Aeza vs BuyVM
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Aeza and BuyVM.
Quick Verdict
1.9/5
Aeza
0 reviews
4.1/5
BuyVM
0 reviews
BuyVM is rated higher (4.1 vs 1.9). Aeza offers affordable VPS in Germany, Finland, Netherlands, and Russia. AMD EPYC processors, NVMe storage, and DDoS protection included. Popular in Eastern European developer communities. BuyVM (operated by Frantech Solutions) offers KVM VPS in Las Vegas, New York, and Roost (Luxembourg).
Aeza Sanctioned Russian-owned VPS provider from €1.99/month — OFAC-designated parent (bulletproof hosting) | BuyVM Frantech-operated VPS with DDoS protection | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 1.9 (0 reviews) | 4.1 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $1.99/mo✓ | From $2/mo |
| Best for | In our view, no business-critical or client-facing workload. The published value is real but is outweighed by the OFAC designations against Aeza Group and its leadership; treat it as a last-resort option only where no compliant alternative is reachable. | Self-managed, bandwidth- and storage-heavy workloads — media servers, community platforms, backups, VPNs — where price per resource matters more than platform polish |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | — | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | — | 0.5 GB |
| Storage | — | 10 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | — | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | — | 3 |
| €/vCPU/mo | — | €2.00 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | — | €4.00 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ✓ | |
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Vienna, Helsinki, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Stockholm, London, Charlotte US, Moscow (plus St. Petersburg on aeza.ru) | Las Vegas, Nevada; New York, New York; Roost, Luxembourg |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenter | nvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter |
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Aeza
Pros
- + Very competitive published specs: €5.93/mo for 2GB RAM, 30GB NVMe, 51.2TB traffic on a 1Gbps port
- + Metered month-to-month pricing with no renewal jumps; hourly billing from about €0.02–0.04/hr
- + Modern hardware (Ryzen 9 9950X-class cores, NVMe, KVM) with IPv4 and /48 IPv6 included
- + 10–11 locations across Europe, the US, and Russia with Tier III claims and 2 Tbps DDoS filtering
- + Crypto payments and minimal-signup registration for privacy-sensitive users
Cons
- - OFAC-sanctioned: Aeza Group designated 1 July 2025 as bulletproof hosting for infostealer, ransomware, and darknet drug infrastructure; leadership on the SDN List
- - U.S. persons prohibited from transacting; secondary-sanctions, payment-processing, and audit/compliance exposure for everyone else
- - IP reputation risk from association with abuse-heavy infrastructure; upstream de-peering or null-routing possible
- - No money-back guarantee, no traditional control panel, and unclearly documented backups/snapshots
- - Published 99.9% uptime has no SLA with credits; user reports mention IP problems, outages, and slow support replies
BuyVM
Pros
- + Cheapest serious block storage we track: $1.25/256 GB, $5/TB per month, hot-migratable slabs
- + Unmetered 1 Gbps bandwidth on every slice — no egress metering to model
- + Cheap, credible DDoS filtering at $3/month per IP (3.5+ Tbps pooled, Path.net-backed)
- + Real KVM with custom ISOs, full disk encryption, and a free DirectAdmin license
- + 16-year track record with a support reputation that outclasses the price point
Cons
- - Stock shortages on popular slices and locations are routine; no elastic scaling
- - Self-managed only — no managed tier, no object storage product, no autoscaling API
- - Only three locations (Las Vegas, New York, Luxembourg); no Asia-Pacific presence
- - Modest 99.9% SLA with application-layer floods excluded; credits handled via TOS
- - No downgrades, and nightly backups cost extra (10% of base price)
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