Tilaa vs BuyVM
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Tilaa and BuyVM.
Quick Verdict
3.7/5
Tilaa
0 reviews
4.1/5
BuyVM
0 reviews
BuyVM is rated higher (4.1 vs 3.7). Tilaa is a Dutch cloud provider offering KVM Cloud VPS from two Dutch datacenters, ISO 27001 certified and GDPR-compliant, focused on the Dutch and Belgian market. Monthly pricing from €8.28/month promotional. BuyVM (operated by Frantech Solutions) offers KVM VPS in Las Vegas, New York, and Roost (Luxembourg).
Tilaa Dutch cloud VPS with EU privacy focus | BuyVM Frantech-operated VPS with DDoS protection | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.7 (0 reviews) | 4.1 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $8.28/mo | From $2/mo✓ |
| Best for | Dutch and Belgian organizations that need provable EU data sovereignty, a readable contract, and a provider small enough to talk to — especially healthcare, legal and government-adjacent SMBs. | 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 | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 1 GB✓ | 0.5 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB✓ | 10 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.95%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 2 | 3✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €8.28 | €2.00✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €8.28 | €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 | Netherlands (two Dutch datacenters) | Las Vegas, Nevada; New York, New York; Roost, Luxembourg |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6eu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | nvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter |
| Visit Tilaa → | Visit BuyVM → | |
Tilaa
Pros
- + Dutch jurisdiction and Dutch-only datacenters — clean GDPR/data-sovereignty story
- + Unusually transparent spec sheet: CPU share percentages, RAID10 SSD details and fair-use traffic are all published
- + Included extras that competitors charge for: layer-4 DDoS protection, dedicated IPv4+IPv6, one free snapshot, unlimited fair-use traffic
- + 18 years of operating history with ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISAE 3402 Type 1 certifications
- + EC2-compatible metadata service and a real API, so standard cloud-init tooling works
Cons
- - Netherlands only — no US, APAC or multi-region footprint
- - Cores are percentage shares (60-80% per core), so the same vCPU count means less compute than elsewhere
- - Promotional entry pricing reverts to 40-60% higher list prices after six months
- - Managed backups (€0.161/GB/month) and extra snapshots are paid add-ons; free snapshot kept only 3 months
- - Hourly billing claimed in older listings is not verifiable on current pages — billing appears monthly
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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