Table of Contents
An earlier version of this URL ranked plans with CPU, disk and network scores framed as this site's own tests. None of those figures were measured here, and they have been removed.
1. Three 1 GB cards
A 1 GB label on RackNerd is three orders. The Intel card is 2 vCore, 50 GB of RAID-10 SSD and 1 TB for $17.99 a month. The Ryzen card is 1 vCore, 15 GB of NVMe and 1 TB for the same $17.99 a month. The specials card is 1 vCPU, 20 GB of SSD and 3 TB for $21.99 a year. Multiplying the monthly Intel sticker by 12 gives $215.88. That figure is arithmetic on $17.99. It is not the price on the specials card, and the specials card does not have the Intel disk.
| Card | CPU | Disk | Transfer | Port | Price as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel 1 GB | 2 vCore | 50 GB RAID-10 SSD | 1 TB | 1 Gbps | $17.99/month |
| Ryzen 1 GB | 1 vCore | 15 GB NVMe SSD | 1 TB | 1 Gbps | $17.99/month |
| Specials 1 GB | 1 vCPU | 20 GB SSD | 3 TB | 1 Gbps | $21.99/year |
Pay against the row you actually opened. The dollar and the RAM size are not enough to tell these three apart.
2. The Intel RAID-10 ladder
The Intel KVM page prints seven rows. The 512 MB row is $26.99 a year. Every larger row is a monthly price. Dividing $26.99 by 12 comes to $2.249166... a month of arithmetic. The cart bills $26.99 USD annually, not that quotient. The page names the processors as "latest and cutting edge Intel Xeon processors" and does not give a model number. The disks are RAID-10 SSD. Every row is 1 Gbps, and the table marks 1 Free IP on each row.
| Memory | CPU | Disk | Transfer | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 512 MB | 1 vCore | 30 GB RAID-10 SSD | 500 GB | $26.99/year |
| 1 GB | 2 vCore | 50 GB RAID-10 SSD | 1 TB | $17.99/month |
| 2 GB | 3 vCore | 75 GB RAID-10 SSD | 2 TB | $20.59/month |
| 4 GB | 4 vCore | 130 GB RAID-10 SSD | 3 TB | $24.59/month |
| 6 GB | 5 vCore | 170 GB RAID-10 SSD | 4 TB | $27.59/month |
| 8 GB | 6 vCore | 220 GB RAID-10 SSD | 5 TB | $36.59/month |
| 12 GB | 7 vCore | 300 GB RAID-10 SSD | 6 TB | $55.99/month |
The store cart for these plans repeats the same amounts and prefixes each one with Starting from ($26.99 USD annually on the 512 MB plan, $17.99 USD monthly on the 1 GB plan, and the same pattern on the other monthly rows). The cart's feature line names KVM / ctrl as the control panel, plus full root admin access and 1 dedicated IP. The 1 GB row on that cart is written 2x vCPU Core, where the marketing table writes 2 vCore. The marketing page calls it a VPS control panel and does not use the word ctrl. Use the cart for the panel name. Checkout can still show a different term than the sticker, because "Starting from" is on the cart and a second renewal price is not on the marketing table.
3. The Ryzen NVMe ladder
The Ryzen page uses the same stickers as the Intel ladder and smaller disks, with fewer cores from 1 GB upward. The processors are AMD Ryzen 3900X. The page prints "over 1 GB/s disk I/O speeds". That phrase is the vendor's wording. The Ryzen FAQ describes the disks as pure NVMe in a RAID-protected array and does not say RAID-10. Every row is 1 Gbps with 1 Free IP. IPv6 on this page is covered in the locations section, and it is not the Intel pair of cities.
| Memory | CPU | Disk | Transfer | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 512 MB | 1 vCore | 10 GB NVMe SSD | 500 GB | $26.99/year |
| 1 GB | 1 vCore | 15 GB NVMe SSD | 1 TB | $17.99/month |
| 2 GB | 2 vCores | 20 GB NVMe SSD | 2 TB | $20.59/month |
| 4 GB | 2 vCores | 30 GB NVMe SSD | 3 TB | $24.59/month |
| 6 GB | 3 vCores | 45 GB NVMe SSD | 4 TB | $27.59/month |
| 8 GB | 3 vCores | 75 GB NVMe SSD | 5 TB | $36.59/month |
| 12 GB | 4 vCores | 90 GB NVMe SSD | 6 TB | $55.99/month |
The Ryzen marketing page says VPS control panel and does not name ctrl. Full root is printed on the Intel cart and on the specials page. It is not a sentence on the Ryzen page read for this article, so confirm root on the Ryzen cart before you rely on it.
