UP-NETWORK (Swiss): Price Increases, Paid IPv4, and a New Low-End VPS for $15/Year (October 2026)

Here’s what that looks like for the cheapest plan, “VPS Basic Intel S (2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 20 GB SSD / 100 Mbit)”:

1 CHF = 1.20 USD

Previous prices:

Monthly payment: CHF 2.50/month ($3)
Annual payment: CHF 2.25/month ($2.70) (10% discount)

Current prices:

Monthly payment: CHF 2.78/month ($3.33)
Annual payment: CHF 2.50/month ($3) (10% discount)

Previously, you could pay $3 each month. Now, to get the same rate of $3, you have to pay for the entire year upfront in a single payment ($36).

The most disappointing change...
And all because they removed the included IPv4 address from the plans, but didn’t lower the prices (they actually raised them)!

Once again, let’s use the “VPS Basic Intel S” plan as an example:

Previously:

IPv4: included (1 address)
IPv6: included (/64 subnet)
Annual payment: CHF 27/year ($32.45)

Now:

IPv4: not included
IPv6: included (/64 subnet)
Annual payment: CHF 30/year ($36)

Adding the first IPv4 address to VPS BASIC plans costs CHF 1.00/month ($1.20).
As the provider itself puts it: “This symbolic contribution supports the transition to IPv6”.

How much will the cheapest VPS cost now with IPv4 added?
Let’s calculate: $36 + ($1.20 × 12) = $50.40/year

What percentage increase is that?
100% − (($32.45 / $50.40) × 100) = 36%

The price of the “VPS Basic Intel S” plan (including the IPv4 add-on) has increased by 36% compared with the previous price =(
For the most expensive plan, “VPS Basic Intel L” (in the BASIC range), the increase was 20%.

Comparison of the “VPS Basic Intel S” and “VPS Basic AMD S” plans:

Intel:

2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 20 GB SSD / 100 Mbit = CHF 30/year

AMD:

1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM / 20 GB NVMe / 100 Mbit = CHF 60/year

The AMD plans have fewer cores and less RAM, but cost twice as much as the Intel VPS plans o_0

Another difference is that the Intel plans have limits on disk IOPS and read/write bandwidth, while the AMD plans have no such limits.

Since these are BASIC plans, all VPS with AMD processors are “IPv6 only” by default.

“VPS Basic Intel Micro”

1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM / 10 GB SSD / 50 Mbit / IPv6 = CHF 12/year ($14.45)

Only annual billing is available. IPv6 only; adding IPv4 costs CHF 5/year ($6).

For comparison, let’s look at Scaleway’s “STARDUST1-S” plan:

1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 10 GB Local SSD / 100 Mbit / IPv6 = EUR 0.8/month = EUR 9.6/year ($10.8)

Usually, hosting providers, both large and small, specify an SLA of at least 99% in their contracts.

A new page has now been added to the website (SLA), clearly stating that all VPS plans are provided as “SLA Tier: Best Effort”.

(Service without a numeric commitment)

[ Best Effort ]
No contractual percentage

The service is operated and supported without a guaranteed availability percentage.

• No maximum downtime allowance is guaranteed.
• Monitoring depends on the service.
• No automatic credit or service day.
• Applies only when an offer states it.

What does this mean in practice? Any VPS on any plan could experience any amount of downtime due to the hosting provider, and no compensation is provided for it...

In case anyone didn't know, UP-NETWORK has been testing its own CDN service for a while now as part of an open beta.

CDN.PIZZA

For now, everything is available for free. There are paid and free points of presence (I've only tested the free ones). The range of features is still a long way from what mature alternatives offer, but new features are gradually being added. At this point, though, I'd call it an alpha version that should only be used for testing, not in production.