Hosting-VDS.com

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Hosting-VDS.com Compute

fails: identitycountry-phoneno cardphoneRwrite-gated

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Free tier	A Russian-market VPS seller that accepts ordinary registration and payment from anyone and then, once the order is placed, requires phone verification with a Russian mobile number only, a condition not stated during signup. The buyer in the report could not verify, received no server, and was refused a refund. This is the clearest case of identity as the binding constraint: the quota was available, the payment cleared, and the door closed at verification. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	country-phone a Russian mobile number for phone verification, demanded after registration and payment have completed and not disclosed at signup: the LowEndTalk report states registration and payment completed normally, then phone verification with a Russian mobile number was required, the server was never delivered and no refund was made. The payment route is the one the buyer had already cleared; no card type, hold amount or debit acceptance is stated. One reporting buyer only, so this is reported rather than documented
Limits	write-gated The gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this provider. source The gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this provider.
Binding	write-gated The gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this provider.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	It composes with nothing: the value of the record is that it marks a provider where a foreign buyer loses the payment rather than the order, so the next session does not spend a card authorisation to find out.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	One reporting buyer, so the rung is reported and the pattern rests on a single account; a second independent report would move it. Two neighbours found in the same search and not recorded separately: 4vps.su, where a published complaint says a VDS was paid for and never worked, with no refund and a ticket left unanswered, and Digital-VM, reported on the same forum as having operated earlier as Virpus and shut down a paying customer's second server when a payment dispute was raised.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-05

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com	a July 2025 LowEndTalk post reports that registration and payment completed normally, that phone verification with a Russian mobile number was then required and had not been disclosed, that the server was never delivered and no refund was made, and that the support reply was abusive

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.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