 4096 carries dedicated CPU at USD 15.00 per month. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	SLICE 512 listed at '$24.00 per year' with 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD and 'Unmetered' bandwidth, quoted
Identity	card not published
Limits	per-ip-shaping bandwidth is unmetered but the CPU is fair-share and the port is shared, so contention throttles you before any byte counter stops you source bandwidth is unmetered but the CPU is fair-share and the port is shared, so contention throttles you before any byte counter stops you
Binding	per-ip-shaping bandwidth is unmetered but the CPU is fair-share and the port is shared, so contention throttles you before any byte counter stops you
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	unmetered bandwidth makes this the egress end of a chain whose compute sits on a cheaper per-GiB host; 512 MB is enough for a proxy or tunnel endpoint, not for compute
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	'Unmetered' is the claim to test: the page pairs it with 'Fair Share CPU Usage' and publishes no byte cap on this tier. Open corner: the slice cards state no port speed, while the high-volume table states 1000 Mbps. Not in dossier/compute (searched: buyvm, no record).
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	SLICE 512 listed at '$24.00 per year' with 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD and 'Unmetered' bandwidth, quoted
2026-10-22	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	SLICE 1024 '$3.50 per month', SLICE 2048 '$7.00 per month', SLICE 4096 '$15.00 per month' with Dedicated CPU Usage
2026-10-22	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	high volume plans: 2 cores / 8 GB / 160 GB SSD / unlimited at 1000 Mbps for USD 30.00 a month

More fields (2)

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  {
   "plan": "SLICE 2048 (1 vCPU / 2 GiB)",
   "cpu_model": "AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor",
   "dedicated_or_shared": "shared",
   "gb6_single": 1192,
   "gb6_multi": 1161,
   "gb5_single": 924,
   "gb5_multi": 897,
   "source_url": "https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/yabs/buyvm-1c-2gb-tg5628",
   "source_date": "2024-05-28",
   "rung": "reported",
   "note": "Ryzen 9 3900X at 3.79 GHz. One vCPU beat every 2 vCPU x86 row here on single core except RackNerd's. Trial is from 2024, the oldest measurement in the table."
  }
 ]
}

Unknown or withheld values (8)

$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated

BuyVM Compute

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buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ · VPS · compute/buyvm-slice-2048 · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: compute/buyvm-slice-2048 says card, compute/buyvm-slice-512 says email

Free tier	no free tier; the ladder starts at 'SLICE 512 ... $24.00 per year' unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	the disk persists while the plan is paid
Egress	'Unmetered Bandwidth' on every slice; the high-volume table states 'Unlim. 1000 Mbps' free_allowance: unmetered
Identity	card an account and a payment method at order
Limits	per-ip-shaping unmetered traffic, port speed not stated on the slice cards source per-object-cap 40 GB SSD on SLICE 2048 source
Binding	per-ip-shaping traffic is unmetered, so what binds is the port and the single core; the published slice card does not state the port speed, which is the gap in this row.
Interface	ssh root SSH on KVM, Stallion control panel, block storage add-on
Tooling	any SSH client; Stallion panel
Composes with	an unmetered 2 GiB box where the traffic allowance, not the RAM, is what you are buying
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	USD 7.00 for 2 GiB is well over the line, and the row is recorded because BuyVM's unmetered traffic is the cheapest genuinely unmetered bandwidth. The slice that fits the budget is SLICE 1024 at USD 3.50 for 1 GiB, which is too small to rank. USD 24.00 a year for SLICE 512 is the cheapest annual figure seen anywhere.
Evidence rung	documented shape and price are quoted from the slice cards read today; port speed and IPv6 are not stated there.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD7.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD7.0 / month `$.extras.renewal_usd` price USD7.0 / month `$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 40.0 GB

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	quoted: 'SLICE 2048 - 1 Core @ 3.50+ GHz - Fair Share CPU Usage - 2048 MB Memory - 40 GB SSD Storage - Unmetered Bandwidth - 1 IPv4 Address - $7.00 per month'
2026-10-24	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	quoted for the rungs below: 'SLICE 1024 ... 1024 MB Memory ... 20 GB SSD ... $3.50 per month' and 'SLICE 512 ... 512 MB Memory ... 10 GB SSD ... $24.00 per year'

More fields (17)

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  "disk_gib": 40,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "billing_model": "monthly",
 "term": "monthly",
 "m10h_usd": 7.0,
 "m24h_usd": 7.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 7.00/month flat",
 "out_of_pocket_usd": 7.0,
 "renewal_usd": 7.0,
 "renewal_note": "list price, monthly",
 "promo": false,
 "over_line": true,
 "port_mbps": null,
 "ipv4_included": true,
 "ipv6": null,
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  "ports": "all",
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  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
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  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "none; it is a VPS"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (2)

$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed

BuyVM Compute

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buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ · VPS · compute/buyvm-slice-512 · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: compute/buyvm says card, compute/buyvm-slice-512 says email
identity_kind: compute/buyvm-slice-2048 says card, compute/buyvm-slice-512 says email

