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[Warning] EasyVM/Aquatis.Host Migration: 337% Price Increase + Configuration Downgrade
Hi LET community,
I wanted to share my experience with the EasyVM to Aquatis.Host migration that might affect other users.
Background:
EasyVM was acquired by Aquatis.Host a few months ago, and they're now migrating all existing customers.
The Problem:
Original EasyVM plan: $55/2 years ($2.29/month) - 5 CPU cores, 5GB RAM, 54GB HDD
New Aquatis.Host plan: $10/month - 2 CPU cores, 4GB RAM, 78.6GB HDD
This means:
337% price increase ($2.29 → $10/month)
CPU cores reduced from 5 to 2
RAM reduced from 5GB to 4GB
Only storage increased (54GB → 78.6GB)
Their "Solution":
They claim to "honor current pricing until the end of billing term" but force the new pricing upon renewal. So it's essentially a forced upgrade with worse specs.
Screenshots:
Easyvm Yabs:
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Mon Jul 14 11:00:52 PM EDT 2025
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 18 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2678 v3 @ 2.50GHz
CPU cores : 5 @ 2499.992 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 4.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 54.0 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-37-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP : PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
ASN : AS26930 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
Host : EasyVM
Location : Dallas, Texas (TX)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 9.37 MB/s (2.3k) | 89.97 MB/s (1.4k)
Write | 9.40 MB/s (2.3k) | 90.44 MB/s (1.4k)
Total | 18.77 MB/s (4.6k) | 180.41 MB/s (2.8k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 155.92 MB/s (304) | 170.60 MB/s (166)
Write | 164.20 MB/s (320) | 181.97 MB/s (177)
Total | 320.12 MB/s (624) | 352.58 MB/s (343)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 715 Mbits/sec | 466 Mbits/sec | 108 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 896 Mbits/sec | 891 Mbits/sec | 115 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | busy | 418 Mbits/sec | 204 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 713 Mbits/sec | 728 Mbits/sec | 192 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 995 Mbits/sec | 950 Mbits/sec | 31.3 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 983 Mbits/sec | 931 Mbits/sec | 37.4 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 835 Mbits/sec | 676 Mbits/sec | 139 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 799
Multi Core | 2832
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12865135
YABS completed in 13 min 59 sec
Aquatis.Host Yabs:
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Mon 14 Jul 2025 11:00:42 PM EDT
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 47 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6138 CPU @ 2.00GHz
CPU cores : 2 @ 1999.999 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 3.8 GiB
Swap : 1024.0 MiB
Disk : 78.6 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel : 5.10.0-8-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
ASN : AS26548 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
Host : PureVoltage Hosting Inc
Location : New York, New York (NY)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 101.27 MB/s (25.3k) | 275.28 MB/s (4.3k)
Write | 101.53 MB/s (25.3k) | 276.73 MB/s (4.3k)
Total | 202.80 MB/s (50.7k) | 552.02 MB/s (8.6k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
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Read | 268.27 MB/s (523) | 606.74 MB/s (592)
Write | 282.52 MB/s (551) | 647.15 MB/s (631)
Total | 550.79 MB/s (1.0k) | 1.25 GB/s (1.2k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 73.2 Mbits/sec | 56.1 Mbits/sec | 68.1 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 76.4 Mbits/sec | 128 Mbits/sec | 76.6 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 21.7 Mbits/sec | 30.0 Mbits/sec | 169 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 66.5 Mbits/sec | 47.7 Mbits/sec | 222 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 78.3 Mbits/sec | 66.8 Mbits/sec | 71.3 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 88.6 Mbits/sec | 151 Mbits/sec | 2.93 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 82.9 Mbits/sec | 34.5 Mbits/sec | 130 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 57.2 Mbits/sec | 56.7 Mbits/sec | 68.3 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 57.0 Mbits/sec | 134 Mbits/sec | 81.2 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 58.3 Mbits/sec | 30.6 Mbits/sec | 160 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 49.0 Mbits/sec | 49.4 Mbits/sec | 222 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 57.6 Mbits/sec | 70.9 Mbits/sec | 61.9 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 57.3 Mbits/sec | 158 Mbits/sec | 3.31 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 55.5 Mbits/sec | 47.5 Mbits/sec | 123 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 775
Multi Core | 1219
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12865172
YABS completed in 19 min 46 sec
My Take:
This is a classic bait-and-switch operation. Acquire a budget provider, then force existing customers into expensive plans with worse performance. The fact that they're increasing price by 337% while simultaneously downgrading CPU and RAM is particularly egregious.
