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Yep, I'm aware of that, but he's still helping a bit there!
I don't think BuyVM allow transfers, AFAIK is you cancel and then on around the 7th of every month any server that hasn't been renewed is resold. All billing periods are calendar months so they all expire on the same time.
@Francisco could you please confirm/deny if VPS transfer is possible? I don't care if it comes with additional fee, willing to pay that as well.
Its possible to transfer buyvm yes
*posibel.
regards from @黑大帅
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"It depends".
Some plans can be transferred, I think almost all 'BuyVM' plans can be.
'Anynode' plans from back in the day though can't be transferred.
Francisco
@Francisco is it still working?
Huh, I would have expected that BuyVM eventually would make better offers, not worse
Despite all the price changes there is still no stock :-)
nobody's cancelling, if they leave at all they'll just not renew. anyway this was always scarcity marketing.
Stock isn't added instantly anyway. If I cancelled 5x 512mb plans (I'm not) it's not like they'll just show up as available stock the second they're terminated.
I forget what days they readd available stock, it's like twice a month or something. One of the affiliate bros or something probably knows.
typical move. lets pass on our losses to the customer. glad i left this shithole.
that's not really fair dude, business gotta make money, people gotta eat.
That's...kind of the whole idea of a company.
Companies sell something to a customer to get money to cover their costs, and hopefully make a little profit so that there even is a reason for the company to exist.
Do you know of any other way to cover costs then with money from customers? I'm sure a lot of providers would be very interested to hear about that.
Fran could just go to the casino every Friday night and drop a bag on black.
My recommendation is to cancel, as a multimillion-dollar company would be better off losing a few customers than worrying about such insignificant costs.
Servers burn out, components malfunction, data centers increase energy costs, ISPs raise bandwidth costs... BuyVM was solid and stable for years; I don't even remember how many years those prices have been fixed, and they're probably outdated.
How old are you? Losses don't evaporate into thin air and is always the case in business. If you're older than 16, go back to school.
2015/2016 was when Slices went up originally on E3 V3's.
Francisco
Always Sold out
It may cost $15 per semi-annual period.
As confirmed via support ticket, the annual one will be adjusted to $30 per year. Given this substantial 50% price hike, I will be canceling my servers.
Please transfer them to me instead
or to me!
I am cancelling too. IP is not that clean. Customer service isn't very helpful either.
Looking to transfer out a nice, 512MB slice in (ex) LU, now apparently CH. Renewal was $20 annually. Smooth 6 years of work, almost no downtimes I can remember. I doubt they sell that now. Renewal is on August.
P.S.
Running OpenBSD on it, still had about half or more of ram idling, lol.
So yeah, for a minimalistic project this is an ideal box. Not a Minecraft gameserver.
The reason I don't plan to renew is because I found a more elegant solution for my workload,
but overall I can only say positive things about BuyVM, especially given the price...
Thought buyvm fully became Cloudzy, every time I've tried to buy from them in the last few months they are out of stock and link to Cloudzy
Sure, I'll give you some real numbers.
My first deals locked in (and kept co-terming new space/rollouts until they finally stopped that in late 2025) some sites as low as ~$128/kW/mo. Go get quotes now, especially at scale sub ~500kW for colo, and you're going to be fighting them back down towards $200/kW/mo. I'm working through some >1MW deals and we're having to pull every last trick in the book (We'll bring new fiber, 66+ month commits, ramp schedules, plus-e pricing schedules where we eat all utility risk/nonsense, etc) and I'm still getting kicked in the sack trying to get below $200/kW/mo at scale. It's doable, but absolutely nothing like before--and I suspect all existing commits are going to get ratcheted soon as they can.
Keep in mind as well: that's just power/space, not factoring in transit & bandwidth/fiber/XC's/labor/etc. Throw in a nice 300-1000% ramp in core components (HDD, NVMe, SSD, and DDR4+5 RAM). Motherboards/CPUs being "at retail" at best. It's why you're seeing basically everyone have to adjust.
I think there are ways to still become creative, or try to tighten the belt and offer more but overall I highly doubt it's pure greed.
@crunchbits how does your cost structure stack up against https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/214598/reality-check-why-7-y-vps-and-2-tb-storage-is-fantasy-in-2026/ ?
Hmm, it's long to read on a saturday night while I wait for them to finish drying my lambo thanks to these price hikes.
Generally speaking:
Always outliers, and you can find expensive power in crowded telco hotels in the US (just found some myself!).
Most power (industrial/commercial) for DCs in most of the regions of the US that I would be/targeting is ~$0.07 to $0.12c/kWh. However, minus being on a plus-e model you're not paying that. You're paying a fixed $XXX/kW/mo at best and they're pre-baking rate hikes into that. If you go plus-e, you're still paying $130-ish/kW/mo for the floor space and internal supply/maintenance, and then eating whatever the utility pass-through would be (generally assume another $60-90/kW/mo on top of that). Baseline.
Network will be whatever it is, still scales well (cost-wise) but the layer 2 stuff (lit or dark) keeps creeping. And sucks. You always need to bash skulls to find an actual diverse path because they'll flat out lie or incompetently assert that the circuits don't collapse anywhere, promise! So many issues with that. "Oh, yeah, well it's totally diverse. Except that node. Didn't think you'd care?"
Hardware?
I can tell you that HDDs used to be ~$5-6/TB for good quality recerts or decent pulls. Now recerts (but warrantied a year) are--or were-- ~$19/TB and thats when buying 7 digits worth at a time. That price is now ~$30-35/TB as of May 1.
Enterprise SSDs are basically useless to touch now outside of absolutely must use (imo): 960GB used non-recert units are $150ish. These used to be $30-40 under a year ago.
U.2/U.3 NVMe (used/third party recert and health checked) is about the same pricing, so might as well get those. Going to be worthwhile much longer into the future and keep you competitive.
RAM? We all know the pain here. DDR4 has retreated from "I'm just done deploying it, fuck it" territory back to "Painful, but we can at least finish off these otherwise empty chassis and eat an extra 4-6 months on ROI".
That being said it's just nature of the game. Get creative, figure something out, find a way to maybe add legitimate features/value if you have to raise. I view it sort of the same as when I (and likely many other hosts) first started: sure, hardware and space was cheaper but you had 5-10x the competition because of that. You still had to differentiate, stand-out, do something, target something.
I will say, looking back to when we were like ~98% sure a $3 stick of 16GB DDR4 was bad and we'd just toss to recyclers because it wasn't even worth the time/risk to shove it out really is a fond memory. Now you might be carrying a 20% downpayment of a really nice house from the office to the DC in your hands, definitely reminds you how things have changed.