Free tier	No free tier. SLICE 512 is USD 24.00 a year; SLICE 1024 is USD 3.50 a month and is not sold annually on this page. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	The slice persists while the term is paid; the page states no deletion schedule.
Egress	Unmetered bandwidth on a 1000 Mbps port, in the vendor's wording 'Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Servers'. free_allowance: unmetered
Identity	email Self-service order with an email account; the page read today states no card hold and lists no payment methods.
Limits	per-ip-shaping unmetered transfer at 1000 Mbps; the vendor states no volume cap, so port contention is the practical limit source
Binding	per-ip-shaping With no traffic quota, the only thing that degrades is throughput under contention on a shared 1000 Mbps port.
Interface	ssh KVM slice with unmetered transfer on a 1000 Mbps port.
Tooling	Any SSH client; KVM, so its own kernel.
Composes with	USD 24.00 a year buys 512 MB with unmetered transfer and a real IPv4: twice ceiling, but the cheapest unmetered machine found here.
Reliability	Long-running provider with a block-storage product on the same account.
Notes	This refutes the framing that BuyVM has a sub-USD-1 monthly slice. The cheapest machine on the page is USD 24.00 a year, USD 2.00 a month, and it has half the RAM of the USD 9.95 SoftShellWeb container.
Evidence rung	documented Both prices and the shape are quoted from the vendor's page read today.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD2.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD2.0 / month `$.extras.renewal_usd` price USD24.0 / month

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	quoted: 'SLICE 512 ... 512 MB Memory ... 10 GB SSD Storage ... $24.00 per year'
2026-10-24	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	quoted: 'SLICE 1024 ... 1024 MB Memory ... 20 GB SSD Storage ... $3.50 per month'

More fields (11)

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 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 1,
  "ram_gib": 0.5,
  "disk_gib": 10,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "billing_model": "annual",
 "term": "12 months",
 "m24h_usd": 2.0,
 "m10h_usd": 2.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 24.00 a year / 12 = USD 2.00 a month. Out of pocket at order: USD 24.00.",
 "renewal_usd": 24.0,
 "first_payment_usd": 24.0,
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "all, on one IPv4",
  "static_ip": true,
  "ipv6": false,
  "ipv6_prefix": null,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "payment_methods": "not established on the page read",
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "none; it is a VPS"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (2)

$.confidence_note partly-held
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable

BuyVM Block Storage Slabs Storage

fails: quotacardcardRper-object-cap

buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/ · block-storage · storage/buyvm-block-storage-slabs · JSON · compare

Free tier	Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility. Available Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Luxembourg. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	$5.00/TB/mo flat, plus the base slice. At 5 TB: $25/mo slab + $3.50 slice = $28.50/mo = $5.70/TB all-in. At 20 TB: 2x 10 TB slabs = $100/mo + $3.50 = $103.50/mo = $5.18/TB. The all-in figure is what matters and it is worse than the headline because the slice is mandatory overhead.
Per-object cap	10 TB hard cap per (10000000000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	'Unmetered Bandwidth' on every slice, governed by a fair-use rule the company states publicly on LET: 'The rule-of-thumb for WAN (internet-facing connections) is 100Mbit/s of 24/7 usage per every 4GB of memory with a purchased slice. We do, however, allow our customers to burst their usage up to 1Gbit/s during times of lower network use.' A second formulation from a customer cites 'FUP is 25 Mbps per 1GB of RAM for the 95th percentile'. So the storage is metered-free but the sustained rate is tied to how much RAM you bought — on the $3.50/mo 1 GB slice that is ~25 Mbps sustained, i.e. ~8 TB/mo. Internal traffic between services in the same location is genuinely unmetered and unbilled. free_allowance: 8 TB per month
Identity	card card
Limits	per-object-cap 10 TB hard cap per source per-object-cap: none. Downgrade impossible — you must order a new slab and migrate. 10 TB hard cap per slab. Requires a base slice, so the true entry cost is a slice plus a slab.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	sftp, rsync, nfs block (attach as disk), then sftp/rsync/nfs from the slice
Tooling	anything — it is a raw block device on a KVM slice
Composes with	Hot-pluggable between slices in the same facility with no reboot, which makes it easy to re-front with a different server. No object API at all ('We may consider an Object Store product down the line, but not at this time').
Reliability	Frantech, operating since 2010, the most consistently recommended block-storage product on LET for a decade. Known friction: signup must come from a residential ISP and is refused from VPN/Tor/datacenter IPs, P.O. boxes rejected — a real obstacle for a privacy-conscious buyer but not an identity-document requirement. Storage is 'enterprise 7200RPM hard drives with an NVME cache and a 40Gbit+ InfiniBand'.
Notes	Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility. Available Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Luxembourg.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 10.0 TB `$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD5.18 TB / month

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/	'Block Storage Slabs are sold in chunks of 256GB for $1.25/month. A 1TB Block Storage Slab is $5.00/month, with a 10TB Block Storage Slab being just $50.00/month', max 10 TB/slab, max 8 slabs, four locations
2026-10-21	buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/	cheapest slice $24.00/yr (512 MB), $3.50/mo (1 GB), all 'Unmetered Bandwidth'
2026-10-21	lowendtalk.com/discussion/171839/	BuyVM's quoted bandwidth rule: '100Mbit/s of 24/7 usage per every 4GB of memory'
2026-10-21	lowendtalk.com/discussion/186157/	'FUP is 25 Mbps per 1GB of RAM for the 95th percentile'
2026-10-21	nokyc.host/provider/buyvm	'Registration and ordering must come from the client's residential ISP ... P.O. boxes and mail-forwarding addresses are refused'

More fields (2)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility. Available Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Luxembourg.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 },
 "price_verbatim": "$5.00/TB/mo flat, plus the base slice. At 5 TB: $25/mo slab + $3.50 slice = $28.50/mo = $5.70/TB all-in. At 20 TB: 2x 10 TB slabs = $100/mo + $3.50 = $103.50/mo = $5.18/TB. The all-in figure is what matters and it is worse than the headline because the slice is mandatory overhead."
}

Unknown or withheld values (5)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted