BuyVM was founded in 2010.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Feature | Value | Comment |
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Hourly Billing | No | |
DDOS Protection | No | Ddos protection is an additional $3 per month: https://buyvm.net/ddos-protection/ |
Backups | No | No backup, no snapshot. |
Control Panel | Stallion | |
SSH Keys Setup | No | |
Total Number of Datacenters | 3 | |
Number of Datacenter Continents | 2 | |
Monitoring Charts | No | |
Admin REST API | No | |
Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
Reverse DNS | Yes | |
Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, Alipay, Coinbase | |
Hidden CPU Model | No | |
Affiliate Program | Yes | |
Firewall | No | |
Shelving | No |
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, BuyVM also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer | Floating IP addresses |
Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless | DDoS protection | Kubernetes |
GPU instances |
These are all the CPU types we have seen in BuyVM instances per plan and time period.
BuyVM CPUsFor each BuyVM VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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19397s | 30s | 70000s | 4 |
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Block | $0.005 | 256GB minimum |
Called Block Storage Slabs. You must own a VPS (Slice) to have a "Slab". Slabs can be attached or moved to any Slice in the same datacenter.
Often unavailable.
https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/ |
The Screener shows all BuyVM plans side by side with their grades in 5 categories.
URL | https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ |
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Price per month | $3.50 |
Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
Disk GB | 20 |
Num Cores | 1 |
Memory GB | 1.0 |
Hourly Billing | No |
Virtualization | KVM |
Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
Burstable CPU | No |
Dedicated CPU | No |
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 43
Web Performance | Raw CPU Power | Performance Stability | Disk IO Performance | Network Performance |
---|---|---|---|---|
D | D | C | D | D |
Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2021 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.
We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for BuyVM - Slice 1024. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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Review | Review | Review | Review |
Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Slice 1024 plan with its grade and CPU type.
Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
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Aug 14 2020 | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor | Nevada, USA | D |
Dec 07 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz | Las Vegas, USA | D |
Apr 19 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz | Nevada, USA | D |
URL | https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ |
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Price per month | $7.00 |
Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
Disk GB | 40 |
Num Cores | 1 |
Memory GB | 2.0 |
Hourly Billing | No |
Virtualization | KVM |
Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
Burstable CPU | No |
Dedicated CPU | No |
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 48
Web Performance | Raw CPU Power | Performance Stability | Disk IO Performance | Network Performance |
---|---|---|---|---|
C | D | C | C | D |
Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2021 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.
We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for BuyVM - Slice 2048. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
---|---|---|---|
Review | Review | Review | Review |
Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
This plan was tested 4 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Slice 2048 plan with its grade and CPU type.
Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
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Jan 01 2021 | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor | Nevada, USA | D |
Jun 06 2020 | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor | Nevada, USA | E |
Jul 07 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz | Las Vegas, USA | E |
Oct 14 2017 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz | New York, NY | E |