Warning to Community:
If you're an existing EasyVM customer, be aware of what you're getting into. The migration is mandatory, and the new pricing structure is completely different from what you originally signed up for.
Has anyone else experienced this migration? What are your thoughts on this kind of post-acquisition pricing strategy?
Looking for recommendations for reliable budget VPS providers as alternatives.
Comments
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Chelsea is the champion.
Seems pretty expected when paying $2/m for 5GB RAM. No matter what happens this will always be the same. Companies gotta make money to stay in business. If you want deals like this your best choice is to find newly posted offers/deals every few months and hop from provider to provider before anything happens, don't keep a deadpool offer for more than 6 months before finding a new one.
Cancel it and move on.
Not really. It's a different company. EasyVM is dead. Consider yourself lucky that you get a chance to get your data out. Aquatis is more expensive because look what happened to EasyVM.
You can also spin that theory around. EasyVM sold vps at deadpool prices to increase its user base in order to be acquired by a bigger company and profit. It's actually a business strategy.
Well it's good of you to give others in the same boat a heads-up but calling it bait and switch is pretty foul man.
They didn't HAVE to turn you guys back on at all. Itt's actually very nice of them to keep everyone running thru current billing period.
Anyway if you don't like the offer, don't take it and just move on. No harm.
I do appreciate the attempt to provide us a new drama thread but I'm going to have to grade this nope.
If you are not happy, you can simply move on. And keep backups with let hosts
Also, For $10 a month, that is shit vps.
Another sad story (to the end users) after a 'happy acquisition'
This is why I worry from every owner change, and why I not prefer (usually) the yearly offers from a relative new, unknown providers. The problem is, there is less and less reliable, long-time operational provider (on LET).
yeah, Chelsea is the champion
Yeah, I'm just complaining.
just move on bro
anyway, congrats on world club champion
chargeback yesterday.
thanks bro
the same vps?
Nothing is wrong there. If customers have been notified about this changes recently.
So you are angry with the company because they increased their prices and they notified you or all customers active. What's wrong with that?
Ok pricing is increasing, but they honor to stay with the current prices until the end. And the renew you aren't obligated to renew with them. Even if you like or not. Why you see a renew as "obligation" to do so? Just disable it.
As you know cheap prices, comes with surprise now or later. They maybe are thinking in going to High End, what is the issue here?
I fully understand that prices aren't compatible with your budget, in such case just cancel the renew if is still automatic.
Let the Hosting Providers increase their pricing when they want and of course with the respect, honour, transpareny to the customer. If this increasing of prices are to make the services, network, hardware and support better.. why not?
"then force existing customers into expensive plans with worse performance"
What's the issue with forcing existing customers into expensive plans? You shouldn't renew it if you don't agree with prices.
You maybe right if the company, in case company didn't notified any customer. In this scenario you are right, but if they notified. Nothing is wrong.
"Fuck you Aquatis.Host for saving my data" (c) Jensfrank
I wish sometimes people would read the messages and figure out who is to blame here.
We are paying $6/year for 4GB RAM, for the third year now.
@Advin is the mentally strong girl.
I agree, he is a strong girl.
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What was the notice period? If it's like "this weekend" , you've got a point. But if it's more than 3 weeks notice, that's perfectly fine. Just migrate if it's cheaper to move than stay.
I agree too, @Advin is great!
I think that after migrating, the configuration should remain the same as my current one during my service period.
It's obvious that it didn't do it.
It does, until the billing period is up.
I had a few low traffic sites. They gave new VPS's just after closing the old ones forcing downtime.
The worst is that they said that they will give some more time do to the moving instead of saying that they will close it.
One of my previous ips was sold to same suspicious sites.
I don´t think they will keep any customer. I think that you have costumers that pay less than they receive they are a liability and not an asset.
Congrats on your first post since July 2019
It's not entirely clear whether you received the memo that EasyVM was acquired by Aquatis.Host
There doesn't seem to be more to say about the OP's case, and the OP seems to be gone anyway
Thread closed