HOSTKEY
- Free allowance
- No free plan: VPS hosting starts 'from about €1.72/month' for a shared-vCPU plan, with incoming traffic free
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 1.93/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- national-idno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- volume-quota3 TB a month outgoing on the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan on a 1 Gbit/s port
- Evidence
- documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | no free plan: VPS hosting starts 'from about €1.72/month' for a shared-vCPU plan, with incoming traffic free unit TB; metered on downloaded-bytes; The 3 TB outgoing allowance is stated on the vendor's IPv6 VPS page for its listed plans and on a third-party price index for the 1 GB plan; the vendor's main VPS page says outgoing traffic depends on the selected plan. |
|---|---|
| Price | from about EUR 1.72 a month; EUR 2.46 excluding VAT for 3 TB on the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan (third-party index) |
| Limits |
The plan behind the 'from about €1.72/month' headline was not identified on the pages read, so its allowance is unverified. |
| Binding | volume-quota at 1 TiB a month the 3 TB outgoing allowance is not passed on the 1 GB plan; the ID document check on the account is what gates use |
| Identity | national-id KYC is mandatory for every client of hostkey.com: an identity document, a selfie, and a working email address and mobile phone number; new orders are blocked if it is not completed within 30 days of registration |
| Egress | incoming traffic is free and outgoing traffic depends on the selected plan; the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan (vm.pico) lists 3 TB a month on a 1 Gbps port; each VPS gets a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address; inbound UDP policy is not stated on the pages read free allowance: 3 TB a month on the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan (vendor IPv6 VPS page, 1 Gbit/s) |
| Interface | ssh SSH to the VPS public address |
| Tooling | wg-quick or any VPN daemon inside the guest |
| Composes with | a EUR 1.72 to 2.46 a month origin with a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address; the ID document check on the account, not the price, is the cost |
| Reliability | unverified: no suspension, throttle or data-loss behaviour is stated on the pages read |
| Notes | This is the hostkey.com storefront in euros; the existing compute records for HOSTKEY read the Russian-language hostkey.ru storefront. The 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan price and its 3 TB allowance come from a third-party index and are reported; the vendor's IPv6 page lists the same 3 TB figure but says IPv6-only VPS servers are not yet available in the region shown. |
| Evidence note | documented the headline price, free incoming traffic, the addresses and the KYC rule are quoted from vendor pages read on 2026-11-03; the 3 TB figure is on the vendor's IPv6 VPS page, which also says IPv6 VPS servers 'will be available soon'; no VPS was ordered |
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Evidence 9
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/vps/ | the cheapest VPS is about EUR 1.72 a month with a shared vCPU |
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/vps/ | incoming traffic is free and outgoing traffic is plan-dependent |
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/vps/ | each VPS gets a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address |
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/vps/ipv6/ | the IPv6 VPS plans list a 1 Gbit/s port and 3 TB of traffic |
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/vps/ipv6/ | the IPv6 VPS page says IPv6 VPS servers are not yet available in the region shown |
| 2026-11-03 | serverworth.com/plans/hostkey/vm.pico/ | a third-party index reports the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan (vm.pico) at EUR 2.46 excluding VAT with 3 TB a month |
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/documentation/account/kyc_aml/ | KYC verification is mandatory for every client |
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/documentation/account/kyc_aml/ | the first KYC stage is an identity document, followed by a selfie |
| 2026-11-03 | hostkey.com/documentation/account/kyc_aml/ | a working email address and mobile phone number are asked for |
More fields 6
| wg path | native-conf |
|---|---|
| wg detail | a full Linux guest with a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address; wg-quick binds UDP natively unless a firewall is added; inbound UDP was not probed |
| ingress | unverified: no inbound port policy is stated on the pages read |
| volume stated | incoming traffic free; outgoing depends on the plan; 3 TB on the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan |
| bytes transit | yes |
| transit note | bytes leave through the VPS's own public address on HOSTKEY's network |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer