BuyVM Review
BuyVM was founded as a VPS provider in 2010.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- Luxembourg
- United States
Quick Links
| BuyVM plans specs and prices | Plans |
| BuyVM instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are BuyVM servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of BuyVM trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in BuyVM trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of BuyVM VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of BuyVM yabs.sh results | Yabs |
BuyVM VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| 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 | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, Alipay, Coinbase | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Sometimes great performance for the price.
Weaknesses
- Unreliable performance, large variations are to be expected between one day and the next.
- Often out of stock.
- Slow VPS provisioning (days sometimes).
- BuyVM does not allow ordering VPS from any location that is away from the address you have on file.
BuyVM Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, BuyVM 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 BuyVM 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 | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 600s | 600s | 600s | 1 |
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 | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | $0.005 |
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.
BuyVM block storage |
256GB minimum |
BuyVM 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.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: Single server line Instance Type: General purpose |
Affordable servers with SSD storage and unmetered bandwidth. |
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| Slice 1024 | 1 | 1.0GB | 20GB | $3.50 / month |
| Slice 2048 | 1 | 2.0GB | 40GB | $7.00 / month |