4. The year-priced specials
The specials page is a third ladder, billed by the year, with its own core counts and disk sizes. The storage word on these cards is SSD. The cards do not say RAID-10 and they do not say NVMe. Every row includes a 1 Gbps port, 1 IPv4 address and full root. The FAQ calls a special an unmanaged KVM VPS. The panel on this page is ctrl. Operating systems listed for an order are CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu, and a custom ISO is available through a support ticket. Dividing $21.99 by 12 is $1.8325 a month of arithmetic. The card bills $21.99 a year.
| Memory | CPU | Disk | Monthly transfer | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | 1 vCPU | 20 GB SSD | 3 TB | $21.99/year |
| 2 GB | 2 vCPU | 35 GB SSD | 5 TB | $35.99/year |
| 4 GB | 3 vCPU | 60 GB SSD | 7 TB | $59.99/year |
| 6 GB | 6 vCPU | 100 GB SSD | 12 TB | $89.99/year |
| 8 GB | 7 vCPU | 150 GB SSD | 20 TB | $119.99/year |
Renewal is a sentence on this page's FAQ, not a sentence on the other two ladders: "These RackNerd VPS specials are lifetime recurring. You can renew at the same rate for as long as you decide to keep the service." Keep that on the specials. The Intel and Ryzen monthly rows do not print it. The specials cards and the deploy answer say multiple locations and do not list cities.
5. Cancel, and what happens to the data
There is no money-back window printed as a number of days. The terms say refunds are case by case, because by default no refunds are provided once payment is received. Prepayments such as account credit are ineligible to be refunded. The cancellation article is blunt about an immediate request: "terminate your service in 24 hours and all your data in the VPS will be gone." If that request was a mistake, the same article says to open a ticket and ask for reactivation. A cancellation you plan ahead needs five days of written notice in the client area before the renewal date. Contract services on that same policy need seven days of written notice, and the terms say an early termination fee is determined case by case. Back the server up before that date. On cancellation the data on the server is removed.
The terms also split virtualization from containers. Nested virtualization, including running your own VPS platform inside the KVM server, is not permitted unless RackNerd approves it in writing. The same paragraph says that restriction does not prohibit standard container workloads such as Docker, Docker Compose, LXC/LXD, Kubernetes or K3s, when they do not create or expose a separate virtual machine and do not require nested hardware virtualization. Fair share is a separate sentence on the terms: usage should not be abusive to disk I/O or CPU. That page does not print a per-gigabyte fee for going past the transfer allowance. Watch the allowance on the card you bought, and read the invoice if the cart adds a charge the table did not show.
6. Locations and IPv6
The city list belongs to the Intel KVM page: Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Ashburn, Amsterdam, France, Dublin and Toronto. The Ryzen page does not repeat that list. Its IPv6 answer is conditional: "If deployed within our Los Angeles DC-02 location", up to 100 free IPv6 addresses on request, by a ticket after the order. The Intel page offers that same count on request in Los Angeles and France, and it says more locations will support IPv6 soon. The specials page says multiple locations and does not print this city list or an IPv6 city. Pick the ladder, then read the location line on that ladder's own page.
7. What to read on the cart
The Intel and Ryzen marketing tables print one price on each row. They do not print a renewal price next to it, and they do not print a sales-tax rate. The terms page read on October 3, 2026 also does not print a tax rate or a per-gigabyte overage price. The cart is where "Starting from" appears, so the amount due can differ from the sticker once a term is selected. Open the cart for the ladder you chose and read the unit, the disk and the total before you pay.
The Intel KVM page, the Ryzen page, the specials page and the KVM cart do not print $1.49 a month, $10.18 a year, or a 768 MB plan. Those figures live on older articles on this site. They are not a row in the tables above, and this article does not claim RackNerd never sells another promotion on a page that was not opened. Windows prices were not on the pages read for these tables. If you need Windows, use a Windows order page, not the Linux cards here. The RackNerd review is a separate page. Use this one for the three cards.