VM6 Networks price changes and increases - Grandfather rights for current customers!

VM6 · May 17

Hi All,

Posting this here rather than Offers because it's an announcement, not a deal, wanted to give you a proper heads up before the new pricing goes live.

From Monday 18th May 2026 at 8PM UK time, VM6 pricing is changing. Two important things to know up front:

Every existing customer is grandfathered. You keep your current price indefinitely, for as long as you keep the subscription active. No action needed.
Anyone ordering before 8PM Monday is also grandfathered, on whatever current plan you sign up for.

So if you're already with VM6, nothing on your bill changes. If you've been thinking about signing up or adding more services, ordering before 8PM Monday locks in current pricing for the life of the service.

Why we're doing this

Going to be straight about it because the LET community can spot bull from a mile off.

When VM6 launched in 2025, I priced things on the optimistic side. It got us off the ground and helped us build the customer base we have today, which I'm grateful for. But it didn't leave enough margin to really invest back into what makes VM6 worth choosing in the first place.

The new pricing fixes that. The plan is to put proper money back into the business:

Better hardware in our own racks instead of leaning on third-party setups
Working towards a presence at Telehouse, the kind of datacentre that makes UK VPS hosting genuinely premium
Growing the support team properly so tickets get faster, more technical responses
More headroom for capacity so nodes aren't oversold to chase margin, keeping CPU PSI and contention low.

I'd rather charge a bit more and run VM6 the way it should be run, than keep it cheap and watch quality slowly slip. Sustainable margins mean a sustainable VM6, which is better for everyone in the long run.

What's changing on the AMD VPS range

UK AMD VPS 1 - Retired
UK AMD VPS 2 - Be going up to £6/m from £5/m
UK AMD VPS 3 - Be going up to £9/m from £8/m

The 1GB/£3 entry plan is being retired, honestly, 1GB on Ryzen is wasteful and not really what the platform is designed for. If you're on it today, you stay on it. New entry point is G2 at £6/mo with twice the RAM and twice the storage of the old £3 plan.

Budget tier (Intel Xeon, NVMe, KVM)

We also tidied up the budget range. New monthly pricing:

UK Xeon S · 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 20 GB NVMe · 2 TB — £1.75/mo
UK Xeon M · 1 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB NVMe · 4 TB — £3.50/mo
UK Xeon L · 1 vCPU · 4 GB · 60 GB NVMe · 6 TB — £7/mo
UK Xeon XL · 2 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB NVMe · 8 TB — £12/mo

The old £14/year and £22/year annual plans are being replaced with monthly pricing. Existing customers on those keep them.

Grandfathering — the rules in plain English

Active service before 18th May 8PM UK → price doesn't change, ever, as long as the subscription stays active
New order placed before 18th May 8PM UK → same deal, locked in at current pricing
Upgrading plan size on an existing service → you keep grandfather pricing on the new size, treated as upgrade not new order. Open a ticket if unsure
Cancel and re-order later → that's a new order, new pricing applies
Adding additional services to an existing account after 18th May → those new services are on new pricing. Existing services unaffected

What's NOT changing

Hardware: same AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, same DDR5, same Gen4 NVMe, same 10 Gbps network
DDoS protection, snapshots, VirtFusion, ISO upload, rDNS — all still included
Coventry and Norwich UK datacentres
UK-based support — still me and the team, no offshore call centre
99.9% SLA still applies

Links

VPS plans: https://www.vm6.co.uk/uk-vps-hosting
Budget VPS: https://www.vm6.co.uk/cheap-vps-uk
Dedicated: https://www.vm6.co.uk/dedicated-servers
Looking glass: https://lg.vm6.co.uk
Status: https://status.vm6.co.uk

Questions, push-back, criticism, all welcome in this thread. Better to hear it from you now, also don't hesitate to contact me if you wish.

Cheers,
Rob
VM6 Networks LTD · Company No. 16553775

ascicode · May 17

Why retire amd plans but not xeon plans? Isnt it a waste too?
Why remove yearly plans, isnt it better to provide both, or do you think, something bad will happen and everyone is grateful not paying much upfront?

behuk · May 17

@yoursunny another one for the list?

cosmicmyths · May 17

Grabbed a 14 GBP per year before they are gone. @VM6 Any update on IPv6 on the budget range?

