RAKsmart Review
RAKsmart was founded as a VPS provider in 2011.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS, Dedicated servers and Domains hosting products.
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| RAKsmart plans specs and prices | Plans |
| RAKsmart instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are RAKsmart servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of RAKsmart trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in RAKsmart trials | CPUs |
| List of RAKsmart yabs.sh results | Yabs |
RAKsmart News
Providers share news about their company, their products, their features and their promotions on VPSBenchmarks. See all announcements on the Provider News page.
This is the most recent news from RAKsmart.
RAKsmart’s latest upgrade tackles both high-concurrency attacks and inefficient management. The APAC DDoS lineup—VPS, Bare-Metal Cloud, and Dedicated Servers—now supports up to 200Gbps elastic protection on mainland China–optimized routes, helping you stay online through spikes and attacks.
The console was redesigned for faster operations:
- Message Notifications: Real-time delivery of promotion updates, support ticket notifications, product alerts, and incident/outage messages.
- User Center (Right Sidebar): Access to Account Management and the Security Center.
- Left Sidebar (4 Main Sections):
- Customer Center: Overview of console, including account details, orders, network attacks, latest updates, and complaint/suspension status.
- Purchase Center: Browse and filter products by category, region, and more.
- Product Management: Quickly manage your purchased services in one place.
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RAKsmart VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices or that can't be managed from the provider control panel are marked as missing in the table below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | No |
DDoS protected IP addresses are available for a fee. |
| Backups | No | |
| Control Panel | WHMCS, Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 36 | |
| Number of Data Center Continents | 5 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
CPU usage, DIsk IO, Network usage |
| Admin REST API | No | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | No | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Paypal, Credit cards, Cryptocurrencies | |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | No | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
RAKsmart Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, RAKsmart 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 RAKsmart 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 | 100s | 120s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month & Request Pricing | Description |
Restriction
Extra capacity provisioning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | $0.200 |
Product name: Cloud Disk
Multiple copies for data security. RAKsmart block storage |
Asia Pacific Area only
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RAKsmart Instance Types and Plans
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
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: VPS Instance Type: General Purpose |
This product line is based on KVM technology and is advertised with 100% dedicated CPU and memory resources, ensuring stable performance. The plans are geographically diverse (including the US and Asia) and often feature NVMe or high-I/O cluster storage architecture. It is suitable for personal blogs, development environments, and lightweight applications, with billing available on an hourly basis.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.raksmart.com/vps/introduction.html
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| Entry-Level | 1 | 1.0GB | 50GB | $3.25 / month |
| Advanced | 2 | 4.0GB | 100GB | $12.40 / month |
| Enterprise-Level | 4 | 8.0GB | 200GB | $44.80 / month |
| Professional | 8 | 16.0GB | 200GB | $80.60 / month |
| Family: Public Cloud Instance Type: Compute Intensive SV2 |
Flexible, Stable, Elastic Cloud Service.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.raksmart.com/cloud/index.html
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| 1 vCPU 2GB | 1 | 2.0GB | 50GB | $7.30 / month |
| 2 vCPUs 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $10.00 / month |
| 4 vCPUs 8GB | 4 | 8.0GB | 100GB | $17.40 / month |
| 8 vCPUs 16GB | 8 | 16.0GB | 200GB | $32.20 / month |