BuyVM Review
BuyVM was founded in 2010.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- Luxembourg
- USA
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Last updated on August 23 2019.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, Alipay, Coinbase | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| Firewall | No |
In VPSBenchmark's opinion
BuyVM Extra Services
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 |
| Teams | Datastores | Serverless | DDoS protection | Kubernetes |
| GPU instances |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 580s | 120s | 1320s | 3 |
Admin UI Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage 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.
https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/ |
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BuyVM Plans
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ |
|---|---|
| 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 | No |
Plan Grades
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: 33
Performance Test Results
We conducted 1 different types of tests during the latest trial for BuyVM - Slice 1024. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the Slice 1024 plan
This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Slice 1024 plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 07 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz | |
| Apr 19 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz | D |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/ |
|---|---|
| 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 | No |
Plan Grades
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: 28
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for BuyVM - Slice 2048. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the Slice 2048 plan
This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Slice 2048 plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 07 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz | E |
| Oct 14 2017 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz | E |
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