VPS.bg vs Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between VPS.bg and Hetzner ARM (Ampere).
Quick Verdict
3.5/5
VPS.bg
0 reviews
4.3/5
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
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Hetzner ARM (Ampere) is rated higher (4.3 vs 3.5). NVMe storage and KVM virtualisation on AMD EPYC with SEV-SNP confidential computing; pricing is mid-market rather than budget CAX plans start at 2 vCPU / 4GB RAM / 40GB NVMe; launch pricing was €3.79/month incl. IPv4 (April 2023), currently listed from €6.49/month incl. IPv4
VPS.bg Bulgarian cloud VPS with EU data residency | Hetzner ARM (Ampere) Arm64 cloud servers on Ampere Altra cores in Hetzner Cloud's cost-optimized line | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.5 (0 reviews) | 4.3 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $9.38/mo | From $6.49/mo✓ |
| Best for | Privacy- and residency-sensitive projects in Bulgaria and the Balkans; confidential computing workloads; operators who want Bitcoin settlement and EU data sovereignty over lowest price | Containerised, open-source, scale-out workloads in Europe — web farms, CI runners, build machines, dev environments — where price per core beats single-thread speed |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | 2 vCPU✓ |
| RAM | 1 GB | 4 GB✓ |
| Storage | 25 GB | 40 GB✓ |
| Bandwidth | 2 TB/mo | 20 TB/mo✓ |
| SLA uptime | 99.99%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 1 | 3✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €9.38 | €3.25✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €9.38 | €1.62✓ |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Bulgaria (Sofia - SDC datacenter) | NurembergFalkensteinHelsinki |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacentergdpr compliant | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacentergdpr compliantapi accessarm processors |
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VPS.bg
Pros
- + Coherent privacy-first design: self-funded since 2013, own Bitcoin wallet since 2014, no third-party cookies, minimal-information signup
- + AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing and dedicated-core VDS tiers on current EPYC hardware with NVMe
- + Concrete contract terms: 99.99% uptime guarantee with pro-rated credits, 15-day first-service refund, published DPA under Bulgarian law
- + Strong Sofia network: redundant 10 Gbps nodes, Tier 1 upstreams, NetIX peering, public looking glass
Cons
- - Roughly twice the price per compute of measured value leaders at the entry and mid tiers
- - Single datacenter (Sofia) - no region choice and one failure domain for global or US-facing workloads
- - Backups (EUR 0.05/GB), DDoS-protected IPs (from EUR 10/IP/mo) and Windows licensing (EUR 5/core/mo) are paid add-ons
- - No published public API and no managed tier; ticket support with a 24h response target
Hetzner ARM (Ampere)
Pros
- + Cheapest way to buy Hetzner compute per core
- + Real server silicon — Ampere Altra (Neoverse-N1), ECC RAM, NVMe
- + Hourly billing with monthly cap, 20TB included traffic, free IPv6
- + Free automated DDoS protection and the full Hetzner Cloud API/platform
- + Mature arm64 software ecosystem covers most open-source stacks
Cons
- - x86 and Arm are separate worlds — no rescale, backup or snapshot crossover
- - Cost-Optimized placement means limited stock and EU-only locations for CAX
- - Launch-era pricing is gone; entry cost has risen
- - Shared vCPUs and modest single-core speed
- - Backups and snapshots cost extra; unmanaged servers
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