AudioDoge · May 17

I'm to young to become a grandfater

mans_xd · May 17

@behuk said:
@yoursunny another one for the list?

Nah at least it's one pound in Performance lineup, ending the 3Month plan and 1Core in Amd ryzen is to keep things fair and also so he don't get deadpool, everybody here want what he want without thinking that the provider had to pay bills and also he work and need to get paid

i remember i had a talk with @Alyx when he operating Calibour the 1G plan almost no profit in provider side and that's 2.5 €

let's be fair here he at least show up and clear everything unlike other to edit invoice, to raise price for existence service

behuk · May 17

Very true, and granting existing services "legacy" status.

VM6 · May 17

@ascicode said:
Why retire amd plans but not xeon plans? Isnt it a waste too?
Why remove yearly plans, isnt it better to provide both, or do you think, something bad will happen and everyone is grateful not paying much upfront?

Retiring the 1GB Ryzen 9950x is more about CPU contention and keeping PSI down than making money. People who choose the 9950x do so for its performance, and selling at higher ratios instead of increasing pricing and density by retiring 1GB made sense to me.

@cosmicmyths said:
Grabbed a 14 GBP per year before they are gone. @VM6 Any update on IPv6 on the budget range?

I am keeping the Xeon Silver because I got a good deal for it from the boys who run NorwichDC. I colocate a few servers and a few RTX 6000s with them; they're good guys, and what they built is impressive. Unfortunately, though, there's no way of supporting IPv6 at the moment at this location, but I hope this changes in the near future.

@AudioDoge said:
I'm to young to become a grandfater

I am sorry about this, can increase your price if it makes you feel better lol.

@behuk said:
Very true, and granting existing services "legacy" status.

VM6 Networks turns a profit. I just have bigger aspirations for it than what I offer now, like the telehouse location and not relying on third-party providers for some hardware.

zed · May 17

@VM6 said: Grandfathering — the rules in plain English

no services with you but well done

timmmy · May 17

same rob as webplot rob...or just coincidence?

behuk · May 17

@VM6 said: I am keeping the Xeon Silver because I got a good deal for it from the boys who run NorwichDC. [...] Unfortunately, though, there's no way of supporting IPv6 at the moment at this location, but I hope this changes in the near future.

No IPv6 in 2026? That's... unfortunate.

ascicode · May 17

@timmmy said:
same rob as webplot rob...or just coincidence?

https://www.ownweb.co.uk/contact-us

xHosts · May 17

@timmmy said:
same rob as webplot rob...or just coincidence?

Yes, same Rob

timmmy · May 17

@ascicode said:

@timmmy said:
same rob as webplot rob...or just coincidence?

https://www.ownweb.co.uk/contact-us

@xHosts said:

@timmmy said:
same rob as webplot rob...or just coincidence?

Yes, same Rob

not good sign then...since they deadpool a few times already?

yoursunny · May 17

@VM6 said:

Looking glass: https://lg.vm6.co.uk

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@behuk said:
@yoursunny another one for the list?

Recurring price for existing services isn’t increased, so this is price increase done right.

ozonti · May 18

@yoursunny said:

@VM6 said:

Looking glass: https://lg.vm6.co.uk

A answers
<no result>
AAAA answers
<no result>

@behuk said:
@yoursunny another one for the list?

Recurring price for existing services isn’t increased, so this is price increase done right.

@yoursunny

Normal people:

"Can you disable IPv6?"

The datacenter network engineer:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/disable_ipv6
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra=0
ip -6 route flush table main
sed -i 's/IPV6=yes/IPV6=no/g' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
dracut -f
reboot

Meanwhile the VPS customer:

"bro the website still works what exactly did you disable"

Network engineer:

"the future"

Customer:

"can i still use discord"

Network engineer:

sighs aggressively in BGP

malignify · May 18

@timmmy said:

@ascicode said:

@timmmy said:
same rob as webplot rob...or just coincidence?

https://www.ownweb.co.uk/contact-us

@xHosts said:

@timmmy said:
same rob as webplot rob...or just coincidence?

