Comparisons

Including the parts where we lose.

Every comparison below marks which column each criterion actually favours, and several of them favour the alternative. A comparison page where the author wins every row is an advertisement, not a comparison.

Offshore VPS vs mainstream cloud

Where the hyperscalers genuinely win, where they genuinely lose, and which workloads belong on which. Includes the rows where AWS beats us outright.

7 favour us5 favour them1 tie

No-KYC hosting vs traditional hosting

What actually changes when a provider verifies identity and one does not — for privacy, for payments, for account recovery, and for breach exposure.

5 favour us4 favour them1 tie

VPS vs dedicated server

When a VPS is genuinely enough, when dedicated hardware is worth four times the price, and the specific signals that tell you it is time to move.

6 favour us6 favour them0 tie

Crypto payment vs card payment for hosting

What actually changes when a hosting provider takes cryptocurrency instead of cards — for privacy, for disputes, for renewals, and for the provider itself.

7 favour us3 favour them1 tie

Why there are no named-competitor price tables here

Because we would have to keep them accurate, and we could not. Competitor pricing changes without notice, promotional rates distort the comparison, and a stale table published under our name is exactly the kind of thing this site exists to be better than. What we publish instead is our own pricing in full, the per-unit rates behind it, and the questions worth asking any provider — including us — on the no-KYC and offshore hosting pages. Check our competitors’ prices yourself; if one of them beats us on your configuration, buy from them.

Evaluating any provider

Six questions worth asking, of anyone.

Including us. If a provider cannot answer these plainly, that is the answer.

Do they own their IP space?

A reseller can have your prefix pulled by its upstream regardless of its own stated policy. Ask for the AS number and look up whose name is on it — ours included.

Which datacenter, exactly?

A provider that will not name the facility is reselling, and the actual host's policy is what governs you.

Do they accept Monero?

Bitcoin is a public ledger. Monero support is a reasonable proxy for how seriously a provider takes privacy.

Is the abuse policy written down?

"We ignore everything" is not a policy, it is a countdown. Look for a document that distinguishes copyright from criminal reports.

Is there a transparency report?

Published request counts mean someone thought about the process before it was needed.

Can you test before paying?

Ping targets and test files should be public. Ours are on every location page.

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