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UP-NETWORK (Swiss): Price Increases, Paid IPv4, and a New Low-End VPS for $15/Year (October 2026)
ZeroAnarchy
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A few days ago, Swiss hosting provider UP-NETWORK updated its plans and added new services.
It happened suddenly and without warning.
Since the provider doesn’t send out email newsletters or announce changes on social media, I had to go through every section of its main website to figure out what had changed.
P.S. For anyone interested: there’s a snapshot on the Wayback Machine showing their old prices and terms.
[ 1 ] Prices for all plans in the VPS BASIC and VPS PRO product lines have increased by 10%
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).
[ 2 ] All VPS BASIC plans have become “IPv6 only” by default; adding an IPv4 address is now a paid service
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%.
[ 3 ] A new VPS BASIC lineup with AMD processors has appeared (and the prices are strange)
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.
[ 4 ] A new low-end VPS plan with minimum specs and the lowest price has been introduced
“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)
[ 5 ] All VPS BASIC and VPS PRO plans are provided without any guaranteed SLA
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 percentageThe 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...
[ 6 ] CDN.PIZZA - UP-NETWORK's global CDN service
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.
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.
That's all, folks!
Comments
Black Friday gonna be so dark my credit card might never see daylight again.
Stay away from UP-Network Sarl!
They have no real tier certification, and there is no power redundancy unless you pay extra for it. Their uptime is around 97%.
Their staff constantly lie. If you receive a reply to a support ticket from them, you can probably save yourself the trouble of opening it, because it will most likely be nothing but lies.
this kinda funny considering they already deadpooled once back in 2023 (https://web.archive.org/web/20230101000000*/up-network.ch)
not a good comeback imo
Examples?
how the hell they are managed this with vps? only cheap host nodes plugged into the bathroom outlet and then separate section of A+B N+1 host nodes?
Some of that hardware is old enough to vote.
Dedicated servers with DDR3. Sure, it's ECC, but still...
Wonder what hardware the VPS nodes are running.
Honestly new hardware on DDR3 might not be a bad idea given how expensive DDR4 is becoming.
Although I never had any (or probably hardware that supported it) I do recall 8GB and 16GB dims existing for DDR3. Providing the density wasnt too high I'd take a old Xeon with DDR3 as a customer for the right price.
Probably wouldnt be the right price, those old Xeon's ate power like no ones business though.
There are numerous examples. I have a detailed review of them on my profile.
There was the blackout that brought their uptime down to around 97%, the incident where the server shut down on its own and remained in that state, the various reasons they may shut down your server, and so on.
In virtually every response they send, including the mass email they sent after the blackout, a significant portion of the information is outright false.
Dishonesty appears to be embedded in their corporate culture and reflected throughout the way they operate and communicate.
Your profile is empty though.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/220930/up-network-ch-up-network-sarl-review-or-how-i-left-after-97-uptime-and-their-abuse-handling
Anyone have a good alternative? I have one but looking for other options
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