RackNerd Review

RackNerd

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RackNerd in its own words

RackNerd is a diverse & global provider of Infrastructure as a Service solutions. Whether you require single processor or dual processor servers, or have high bandwidth needs - we have you covered!

RackNerd was founded as a VPS provider in 2019.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It employs 32 people.
It offers VPS, shared hosting, dedicated servers and colocation hosting products.

It has data centers in:
  • Canada
  • Ireland
  • Netherlands
  • United States

Best VPS Awards

1st Best Value January 2023

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RackNerd VPS Features

Features not included in VPS prices are marked as missing in the table below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  No
DDOS Protection  No
Backups  No
Control Panel  WHMCS, SolusVM
SSH Keys Setup  No
Total Number of Datacenters  11
Number of Data Center Continents  2
Monitoring Charts  Yes

Network traffic, HDD activity.

Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  No
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
IPv6 support  No

Can be setup through support.

Firewall  No
Shelving  No
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RackNerd Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, RackNerd also sells the services marked green in the following table:

Backups Block storage Object storage Load balancer
Floating IP addresses Team Management   Managed databases Serverless
DDoS protection Kubernetes GPU instances Private network

VPS Instance Provisioning Time

For each RackNerd VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.

See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.

Average Provisioning Time Median Provisioning Time Min Provisioning Time Max Provisioning Time Number of VPS Samples
110s 110s 110s 110s 1

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RackNerd Instance Types and Plans

How fast are RackNerd servers?
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All RackNerd instance types

Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.

Cloud Server Plans

Note: This is not an exhaustive list of plans and instance types offered by RackNerd. Only plans that have been tested by VPSBenchmarks or may be tested in the future are included.
Plan Number of CPU cores RAM Storage Monthly Price
Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
KVM VPS

RAID-10 protected Pure SSD storage. Powered by powered by latest and cutting edge Intel Xeon processors.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps?aff=6809
KVM 2 vCores 1GB 2 1.0GB 50GB $17.99 / month
KVM 4 vCore 4 GB 4 4.0GB 130GB $24.59 / month
KVM 6 vCore 8 GB 6 8.0GB 220GB $36.59 / month
KVM 7 vCore 12 GB 7 12.0GB 300GB $55.99 / month
Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
AMD Ryzen VPS

RackNerd's AMD Ryzen VPS instances leverage powerful AMD Ryzen 3900X or 7950X processors and NVMe SSD storage in RAID-10. These KVM-virtualized VPS solutions offer full root access, a 1Gbps network port, and instant setup.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.racknerd.com/ryzen-vps?aff=6809
Ryzen 1 vCore 1GB 1 1.0GB 15GB $17.99 / month
Ryzen 2 vCores 2GB 2 2.0GB 20GB $20.59 / month
Ryzen 2 vCores 4GB 2 4.0GB 30GB $24.59 / month
Ryzen 3 vCores 6GB 3 6.0GB 45GB $27.59 / month
Ryzen 4 vCores 12GB 4 12.0GB 90GB $55.99 / month

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