Yes, same Rob

not good sign then...since they deadpool a few times already?

Statement @VM6 ?

wii747 · May 18

don't look good!

VM6 · May 18

@timmmy @ascicode Yes, same Rob. Couple of things to clear up though.

Those brands weren't deadpooled, they were sold about seven years ago. Covered this in a post here about a year back.

Worth pointing out the structural difference too: They were unincorporated trading names. VM6 Networks LTD is a properly registered UK limited company at Companies House (16553775) with full statutory filings due. Different setup with director duties, public accounts, the lot.

Reasonable if you wish to be cautious, however I feel VM6 Networks is growing in strength hence the ambitions to get into Telehouse etc.

@behuk IPv6: Coventry has it natively, Norwich doesn't yet because the upstream isn't ready. Pushing on it. Fair to call out, no excuse in 2026.

Cheers,

ascicode · May 18

They where sold, but website still exists and named vm6 in about us. Still doubt its really sold, or just cover brands with vm6.
A new company wont protect old stories.

VM6 joined july 25, while old ownweb account was activ till april 26 then banned.

timmmy · May 18

@VM6 said:
@timmmy @ascicode Yes, same Rob. Couple of things to clear up though.

Those brands weren't deadpooled, they were sold about seven years ago. Covered this in a post here about a year back.

Worth pointing out the structural difference too: They were unincorporated trading names. VM6 Networks LTD is a properly registered UK limited company at Companies House (16553775) with full statutory filings due. Different setup with director duties, public accounts, the lot.

Reasonable if you wish to be cautious, however I feel VM6 Networks is growing in strength hence the ambitions to get into Telehouse etc.

@behuk IPv6: Coventry has it natively, Norwich doesn't yet because the upstream isn't ready. Pushing on it. Fair to call out, no excuse in 2026.

Cheers,

can you help list all the brands you operate before vm6?

ascicode · May 18

getwebhosting (xhost got it)
starservices
powerfulbox
getwebhosting
ownweb
webplot
vm6

let accounts
starservices
ownwebservers
vm6

mr biloh said 2022 we dont want failures appear again with new hosts.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3408212/#Comment_3408212

xHosts · May 18

@ascicode said:
getwebhosting (xhost got it)
starservices
powerfulbox
getwebhosting
ownweb
webplot
vm6

let accounts
starservices
ownwebservers
vm6

mr biloh said 2022 we dont want failures appear again with new hosts.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3408212/#Comment_3408212

I took over clients on the getwebhosting/powerfulbox and still have some of these on my nodes today.

timmmy · May 26

how long until next deadpool and new brand?

JC_Dev · May 26

@VM6 said: @behuk IPv6: Coventry has it natively, Norwich doesn't yet because the upstream isn't ready. Pushing on it. Fair to call out, no excuse in 2026.

What DC are you in, in Norwich?

behuk · May 26

@JC_Dev said:

@VM6 said: @behuk IPv6: Coventry has it natively, Norwich doesn't yet because the upstream isn't ready. Pushing on it. Fair to call out, no excuse in 2026.

What DC are you in, in Norwich?

I'm pretty sure they're in NorwichDC. I don't believe Norwich has multiple colo providers? It's not exactly a large datacentre market 😅

VM6 · May 26

@JC_Dev said:

@VM6 said: @behuk IPv6: Coventry has it natively, Norwich doesn't yet because the upstream isn't ready. Pushing on it. Fair to call out, no excuse in 2026.

What DC are you in, in Norwich?

@behuk said:

@JC_Dev said:

@VM6 said: @behuk IPv6: Coventry has it natively, Norwich doesn't yet because the upstream isn't ready. Pushing on it. Fair to call out, no excuse in 2026.

What DC are you in, in Norwich?

I'm pretty sure they're in NorwichDC. I don't believe Norwich has multiple colo providers? It's not exactly a large datacentre market 😅

Hi yeah this is correct, its NorwichDC is where budget hosting and GPU hosting nodes are kept. The Ryzen 9950x is in coventry.

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